General
Eudaemonics, Ataraxia, Filmmaking, Genealogy, Musical Composition and Performance, Gamelan, Archaeology, Ethnoecology, Paleobotany, Paganini, the Philosophy of Henry David Thoreau, Peruvian Folk Music with Dark Guitars and Bright Flutes, Quiet Darkness and Perfect Solitude, Lack of Pretentions, Caving, Spelunking, SCUBA diving, Camping, Django Reinhardt, Muse, Tom Waits, Rimsky-Korsakov, Liam Finn, Fats Waller, Radiohead, Mozart, Coldplay, Cab Calloway, Jimi Hendrix, The Strokes, and many more things than I could ever put into words -even if my mind might give them shape...
Music
Rimsky-Korsakov, Desmond Dekker, Liam Finn, The Strokes, Muse, Radiohead, Coldplay, Tom Waits, Beck, Jimi Hendrix, John Williams, Gamelan, Peruvian Folk Music, Venezuelan Dance Music on Guitar, Mozart, Beethoven, Bach (of course!), Paganini, Edvard Grieg, Indian Classical Music, the World of Brazilian Music, Cab Calloway, Scott Joplin, Django Reinhardt, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, and all other true originals who dared to develop their own unique voice in a world that rewards mediocrity and conformity.
Movies
A representative sampling in no particular order: Brother From Another Planet (Sayles), The 400 Blows (Truffaut), Pan's Labyrinth (del Toro), Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara), Hidden Fortress (Kurosawa), Fight Club (Fincher), The 39 Steps (Hitchcock), Un Chein Andalou (Bunuel), 28 Days Later (Boyle), Seven Samurai (Kurosawa), Meet the Feebles (Jackson), Rebecca (Hitchcock), Treasure of Sierra Madre (Houston), The Ring (Verbinzky), The Clint Eastwood Spagetti Westerns, Frenzy (Hitchcock), Throne of Blood (Kurosawa), Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (with Steve Martin), Lady From Shanghai (Welles), Blonde Venus (Von Sternburg), Sunrise (Lang), One Eyed Jacks (Brando), Rashomon (Kurosawa), Hell's Angels (Hughes), The Criterion Collection (as a whole), Rushmore (Anderson), Donnie Darko (Kelly), Pi (Aronovski), Casablanca, Maltese Falcon, The General (Keaton), Dark Passage, DOA (original version), Raising Arizona (Cohen Brothers), Barton Fink (Cohen Brothers), O Brother Where Art Thou? (Cohen Brothers), Being John Malcovich, The Farmer's Wife (Hitchcock), Repo Man, SLC Punk, Suburbia, The Red Dwarf (French), Naked, Dead Man, Sleep Away Camp, Repulsion (Polanski), The Shining (Kubrick), 2001 (Kubrick), A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick), China Town (Polanski), The People Vs Larry Flint (Forman), The Fireman's Ball (Forman), The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock), Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, Ghost World, American Beauty, Desperado (Tarantino/Rodriguez), The Thief (Russian), Battleship Potompkin (Eisenstein), The Lower Depths (Kurosawa/Renoir), My Dinner With Andre, Kramer Vs Kramer, The Graduate, Uncle Vanya, Princess Bride, The Seventh Seal (Bergman), Baraka (Fricke), Koyanisqatsi (Reggio), Powaqatsi (Reggio), Lost Horizon (Capra), Wuthering Heights(with Lawerance Olivier), Jane Eyre, Hamlet (Gibson), Alive, Steamboat Bill Jr (Keaton), Sunset Blvd (with Gloria Swanson), Number 17 (Hitchcock), Butterfly Effect, The Phantom of the Opera (Chaney), Romeo and Juliet (Zefarelli), Dreams (Kurosawa), DaVinci Code, the Pirates of the Carribean Series, Pursuit of Happyness, Fresh, etc.
Television
As a rule, I don't watch television. I do, however, have all the Futurama DVDs, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, The Simpsons, South Park, etc...I guess I like cartoons still. I don't like watching anything on television unless there are no commercials at all. I also love the movie channels, specifically the Independent Film Channel (IFC)! I also occassionally enjoy PBS, KQED, Arts Showcase, Sundance, Comedy Central, Court TV, etc. I generally hate television because I have never will have enough hours in my day to blow thirty minutes on every twenty minute show padded with commercials every five minutes.
Books
By Authors: Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, are particular favorites of mine by Lewis Carol (Charles Dodgeson); Robert Louis Stevenson, Chuck Palanhniuk, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorn, and T.S. Eliot, to name a few.
Heroes
Sidhartha Guatama Buddha, Michael Phelps, Nastia Liukin, Shawn Johnson, Bill Murray, my ancestors Thomas Hudson (who fought for the North in the Civil War, was captured by Stonewall Jackson, and escaped to fight again for two more years) and John Hudson (who fought with George Washington in the Revolutionary War at barely 13 years old), Francois Truffaut, and Akira Kurosawa. I consider a hero anyone who labors earnestly for the good of all people without concern for recognition. May we all eventually become our own heros!
Comments
Jul 6 2009 8:59 AM
Jun 1 2009 6:17 PM
I just saw you once and we both disapeer from eachother. I know I to bad in keeping up my communication with others. summer is on the way let's hang out my friend
Apr 15 2009 9:02 PM
How have you been? Since I started this bachelor program I no longer have any time of my own. I hope you are doing well.
Mar 7 2009 6:25 PM
Thanks! Funny cause I started reading her diaries in back in high school...Did you end up getting your car back?
Feb 10 2009 5:47 PM
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Jan 23 2009 7:07 PM
How are you? it was nice to see at the college. I really think we should get a coffe soon when you are available; then we can talk about everthing and nothing at the same time lol.
see ya
oxoxo JOJO
Jan 4 2009 2:46 AM
Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a fun new year's eve :-)
did ya get anything cool?
Dec 14 2008 8:12 AM
Thank you for inviting us to the Movie night. It was fun to watch the movies and visit the house where we used to have so many parties when we were teenagers. I can’t believe how crazy we were back then. Anyway, excellent movie choices! I can now take The Wanders off my to-watch-list.
Thanks,
Jason
Dec 13 2008 10:12 PM
I am feeling much better now, thank God! I hate being sick, it sucks ass. I hear ya about having shitty days off. Tim's schedule is like that. We basically only have Sunday's to actually go out and spend the whole day together. It bite's the big one, but so far so good. I mean we are still together and it's been alittle over 5 years.
I hope you have a good work week, and a good day today!
Dec 8 2008 9:07 AM
Dec 5 2008 8:00 PM
You have a weird work schedule...what gives?
Well I hope, at least, you enjoyed the days you do have off.
Sadly, I don't think my weekend is going to be very much fun.I woke up today with a sore throat and now I'm all pissy.
Poo on being sick.
Dec 5 2008 7:47 PM
Hope you have an awesome weekend!
:-)
Oct 31 2008 6:28 PM
Oct 20 2008 3:31 PM
YES, RIGHT HERE IN ALAMEDA!
LIVE MUSIC, FULL BAR, FULL KITCHEN MENU, A POOL TABLE, AN OUTDOOR SMOKING AREA AND FUN.
OPEN FOR LUNCH AND DINNER, HAPPY HOUR.
WHAT ELSE COULD YOU POSSIBLY NEED?
Sep 4 2008 4:25 PM
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Jul 3 2008 2:19 PM
:)
Jun 12 2008 6:20 AM
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