Movies ... Studying religion ... Pistons basketball ... And music;
Music
....my "Desert Island" list:
Curtis Mayfield (Soundtrack to the movie "Superfly") ... Luna (Penthouse) ... Velvet Underground and Nico (Velvet Underground and Nico) ... Kahimi Karie (Kahimi Karie) ... Peter Gabriel (Passion) ... Radiohead (OK Computer) ... Clash (London Calling) ... Jimmy Cliff (Soundtrack to the movie "The Harder They Come") ... DJ Krush and Toshinori Kondo (Ki-Oku) ... De La Soul (Stakes is High) ... Wilco (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) ... Digable Planets (Reachin');
Movies
The Ten Best Movies I've Seen:
A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson) ... The General (Buster Keaton) ... Touch of Evil (Orson Welles) ... Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock) ... In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai) ... Letter From an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls) ... Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu) ... Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (Errol Morris) ... Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone) ... Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese);
Television
Favorite Shows: The Simpsons, The Avengers (the "Emma Peel" seasons);
Other than that it's alot of sports (football and basketball) and Netflix. Netflix is my version of both cable and internet dating.
Books
Favorite Writer: Dashiell Hammett;
Favorite Books: Bhagavad-Gita, Silence (Shusaku Endo);
My library generally consists of four categories: pulp/hard boiled fiction, religion, film theory/history, and south asian fiction.
Heroes
Filmmakers Martin Scorsese, Wong Kar-Wai, and Robert Bresson; Piston Point Guard Chauncey Billups; Robert E. Lee (because he reminds me of Bhishma, this amazing character from the Indian epic The Mahabharata); The great religious philosophers Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tsu, Mahavira, Mohammed, the ten Sikh gurus, etc.; That's all I can come up with off the top of my head.
About me: http://on-screenwriting.blogspot.com
A Los Angeles-based writer and director, V. Prasad's produced work includes "Before the Rains" and "Ocean of Pearls." Prasad holds an MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute and teaches the craft at UCLA Extension and at the University of Michigan. In his spare time, he serves as a programmer for the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles.
Thank you! Everything is going great in the D. The film industry here is really starting to boom. There are so many opportunities for inidividuals in the industry.
Y'know, everyone's got it all wrong. The Nuggets weren't blown out by the Pistons, it was actually a tribute to a Denver/ Detroit sports legend. The "let's play no defense and score a ton of points" was actually honoring Mouse Davis, he of Detroit's run-and-shoot and former coach of the AFL's Denver Gold. People are so insensitive.
Ugh. My god we haven't been that humiliated since the Phoenix Suns dropped a hundred on us - by halftime. That's all we need right now, a reminder of the Paul Westhead days.
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