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