Ian

I'd like to meet:

A lot of people. But not everyone.

Music:

3rd Bass, Adam Sandler, aDuck, Aimee Mann, AMG, The Animals, Aphex Twin, Atari Teenage Riot, Autechre, The Beach Boys, Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Ben Lee, Benny Goodman, Björk, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Blame, Blur, bôa, Bob Dylan, Booker T & The MGs, Buddy Rich, Carl Orff, Cat Power, cEvin Key, Charlie Parker, Chris Cornell, Chuck D, Clint Mansell, Coil, Controlled Bleeding, Count Basie, Cowboy Junkies, Critters Buggin, The Cure, Cypress Hill, Daniel Lanois, Dave Matthews Band, Dead Kennedys, Dead Voices on Air, Deconstruction, Deftones, Delerium, Digable Planets, Dionne Ferris, Dizzy Gillespie, DJ Shadow, Don Davis, The Doors, Dot Allison, Doubting Thomas, Download, Dr. Dre, Dr. Israel, Dr. Octagon, The Dust Brothers, Easy Star All-Stars, Eazy-E, Einstürzende Neubauten, Electronic, Eminem, Faith No More, Fetal Distress, Fluke, FM (Five Musicians), Freeland, Gil Evans, Glenn Miller, Gorillaz, Grandmaster Flash, Gridlock, Gwar, Happy Mondays, Haujobb, Henry Rollins, Ian Brown, Ice Cube, Individual Totem, Infected Mushroom, Information Society, J.S. Bach, Jane's Addiction, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, Junkie XL, Juno Reactor, K One, Kalte Farben, Kevin Shields, Killing Joke, KMFDM, Korn, The Kronos Quartet, KRS-One, The La's, Legendary Pink Dots, Les Claypool's Frog Brigade, Linkin Park, Lou Reed, Louie Armstrong, The Low-Fidelity Allstars, Ludwig Beethoven, Machines of Loving Grace, Marilyn Manson, Massive Attack, MC 900 Ft. Jesus, MDFMK, Meat Beat Manifesto, The Meditations, Mentallo and the Fixer, Michiru Yamane, Miles Davis, Ministry, Misfits, Mosata Falkner, Mr. Bungle, My Bloody Valentine, Necros, New Order, Nobuo Uematsu, Not Breathing, NWA, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, ohGr, Oingo Boingo (and the Mystic Knights thereof), Orbital, Overseer, P.J. Harvey, P.O.D., Pale 3, Peter Kruder and the Peace Orchestra, Philth, Photek, Pigface, Plateau, Poe, Portishead, The Presidents of the United States of America, Primus, The Prodigy, Psychic TV, Purple Motion, Queens of the Stone Age, REM, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, The Ramones, Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine, Rob Dougan, Rob Zombie, Rolling Stones, Roy Orbison, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Skaven, Skinny Puppy, Sly & The Family Stone, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Sneaker Pimps, Snog, Spacetime Continuum, The Stone Roses, The Streets, Super Furry Animals, Supreme Beings Of Leisure, Swans, System Shock, ¡TchKung!, The Tear Garden, teh_pwnerer, Tenacious D, Thelonious Monk, They Might Be Giants, Throbbing Gristle, Tool, Tori Amos, Tricky, Tweaker, Unkle, Velvet Acid Christ, Venetian Snares, The Verve, Violent Femmes, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Wesley Willis, The White Stripes, Wolfgang Mozart, World Party, Wumpscut, Wu-Tang Clan, Yasunori Mitsuda, Zack de la Rocha, Zoviet France

(This list is a work-in-progress.)

Movies:

Too many to list! I mean, come on man; I'm still working on my music list! Cut me some slack! (Seriously, I've got something in the neighbourhood of over 500 movies, and I like all of them.)

Television:

I don't really watch TV. 'Don't even have cable or anything. When I do, it's usually educational stuff; Discovery Channel, History Channel, etc. There are one or two TV shows that I like, but I just download them to watch them. My weakness, though, is Twilight Zone marathons on the SciFi channel. I'm like a dear in headlights when those come on. (The old Rod Serling ones, not the new stuff.)

I suppose I'll have to break down and get cable at some point, though. I mean, if you're gonna produce television, you should probably watch some of it at some point, yeah?

Books:

Pretty much anything I can get my hands on. Some of my favourite authors (in no particular order):

Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Brian K. Vaughn, Friedrich Nietzsche, Kim Stanley Robinson, Roger Zelazny, Richard Dawkins, William S. Burroughs, Arthur C. Clarke, Hunter S. Thompson, Art Spiegelman, Koushun Takami, Chuck Palahniuk, Robert Heinlein, Frank Miller, Warren Ellis, Alex Robinson, and a few more that I'm sure I'm forgetting.

Heroes:

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
— Steve Jobs

"Knowledge without mileage means nothing to me."
— Henry Rollins

"Art has no responsibility, except to be created."
— Marilyn Manson

"What's the alternative? I won't be able to make this movie? That's why you get into this business — to make really cool, new, challenging cinema, not to be in a club."
— Robert Rodriguez

“I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of success in life. Since we are not solely material creatures , it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop inner peace.”
— Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

"It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have. I merely give robust expression to views about the cosmos and morality with which you happen to disagree. You interpret that as 'intolerance' because of the weirdly privileged status of religion, which expects to get a free ride and not have to defend itself. If I wrote a book called The Socialist Delusion or The Monetarist Delusion, you would never use a word like intolerance. But The God Delusion sounds automatically intolerant. Why? What's the difference?"
— Richard Dawkins

"Regret is the worst of human emotions. There is no going back with regret. There is no future with regret. Regret is not something I live with. If there is something I wished I hadn't done, I don't do it anymore or I forgive myself and try better. My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day."
— William Shatner

Status:Single
Here for:Actually, I'm not here. Go to my website if you want to contact me.
Orientation:Straight
Hometown:Burien, WA
Worldview:Free of supernatural and mystical elements
Children:Someday
Education:Some college
Occupation:Filmmaker