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coffee n' water. my geerl friend. thinking... when i feel like it. photography (shooting, printing, viewing photographs that aren't mine). storytelling. acts of kindness. animals (crazy/mean ones and cute/fuzzy ones). philosophy. drawing. working out. eating. starving. listening. getting distracted. smelling things. making sound effects and inventing languages. nature. singing. science... theoretical, and just anything. peanuts. the jungle and places untouched by humans. history. watching flocks of birds swimming between rooftops while i wait for the bus. people with interesting personalities. computers. films. music. filmmaking/music making. poems. clouds. sound manipulation. pointless, insane goofiness.
weezer (1 & 2 in the biggest ways), at the drive-in, the mars volta, nada surf, radiohead, flaming lips, neil young, led zeppelin, pavement, the band, pearl jam, devo, rolling stones, the smiths, sunny day real estate, velvet underground, the ramones, johnny cash, U2, marvin gaye, MC5, the stooges, talking heads and BRIAN ENO, the beach boys, queens of the stone age, bjork, aphex twin, jimi hendrix, hank williams, james brown, the temptations, buddy holly, irving berlin, cole porter, scott jopin, james scott, pixies, white stripes, superdrag, the who, the beatles, fugazi, cursive, miles davis, johnny coltrane, ornate coleman, ella fitzgerald, bessie smith, J.S. bach, haydn, robert schuman, mozart, beethoven, greenday, lots of suff and anything that people turn me on to so please give me music IM POOR
fargo (the one that started it), nights of cabiria (giulietta masina, unforgettable), LOTR trilogy (have a soft spot for the big epics, and these are devastating), the shining (scary, weird, powerful), public enemy (one of the greatest mob films), jackass the movie (never laughed harder at a film), taxi driver (hollywood character study at its purest), raging bull (same as the last one, more personal, emotional), 400 blows (sweet, thoughtful 1st half, devastating 2nd), godfather films (operatic filmmaking that manages to be unpretentious), maya deren films (new to me, but starting to open doors creatively), goodfellas (classic), elephant (van sant made the movie i wanted to make in highschool. lots of truth), eternal sunshine (technically fun/personal/exciting, heart breaking, and its got a big following!), the truman show (so imaginative, the ending, pounding on the sky breaks my heart every time), breathless (unique and its sadness is really smart. technically brilliant), saving private ryan (great if only for that opening sequence, and the moments leading up to the last battle were unforgettable), pulp fiction/kill bill movies (such exciting, genre molestation), citizen kane (so many dimensions, it'll always be great fun to come back to and see something new/inspiring), thin red line (not perfect, but great poetic film making, big influence), rebel without a cause (james dean man... THAT is acting), blade runner (one of the most beautifully shot films ive seen, deep), the conversation (not the best, but interesting, im basing a character off of harry), akira (not sure if hand drawn animation can get better than this) ... and alot more.
LOTR. The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film. Catcher In the Rye. Ishmael. Maus. Hamlet. Divine Comedy. Bone comics! The Sphere/Jurassic Park. Ghost In the Shell. Latin American writers: Marti, Borges, Cesar Vallejo, Horatio Quiroga, Julio Cortazar, Joao Ribeiro, Neruda. Magical realism. Beat writers: Kerouac, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, O’Hara. The New York school. Most of what I’ve read from Hemmingway. Stuff by Robert Bly, William Stafford. Poems by Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa. Books on philosophy (new passion). Tao. My math book! Theoretical physics (yummy). Biological diagrams. Art/photo books. I need to read more, but I need money… to buy them or pay for my library late fee.