Movies
Crash, Citizen Kane, House of Flying Daggers, Apocalypse Now, Kill Bill v1, The Cranes are Flying, Hero, The Man who would be King, Memento, Bound, Koyaanisqatsi, City of God, The Last Waltz, Delicatessen, Matrix, Brick, The Graduate, Capote, Stop Making Sense, Road to Perdition, Casablanca, Old School, The Thin Blue Line, Shaolin Soccer, Rust Never Sleeps, 13 days, Y tu Mama Tambien, Unbreakable, The Sixth Sense, Pulp Fiction, Run Lola Run, Traffic, Fight Club, I am Cuba, The Manchurian Candidate (Sinatra), 28 Days Later, Good Night and Good Luck, Syrianna, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Pan's Labyrinth, Letters from Iwo Jima, Borat, Apocalypto, The Maltese Falcon, Babel, Sin City, No Country for Old Men, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, There will be blood, El Crimen de Padre Amaro, (oh what the...) Singing in the Rain and An American in Paris
Music
Beatles, Beny More, Big Mama Thorton, Eno, Buena Vista Social Club, Cameo, Carla Bruni, Carlos Puebla, Carlos Vives, early Celia Cruz, Clap your Hands Say Yeah, The Clash, Conjunto Cespedes, CSN&Y, Curtis Mayfield, Deerhoof, Dr. John, Elvis Costello, Ely Guerra, Emmylou Harris, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Hall & Oates' hits, Hank Sr., Hole - Live Through This, Iggy Pop - The Idiot, Jaco Pastorius, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Reed, Joni Mitchell, Los Lobos, Los Panchos, Los Super Seven, Louie Prima, Neil Young, Sinatra, Nina Simone, Ohio Players, Orishas, Paolo Conte, Pearl Jam, Peter Gabriel, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Phillip Glass, Pink Floyd, Poi Dog Pondering, The Police, REM, Return to Forever, Al Dimeola, Silvio Rodriguez, The Specials, Steely Dan, Steve Reich, Stevie Wonder, Suzanne Vega, Talking Heads, Thomas Dolby, Thomas Newman, Tito & Tarantula, Tito Puente, Tlen Huicani, U2, early Van Halen, the Walkmen, Weather Report, the White Stripes, the Who, Bill Shatner's last release, Willis Alan Ramsey, XTC, Yes, ZZTop, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Muddy Waters, Josh Alan, Little Jack Melody, Curtis Mayfield, Quad Pi, Gnarls Barkley, aphex twin, battles, mashups, big star, biosphere, bjork, blur, eno, calle 13, can, dizzee rascal, dj shadow, etta james, faust, explosions in the sky, fleet foxes, jaco pastorius, coltrane's a love supreme, kraftwerk, low, ride, Pigeon John, on and on...and most importantly...The Theme from Shaft - Isaac Hayes - YES!!!
Activities
viewing indy & foreign films - it's the closest I get to smoking. I've been known to ride the trains on days off - it's part of my adoration of mass transit; life long search for the perfect partner... a guitar playing dog - sure there are intimacy issue, play guitar, piano, and harmonica (not well but if you're drunk I sound pretty good), eating popcorn @ movies (a must),
Interests
Soccer/football/futbol/ggooolll!! In 2006 it replaced my longtime favorite basketball as my sport - sorry Mavs. History, political science, cultural anthropology, sociology, mass transit (planes, trains, and automobiles). Anything Mexican - social science, food, TV, etc...but able to critique that which is not positive about the Mexican experience especially when exhibited in the U.S. JFK Assassination buff - subscribe to multiple gunmen conspiracy theory, open mics (although I much prefer hearing solo or duo artists than hearing bands and limited covers), I'm a wuss when it comes to drinking coffee - have to have cream and sugar, folk art - murals - stick figures - shadow puppet. Shadow puppetry is so f#@ing cool - so is cheap magic...card tricks, et al..., collecting postcards of guinea pigs wrestling, Betty Page
Jeff, Jul 7, 2007:
Gosh, finally a Virb person who is in their forties, like myself. I feel so old when I'm on Virb! Welcome to my corner of the Virb universe! (got your site from a search of people who were into sociology, as i am.