Jordan Saul (Countermeasures Photography)'s Interests
General
good music, photography, wandering, hiking, good books, writing, intelligent conversation, percussion, anything that makes people think, surrealism, audio books, art in general, yelling at invisible pigeons on city streets.
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Music
(MOSTLY IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER)
Amon Tobin, Tool, Pink Floyd, Tom Waits, Saul Williams, Modest Mouse, Portishead, old Deftones, old Incubus, DJ Shadow, DJ Spooky, Hive, Andrew Bird/Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire, , Aphex Twin, Arctic Monkeys, String Tributes, Neutral Milk Hotel, Cold War Kids, some Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Primus, most Alice In Chains, And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Tortoise, old STP, Radiohead, Mogwai, Vex Red, The Mars Volta, Damien Rice, Weezer, Eels, The Bad Plus, Busdriver, Ratatat, Jeff Buckley, Led Zeppelin, Sixtoo, Nirvana, A Perfect Circle, Blue Man Group, Kodo, old Nine Inch Nails, Secret Chiefs 3, Colour Revolt, Sigur Ros, Bonobo, The Decemberists, Triplets of Belleville Soundtrack, Snatch Soundtrack, Fight Club Soundtrack (dust brothers), Mutemath (live), Alarm Will Sound (a 20 piece orchestra performing Aphex Twin), Cake, Four Tet, Kill Bill soundtracks, Elbow, Sublime, new Thrice, TV On The Radio, Flight Of The Conchords, Pivot, Aesop Rock, Battles, Clark, Explosions In The Sky, Ghostworld soundtrack, Glassjaw, Invader Zim score, Iron and Wine, Kings of Leon, Stone Temple Pilots, U.N.K.L.E. (but only Psyence Fiction), The Racentours, and a ton of other stuff, for now unmentioned.
Arctic Monkeys - Dancing Shoes
The Bad Plus - And Here We Test Our Powers of Observation
Movies
Fight Club, Natural Born Killers, Donnie Darko, American History X, Requiem For a Dream, Pi, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Ocean's Eleven, Spider, Shaun of The Dead, Silence of The Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon, Lost Highway, Oldboy, The Incredibles, Primal Fear, The Big Lebowski, Ravenous, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Jacob's Ladder, Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Killing Words (Palabras Encadenadas), Sympathy For Mr. Vengance, Lady Vengance, Three Extremes, 12 Monkeys, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Lord of The Rings Trilogy, Adaptation, The Prestige, The Triplets of Belleville, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, Barton Fink, Memento, Akira, Ninja Scroll, Night Watch (Nochnoy dozor), Casino Royale, Pan's Labrynth, 300, The Thumbsucker, 28 Days Later, Brick, Batman Begins, Arlington Road, Buffalo '66, Dead Man's Shoes, I Heart Huckabees, Igby Goes Down, The Edukators, Man Bites Dog, The Hitchikers Guide to The Galaxy, Intacto, Kiss kiss Bang Bang, Kill Bill 1 and 2, Little Miss Sunshine, Sin City, Man on Fire, Waking Life, Thank You for Smoking, Grindhouse, Children of Men, Hot Fuzz, In Bruges, Brotherhood of the Wolf, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Indiana Jones chronicles, Cloverfield, Science of Sleep, Amalie, Apocalypto, 28 Weeks Later, Black Sheep, Blood Diamond, Cashback, Cemetery Man, A Clockwork Orange, The Darjeeling Limited, Dead Man, Death at a Funeral, From Hell, The Frighteners, Full Metal Alchemist: The Conquerer of Shamballa, Go, The Host, It's All Gone, Pete Tong, King Kong, Dead Alive, Sunshine, Murder Party, Severance, Stranger Than Fiction, Swimming Pool, Red Dwarf, Weirdsville, Wolves at Our Door, Three Kings, Across The Universe, Titus, Art School Confidential, Battle Royale, Capote, The Chumscrubber, Closer, Clue, The Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys, The Descent, The Constant Gardener, District B13, The Dreamers, Enduring Love, Four Rooms, Fido, The Fountain, Gummo, Harry Potter series, He Was a Quiet Man, In The Mouth of Madness, Jumanji, Kalifornia, The Last Minute, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Life of David Gale, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Quills, Mimic, Mirrormask, The Squid and the Whale, Secretary, You Kill Me, Sexy Beast, A Scanner Darkly, Solaris, Spirited Away, Tideland, V for Vendetta, Wristcutter: A Love Story, The Way of the Gun, Undead.....ok, I think that's enough for this list, though it could go on and on.
Television
jeopardy, venture brothers, the office, weeds, heroes, invader zim, dexter, arrested development, south park, full metal alchemist, touched by an angel...ok, maybe not.
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We are very excited about playing at such an awesome jazz club. We have some great sets lined up for you, so don't miss it. Friday and Saturday November 20th and 21st, 5:00-8:30p at Andy's Jazz Club in Chicago
Aaron Koppel -Guitar, Matt Nelson; (Lupe Fiasco, Matthew Santos) -Keyboard, Graham Czach; (Chicago Afrobeat Project) -bass, Robert Tucker (Matthew Santos) -drums
oh my gosh that reminds me, i think i had a dream last night that you were counting tips and you were like wow we made a lot, you must have done a good job flashing your tits at everybody
hell yeah man, thanks for the recommendations. i'm playing some pivot right now and liking it! glad to see you're going to andrew bird and trail of dead. bird is coming for sxsw so i'm sure to catch him there, and trail of dead are actually from austin so they play every once in a while here. hope things are swell in your world. here are a few rec's from my collection: NIN - ghosts i-iv, KC Accidental - anthems for the could've bin pills, anything by Do Make Say Think, the mercury program - from the vapor of gasoline, dead meadow - feathers, magic lantern (NOT the 60s pop group), om - pilgrimage
well there's a few. keep in touch, i should be headed back that way in the near future!
