I agree with Bill Cosby, who once famously said: "Hoolog! Gonna get some raggits 'n roves and reezinizzim ha ha ha! Then you take some ro bop a saggitz. Freezim flazm blazm." All else is commentary.
I'd like to meet:
Whoever built Stonehenge.
Music:
Likes: Nearly everything rock, pop or soul. Throw in some trad or modern jazz (Ella, Miles, Billie, Trane, Archie Shepp) and I'm a happy guy. And leave room for the outside stuff ( Ye Ren ), always.
Dislikes: Southern rock, death metal and I especially despise cock-rock in general.
Major favorites, specifically: THE LOADED REVULVAS , SPORKFLY , THE TOUGH AND LOVELY , TRAP DOOR , ALI ZJANA , The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Kate Bush, David Bowie, The B-52s, Cream, Ani DiFranco, The Flaming Lips, Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, Janis Joplin, Lene Lovich, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Martha and the Muffins, Joni Mitchell, Moxy Fruvous, Steel Pulse, Talking Heads, The Temptations and most Motown or Philly Soul, Al Green, XTC, The Clash, The Kinks, Heart, Gil Scott-Heron, Gong, Hawkwind, Frank Zappa, The Sex Pistols, Coldplay, The Police, The Buzzcocks, Squeeze, Blondie, The Pretenders, X-Ray Spex, Delta 5, Peter Gabriel, George Clinton/Parliment/Funkadelic, Prince, Radiohead, Lou Reed, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Jane Siberry, Small Faces, The Rascals, The Turtles, Tommy James and the Shondells, War, Neil Young, oh, I could just keep typing all night long...
Movies:
Faves: Casablanca, The Wizard of Oz, 2001: a space odyssey, The Graduate, The Big Lebowski, Kate and Leopold, Free Enterprise, hundreds of indies, lotsa film noir and the French New Wave, notably, Truffaut's The Man Who Loved Women
Nearly all films with: David Bowie, Steve Buscemi, John/Joan Cusack, Johnny Depp, Robert DeNiro, Marilyn Monroe, Christopher Guest, Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, Al Pacino, Parker Posey (I especially like the one where she plays the weird, quirky chick), Christina Ricci and Kate Winslet (yes, that includes Titanic you haters)
Nearly all films by: Woody Allen, The Coen Brothers, Fellini, Terry Gilliam (and everything else Python-related including Jabberwocky even though me and Kenn are the only 2 people who saw it), Hitchcock, Jay & Silent Bob, Kubrick, Spike Lee and Tarantino
Notables: Sunset Boulevard, All About Eve, Night of the Hunter, A Place in the Sun, Mickey One, A Touch of Evil, Niagra, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Monterey Pop, Jimi Plays Berkeley, Woodstock, The Source, the 7-Up series, Lost In Translation, High Fidelity, Gross Pointe Blank, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Last Temptation of Christ, Trading Places, Garden State, Swingers, Office Space, Galaxy Quest, 24-Hour Party People, The Life of Brian, Jerry Maguire, Hideous Kinky, The House of Yes, Chasing Amy, The Opposite of Sex, The Original Kings of Comedy, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Recommended: The Fog of War, Supersize This, Farenheit 451, The Corporation, Network, Who Killed the Electric Car?, An Inconvenient Truth
Television:
The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Entourage, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Sopranos, MST3K, A Charlie Brown Christmas
Books:
Every book by Ray Bradbury, Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, Life: The Movie - How Entertainment Conquered Reality by Neal Gabler
Heroes:
is a great David Bowie disc. I'm especially fond of Blackout. Do yourself a favor and get it.
