Mostly watching movies, reading, spending time with people (I haven't been able to do that enough lately) and going online.
I like to try my hand at cooking - I'm no chef but I can make some pretty tasty dishes. Problem is I don't always have the right ingrediants (like, chili made without chili powder - which can still work, just not in name). That doesn't happen to often though.
I do rock climbing and swimming as well, which don't really go together, but if I fall off a cliff face into some water, maybe, then I could combine skills (actually, if I fell off then climbing skills haven't really come in handy - okay, maybe climbing some underwater cliffs)
I love making movies. Mostly they are comedy (when your using a mini-DV camera, most serious stuff looks lame), an use a mix of styles and visual effects. I've won three awards to date for the films I've made. I'm going to see if I can persue this proffessionally. Hey, someday I'd like to have a paying audience and a fan base, without having to start making pornography (I haven't got anything against good porn - just not interested in making it myself).
www.ivishcot-films.piczo.com
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Jesus, although I hear he's quite busy.
and this guy, Noah Kalina
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The Servant -
making it big but still relatively unknown band from London. Check out 'Cells' (you may have heard it on the Sin City trailer), 'Liquify' and 'Biro'
Elliott Smith -
Elliott Smith achieved either one of two things; he captured an essence of life through his songs, or he captured himself. He's dead now, so I'm never going to be able to ask him. Try 'Needle in the Hay', 'Son of Sam' and 'Miss Misery'
Beck
Jon Brion
Air -
Try 'The Virgin Suicides' soundtrack
Lou Reed
Radiohead
Gorillaz
Ennio Morricone
The Beach Boys
Nina Simone
Pink Floyd
U2and particular songs...'Save Me' by Aimee Mann
'Under the Milkyway' by The Church
'Mad World' by Michael Andrews and Gary Jules
'Playground Love' by Air
'Fake Plastic Trees' by Radiohead
'Superman' by Lazlo Bane
'Life on Mars' by David Bowie
Most stuff, but in particular...
...Magnolia, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, American Beauty, Batman Returns, The Royal Tenenbaums, Sex, Lies and Videotape, Solaris, Ocean's Eleven, Close Encounetrs of the Third Kind, Lost In Translation, Spiried Away, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Sleepy Hollow, Titanic, The Departed, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, Short Cuts, The Ice Storm, Crouchign tiger, Hidden Dragon, Elephant, My Own Private Idaho, The Virgin Suicides, Harvey, Leon, Talk To Her, All About My Mother, Amelie, Dawn of the Dead, Spider-Man 2, Jurassic Park, The Evil Dead II, Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, The Godfather, Apocolypse Now, MoulinRouge, Romeo + Juliet, Tarnation, Almost Famous, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, A Fist Full of Dollars, Once Upon a Time in the West, Alexander, JFK, Natural Born Killers, Jaws, The People vs. Larry Flynt, The Fifth Element, Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Erin Brockovich, Batman, Sin City, Brining Out the Dead, Scarface, Desperado, The big Lebowski, Barton Fink, Fargo, Goodbye Lenin, 28 Days Later, The Blair Witch Project, The Straight Story, Revenge of teh Sith, The phantom Menace, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Sixth Sense, The Village, License to Kill, A History of Violence, Crash, Crash, Chasing Amy, Clerks, The Rules of Attraction, Falling Down
Right here, right now - 'Scrubs'. Watch it. Love it.
There is also a show that's been on the BBC lately called 'Scandel', which is basically an amalgamation of footage of various unrelated media scandels of recent years. There was little commentry, meaning that the viewer was free to interpret the footage how they wanted to.
There are a lot of decent books out there. There's that stock list of 100 or so 'Greatest Books' - '1984', 'A Clockwork Orange', 'Gulliver's Travels' - all of which you should at least try reading (there is, after all, a reason why they are called the greatest books). Don't forget the others out there, though, which may not be so acclaimed but are still really good reads. Here are a few I enjoyed:- American Psycho by Brett Easton Elis (this crops a lot in the top 100 lists, but hey, I'll mention it anyway)
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr (not just an amusing title)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Sidways by Rex Pichett
- A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
- Until the Final Hour by Trudel Junge
- The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy by Tim Burton
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Carrie by Stephen King
- On Writing by Stephen King
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding (another from the top 100)
- Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
- The Gringo Trail by Mark Mann
- K-PAX by Gene Brewer
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
- Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abignale, jr.
-Moondust by Andrew Smith (one of the most unexpectedly insightful books I've ever read)