INTERESTS
Music
I can appreciate something from most any genre. Blues, country, indie, old french cafe music, grime, metal (only some types of metal though), hip hop, reggae (especilly the older stuff), latin folk music, etc. etc.
Some performers I like are Adult., Horace Andy, B-52's, Beach Boys, Beatles, Belle and Sebastian, Beirut, Bis, Boards of Canada, David Bowie, James Brown, Built to Spill, Burzum, Cab Calloway, Camera Obscura, Cars, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Charlie Christian, Clash, Patsy Cline, John Coltrane, Arthur Cruddup, Cure, Dick Dale, Miles Davis, The Decemberists, Depeche Mode, Devo, Dethklok, Dizzee Rascal, Doctor Octagon, Eels, Duke Ellington, Charlie Feathers, Felix da Housecat, Fischerspooner, Ella Fitzgerald, Ben Folds, Freezepop, Gang of Four, Get Up Kids, Girl Talk, Benny Goodman, Al Green, Buddy Guy, GZA, Jimi Hendrix, Billie Holliday, Lightnin' Hopkins, Johnny Horton, Iron and Wine, Robert Johnson, Daniel Johnston, Joy Division, the Kinks, Ladytron, Le Tigre, Leadbelly, Barrington Levy, M83, Bob Marley, Mates of State, MF Doom, M.I.A., Glen Miller, Modest Mouse, Yves Montand, Wes Montgomery, Mark Mothersbaugh, My Bloody Valentine, New Order, Nico, Nirvana, ODB, Peaches, Carl Perkins, Pixies, Portishead, Postal Service, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Louis Prima, Prodigy, Public Enemy, Queen, Radiohead, Ramones, Lou Reed, Reggie and the Full Effect, Django Reinhardt, Rentals, Rolling Stones, Saves the Day, Skream, The Shins, Elliott Smith, The Smiths, The Streets, Charles Trenet, Big Joe Turner, Vampire Weekend, Velvet Underground, Wilco, Junior Wells, Ben Webster, Weezer, Wilco, Wiley, Hank Williams, Wu-Tang Clan, Xex, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yo La Tengo, The Zombies, folk, reggae, blues, hip hop, roots, classical, jazz, etc
Books
Krazy Kat, Calvin and Hobbes, Little Nemo, the Poetic Edda, Iliad, Odyssey, Theogony, Works and Days, the Nordic Sagas, The Bible (from a philosophical and historical perspective, not in a "you better believe in Jesus or you'll die" way), Joe Sacco, histories, epics, sagas, folktales, theological and religious texts, comics, etc.
Television
My favorite TV shows would have to be Home Movies, Arrested Development, Venture Brothers, Metalocalypse, Fraggle Rock, and USA soccer matches.
Film
A short lost of my favorite movies would include Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, Bottle Rocket, Pulp Fiction, Amelie, Ugetsu, Ran, Rashomon, Star Wars, Ghost Busters, The Godfather Parts I and II, Lost in Translation, Breathless, and Masculin Feminin among others.
My Favorite Directors (or teams as the case may be) are Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Wes Anderson, Michelangelo Antonioni, Ingmar Bergman, Robert Bresson, Luis Buñuel, John Cassavetes, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jean Cocteau, Soffia Coppola, Jules Dassin, Sergei Eisenstein, Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Goddard, Michael Haneke, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanely Kubrick, Masaki Kobayashi, Akira Kurosawa, Fritz Lang, Louis Malle, Kenji Mizoguchi, Powell and Pressburger, Monty Python, Yasujiro Ozu, Jean Renoir, Alain Resnais, Eric Rohmer, Martin Scorsese, Seijun Suzuki, Jacques Tati, Quentin Tarantino, Francois Truffaut, Andrei Tarkovsky, Orson Welles, and Wong Kar-Wai.
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