Call Me Al

I'd like to meet:

You, Cuba Gooding Jr.,Jody Foster and Oprah Winfrey. Let´s face it, you rock!

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Music:

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Do you wanna kill me?!! (- O! O! Wrong question!;) I eat sleep and dream music. And listing everyone I love here would give me an excitement overload...
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Movies:

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WARNING! I´m a movie freak… Magnolia (The way Anderson and co let the same music theme recur and alternate between diegesis/nondiegesis is just awesome!), Car Wash (C´mon, you know you like it really!), Blow Up!, Mask ( Serious love), The Color Purple, Cabaret (Here I go again!), The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, but Your Teeth Are in My Neck ( Yeah, we all know that feelin´…- HUH?!!), Fisher King, Bagdad Café, Scream ( IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIH!…Oh, did I mean the movie?! – Sorry!), Psycho, Vertigo ( You´re da man, Hitch!), Jules et Jim (It´s something magic about those Nouvelle Vague movies!), Here is Your Life/Här har du ditt liv (Perhaps a development of the Nouvelle Vague film techniques, but MAGIC nonetheless! Jan Troell must be one of the most outstanding auteurs in the world. – Watch the proof!), Cabin Boy! Empire of the Sun, EVERYTHING WITH JIM CARREY!, Vampyr (Dreyer´s tricky, misleading pannings and tracking shots in this one made me sit shouting, ``WHERE?!! WHERE?!!´´ Please, don´t ask me how it ends – I got chucked out…), Ordet (Stunning loooong takes and real smooth cam work make this a breathless Dreyer film!), La Grande Ilusion, Thank You for Smoking, Marie Antoinette, Ladri di biciclette (Neorealism at its best!), Nosferatu (Hey, that dude looks like me – cool!), La Chute de la Maison Usher, Coeur fidèle, Lethal Weapon, Zerkalo (we miss you, Tarkovskij!), Vargtimmen (I hate to disagree with a film legend, but I really like this one, Mr Bergman!), Potemkin (Amazing montage work!), Un Condamné á mort s´est échappé (For ``Brill´´ Bresson´s way of letting us watch with our ears!), Metallica – The Movie, Hiroshima mon Amour, Mama Roma, Week-end un film comme les autres, Pierrot le fou (Crazily fantastic, Godard!), Lost in Translation, What´s Eating Gilbert Grape? (Both Leonardo di Caprio and Johnny Depp in the same movie – it just can´t go wrong!), Man with a Movie Camera!…- HELP, I CAN´T STOP!…Napoléon (Merci, Abel Gance. Anyone who can ride a horse upside down and still be filming is a hero of mine!), L´Atalante (No one´s above you, Jean Vigo!), In the Mood for Love, Fallen Angels (I´ve never watched an ``OH NO, And I paid to see this one´´- movie by Wong Kar-Wai. The He Qiwu character [- brilliantly played by Takeshi Kaneshiro] = me in disguise.), La jetee and not to be forgotten – the Hollywood version of the same story –Twelve Monkeys, The Exploitation Films from the 50s by Arkoff, Corman, Wood, Pal and the gang are true Mo-cult! The Toolbox Murders ( Big up, Hooper! This is a real hair-raiser. In fact, I didn´t have to use any hair spray for a whole week afterwards! Watch out for the scene there the leading lady goes down the stairs to the dark cellar. Suddenly she shines a torch straight at the cam and with that breaking down the barrier between screen space and real space. – Extending the screen space/cellar into real space/auditorium. The torchlight´s piercing the darkness in the auditorium/cellar. We know the baddie´s in there… somewhere – and so are we! HEELP ME OUTTA HERE!!! Oh, sorry, I got a bit carried away…As many of you kindly pointed out to me [- Man, you´re tough!], it´s, of course, always debatable whether the use of a specific technique in a certain shot creates a total break of the diegetic ilusion, or only distance the spectator from the film´s world – creating a break within.), A Police Story (W-O-W! Jackie Shan knows how to do it and he shows it! I hear they are still fishing yellow rubber ducks at that harbour!;). And many, many more…

Television:

When I´m having success in stealing time I no doubt dig in at: Buffy and the Vampire Slayers (One weekend I watched the whole series from beginning to end twice. I would have don it a third time, but my boss called and told me it was Monday and I was being late for work…- AREN´T THERE ANY DOCTORS FOR DISTURBING BEHAVIOUR LIKE THAT?!!;), The Late Show with David Letterman, Jay Leno And Europes own host with the most – Ray Cokes! (- THUMBS UP!), Saturday Night Live, The Amazing Race, That 70´s Show. Mad about hot innovative ideas in film/TV/music video production, so MTV´s Alternative Nation (Toby Amies you´re greatly missed!) and MTV´s Awards Shows still keep me MTV-tized. Pimp My Ride - Hey, I love this awesome gang! The Oscar Ceremony is a big must-see too!
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Books:

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Do Elle, Mad and newspapers count? Books about all forms of media communication are real page-turners, scripts and arty-party books. Rock poetry in song lyrics = YEEEHAA-stuff.

Heroes:

You, Janis Joplin & Martin Luther King.

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