Music
Hot Chip, Calexico, Camille, Iron & WIne, Elbow, João Orecchia, Cat Power, Strawberry Jam, Mouldy Peaches, Beirut,
Placebo, Cat Empire, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Peaches, Bjork, , Pink, Kellis, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Johny Cash, Amy Winehouse. Cesario Evora, There’s a lot more that I can’t think of right now...
Movies
I watch a lot of art films.
I’m a huge fan of Asia Extreme.
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, House of Flying Daggers, Hero, A Tale of Two Sisters, Once Upon a Time In China, Crying Freeman, Spirited Away, Gozu, , Dark Water, Audition, , Enter the Dragon, The Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow, Shaolin Wooden Men, Visitor Q, Itchy The Killer, Battle Royalle
Art House/Independent:
Triplets of Belleville, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Million Dollar Baby, City of God, Motorcycle Diaries, Amilie, The Tao of Steve, Whale Rider, Basquiat, Train Spotting, Karma Sutra, Irreversible (though it's an incredibly disturbing movie), The science of sleep,
Comedy:
Idiocracy, Running with scissors, Anchor Man, Old School, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, Napoleon Dynamite, Dodge Ball, The 40yrs old Virgin, The Producers, Orgasmo, Wedding Crashers, Be Cool, Bad Santa, The Devil Wears Prada, Bruce Almighty, Something’s Gotta Give, Run Fat Boy Run, The Darwin awards, Lars and the Real Girl, Click (but it unfortunately had the typically predictable Adam Sandler grossly syrupy ending, cut off the last 5 min and you've got a fairly good movie), Hot Fuzz, Marie & Bruce,
Cult & Horror:
Shaun of the Dead, Spirited Away, Akira, Donnie Darko, From Dusk Till Dawn,
Science Fiction &; Fantasy:
Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe, Sin city, Sky Captain &; the World of Tomorrow, Lemony Snicket’s a Series of Unfortunate Event, Edward Scissorhands, 5th Element, I-The Island, Star Wars Movies, Pirates of the Caribbean, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Pan's Labyrinth
Anime & Animation:
Ice Age, The Incredibles, Spirited Away (there are a lot more, just can’t remember them all right now), Robots, Shrek, Tekkon kinkurîto (brilliant, so long as you don't get stuck of connotations of the boys names vs their characters), Samurai Champloo,
Television
Documentaries:
The Corporation, Supersize Me, Born Rich, all David Attenborough nature documentaries, the Planet Earth Series National Geographic, most nature documentaries and much much more!!
Series:
Californication, Dexter, Fringe, 30 Rock, Six Feet Under, The League of Gentlemen, The Office (The British Version), One Foot in the Grave, Big Love, South Park, scrubs, Big Bang Theory
Books
All the books I've read so far by
Haruki Murakami: Norwegian wood, South of the Border West of the Sun,The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, etc.
Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy,
At the moment I'm reading Vikram Chandra's Sacred games. Earlier in the year I was reading the Sue Thompson's Johnathan Strange and Mr Norell.
Introducing Series (Chomsky, Wittgenstein), Oswald Hafling's Ayer, the penguin 60's series, Umberto Eco's On Beauty, James Frey's Bright Shiny Mornings, Flights of Love by Bernard Schlink, Ian Banks's The Crow Road and The Wasp factory, I still enjoy Terry Pratchett books (childhood habit I not ready to drop yet), Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin and Alias Grace, I'm a voracious reader so its impossible to list all the books I like.
Comments
Jan 4 2007 11:58 AM
Just checking in to say thank you for your friendship...hope you have a wonderful year.
YØRN