life, death, energy, perception. Martial arts, snowboarding, hiking mountains. Reading, writing, visual media, music, film. Traveling. Meeting new people of unique intellect and strong self-awareness.
Music
Electronica: Future Sound of London/Amorphous Androgynous, Sasha, Hybrid, Aphex Twin, Susumu Yokota, Boards of Canada, early Autechre, early Underworld, Derek Howell, the Orb, ATOI, etc. -[]- Rock: Stones, Beatles, Pink Floyd, Tom Petty, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zep, Dire Straights, U2, Byrds, early Dylon. -[]- Classical: Ludwig & Wolfgang, A. Borodin, Bartok, Gustav Mahler, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Smetana, Resphigi, Williams (Vaughn and John), Bach, Strauss (Johann et al...), Hadyn, Debussy, Liszt, Belioz, Joe Hishiashi, Nobuo Uematsu, Tomita, Shore, Hans Zimmer, Ritchie Wag. -[]- Metal: Def Leppard (poodle gods!), Guns n' Roses (LA facsimile is enuf for me), Tool, Opeth, Amorphis
Movies
Aronofsky, Chan-wook Park, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Takashi Miike, Wong Kar Wai, David Lynch, Scorsese, Kubrik, Takashi Kitano, some Fincher, Coen bros, Miyazaki, early Spielberg, early Lucas, Mamoru Oshii, FF Coppola (70's), early Tarantino, Welles, Ashby, etc.
Television
Ice Skating, Xtreme Sports, Iron Chef, Sopranos, Max Headroom, Faulty Towers. Lately: Lost, Firefly, Rome, The Office, Iron Chef America
Books
A friend once paraphrased Nabokov in telling me that the art of reading is in *re*-reading. So, in no particular order, the authors on my bookshelf I wouldn't mind spending the time on a re-read: Willie Shakes, Dante, Homer, Virgil, Nabokov, Balzac, Borges, Melville, Sir Walter Scott, J. Joyce, Henry Miller, Flaubert, Zola, Stern, Cormac McCarthy, Umberto Eco, E. Rauch, Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Alex Dumas, Edward Allen Poe, Victor Hugo, P.G. Wodehouse, Aldous Huxley, J.D. Salinger, Philip K. Dick, Lao-tzu, Marcus Aurelius, Plutarch, Procopius, Euripedes, Petronius, Tacitus, Livy, Suetonius, Caeser, Seneca, Juvenal, Sophocles, Herodotus, Thucydides, Aeschylus, Arrian, Psellus, Anna Comnena, Pliny, Ariosto, Swift, Voltaire, Schopenhauer, d.h. Laurence, Milton, Machiavelli, Freddy Nietz, Baudrillard, Marx, Jung, Harold Bloom & Howard Bloom, Camille Paglia, Ken Wilber, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Edward Abbey, John Crowley, Jan Potocki, Thomas Pynchon, Garth Ennis, Hiroaki Samura, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, E.C. Segar, Irvine Welsh, Bruce Sterling, Doulgas Rushkoff, Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy, Jane Austin, Dickens, E.M. Forster, Robert Graves, Gibbon, Plato and his homeboys, Gibson, Stephenson, R. Scott Bakker, Tolkien and George RR Martin, Steinbeck and Hemingway, Gogol, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekov, Montaigne, Conrad, Stephen King (!), L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, James Clavell, Frank Miller, Mishima, etc. etc.
Media reviews: http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A2B0XO8BTPRX7R/ref=pd_ys_homenav_rev?ie=UTF8&sort%5Fby=MostRecentReview
Who I'd like to meet: fellow artists, philosophers, atheletes. Pen-prophets and paradigm-shift perpatrators. Beautiful women (skin-deep & beyond), mediaverse navigators, amusing malcontents, brainiacs.
Of course. I saw it when it was on regular rotation on 120 Minutes back in the 90s, and posted it on my MySpace blog about the Hottest Women on the Planet. (Tilda was #4 I believe.)
As you may or may not know, my birthday is coming up on the 29th. Instead of gifts this year, I'm asking that everyone join my Email List on www. jjhebert. net. Unconventional, my newest novel, will be published by Mindstir Media later this year, and joining the Email List will ensure that you receive updates regarding my book release, contests, giveaways, and more.
Please help out my dear friend Felicia, an amazing singer who’s trying to win in the latest PINK Karaoke Contest. She only has a few more hours left to gain at least 100 “unique plays” necessary to qualify > (just click link below & listen through entire song). Thanks so much for your support! :)
Glad you enjoyed the blog post, Ian -- feel free to forward, and I'll keep 'em coming!
BTW, have you seen my website discussion board? It's a fun forum with a lot of interesting people from all over the world talking about the Rain Fall movie (recently wrapped shooting in Tokyo and NYC and starring Gary Oldman); the next book, called Fault Line; and writing, politics, single malt whisky, and anything else that strikes people's fancy, with a monthly chat on writing, too. So if you have a chance, stop by and say hello -- it would be good to see you there...
works out is an understatement... he plays college football.. and the gym sees him quite often.. like 1-2 times a day haha.. but thats okay because with 720 miles between us.. i cant see him daily anyway! how have you been?!?!?! i miss our talks!
