Interested in the old. Interested in the new. Interested in the stuff that connects us ALL, whether we like it or not...and hopefully we do! Also, I am professional feature film producer, writer and actor, for those who take interest in such things.
I'd like to meet:
This Stephen Wozniak MySpace account in now largely for professional purposes. I love my friends and anticipate continuing a fine level of communication with them here sometimes, but most of the information posted here has more to do with my career in the film, television and arts worlds, above any other subjects or people involved therein. Thank you.
Ahhh, please take this all in stride with a grain or two of salt, as much of my brand of black humor folds neatly into these lovely attributes. I'd like to meet cool people, who'd in turn like to be: fantastic friends, funny foes, fearless followers, lascivious lovers, learned leaders, giggly gals, jarring jokers or unnerving unclassifiables. I'd like to meet exotics, nerds, eccentrics, regula' folks, old, young, and those of or beyond this earth! However, pretty please, with sugar on top, in regards to any potential beyond-friend folk: you're probably fit, active, healthy, like life, treat yourself well and maybe you read a book or two. No flank steak-eating smokers, face-down n' black-out drunks, druggies, once-addicts, current-addicts, future-addicts, excessive mental defectives (I know we're all a little off, but you catch my meaning...) and self-indulged, delusional n' circular drama-makers. They tend to ruin my day, well, every day. Real life excess is by far already enough. But, hey, that's just me. On a relatively purposeful, peaceful, proactive, positive note, my arms are open really wide to the truth and beauty one can easily find in a smile, under a rock or right there in front of you for all or one to see.
Music:
Here it goes: David Bowie, Love and Rockets, Ladytron, Radiohead, Suicide, Strawberry Switchblade, Gary Numan, Supergrass, Little Aida, Kate Bush, Tones On Tail, Gary Wilson, Roy Orbison, John Cage, Led Zepplin, Wesley Willis, The Cars, This Mortal Coil, Celebutante, The Mooney Suzuki, Kraftwerk, Nina Simone, My Bloody Valentine, Schubert, Roxy Music, The Chemical Brothers, Air, Queens of The Stone Age, ELO, The Doors, Cocteau Twins, The Pixies, Space Mtn., Einstrzende Neubauten, Patsy Cline, Kitty Wells, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Dinah Washington, Courtney Pine, Trevor Jones, Angelo Badalamenti, The White Stripes, Iggy Pop, The Hives, The Kinks, late 60's-early 70's Rolling Stones (1967-1973), AC/DC, Van Halen (not Van Hagar), Siouxsie and The Banshees, Japan, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Judas Priest, Jerry Lee Lewis, Mitch Ryder (After all, I played the guy on national television. Of course he's good!) & The Detroit Wheels, jazzy dreamy downtempo music, darkwave madness of most varieties, Mariachi music, amazing Italian opera, mid-century cool jazz, Baroque anything... It goes on and on and on and on and on.............
Movies:
Where to start: Angel Heart; There Will Be Blood; No Country For Old Men; Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang; Romeo Is Bleeding; Borat; The Sheltering Sky; Zodiac; Sid & Nancy; Fight Club; Chinatown; Rumble Fish; Chopper; The French Connection; Marathon Man 24 Hour Party People; Star 80; Seven; Blue Velvet; Eraserhead; Wild At Heart; The Namesake; Young Frankenstein; Shampoo; American Psycho; Narc; Ed Wood; Wings Of Desire; The Fisher King; The Science Of Sleep; The Conversation; Buffalo 66; Collateral; Welcome To The Dollhouse; House On The Edge Of The Park; The Killing; Drugstore Cowboy; Dead Ringers; Paris, Texas; Miami Blues; Touch of Evil; Adaptation; Joe; Andy Warhol's Bad; Andy Warhol's Dracula; In Cold Blood; The American Friend; The Elephant Man; The Brown Bunny; Miller's Crossing; Magnolia; Silence of The Lambs; River's Edge; Over The Edge; Panic Room; The Kid Stays In The Picture; This Is Spinal Tap; Repo Man; Heathers; The Salton Sea; Alien; Blade Runner; The Hunger; The Man Who Fell To Earth; The English Patient; Track 29; Jacob's Ladder. Anything by Don Herzfeld, Ridley Scott films, Wes Anderson films, Cohen Brothers films, some Altman films, Wim Wenders films, P.T. Anderson films, Michael Mann films, Luc Besson films, Nicolas Roeg films, Alan Parker films, Hal Ashby films, Kubrick films, Scorcese films, Polanski films, some Cronenberg films, anything with Lena Olin, Diane Venora, Grace Zabriskie, Lili Taylor, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Charlotte Rampling, Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper, John C. Reilly, Jeremy Irons, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dustin Hoffman (that's two, isn't it?), Bruno Ganz, John Hurt, and a few fine others. The list is ENORMOUS!!! It goes on....
Television:
TV: SNL, Carnivale, Twin Peaks, Lost, Little Britain, Homicide, Big Love, The Wire, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, All In The Family, The History Channel (Again, I'm partial. Once you play Jesus Christ on The History Channel, you tend to tune in a little more) A and E true crime stuff, Law and Order, The Simpsons (still the smartest-written show on TV), South Park (still the most erratic and energized show out there...far out there), Family Guy, though seemingly not much else. Refer to the movies section!
Books:
Jeez, let's see: Chuck Palahniuk's "Fight Club," William Hjortsberg's "Falling Angel," Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" & "Shame," Thomas Harris' "Red Dragon" & "Hannibal," James Elroy's "Black Dahlia," Brett Easton Ellis' "American Psycho" & "Glamorama," Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita," Elmore Leonard's "Rum Punch," Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72," "Cronenberg on Cronenberg," Truman Capote's "The Grass Harp" & "Breakfast At Tiffany's," Sharon Waxman's "Rebels On The Backlot," Malcom Gladwell's "The Tipping Point," Robert Daly's "Year of The Dragon," Martin Amis' "Money," Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart," Kazuo Ishiguro's "An Artist of The Floating World," Kitty Kelly's "My Way," and the list goes on and on.....
Heroes:
Philosopher Bertrand Russell, David Lynch, David Bowie, David Fincher (yeah, a lotta' Davids in there, huh?), my father, brilliant story-via-film tellers and a few very dear friends (you know who you are)!
