A Few of My Favorite Things

FAVORITE MUSIC:

Explosions in the Sky, Radiohead, Muse, Daft Punk, Metallica, Mogwai, Jedi Mind Tricks, Immortal Technique, Royksopp, Rage Against the Machine, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Portishead, Wu-Tang Clan, DJ Rekha, Madvillian, The Pi OST, The Pillows, Jane's Addiction, Foo Fighters, Depeche Mode, Cruachan, Massive Attack, The Rolling Stones, Nirvana, The Who, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, The Ponys, Prefuse 73, Public Enemy, Queens of the Stone Age, System of a Down, Queen, The Pharcyde, Cypress Hill, Shawn Lee, The Cure, The Field, Stars of the Lid, DJ Shadow, Mint Royale, Interpol, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Mastiyahu, Panda Bear, Led Zeppelin, Clint Mansell, Ennio Morricone, Arizona Amp and Alternator, Arctic Monkeys, Jonny Greenwood, Burial, LCD Soundsystem, Marvin Gaye, Kanye West, Akron/Family, North, Oingo Boingo, Oasis, The Microphones, Nine Inch Nails, Mount Eerie, N.E.R.D., Al Green, Jamiroquai, Motion City Soundtrack, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lisa Gerrard, The Books, Cake, Coldplay, Iron Maiden, Johnny Cash, Mos Def, The Good The Bad and the Queen, Iron & Wine, David Bowie, Beirut, Outkast, Blonde Redhead, The Postal Service, Tenacious D, The Autumn Project, Dr. Dog, MC Doom, DangerDoom, Architecture in Helsinki, Air, Miles Davis, Sufjan Stevens, Sublime, Talib Kweli, Dangermouse, Gorillaz, Tool, The Unicorns, The Velvet Underground, Gnarls Barkley, John Coltrane, Dave Brubeck, Justice, Jay-Z, Kaki King, Klaxons, Ladytron, Wagner, Mozart, Sublime, TRS-80, The Knife, Zombi, Lauryn Hill, Santana, Lemon Jelly, Weird Al, Dead Can Dance, M. Ward, Mastodon, Weezer, Warren Zevon, Maserati, Sigur Ros, Sly and The Family Stone, Smog, Spoon, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Rammstein, Stars, Caspian, Jimi Hendrix, Simulacra Instrumentalum, Dream Theatre, AC/DC, Henri Mancini, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Buckethead, The Doors, Girl Talk

FAVORITE MOVIES:

Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now, Fight Club, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Shinsengumi, Fearless, Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, The Faculty, Road Trip, Old School, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Ran, A Clockwork Orange, Shaun of the Dead, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Death Proof, The Lord of the Rings, Le Samourai, Run Lola Run, A Tale of Two Sisters, Citizen Kane, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Casablanca, The Godfather Part I, The Godfather Part II, Lawrence of Arabia, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Dawn of the Dead, The Descent, Superbad, Hot Fuzz, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Coffee & Cigarettes, Memento, Casino Royale, Kill Bill, Crank, From Dusk Till Dawn, Sin City, Inside Man, 25th Hour, City of God, Children of Men, The Truman Show, Love Actually, High Fidelity, Grosse Pointe Blank, 1408, Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, The Boondock Saints, Scarface, Once Upon a Time in America, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Oldboy, Big Trouble in Little China, Office Space, Liar Liar, The Fountain, The Shawshank Redemption, The Mist, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Breakfast Club, The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Road to Perdition, Forrest Gump, Snatch, Seven, American Psycho, The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, 28 Days Later, The Departed, Raging Bull, Lost in Translation, Memento, Green Street Hooligans, Layer Cake, The Legend of Drunken Master, Operation Condor, Die Hard, Full Metal Jacket, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Leon the Professional, The Big Lebowski, Clerks, Clerks II, Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back, Chasing Amy, Mallrats, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Host, Heat, Collateral,

FAVORITE TV SHOWS:

South Park, The Office, Seinfeld, Spaced, Arrested Development, Black Books, The IT Crowd, Lucky Louie, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Sopranos, Undeclared, Freaks and Geeks, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Late Night with Conan O'Brien

FAVORITE BOOKS:

The Things They Carried, I Am Legend, Fight Club, Hamlet, The Odyssey, The Illiad, MacBeth, We Were Kings, No Country for Old Men, The Road, Heart of Darkness, Moby Dick, Cyrano De Bergerac, The Scarlet Letter, The Elements of Style, Choke, View From the Center of the Universe, A Brief History of Nearly Everything, 300, The Dark Knight, Bone, The Know-It-All, Discontented America, Metamorphosis, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Giver, High Fidelity, The Stranger, Native Son, The Fire Next Time, Fahrenheit 451, Beyond Good & Evil, Twilight of the Idols

PEOPLE I ADMIRE:

Larry David, Sacha Baron Cohen, Robert De Niro, David Fincher, Francis Ford Coppola, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, Ronald Randolph, Stanley Kubrick, Jon Stewart, Cornel West, Buckethead, Steve Jobs, Al Gore, Bill Gates, Immortal Technique, Stan Sakai, Bobby Randolph, Vic Tutt, Mos Def, Dave Chappelle, Barack Obama, Muhammad Ali, John Lennon, Robert Plant, Randy Rhodes, Jimi Hendrix, Orson Welles

I actually did this video with a lot of those guys. It's a customization/personalization of an Apple ad from the 90's that had people like Einstein, Picasso, I.M. Pei, all "thinking different"



Alright that's disgustingly long, if you read all that, I owe you one. I just copied and pasted it, I don't even remember who or what's there. So props to you. If you're familiar with a good chunk of those things that's awesome too.

My favorite movie of 2006 was Children of Men

I really loved this movie. I first saw it as a DVD screener on my wee 17 inch monitor, even there, it was spectacular. I would see it again with my best friend Matt at the Beverly Center in L.A. and then in San Francisco with my cousin John, his roommate Susan, his friend Mike and my brother Robert. I think Clive Owen was brilliant, and I think Cuaron's directing was revolutionary. I decided to make a short music video to show my appreciation. This is that video: