Friday, May 18th, 2007
About Me
Interests: fathering, rock music, playing guitar, vegetarianism, movies, photography, reading, writing, computers, politics, psychology, philosophy, animals (seven cats), pop culture, economics, etymology.
Music: Robert Pollard/Guided by Voices/the Circus Devils, the Heartless Bastards, Nirvana, the Breeders, Brainiac, the Afghan Whigs, the Twilight Singers, Velvet Underground, Nico, David Bowie, the Doors, the Rolling Stones, Spoon, the Pixies, Wilco, Alex Chilton/Big Star, the White Stripes, Guns ‘n’ Roses, Johnny Cash, Ani DiFranco, the Vaselines, Ice Cube, Cypress Hill, Joy Division, Ultravox, Lily Allen, Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Ryan Adams, the Walkmen, the Shagri-las….this list could go on forever.
Books: Confederacy of Dunces, Catcher in the Rye, Crime and Punishment, 1984, Lord of the Flies, A Scanner Darkly, Brave New World, the Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain, Existence and Being, the Bell Jar, Lost Souls, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, the Fountainhead. Just about anything written by: Rand, Plath, Orwell, T. Dalrymple, Pirsig, Bukowski, Nietzsche, Spinoza, Heidegger.
Movies: Lynch, Gondry, Fellini, Anderson, Almodovar, Altman, Soderbergh. Favorites: Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Royal Tenenbaums, Secretary, High Art, the Long Goodbye, All About My Mother, Volver, Intimacy, 8 1/2, Abre los Ojos, Bubble, Reality Bites, Watch Me Jumpstart, 21 Grams, Bad Lieutenant, Donnie Darko: the Director’s Cut, Fight Club, Citizen Kane, Bully, True Romance, Waking Life.
