I'm an amateur everything (poet, screenwriter, essayist, would-be novelist, painter, sculptor, software developer, carpenter, botanist, political scientist, philosopher, actor, physicist, inventor and couch potato). I recently moved back to San Antonio from Cedar City, Utah where I was a Biology student at SUU. Now I'm a Biology student at UTSA where I'm continuing my quest to become a genetic engineer because I've always wanted to design jeans.I'm into movies (watching and making), music (listening and writing), books (reading and writing; see a trend?), games, hiking, biking, camping, climbing, traveling, sex, porno, road trips, NPR, concerts, love, wine, cheese, my huge ego (but not so much that it annoys, promise) and an insatiable hunger for fresh human BRAINS!!!
Voltaire, Ed Abbey, Natalie Portman, Rene Descartes, Ashurbanipal, Peter O'Toole, Pres Clinton, Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin, Ariel Sharon, Fiona Apple, Erwin Rommel, Joe Isuzu, Deputy Dog, Jeffrey Combs, Tenzin Gyatso, Tom Waits, Michael Wincott and Joe South
Great, now you get to WATCH my embedded MP3 playing. Thanks Myspace!
God, aren't we the grateful bitches? Myspace is free and all we can do is moan when it isn't working right. We suck.
Honestly all. Lately I've been listening to Damien Rice, Celso Fonseca, Crass, Tom Waits, Bauhuas, Beegees, Earth Wind and Fire, Miles Davis, Willie Nelson, Burn the Priest, Supertramp, Sergio Mendez & Brazil '66, Joe South, Rob Zombie, Shai Hulud, Sidney Bechet, Schoenberg, Above the Law, Schubert, White Stripes, Marty Robbins, Steely Dan, Don McLean, Freddy Fender, Pearl Jam, Bill Thornbury, Thelonious Monk and Jethro Tull. To name a few.
I could really go on all day on this one. I will simplify here and give a brief list of my choices for some of the most perfect films(in no particular order). That should make it clear what I like. The Name of the Rose(1986), Dark Passage(1947), The Usual Suspects(1995), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind(2004), Night of the Living Dead(1990. Yes I like Savini's version better, deal with it), Victor/Victoria(1982), True Romance(1993), O Brother, Where Art Thou?(2000), Aliens(1986), Where the Heart Is(2000), Strangers on a Train (1951), Event Horizon(1997), Blade Runner(1982 original theatrical release), Dark City(1998), Fight Club(1999), Ying xiong (2002), Sunset Blvd.(1950) and Me Myself and Irene(2000).These films did whatever it was they set out to do with perfect scores in every possible phase of the film making process. I would change nothing about these movies. The list is not by any means exhaustive, just what I could think of right now. Maybe I'll add more later.I almost forgot, if it's got zombies I'm there.
Anything on the History Channel, Almost anything on AMC or TMC, BSG (new), Dr Who (old and new), Robot Chicken, ATHF, 24, anything and everything Trek
Anything by Edward Abbey, Frank Herbert, H P Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury or Robert A. Heinlein. Also textbooks rule. I try to stick to non-fiction lately as I've got a lot of what REALLY happened to get through before I concentrate much more on fiction (the only recent exceptions being 100 Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera by Marquez and Haunted by Palahniuk). Don't get me wrong, anything new from those first five guys comes out and I'm there (Yes, I know Ray Bradbury is the only one still alive).
George Washington Hayduke, Stanley Kunitz, Rene Descartes, Emily Dickinson, William Jefferson Clinton, Clarence Darrow, Howard Philips Lovecraft, Vincent Van Gogh, Brian Hugh Warner, David Patrick Kelly, Jan Minich, Alan Smithee, Edward Estlin Cummings, James O'Barr, Denis Diderot, My Mother, My Grandmother, That guy who caught me sneaking under the fence into the drive-in when I was 9 but let me stay and brought me popcorn, Friedrich Nietzsche, Craig Huffstad, Jack Bauer, Edward Louis Seversen III, Joseph Alfred Souter, David Fincher and Tyler Durden for all that he is and all that he isn't.