Cinema, music, art, outside, ecology & sustainability, ornithology and herpetology. Occasional moonlit walks in a booze induced trance and waking up in unfamiliar places are favorite pasttimes.
People who are easily but rarely bored.
John Scofield, Bowie, early Joe Jackson, Herbie Hancock, nomeansno, Minor Threat, fIREHOSE, Nels Cline, Cornelius, Django Reinhardt, Pink Floyd, Brian Eno, Talking Heads, Diz n' Bird, Deltron, Charles Mingus, Elvis Costello, Ennio Morricone, DEVO, Bjork, The Damned, Al Dimeola, The Kinks, The Who, Gary Numan, Mike Oldfield, etc.
Rashomon, Ikiru, & Seven Samurai (most anything by Kurosawa). Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead, & Wild at Heart (most anything by Lynch). Halloween, In the Mouth of Madness, The Thing, & Prince of Darkness (lots of shit by Carpenter). Brazil, Fear and Loathing, & The Meaning of Life (Gilliam). Juliet of the Spirits, 8 1/2, La Strada, & Satyricon (Fellini). Bob Le Flambeur, Le Cercle Rouge, Le Samurai, Un Flic (Melville). Naked City and Riffifi (Dassin). Les Diabolique & Wages of Fear(Cluozot). Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, Clockwork Orange, The Shining, & Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick). Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, & O'Brother (Coen). Good, Bad, and the Ugly, For a Few Dollars More, & Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone). Sonatine, Zatoichi, & Battle Royale (Takeshi). Human Nature and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry). Scanners, Videodrome, The Dead Zone, The Fly, Dead Ringers, & Naked Lunch (Cronenburg). The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Fitzcarraldo, Even Dwarves Started Small, & Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog). Spirited Away & Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki). Alien, Blade Runner, & Legend (Ridley Scott). Akira, The Jerk, The Man with Two Brains, Willy Wonka (Wilder), Easy, Ghost in the Shell (only the 1st movie and the Standalone Complex, GITS2 was shit), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Life of Brian, Kingpin, A Night at the Roxbury (Please forgive me this guilty indulgence), Soylent Green, Logan's Run, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Branded to Kill, True Stories, Matthew Barney (release all that shit fucker!), more and research ongoing
TODAY: Simpsons, Nova, anything by Sir David Attenborough, The League of Gentlemen (much thanks to Andre!), Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Chappelle, Family Guy. 99% of TV is worthless wank!_______________ OLDIES: anything by Sir David Attenborough, Cosmos, Twin Peaks, Doctor Who (Tom Baker years), Young Ones, Fawlty Towers, Python, Ren & Stimpy, Magnum P.I.
Henry Miller, Dostoevsky, Bukowski, Kafka, Nabokov, Steinbeck, Vonnegut, Fante, E.E. Cummings, Asimov, Chomsky, Jim Woodring, Daniel Clowes, Stan Sakai, Christopher Hicks, Masamume Shirow, and some others...
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