I can't imagine how I never put Kate Bush on this list. Ah well, fixed now. For the rest, in no order at all --> Miles Davis, Boom Boom Satellites, David Bowie, the late great Jerry Goldsmith, Ennio Morricone, Tori Amos, Amon Tobin, John Williams (duh), Phillip Glass, Beck, Housemartins, Nina Simone, Charlie Haden, Diana Krall, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Crime and the City Solution, Nick Cave (with or without the Bad Seeds), Banyan, Michael Kamen, John Scott, Warren Zevon, Eurythmics, Communards, Radiohead, Saint Etienne, Bob Dylan, Danny Elfman, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Tiger Lillies
Train (sometimes), BT, Wild Colonials, Talking Heads, any of the Newmans, Alex North, Joe Hisaishi, Michael Nyman, Alexandre Desplat, Graeme Revell, Antony and the Johnsons, Brian Tyler, Christopher Young, Georges Delerue, John Coltrane, Cat Empire (check 'em out - they're from Australia and seem to be having more fun doing their thing than anyone else) and lots of other stuff.
Movies
First of all, I present my Top 6. Yes, Top 6.... >
These also number among my favorites, in no particular order --> "Tideland", "Flags of Our Fathers", "Millions", "The Constant Gardener", "Lord of the Rings" (all three), "Croupier", "Code 46", "Master & Commander - The Far Side of the World", "The Claim", "Bird", "Julia", "The Hill", "All That Jazz", "The Beguiled", "The Wild Bunch", "Bite the Bullet", "Quai des Orfevres", "How Green Was My Valley", "Marnie", "Family Plot", "Barry Lyndon", "Scarlet Sails", "Hatari!", "The Tin Drum", "Doom Generation", "Until the End of the World" (where's the 5-hour version, Warners?), "Grave of the Fireflies", "Black Narcissus", "The Lady Vanishes", "Network", "Buffalo Bill and the Indians", "Tess", "Thunderbolt & Lightfoot", "The Old Dark House", "War & Peace" (the huge, epic, four-film Russian version - it's fantastic!), "The Long Voyage Home", "Ivan the Terrible", "High and Low" "Heavenly Creatures", "F For Fake", "The Ladykillers" (the Alec Guinness one).... aww, that's enough, surely? Oh, and "Mirrormask"!!!!!
Television
I don't watch all that much TV - can't stand the commercials. Craig Ferguson always makes me smile - even when he's frightening Rupert Grint half to death....
I usually catch up with shows on DVD --> "House", "Deadwood", "Lost", "French & Saunders", "NewsRadio", "Alias", the first few seasons of "The West Wing", "Cracker" (the one with Robbie Coltrane), any of the Jeremy Brett-starring "Sherlock Holmes" episodes, "The Kingdom" (the Lars Von Trier original - NOT that bloody awful Stephen King thing), "The Avengers", "The Newsroom", "Have Gun, Will Travel", "The Prisoner", "Firefly", "Buffy" & "Angel", loads of others but I kinda shot my wad in the Movies section.
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Books
Anything by Graham Greene, Patrick O'Brien, Terry Pratchett, John LeCarre, M.C. Beaton or whatever alias she's writing under lately, Patricia Highsmith, P.G. Wodehouse, Joseph Conrad, Josephine Tey, M.R. James, Frederick Forsyth (when he doesn't cheat like a sonofabitch), Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones", Yann Martel's "Life of Pi", Stephen King's "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon", Stanislaw Lem's "Fiasco" and "Return From the Stars", Jon Krakauer's "Into the Wild" and "Under the Banner of Heaven", Ursula LeGuin's "Lathe of Heaven", H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness", Jim Thompson's "Heed the Thunder", Rudyard Kipling's "Kim", Joseph Sheridan LeFanu's "Uncle Silas", Daphne DuMaurier's "Scapegoat", James Ellroy's "The Big Nowhere", Gary Indiana's "Rent Boy", Erik Larson's "Thunderstruck" and "The Devil in the White City", Olivia Manning's "Balkan Trilogy" and "Levant Trilogy", Ernest Hemingway's "Islands in the Stream", Eiji Yoshikawa's "Musashi", Chuck Palahniuk's "Choke", Charles Dickens' "Bleak House" and "The Old Curiosity Shop", nearly anything by Wilkie Collins and Alexandre Dumas, all sorts of stuff.
Heroes
Burt Lancaster, who gave the following advice about movie acting to Bruce Davison on the set of 'Ulzana's Raid' in the early '70s: "You try to please the director, and the cameraman and the soundman, and you're acting and acting and acting and by the time you come to your close-up, you've shot your wad. It's like making love to a woman: you can't try to come all at once, son. A bit of a tit here, a bit of an inner thigh there, and you have a performance!"
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles,California
Graduated: 1993
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Double Major - Communication Arts & Classical Greece
About me: I'm spending WAAAAYYYYY too much time with my iPod!
I'm not quite as bad as this, but I'm getting there.
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Who I'd like to meet: The guy who came up with this damn' thing so I can knock him on the head for ruining the "Phantom Menace" score for me forever!
The girl who came up with the bunny films.
Kate Winslet!!!
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And last, but sure as hell not least, THIS girl! Dude's not bad either, come to think of it....
Lastly, ALL HAIL the Mighty Onion!!!!
hey, somehow your blog comment got deleted, even though I approved it; I got nothing against Howard stern. Sorry bout that...feel free to try posting it again.
It was nice to take a few moments for photography. We are OK but I'm going mad with work! I've been loving your blogs, as usual, just no time to sound intelligent in my reply!
sorry bro, your comment about the myst somehow disappeared after I approved it...hey, maybe you could do a version of "the Forgotten" where a guy's myspace friends start to disappear...call it "The Deleted". :p
yes and he was very sweet :) (wish that i didn't need more than a touch of concealer and powder myself ...lololol) - but we can not ALL have ridiculously unblemished skin
thanks, glad you like it, need to finish it yet. but overall, I kind of like it. how was hellboy2 I really liked the first one...have watched it too many times.
