Guilt-free free-time, successful ladies in general, my consort in particular, organizing our quaint home, our Dachshunds, lecturing, travel, Latin, Italian, Art History, Hagiography, the Counter Reformation, Etymology, cinema, photography, Design, rock & roll music, kicking the day off, pho, Thai food, pilgrimages, fitness, hiking and camping, postprandial siestas, riding my bike instead of driving my truck, itunes, iphoto, tossing the 'bee, looking sharp, modest hedonism to compliment my heretical Catholicism.
I've met her. I live with her.
rivers!, weezer, Oasis, Interpol, Radiohead, Hum, The Strokes, The Cardigans, The Rentals, The Roots, Girl Talk, Ash, Gustavo Santaolalla, James Horner, Film scores in general, Asobi Seksu, Silversun Pickups, The Raveonettes, 3eb, 90's singles, Frank Sinatra: the Capitol Years, Hank Williams, Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley before 1960, The Rolling Stones, 1986, Palestrina, Tegan and effing Sara.
Favorite Directors:
Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, David Fincher.
Favorite Stand Alone Pictures:
HENRY V, Leon, The New World, Casablanca, Alfie, Diarios de Motocicleta, Stand by Me, The Hustler, Pride & Prejudice, The Graduate, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain, Y Tu Mama Tambien, R&G are Dead, Good Will, Curse of the Black Pearl, Miller's Crossing, Batman Begins, The Empire Strikes Back, snatch, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Teen Wolf, Cool Hand Luke, Prince of Thieves (the most quotable movie of all time), Prisoner of Azkaban, A Streetcar Named Desire, Down with Love, Brewster's Millions, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Love Actually, Rocky & Rocky II, the Godfather trilogy, Superman the Movie - all the good emo stuff.
tv is for suckers, but I have been known to enjoy Star Trek the Next Generation and ROME on dvd. I Claudius also owns. I try not to miss the daily show online.
Aurelia, The Last Temptation of Christ, Poor Man of God, The Divine Comedy, The Golden Legend, The Aeneid, Caravaggio: a Life, The Letters of Abelard & Heloise, The Godfather, Tales of the Dark Knight: Batman's First Fifty Years, The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, The Agony and the Ecstacy, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, An Exception to the Rule: Giuseppe Cesari and the Edict of Rusticucci - by me.
Indiana Jones (pre-2008), Peachy Carnahan, Micheal Corleone, Luke Skywalker, Dante Alighieri, Aeneas, Kal-El, Jesus of Nazareth, Caravaggio, My genius parents, Rivers Cuomo, Peter Paul Rubens, St. Ignatius de Loyola, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Ernest Hemmingway, L.R.Rodriguez, The Batman.