Playing guitar, watching black & white films, philosophy, acting in independent films, painting, photography. I want to direct films, which is why I'm studying film at Ryerson right now (CHANG school). I love pop surrealist art (AKA Underground or Outsider Art). And I sometimes like to paint and draw, though when I tried doing a year at OCAD they made me do this too much, and yet I miss the place.
Music
MY CREAM OF THE CRAP FAVOURITES: (I just think that phrase sounds funny. Don't get me wrong, this ain't crap):
Pavement,
The Pixies,
The Frames.
VERY CLOSE RUNNERS UP:
The Flaming Lips,
Robyn Hitchcock
CHICK ACTS THAT KICK ASS:
Babes in Toyland,
L7,
Bratmobile,
Seven Year Bitch,
The Lunachicks,
Huggy Bear,
Bikini Kill (because I respect Kathleen Hanna for her spirit and for starting the Rrriot.)
TYPICAL 90s SHIT that I happen to really really love. So what if everyone from my time loves these people? My love for these artists is beautiful, pure and utterly unique like a delicate and magical snowflake... or at least that's what I want to believe so just humour me. Kay? Kay.
Radiohead (I worship thee),
Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine (I rock out to thee) Umm... sometimes I like to pretend I am Zach de La Rocha in my home, when the others have gone. My dog and cat get mighty mighty scared of me. So cute.
PUNK!!!
The Ramones,
The Dead Kennedys,
Minor Threat,
The Misfits,
The Buzzcocks,
Television,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Sex Pistols,
The Clash
"GOTH"/New Wave:
Echo and the Bunnymen,
Love and Rockets,
Christian Death,
The Cure
70s
Patty Smith,
Lou Reed,
David Bowie,
Iggy and the Stooges,
Pink Floyd,
The Doors (put out most of their stuff in the 70s)
60s
The Velvet Underground,
Love,
Jimi Hendrix,
The Zombies,
Cream,
The Yardbirds,
The Kinks.
MORE:
The Vaselines,
Sparklehorse,
Neutral Milk Hotel,
Tom Waits,
The Breeders,
Ass Machine,
Crunt,
Johanna Newsom.
JAZZ:
Billie Holiday,
Louis Armstrong,
Ella Fitzgerald,
Charles Mingus,
Charlie Christian,
Sarah Vaughan,
Dinah Washington...
I could talk about music for days and then some. But I couldn't fucking sit here and type up a list of names for as long. I'll do more later if I feel like it.
Movies
I'm obsessed with Tim Burton films. It started with Sleepy Hollow (I know, you think it sucks, but it was my world for a year when I was 16, along with Ed Wood which I rented after seeing Sleepy Hollow in the theatre three times). Now that I've seen more of his stuff, I think his early, tiny little short features "Vincent" and "Frankenweenie" are two of my favourites. KILLER SURREALIST FILMS (possibly my fave genre): "An Andalusian Dog" or in its original lauguage "Un Chien Andalou" -Luis Bunuel, "Fando Y Lis" -Alejandro Jodorowsky, "Blood of a Poet" -J. Cocteau and "American Astraunaut"(BONUS: this one's funny too!). I also enjoy the David Lynch.
OLD FILMS: I'm fascinated with anything old, really. I'd almost say the older, the better if the early 1900s-1029 period wasn't so... larval. I love film noir.
As for my favourite films, here are some of the ones I love the most: Harold and Maude, The Elephant Man, and especially Vertigo. MORE: M, Night of the Hunter, Taxi Driver, Glen or Glenda? Chinatown, Dead Man, Fight Club, Spellbound, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, almost everything starring Judy Garland made at MGM (also see Gene Kelly and Fred & Ginger).
YOUNG CHILDHOOD OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE WATCHING: The 1985 made for TV version of Alice in Wonderland, The Secret of Nimh, and the dubbed live-action Swedish Pippi Longstocking series. Silence fools! Pippi Lonstocking is a counterculture heroine that deserves recognition.
Oh, and the only film that ever made me cry was "The Deer Hunter" and Holy Hell did I cry. I sat there crying all the way through the credits. I'm glad Christopher Walken isn't actually dead. That will be a difficult day for me.
Television
TV makes you feel dead inside. That said, these television programs make my dead-inside self laugh and feel happy:
Family Guy,Prom Night Dumpster Baby
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The Chappelle Show,
Mr. Show,
American Dad,
'60s Twilight Zone,
Kids in the Hall,
Invader Zim,
South Park and
Dead Like Me.
The most obnoxious thing about TV is probably the ads. So I never actually watch broadcasted programs when they air. I rent them on DVD. It's so much better that way.
Books
Currently Reading: "Sophie's World".
As for my favourite authors, I LOVE Edgar Alan Poe, J.R.R. Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft, Jhonen Vasquez and Bill Watterson (though these last two are comic book artists) to death. I also enjoy James Morrow (especially Blameless in Abbadon), Chuck Palahniuk (especially Fight Club and Invisible Monsters), and Jean Paul Sartre's more story-driven works (especially No Exit, which happens to be a play).
MORE INCREDIBLE, AMAZING AND OUTSTANDING BOOKS "The Fuck-Up" -Arthur Neresian, "We Need to Talk About Kevin" -Lionel Shriver, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" -Edward Gorey, "Heavier Than Heaven" -Charles Cross, "The Blind Assassin" -Margaret Atwood. FAVOURITES FROM WHEN I WAS A LOT YOUNGER (11-14) AND READ A LOT MORE AND WAS PROBABLY SMARTER THAN I AM NOW: "Redwork" -Michael Bedard, "The Singing Stone" -O.R. Melling, "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" - J.R.R. Tolkien, all of the "Calvin and Hobbes" books - Bill Watterson, "Earthsea" (is that the name of the first book in the trilogy? I forget) -Ursula LeGuin.
Heroes
This is a very difficult category because I idolize EVERYBODY. J.R.R Tolkien for writing for instance. Henry Darger for his imagination, strangeness, originality of vision and for sheer output. I kind of feel the same about Jandek and Daniel Johnston, sorta, but not really. Y'know? Jhonen Vasquez and Bill Waterson for their incredibly funny and intelligent observations on the human condition. Their comic books are far and above the best of the medium (at least I have never seen better). Edgar Alan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, becuz dey rite gud. As for filmmaking Tim Burton, David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Luis Bunuel. ACTING: Marlon Brando LOOKING COOL AS SHIT LEANING UP AGAINST A MOTORCYCLE IN BIKER GEAR: Marlon Brando. CHOOSING ACTING ROLES: Johnny Depp CREATING MUSIC: Radiohead, FOR BEING EXACTLY WHO HE IS: Thom Yorke SINGING: Kat Bjelland of Babes in Toyland, PAINTERS: Mark Ryden, Edward Gorey, Luke Chueh, and Donovan Crosby to mention only a few artists who's work astounds me. FOR BEING OUTRAGEOUS FUCK UPS AND YET SOMEHOW GREAT MUSICIANS: Courtney Love, Pete Doherty. Although that list probably isn't the half of it, I'll shut up now. I tire of this listing.
I'm interested in alternative type fashions and in weird or artistic photo shoots. Absolutely no nudes or semi-nudes. Stuff like Zaiden photographs for instance, or the work of Spotted Fawn, as seen on myspace (check out her photos! They're awesom
Any role that Johnny Depp would have taken if he were a woman. But, seeing as I'm not Johnny Depp and I'm not being offered scripts every day, I love to act so damn much I'd take most roles, but I would really rather not play a nazi or take off my
About me: Who gives a shit. Anyway, it gets covered, but not in this section.
Who I'd like to meet: People who are passionate and optinionated and yet have open minds. People who dig music, film, and art. Proud freaks. Proud geeks.
Hi ho there Steph! We should jam together some time! Well more like you can teach me to play. We could also make some jam! Raspberry, strawberry, blackberry, blueberry jam! Oh yeah, and I'll teach you how to sew with patterns. Then we could rock and or roll in style! I just drank ALOT of coffee, can you tell?
HIYO, thanks for the goonies shirt again! It sooo takes me back, back to an age where neon was cool and coller still if it was in the form of a snap around bracelet. And time when the ice cream truck was the stapel after a hard day of bake sales and watching Heli chase those jerks with a bat. And you pelting them with water balloons. The good old days.
bitchin...im glad schools going well and band rehearsing...
im still in the frozen shithole [wpg]...coming to visit toronto in april...ill be inviting you out for drinks. so you better come.
♥ ♥
How did you get to see "fando & lis" ?? been loking for a copy of that for ages, I just got my hands on "El Topo". my brain goes to a weird dplace in his movies.
Aww, I miss you too sweetums. I just booked a flight and will be back in about a week. Can't wait to see you! And...I still owe you a novel in your inbox.
