Movies - standard 20-something male fare of my youth (Jurassic
Park, Ghostbusters, Clue, Great Outdoors, Uncle Buck, Princess
Bride, Terminator 2, Dumb & Dumber), a few gory horror flicks
of my teen years (1982 The Thing, Hellraiser 2, Evil Dead 2,
Nightmare of Elm St series) and top it off with some obscure
arthouse movies of my time getting a degree in film (Tarkovsky's
Nostalgia, Antonioni's Il Deserto Rosso, Dardenne's L'enfant, and
Merielles' City of God are all too good to pass up!). But I will
always check out new flicks from my fav directors - Scorsese(!),
both (unrelated) Andersons - PT & Wes, Nolan, Fincher. I'm also
a sucker for special fx flicks... it's a sickness, because a lot of
turn out to be really bad but i can't keep away. It's all just so
shiny and explosive-y!
TV - Seinfeld, Simpsons, Mad Men, Boardwalk Empire, Sopranos, and
recently got sucked into Breaking Bad which kinda rocks, Leafs,
Jays. Mr. Show. West Wing.
Books - Stephen King and Michael Crichton have a close place to my
heart - they were my first "adult" books growing up, and i've read
pretty much everything they've done, and hooked me as a booklover
ever since. Recently read Selby's THE DEMON, Shriver's WE NEED TO
TALK ABOUT KEVIN and Nassim Taleb's BLACK SWAN, all really great.
What's blown me away? Dostoyevsky's BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, Cronin's
THE PASSAGE, Sinclair's OIL! and FROM REEL TO DEAL Dov Simons book
on indie filmmaking. A. Maze. Ing.
Music - been listening to a downloadable playlists lately, lots of
obscure indie rock. Foxygen, Young Jesus, Ty Segall, White Fence,
Strange Boys, Grouplove, La Sera, Teenanger, Kurt Vile, Future
Islands, Bahamas. Ipod standards include: Black Keys (from a while
back, glad to finally see the boys get the recognition they
deserve!), Hayden, Pearl Jam, Walkmen, Pinback, Queens of the MF
Stone Age, DFA 1979, Sam Roberts, Black Lips, Neil Young, Pixies,
Radiohead, Tool...
Food - Indian, Thai, Mexican, Chinese, Japanese. Pretty much
anything goes. Death row last meal? A 12oz sirloin topped with a
buttered lobster tail, a bottle of shiraz to savour along with it
and a chocolate shadow cake for dessert, and three fingers of
scotch.
