Addicted to music and film; editing videos when the computer actually works; shopping for music and film; writing scripts of various genres; playing music and working on films; Texas Hold'em; Mexican, Thai and Japanese food; LARGE bubble teas with tapioca at 168 tea shop, chocolate and cheese, Guitar and Guitar Hero; long walks on the moon...
Music:
NirvanaThe PixiesFrank BlackThe CurePavementThe SmithsRadioheadThom YorkThe Beta BandKing Biscuit TimeThe BeatlesNine Inch NailsQueens of the Stone AgeJosh Homme's Desert SessionsEagles of Death MetalBob DylanTom Waits
Modest MousePearl JamTenacious DThe DoorsFatboy SlimDandy WarholsVelvet UndergroundJanis JoplinCreedence Clearwater RevivalJohnny CashBjorkPink Floydand the list goes on...
Movies:
Films by
Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer)
David Fincher (Fight Club),
Chan Wook-Park (OldBoy, Sympathy For Lady Vengeance)Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)
The Coen Brothers (Fargo, Miller's Crossing)
Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy)
John Carpenter (The Thing)
Akira Kurosawa (Throne of Blood, Sanjuro)
Sam Mendes (American Beauty)
David Lynch (Eraserhead, Elephant Man)
Stanley Kubrick (Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut)
Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Before Sunset)
Woody Allen (Take The Money And Run, Annie Hall)
Darren Aronofsky (Requiem For A Dream)
Steven Spielberg (Jaws)
Ingmar Bergman (Shame, Wild Strawberries)
Larry Clark (Kids)
Francis Ford Coppolla (The Godfather, The Rainmaker)
Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Be Kind Rewind)
Brian De Palma (Blow Out, Carlito's way)
Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho)
Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums)
P.T. Anderson (Hard Eight, Magnolia)
Oliver Stone (Born On The Fourth Of July, Natural Born Killers)
Todd Solondz (Happiness, Storytelling)
Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, No Direction Home)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Satan's Brew, The Marriage of Maria Braun)
Jim Jarmusch (Down By Law, Dead Man)
Gaspar Noe (Seul Contre Tous, Irreversible)Honorable Mentions: EASY RIDER, High Fidelity, Battle Royale, American History X, Akira, Le Samourai, Terminator 2, Dancer In The Dark, Die Hard, City Of God, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut, Suicide Club, La Cite De La Peur, Swingers, Grosse Pointe Blank, Lost In Translation
and the list goes on...
Television:
Arrested Development,
Mr. Show,
Kenny vs Spenny,
South Park,
Daily Show,
SpongeBob SquarePants (yep),
Ali G,
Harvey Birdman,
Seinfeld
Books:
Catcher in the Rye (obvious choice), The complete poetic works of Michael Madsen, Hunter S. Thompson's Kingdom of Fear, In The Blink Of An Eye by Walter Murch, Fools Die by Mario Puzo... Not much of a reader but I'd really like to start reading some of Chuck Palahniuk and Bret Easton Ellis' work and all of HST's work.
Heroes:
Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Cobain, John Lennon, Takashi Miike, Zinedine Zidane, George Carlin, Toshiro Mifune, Thom Yorke, Jean Reno, Frank Black, Jack Black
