About the Glutton
VITAL STATISTICS:
Favorite Movie: 12 MONKEYS
Favorite Musical Artist: DAVID BOWIE
Favorite Book: GEEK LOVE
Favorite TV Show: ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
Favorite Actor: PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN
Favorite Actress: MERYL STREEP (Rogue choice, I know)
Favorite Song: THE END OF ALL GOOD THINGS, by The Marta Complex.
ALL OF THE ABOVE ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT WARNING.
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CHALLENGES TO BE OVERCOME:
1) I am a very distractible reader. The conditions have to be right for me to make serious headway in a book. These conditions are rightest just before bedtime. But then, weirdly, I sometimes fall asleep.
2) I am much more a song person than an album person. My instinct is not to listen to multiple songs by the same artist in a row, lest they blur together in my mind. But this approach makes it much harder to assess an artist’s body of work as a whole.
3) I am slightly prejudiced against old movies. Let me clarify: in no way do I think that all or even a large minority of contemporary movies are any good. And it isn’t the unfixable things about old movies that make me feel this way — e.g., the comparatively low production values, poor special effects, etc. It’s almost entirely the acting. Unless it’s done purposefully (see Mulholland Dr.), I can’t stand non-naturalistic acting. I don’t find it escapist; I just find it bad.
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A SELECTION OF MY FAILURES (TO DATE)
(Because What Kind of Relationship Can We Have without Trust?):
I have not seen:
Raging Bull
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Birds
Casablanca
The Goonies (all the way through)
I have not read:
Brave New World
Moby-Dick
The Old Man and the Sea
The Stranger
Twilight (Dude, not saying it’s good, just saying a lot of people have read it.)
I have not heard:
most Metallica
most Miles Davis
most P!nk
most Garth Brooks
most 50 Cent