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I get really nervous around people I don't know (I probably have social anxiety) so I don't tend to meet a lot of new people. One of these days I may even see a doctor about this problem (but not until I get over my anxiety about going to a doctor about my anxiety).
And now it's time for some Naked Castle video production:
Updated June 7th, 2007
I mainly listen to post-rock. I also tend to overplay everything I listento. You can check out my Last.fm profile for a more complete picture of my listening habits.
Top Five
1. Talk Talk
2. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
3. King Crimson
4. The Drift
5. Magyar Posse
Current playlist
At the Drive-In,
Because Of Ghosts,
Charles Atlas,
Esmerine,
Margot & The Nuclear So And So's,
Sickoakes,
Sufjan Stevens,
The Bad Plus,
The Dead Texan,
The Decemberists,
The Evpatoria Report,
The Pirate Ship Quintet,
Will Oldham
Used to listen to
3,
A Perfect Circle,
Abbie Huxley,
AFI,
Alkaline Trio,
Alpine Stars,
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead,
Archive,
As the Poets Affirm,
Badly Drawn Boy,
Bark Psychosis,
Bell Orchestre,
Bloc Party,
Blonde Redhead,
Blue Sky Theory,
Bossk,
Bright Eyes,
Broken Social Scene,
Circle Takes The Square,
Clearmotive,
Clint Mansell,
Clock,
Clogs,
Coheed and Cambria,
Counting Crows,
Cue,
Cursive,
Damien Rice,
Daturah,
Destroyalldreamers,
Doves,
Elliott Smith,
Evpatoria Report,
Explosions in the Sky,
Fat Kid Running,
Fifths Of Seven,
For Stars,
Four Tet,
Franz Ferdinand,
Frigo,
God Is An Astronaut,
Grace Cathedral Park,
Grandaddy,
Guster,
Halley,
Hansi,
Infected Mushroom,
Jaga Jazzist,
Jeff Buckley,
Jeff Parker (The Relatives),
Jimmy Eat World,
La Zona,
Led Zeppelin,
Lostprophets,
Mahavishnu Orchestra,
Menomena,
MEW,
Miles Davis (In A Silent Way, Get Up With It, Bitches Brew),
Modest Mouse,
Mogwai,
Momus,
Mono & World's End Girlfriend,
Moonraker,
Muse,
My American Heart,
My Chemical Romance,
No Doubt,
Ozma,
Pink Floyd,
Pistolita,
Placebo,
Poor Bailey,
Presto Fat Muck,
Q and not U,
Rachel's,
Radiohead,
Red Hot Chili Peppers,
Red Sparowes,
Reggie And the Full Effect,
Rocky Votolato,
Silence Kit,
Sketchie,
Souls Vibrating In The Universe,
Sparta,
Spoon,
Stalking Tom,
Sweek,
System of a Down,
t.A.t.U.,
Talking Heads,
The Act Of Breathing In,
The Anniversary,
The For Carnation,
The Kissing Tigers,
The Mars Volta,
The Mercury Program,
The Postal Service,
The Sea and Cake,
The Valley Arena,
The Velvet Teen,
These Monsters...,
Thursday,
Tim Buckley,
Tom Mcrae,
Tortoise,
Truxton,
We vs. Death,
World's End Girlfriend,
Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies
Updated June 9th, 2007
Large, bold film titles are ones I have seen more recently.
Top Five
1. Requiem for a Dream (10/10)
2. Magnolia (10/10)
3. Amélie (10/10)
4. The Cooler (9/10)
5. Office Space (9/10)
Films I've rated 9 out of 10
Boogie Nights,
City of God,
Fargo,
Fried Green Tomatoes,
Good Will Hunting ,
Knocked Up ,
Matchstick Men,
North Country,
Primer,
Rounders,
Schindler's List,
Super Troopers,
The 40-Year-Old Virgin,
The Ring,
The Shawshank Redemption,
The Way of the Gun
8 out of 10
100 Girls,
2001: A Space Odyssey,
Adaptation,
Almost Famous,
American Beauty,
American History X,
Bad Boy Bubby,
Batman Begins,
Being John Malkovich,
Big Fish,
Blow,
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan ,
Bottle Rocket,
Braveheart,
Brick,
Brokeback Mountain,
Broken Flowers,
Caddyshack,
Catch Me If You Can,
Children of Men,
Citizen Kane,
Dawn of the Dead (remake),
Donnie Darko,
Drugstore Cowboy ,
Groundhog Day,
I Heart Huckabees,
Last Days,
Léon (The Professional),
Lilja 4-ever,
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,
Million Dollar Baby,
Napoleon Dynamite,
Old School,
Punch-Drunk Love,
Reservoir Dogs,
Sideways,
The Big Lebowski,
The Fountain ,
The Girl Next Door,
The Illusionist,
The Last King of Scotland,
The Lives of Others ,
The Notebook,
The OH in Ohio,
The Painted Veil ,
This Film Is Not Yet Rated,
This Is Spinal Tap,
Traffic,
Venus ,
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
7 out of 10
28 Days Later...,
Beerfest,
Boondock Saints,
Bully,
Cecil B. DeMented,
Click,
Club Dread,
Dancer in the Dark,
Dazed and Confused,
Factotum,
Falling Down,
Fucking Åmål,
Full Metal Jacket,
Go,
Half Nelson ,
Hot Fuzz ,
Jarhead,
Kill Bill,
Kinsey,
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,
L'Enfant ,
Little Miss Sunshine,
Match Point,
Memento,
Notes on a Scandal ,
O Brother, Where Art Thou?,
One Hour Photo,
Panic Room,
Running Scared,
Rushmore,
Saved!,
Sherrybaby ,
Sin City,
Slither,
Some Like It Hot,
Stranger Than Fiction,
Thank You for Smoking,
The Beach,
The Godfather,
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things ,
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou,
The Queen,
The Royal Tenenbaums,
The Squid and the Whale,
Twelve and Holding,
Volver,
Wedding Crashers,
Wild Things,
World Trade Center
6 out of 10
21 Grams,
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,
Apocalypto,
Babel,
Bewitched,
Blades of Glory ,
Can't Hardly Wait,
Casino Royale,
Dark City,
Deep Impact,
Down With Love,
Edmond,
Edward Scissorhands,
Fever Pitch,
For Your Consideration,
Hard Candy,
Hostel,
Imagine Me & You,
In The Army Now,
Little Children,
Lost in Translation,
Lucky Number Slevin,
Man of the Year,
Mission: Impossible III,
My Super Ex-Girlfriend,
Pan's Labyrinth,
Prime,
Pulp Fiction,
Reno 911!: Miami ,
Saving Silverman,
Snakes on a Plane,
Superman Returns,
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,
The Butterfly Effect,
The Da Vinci Code,
The Departed,
The Descent,
The Devil Wears Prada ,
The Dreamers ,
The Guardian,
The Memory of a Killer,
The Prestige,
The Pursuit of Happyness,
The Shining,
The Village,
They Live,
What About Bob?,
Zodiac
5 out of 10
16 Blocks,
300 ,
Battle Royale,
Blood Diamond,
Clerks II,
Elephant,
Fast Food Nation,
Flags of Our Fathers,
Flyboys,
Frostbiten,
Grandma's Boy,
House of Wax,
Idiocracy,
Into the Blue,
Just Friends,
Ken Park,
Last Night,
Letters from Iwo Jima,
Lucky You ,
Saw III,
School for Scoundrels,
Syriana,
The Break-Up,
The Dukes of Hazzard,
The Island,
The Lake House,
The Quiet,
War of the Worlds
4 out of 10
A Home at the End of the World,
Armageddon,
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,
Failure to Launch,
Flightplan,
Just My Luck,
Lady in the Water,
Let's Go to Prison,
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous,
Mr. & Mrs. Smith,
Music and Lyrics,
Nineteen Eighty-Four,
Pulse,
Red Eye,
Repo Man,
Secret Window,
Stealth,
Taxi,
The Big Bounce,
The Brothers Grimm,
The Matrix Revolutions,
Wassup Rockers,
Wild Bill,
Wolf Creek
3 out of 10
Alpha Dog,
Because I Said So,
Leap of Faith,
Sleepers,
Soylent Green,
The Shadow Men,
Without a Paddle
2 out of 10
Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe,
Little Nicky,
Major League II,
Nacho Libre
1 out of 10
Mafia!,
Stephen King's "IT",
The Smokers
Arrested Development, High Stakes Poker, World Series of Poker, The Real Hustle, 30 Rock, Wife Swap
Requiem for a Dream, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Cat's Cradle, Breakfest of Champions, Slaughterhouse Five, A Brave New World, Bad Trip - How the war on drugs is destroying America
Thomas Jefferson