I'm not sure I can stress how much I like comic books and movies. Sports are good. Softball, volleyball and tennis to play. Baseball to watch (there's something so relaxing about it).
Music
Oingo Boingo, Chris Isaak, Tori Amos, Garbage, Fiona Apple, Superchic(k), Rebecca St. James, Soul Asylum, Traveling Wilburys, Lou Reed, The Sounds, The Andrews Sisters, Fred Astaire, Northern State, The Monkees, Sam Phillips
Movies
1)King Kong (1933) - Simply my favorite movie of all time. I like it so much that I don't even fast-forward through the opening 40 minutes.
2)Jaws - How many time can one person watch a movie and still see something new? More than 20 apparently. I wrote a paper on the music of Jaws when I was in college that was 16 pages long. After rereading it, I felt I could add another 10 pages, easy.
3)Taxi Driver - Hard to believe that I didn't care for it the first time I watched it. But the second time... my favorite Martin Scorsese film by far.
4)Silence of the Lambs - Complete and utter manipulation, but with fantastic performances and a constant realization that while the movie is manipulating my emotions every time I see it, there's nothing I can do.
5)North by Northwest - My favorite Alfred Hitchcock film. Builds on every one of his major themes (like the innocent man on the run) and carries it through with suspense, shock and humor. Cary Grant has rarely been better and Martin Landau should've won his Best Supporting Actor Oscar for this.
6)City Lights - Made me cry like a baby after I saw it (and still does) and it's also hilarious.
7)Purple Rose of Cairo - Possibly the most tragic, saddest film I've ever seen, but laced with such humor and realism that you feel like you've seen something special. This (along with Crimes and Misdemeanors) is the Woody Allen film for those who don't like Woody Allen.
8)The Godfather Trilogy (yes, even Part 3... shut up!)
9)Barton Fink - The original "What's in the box." Don't care. Don't need to care. A triumph of visual storytelling, mood, and dream imagery. Captivated me in the theater and did so again when I bought it on DVD.
10)For Your Eyes Only - Favorite Bond girl, favorite Bond action sequence (the mountain climbing), and the movie I watch whenever I feel in the mood for a Bond film and I do own them all).
Honorable Mention-- Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Right Stuff, Gunga Din
Television
Currently - Lost (still the best show on television currently, 24, Heroes, Survivor, Chuck, The Office, Bones, My Name is Earl, Robot Chicken, Fringe, MXC, 30 Rock, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Pushing Daisies, Extras, Dexter, Samantha Who, How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, South Park, Gossip Girl (*sigh* I feel unclean for even typing that, but it has an unnatural hold over me)
Classics - Twin Peaks, The Simpsons (seasons 1 thru 10), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sledge Hammer!, Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, The Muppet Show, Muppets Tonight, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Newsradio, The Avengers, The Critic, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Veronica Mars, The Wild, Wild West, Carnivale, Extras
Books
The Bible
Then forget books, it's about the authors.
Gordon Korman, Stuart Woods, Lawrence Block, Carolyn Keene, Edgar Allan Poe, Tim Dorsey, Janet Evanovich, Douglas Adams, Clifford B. Hicks, J.K. Rowling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, P.J. Tracy
Comic Books however...
1) Ultimate Spider-Man (Bendis hasn't let me down in any issue of this series thus far. I read it as soon as I can get my grubby hands on it. I even own a page of Mark Bagley's artwork, I like the series so much.)
2) Knights of the Dinner Table (I've never played a role-playing game in my life and this is still one of the funniest and best books I read each and every month.)
Then there's the rest... Justice Society of America (c'mon Geoff Johns, see if you can pack in any more chacters), New Avengers, Daredevil, Ultimates, The Boys, Fables, Astro City, Action Comics (Johns has made me care about Legion of Superheroes and Braniac. That's good writing.), Echo (Terry Moore strikes again!), Bomb Queen, Fell (more issues please Mr's Ellis and Templesmith), Ex Machina (if only real-life politics were this interesting), True Story Swear to God, Buffy The Vampire Slayer (for those of you who loved the show, yet think the comic doesn't measure up? You're wrong.), Usagi Yojimbo (the only comic I may stop buying when it comes out just so I can have all the trades. I know that'll never happen, but the stories work really well as collections), Jonah Hex, Invincible, Walking Dead (the Robert Kirkman duo - superheroes and zombies. It doesn't get much better than that unless they were combined... as Marvel Zombies!), The Sword (the Luna Brothers are crafting yet another masterpiece. Mark my words - these guys are going to be around for years and years), Guardians of the Galaxy (because it has Rocket Raccoon it. Duh.)
About me:
Writing, writing, writing. If it's not here on a blog, then I'm writing American Knight for Mask and Cape Comics. Rick Lozano is drawing it and it looks great (go be his friend). The first issue (Mask and Cape Double Feature #1) is available for purchase at Carol and John's Comic Shop in Cleveland (coincidentally, where I work). We're all hard at work on issue #2 (and #3 and #4 and #5). Or I'm reading (comic books, novels, biographies, newspapers, whatever). Or watching something. I watch an obscene amount of television for someone who has no cable or Tivo (my VCRs work just fine, thank you). Or I'm watching a movie or three. Oh, and that's when I'm not working at Carol and John's Comic Shop (quoted in the Wall Street Journal - woo hoo!) and Discount Drug Mart. I'm also involved in the podcast "The Aftershow." It can be found at www.theaftershowpodcast.com My buddies and I talk about the movie we just watched and record that conversation for the podcast. Good times.
Here on Myspace, it's all about the blog. Stop by. Take a look. Feel free to drop in any commentary or simply subscribe (I love all my readers - I can be an attention whore). And remember - Go Tribe!
Who I'd like to meet: Naomi Watts, David Lynch, Jodie Foster, Woody Allen, Savage Steve Holland, anybody who's played James Bond (Connery, Moore, Lazenby, Dalton, Brosnan and Craig)
thanks for the add; so terrific to meet folks who are following their dreams, and living with passion. looking forward to reading your work! have a Lovely Sunday :)
Picked up a couple Criterions at Borders yesterday: Bottle Rocket and Diabolique. I know you don't like the former (right?), but what about the latter? What a mean trick! I couldn't believe it.
What about the Hard Eight? Good movie? Worth picking up? Are you coming here for Christmas?
Fuck. I'm sorry I didn't wish you a happy birthday. I feel like a giant asshat now. Well happy way belated birthday now...
And I will do my best to catch up with your blogs soon, but all you movie guys with your obscure stuff I haven't seen...it's hard to comment on sometimes. So if you just see a kudos and no comment from me in the future, it means that you did an impeccable writing job (as always) but I didn't know much about the subject matter.
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First of all, I must brag about the White Sox sweeping the Indians.
Sorry.
Second of all, great Redbelt review. Myspace is giving me a hard time and I can't comment on anyone's blog, but I wanted to let you know that I read the review and enjoyed it. Hope you do more blogs in the future where you allow us to pick films for you to review.
http://jimscomicbook. blogspot. com/ check it out, use the links to the right under 'labels' for the correct page order, they are posted backwards on the start page
You are so right. I haven't seen that movie forever, but it is even more insane NOW because that particular mentality is now par for the course rather than an outrageous plotline.
