My Music
Movies
Rear Window, Magnolia, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim, Punch Drunk Love, Batman (1989), Jackie Brown, High Fidelity, Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, Brazil, Fargo, The Graduate, Ghost World, Apocalypse Now!, Philadelphia Story, The Goonies, Raising Arizona, Zelig, Amilee, Kenneth Brannagh's version of Hamlet, Adam's Rib, City of Lost Children, Batman Begins, Serinity, Better Off Dead, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Love Actually, Rushmore - Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic in that order, Almost Famous, Bringing Up Baby, Virtigo, The Lord of the Rings collectively as one movie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Vertigo, Stranger Than Fiction was pretty damn rad, I was a fan of Little Miss Sunshine, Annie Hall, when I'm a new, hotshit director, I'll still buy Fords or Toyotas.
Music
I'm really digging "Casting Agents and Callgirls" by Bus Driver right now. I've also been digging Amy Winehouse's latest album ever since I got an advanced copy from England. I also dig in no particular order: Wilco, Mike Doughty, Badly Drawn Boy, Built To Spill, Tom Waits, Afghan Whigs, The Twilight Singers, The Flaming Lips, Foo Fighters, The Who, The Velvet Underground, Violent Femmes, Elvis Costello (the Only Elvis That Matters), Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Cornershop, The French Kicks, Pearl Jam, Belle & Sebastian, Radiohead, Modest Mouse, Outkast, A Tribe Called Quest, Rufus Wainwright, Death Cab for Cutie, Van Morrison's album "Astral Weeks", the songs from "Headwig and the Angry Inch", Neutral Milk Hotel, Derek and the Dominos, The Band, Elliott Smith when I'm especially down, some Pavement, the song "Bastards of Young" by The Replacements, The Toadies (so good and so underrated), some Everclear here and there, at least half of George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass", the musical score for television's "Arrested Development", Lily Allen's particular brand of naughty girl poppy ska, My Morning Jacket, Neko Case - I want to marry that girl's voice, John Coltrane's Blue Train, etc. (more to be added later)
Television
The Simpsons - Seasons 1-10 in particular, Arrested Development, The Office (US then UK), House, 30 Rock, Law and Order: Criminal Intent (because Vincent D'Onofrio owns), and that's 'bout it. TV kills.
Books
Moneyball, Beloved, Catch 22, On The Road, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Grapes of Wrath, any Shakespeare, Invisible Monsters, October 1964, Gravity's Rainbow, Ficciones, I dig reading film theory and all things cinema related even though some of it is pretty damn pretentious
Activities
Filmmaking, writing (stories, blog entries, scripts, letters of complaint, letters of praise), cycling, Etch-A-Sketching plans of world domination, guitar, watching and obsessing over baseball (specifically that of the St. Louis Cardinals and to a far lesser extent the Seattle Mariners), cyber pimping?