LMAO. I usually think these things are stupid but this one was SPOT ON
You Are Boston
Both modern and old school, you never forget your roots.
Well educated and a little snobby, you demand the best.
And quite frankly, you think you are the best.
Famous people from the Boston area: Conan O'Brien, Ben Affleck, New Kids on the Block
What American City Are You?
I'd like to meet:
In no particular order: Umberto Eco, Stephen Hawking, John Malkovich, Alain Jourgensen, V.S Naipaul, Hayao Miyazaki, Neil Gaiman, Takashi Murakami, James Sanborn, Dr. Brian Greene, Joel/Ethan Coen, Stephen Chow,Tricia Guild, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Rob Zombie, Clive Barker, Christian Louboutin, Glenn Close, Dai Sijie, John Cleese, Harold Bloom, Margaret Atwood, Sandy Collora (see my blog for his clips), Roman Polanski, Tony Kushner, Gerard Butler, anyone behind the Kaiju Big Battel. I'll add more as I think of them but most of the people I want to meet are dead.
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Music:
I used to have a list but I like different stuff everyday. In general, I listen to all old school punk, industrial, mean, nasty, funkified, gritty, soul rippin' sounds. Why not.I'm diggin' the 3Oh!3 right now. Check 'em below...
Movies:
Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Dangerous Liaisons, Spirited Away, Fight Club, The Red Violin, Paradise Road, On the Waterfront, Reservoir Dogs, The Pillow Book, Zatoichi (all of them), 2001: A Space Odyssey, Raise the Red Lantern, Mallrats, Cry Freedom, Amistad, Repo Man, Papillon, Blade Runner, The Searchers, Dune, Sleepers, The Deerhunter, Brazil, Kung Fu Hustle, Babette's Feast, Nightmare Before Xmas, Citizen Kane, Delicatessen, Magnificent 7, Unforgiven, Last Temptation of Christ, Born Into Brothels
Television:
How the hell did I start watching Battlestar Galactica and why can't I stop?? Battlestar Glactica's Neilsen Rating: 1 (me). It's almost as bad as my obsession with Lost.
Video of the Month- Flight of the Conchords is the rockingest show ever...
Books:
Too many to name, but here's a few that really made an impression on my addled brain.
As a kid: The Sneetches, Narnia Chronicles, LOTR, Chronicles of Narnia, Puck of Pook's Hill, Rikki Tikki Tavi, The Walrus and the Carpenter, Le Petit Prince, The Little Match Girl, The Giving Tree, House at Pooh Corner
As a teen: The Dark Tower series, Dune, ManEaters of Kumaon, Lord of the Flies, A Brief History of Time, Interzone, Lord Jim, Dune, The Milagro Beanfield War, The Temple of My Familiar
As an adult: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Island of the Day Before, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Life of Pi, Hiroshima Mon Amour, the Sandman series, Choke, Foucault's Pendulum, Une Saison en Enfer, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Why I Am Not a Christian, Principia Mathematica, Critique of Pure Reason, The Reimann Hypothesis, Borderliners, The Feynman Lectures, Symmetry- The Ordering Principle
Reading Now: The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
Heroes:
Anyone who doesn't have to work for a living.
