likes: photography. editing. writing. people watching. journal. coffee. baking cookies. pretending i can cook. wandering/exploring nyc. programming. irregular sleep patterns (fuck circadian rythms). brooklyn. roof parties. stories. wine. liner notes and packaging. my bike. coney island. film cameras.
dislikes: tsq tourists, cell phones in public restrooms, suburbs, jersey, florida, single ply toilet paper (and the roommates who buy it), walkie talkie cell phones, bush, office politics, censorship, consumerism, materialism, creationism, daytime tv, almost anything with a laugh track, bland pop "culture," improper grammar, misspelled words. admitting i work for the biggest man of them all.
actions speak louder than. so fucking do something already.
jazz/avant garde: JOHN COLTRANE, miles davis, THELONIOUS MONK, DUKE ELLINGTON, dave brubeck, gene kruppa, buddy rich, JOHN ZORN (naked city, painkiller, hemophiliac, masada), mike patton (tzadik label)
electronica/electro/dance/trip-hop: APHEX TWIN, VENETIAN SNARES, m.i.a., miss kittin, goldfrapp, SQUAREPUSHER, amon tobin, massive attack, autechre, tricky, portishead, prodigy (NOT of mob depp), !!!, daft punk, otto von schirach, matmos
classical: mozart, beethoven, shostakovich, stravinsky, rachmaninov, tchaikovsky, chopin
country: johnny cash
pop/rock (whatever that is), metal/(fill in blank)core: mindless self indulgence, dillinger escape plan (with mike patton), mike patton (solo & side projects), beatles, weezer, pixies, led zeppelin, hendrix, pink floyd, rolling stones, TOM WAITS, mr bungle, FANTOMAS, system of a down, tool, white zombie, nine inch nails, david bowie, frank sinatra, tenacious d, mary prankster, violent femmes, pj harvey, the who, the doors, ben folds, the eels, ween, tori amos, radiohead, white stripes, dandy warhols, ELLIOTT SMITH, primus, les claypool, yeah yeah yeahs, beck, flaming lips, elvis costello, pulp, ramones, modest mouse, stp (old), marilyn manson, rage against the machine, fiona apple, nirvana, brian wilson's smile, bjork, neutral milk hotel, the haunted, meshuggah, sleater kinney, mastodon, melt banana
hip-hop/rap/grime: beastie boys, eminem, aesop rock, lady sovereign, DIZZEE RASCAL, m.i.a., virus syndicate, wiley
soundtracks: bernard herman. ennio morricone. angelo badalamenti. jon brion. danny elfman. leonard bernstein. clint mansell. nino rota. dust brothers.
filmmakers: michel gondry, spike jonze, jonas ackerlund (music videos only), mark romanek, fellini (esp 8 1/2), terry gilliam (esp brazil), sam raimi (esp evil dead 2), peter jackson (esp early: bad taste, dead alive, meet the feebles), pt anderson (esp magnolia), lynch (esp twin peaks), hitchcock, kubrick, monty python, anything pixar, don hertzfeldt, leone, sodebergh (esp schizopolis), wes anderson, george romero, kurosawa, tati (esp hulot cycle), and generally anything criterion puts out
films:fight club. kill bill. singin in the rain. nightmare on elmstreet. godfather. star wars (NOT prequels). indiana jones. spinal tap. serenity. harry potter. akira. citizen kane. transformers the movie. rocky horror.
previously: six feet under, unscripted, mr show, monty python's flying circus, alias, kids in the hall, invader zim, futurama, the prisoner, carnivale, my so called life, twin peaks, x files (up til season 5), freaks and geeks, looney tunes, neon genesis evangelion, buffy the vampire slayer. 30 days. arrested development. simpsons. veronica mars (sniff). sopranos (double sniff)
currently: lost (about half the time), 24 (not season 6), the shield, family guy, smallville (about 1/3 of the time). studio 60. heroes. weeds. battlestar galactica.
textual novels: heartbreaking work of staggering genius. hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. filmmaking books. dave sedaris. lord of the flies. kerouac's on the road. hunter s thompson. geek mac/unix books. geek photo, photoshop, final cut, after effects, avid books. film editing books.
graphic novels: johnny the homicidal maniac. fillerbunny. frank miller. alan moore. dave sim's cerebus. superman. joss whedon's astonishing x-men. y the last man. ex machina. akira.
mags: aperture. film comment. cinema scope. film quarterly. cineaction. cineaste. sight & sound. res. ACE cinema editor. stash (well, technically a dvd)
photo:william eggleston. joel peter-witkin. diane arbus. cindy sherman. edward burtynsky. gregory crewdson. nan goldin (some). ansel adams (some). wolfgang tilsman.
computer geek: flash, actionscript, os x hacks, unix for os x, perl, compositing, audio post. to read: css, php, python, applescript, xcode/cocoa, (d/x)html, xml, xslt
my mom for raising me right. my friends for putting up with me drunk.