Benjamin - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm in graduate school at FSU. For film.

My Interests

secrecy, rituals...secret rituals. I like snickering at people when they're mad in traffic. If I'm lucky then I'm the reason for the anger, as I drive very slowly.

I'd like to meet:

Any other Masons. You know who you are.

Music:

Led Zeppelin. Rolling Stones. Elliott Smith. Badly Drawn Boy. Replacements. Yo La Tengo. Cat Stevens. Dr. Dre. Cheap Trick. Sugar. Flaming Lips. Cat Power. Pretenders. Jawbreaker. Modern Lovers & Jonathan Richman. Spoon.

Movies:

Rushmore. Ghost World. 400 Blows (Ah, pretension). HELP! Marty. Magnolia. CQ. Jules and Jim. Two for the Road. Miller's Crossing. Barton Fink. Big Lebowski. Singles. Jerry Maguire.

Television:

Curb Your Enthusiasm. Six Feet Under. Seinfeld. Simpsons. Etc.

Books:

Confederacy of Dunces. Spike, Mike, Slackers & Dykes. Great Expectations. To Kill a Mockingbird. The Great Gatsby. All of Raymond Chandler, most of Dennis Lehane. THE CORRECTIONS. Short stories of all kinds.

Heroes:

Louis Malle. Louis Khan. Frank Gehry. Thomas Wolfe. Noah Baumbach. Bill Broyles. Paddy Chayefsky. William Holden. Gary Larson.

My Blog

The Sunday lows

Of the many small thrills in life, I count a certain one amongst the top of the pops: waking up early on a Saturday, getting coffee, watching the world wake up, knowing that you have something to do t...
Posted by Benjamin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

My neighbor is an unfriendly jerk

I won't reveal names. But he's very sensitive to noise, e.g. music. e.g. anything other than classical that might cause "reverberations" from bass tones. A few weeks ago we had an unfriendly exchang...
Posted by Benjamin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Maiden Voyage of the USS Naval Gaze

Everyone else has cool journal entries. So why shouldn't I apply pen to...well fingers to keys and make something inspirational? the other day at work, it was a Thursday so all the bleak forward...
Posted by Benjamin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST