Movies, comics, DVDs, cigars and monkeys.
I'd like to meet:
A talking pie
Music:
Includes but is by no means limited to: Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, Bruce Springsteen, Shane MacGowan, Jonathan Richman, Warren Zevon, Bernard Herrmann, Ennio Morricone, Zbigniew Preisner, Tom Waits, Red Shadow (The Economics Rock & Roll Band), Carl Stalling and any and all versions of Henry Mancini's "Peter Gunn" theme.
Movies:
Visit the all-new Jahnke's Electric Theatre at adamjahnke.com to find out exactly what I think about what I've seen lately, including these, the best of the best for September:
In general, I like movies from the following directors, except when I don't:
Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson, Ingmar Bergman, Budd Boetticher, Albert Brooks, Luis Bunuel, Tim Burton, Frank Capra, John Carpenter, Joel and Ethan Coen, Roger Corman, David Cronenberg, Joe Dante, Alex de la Iglesia, Kirby Dick, Clint Eastwood, Milos Forman, Sam Fuller, Terry Gilliam, Christopher Guest, Howard Hawks, Frank Henenlotter, Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Jackson, Jim Jarmusch, Lloyd Kaufman, Buster Keaton, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Akira Kurosawa, Fritz Lang, Mike Leigh, Sergio Leone, David Lynch, the Maysles brothers, Takashi Miike, Michael Moore, Alexander Payne, Sam Peckinpah, Roman Polanski, Michael Powell, Sam Raimi, Nicholas Ray, George A. Romero, John Sayles, Martin Scorsese, Don Siegel, Steven Soderbergh, Preston Sturges, Tom Tykwer, Lars von Trier, John Waters, Orson Welles, James Whale, Billy Wilder, Terry Zwigoff and Edward D. Wood, Jr.
Television:
I don't watch much TV these days. That sounds really snobby and pretentious but it's really just because I don't get free cable anymore.
Anyway, here are some shows I've become obsessed with in the past and likely will again in the future:
The Simpsons, The Sopranos, Deadwood, Rome, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Extras, 24, Lost, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, South Park, The Shield, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Robot Chicken, Arrested Development, Fawlty Towers, the first two seasons of Millennium, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Office (both versions), The Prisoner, Rocky & Bullwinkle, The Twilight Zone, Twin Peaks, The X-Files, and probably many others. I'm really quite stupid.
Books:
Lots. Some writers I particularly like are Joe Lansdale, James Ellroy, Lewis Carroll, Alan Moore, Stephen Hunter, Jim Thompson, Hunter S. Thompson and Vladimir Nabokov.
Heroes:
My mom. That's it. Most everybody else has disappointed me in some way. Even Batman.
