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Dignan

I got my violence in hi-def ultra-realism

About Me

I'm pretty much the greatest person you're ever going to meet. It just might take a little bit of time for you to realize it.

My Interests

movies, screenwriting, Texas Hold 'Em, Opie and Anthony, drinking, music, surfing the net, Boston Red Sox, New England Patriots, cooking

I'd like to meet:


Music:

Nine Inch Nails, Crystal Method, Tool, Paul Oakenfold, Depeche Mode, Garbage, The Chemical Brothers, Johnny Cash, Liz Phair, Franz Ferdinand, Moby, Daft Punk, The Cure, Marilyn Manson, Linkin Park, A Perfect Circle, Gorillaz, Led Zeppelin, The Dandy Warhols, Tori Amos, Ladytron

Movies:

Best of 2006 (list in flux):
1. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (dir. Tom Tykwer)
2. Babel (dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu)
3. Borat (dir. Larry Charles)
4. Children of Men (dir. Alfonso Cuarón)
5. Thank You For Smoking (dir. Jason Reitman)
6. Marie Antoinette (dir. Sofia Coppola)
7. The Lives of Others (dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
8. The Science of Sleep (dir. Michel Gondry)
9. Half Nelson (dir. Ryan Fleck)
10. The Descent (dir. Neil Marshall)

Honorable Mention (in alphabetical order):
Dave Chappelle’s Block Party (dir. Michel Gondry)
Flags of our Fathers (dir. Clint Eastwood)
Flushed Away (dirs. David Bowers and Sam Fell)
Monster House (dir. Gil Kenan)
A Prairie Home Companion (dir. Robert Altman)

Television:

The Wire, The Office, Heroes, Deadwood, Scrubs, 24, South Park, The Sopranos, Entourage, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Lost, Rome, Prison Break, Survivor, The Apprentice, Nip/Tuck, Rescue Me, Iron Chef, Celebrity Poker Showdown

Books:

I read scripts all day. Books are a leisure I really don't have time for. Addendum: I've become completely obsessed with Brian K. Vaughn's Y: The Last Man graphic novel series, which completely goes against my beliefs that comic books are totally stupid.

Heroes:

my dad, Billy Wilder, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Michael Mann, Martin Scorsese, David Ortiz, Curt Schilling, Jason Varitek, entire 2004 Boston Red Sox team, Trent Reznor, Steven Spielberg, Roger Ebert (pre stroke-face and Richard Roper era), Stephen King (back when he was on the sauce)

My Blog

Lost Thursdays: You cant always shit diamonds.

Another Thursday, another Lost recap up at the House Next Door. Last night's episode was unspeakably bad, even for this show, which usually adds up to lots of comments (people love nothing more than b...
Posted by Dignan on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:27:00 PST

Lost Thursdays: Beyond Thunderdome

A wise man once said "I'm getting too old for this shit." Then a tree covered in condoms was placed on his desk and a bunch of snooty South Africans tried to blow him up while he was on the toilet. Th...
Posted by Dignan on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:25:00 PST

The return of Lost Thursday! Huzzah!

After a 12-week hiatus that saw me moonlighting as a failed film columnist I'm back doing what comes naturally to me: staying up all night writing snarky recaps of the marginally-popular Lost whi...
Posted by Dignan on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 04:12:00 PST

A few quick thoughts on Knocked Up

So this is what you call a "grey area" as the film doesn't open for almost 4-months and we were told at the out-set that the film was a "work in progress." This would seemingly prevent me from writing...
Posted by Dignan on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:58:00 PST

Odd observation about this year's Coachella lineup...

I just realized that like between Jesus & Mary Chain, Peaches and Air like half the soundtrack to Lost in Translation is being represented. Is it too much to ask for Bill to show up and sing some ...
Posted by Dignan on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 10:51:00 PST

The moral of the story is dont count your game show appearances till theyve hatched&

So as some of you may know I recently tried out for the VH1 game show "The World Series of Pop Culture." In case you're not familiar with the format of the show it manages to beautifully incorporate a...
Posted by Dignan on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:34:00 PST

A few quick thoughts on Letters from Iwo Jima.

I'm bound to be alone on this one, but I preferred Flags. As over-stuffed and unwilling to trust its audience as that film was, it at least has a thesis which caries through every scene and came to a ...
Posted by Dignan on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:32:00 PST

A few quick thoughts on Dreamgirls.

The history of Motown reenacted for the benefit of "American Idol's" audience. Which is to say, desensitized, Anglo-cized and capped with a phony uplifting ending where Florence Ballard not only gets ...
Posted by Dignan on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:04:00 PST

A few quick thoughts on Black Book (aka Zwartboek aka the new Paul Verhoeven film)

As I'd been anticipating this one for years now I thought I'd quickly tap out a few words about the film as I will, no doubt barely remember any of the specifics by the time the film is released in la...
Posted by Dignan on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 04:48:00 PST

Nirvana/Perfume connection

I'm in the process of compiling a 2006 in review piece for this blog (and if it's not dogshit, to be syndicated at The House Next Door) but I just stumbled across this little bit of trivia about Kurt ...
Posted by Dignan on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:25:00 PST