Marybeth and Lydia, Filmmaking, Screenwriting, discovering new music, Boxing, International Relations, going to the movies, Red Sox, Celts, Pats, film theory and history, good television, Comic Books, Writing
I'd like to meet:
Steven Spileberg (God of Motion Pictures)
Big Papi
BONO AKA the coolest man on earth
Clooney, and maybe an Oscar of my own
Barack Obama in 08'
Maybe the 2007-08 NBA Championship?
Music:
Bright Eyes, The Roots, Pharoahe Monch, Jedi Mind Tricks, Boogie Down Productions, TV on the Radio, Tool, Radiohead, Andre 3000, U2, Dropkick Murphys, Neil Diamond, Sigur Ros, Coldplay, Beck, Gnarls Barkley, Ben Harper, Phillip Glass, Head Automatica, Gang Starr, Jack Johnson, Preemo, Kelly Clarkson, Doom, Nina Simone, Weezer, Billy Joel, Justin Timberlake (what?), 7L & Eso, The Streets, The Pixies, Aerosmith, Seu Jorge, Pete Rock, SOAD, Kanye West, The Velvet Underground, Journey, White Stripes, Iron Maiden, The Cure, Brand New, Phish, Public Enemy, Jay Z, Elliott Smith, David Bowie, John Lennon, The Talking Heads, The Doors, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, Thursday, Bjork, Norah Jones, Johnny Cash, The Arcade Fire, DMB, The Flaming Lips, The Boss (Springsteen), Sonic Youth, Damien Rice, Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill, and sooooo many more!
Movies:
The Truman Show, Robocop, Borat, Garden State, Apocalypse Now, Coming to America, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, LOTR Trilogy, Evil Dead series, Grave of Fireflies, Big Fish, Sanjuro, Yojimbo, Ikiru, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Little Children, The Battle of Algiers, Conpiracy Theory, Brazil, El Topo, Bull Durham, Knocked Up, Do the Right Thing, Half Baked, Ghostbuster 1 & 2, The Fugitive, Mullholland Drive, Zoolander, Shortbus, Pirates of the Carribean, Dark City, Videodrome, The Maltese Falcon, Breathless, Freaks, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Children of Men, Three Kings, The Big Lebowski, Touch of Evil, Transformers, Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me, Fight Club, The Prestige, ¿Quién puede matar a un niño?, Sin City, Kill Bill, Escape From NY, Bladerunner, True Lies, The Princess Bride, Road House, Dawn of the Dead, Angels in America, 8 1/2, American Beauty, The Seventh Seal, The Constant Gardener, Aliens, Saved, Edward Scissorhands, Dark Days, The Apartment, My Life To Live, Spirited Away, Hotel Rwanda, The Goonies, The Thing, Point Break, Little Miss Sunshine, Before Night Falls, Donnie Darko, V For Vendetta, Schindlers List, Aguirre The Wrath of God, Dr Strangelove, Return of the Living Dead, Volver, Commando, Lawrence of Arabia, All About My Mother, Rear Window, 3 Colors Trilogy, Crash, The Fog of War, Fever Pitch, Belle de Jour, Talk To Her, Batman Begins, The Departed, City of God, Run Lola Run, Fargo, ET, Star Wars, The Warriors, The Incredibles, Star Wars Episode III, Labyrinth, Weekend, La Dolce Vita, Fahrenheit 911, The Third Man, The Royal Tennenbaums, pretty much any zombie (primarily Zombi 2, 28 Days Later & Shaun of the Dead), anything with Will Farrell or the Muppets, almost any boxing movie, all of the Jack Ryan films, and countless others...One of the greatest shots in all of film history!!
Television:
LOST, 30 Rock, Going Tribal, Carnivale, The Sopranos, Big Love, Dexter, The Office (american version), John From Cincinnati, Californication, Family Guy, Medium, Heroes, 24, Robot Chicken, Desperate Housewives, Dirty Jobs, Californication, Man Vs. Wild, Planet Earth, Twin Peaks, Grey's Anatomy, Project Runway, Da Ali G Show/Borat, The Venture Brothers, Eureka, Entourage, Rome, HBO Boxing, Band of Brothers, The Wire, 30 Days, X-Files, No Reservations/param
Books:
Naked Lunch, Paradise Lost, Return of the King, The Tempest (or any Shakespeare), 1984, Anything by Chuck Palahniuk (esp. Haunted), From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, A Continent For the Taking, Pynchon, Delillo, Watchmen, Beowulf, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Cormac Mcarthy's The Road, crime books by Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler, Roger Ebert Great Movie essays, Dylan Thomas Poetry, T.S. Eliot's Wasteland, Tom Clancy books, Machiavelli's The Prince, Dante's The Divine Comedy, Under the Black Flag"Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." (from John Milton's Paradise Lost)
Heroes:
Steven Spielberg, Pedro Almodovar, Jim Henson, Bono, Charlie Kauffman, Stanley Kubrick, Keith Olbermann, Peter Jackson, Alan Moore, Jean Luc Godard, George Clooney, Fernando Merielles, Frank Miller, Paul Haggis, Francis Ford Coppola, Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, John Lennon, Akira Kurosawa, and George Lucas."An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, there's the superhero, and there's the alter ego. Batman is actually Bruce Wayne, Spider-Man is actually Peter Parker. When he wakes up in the morning, he's Peter Parker. He has to put on a costume to become Spider-Man. And it is in that characteristic that Superman stands alone. Superman did not become Superman, Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he's Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. His outfit with the big red "S", that's the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby when the Kents found him. Those are his clothes. What Kent wears, the glasses, the business suit, that's the costume. That's the costume Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent? He's weak, he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race."
