what interests me
-Ryan Dunkerley
-Writing poems and short stories I never show anyone
-Taking dirt-worshipping, tree-hugging nature photos...and candid shots of people I know going about their strange, everyday business...
-Bubble tea
-Being outside
-Sarcasm
-Living away from the city
-Lying in bed all morning
-Staying up all night
-Reading everything I can get my grubby hands on
-Ditto
-Ditto Ditto...
-Cooking weird things with ingredients that shouldn‘t be paired...and making old family recipes...
-Singing karaoke at home
-Camping
-Being read or sung to
-Rhetorical arguments about philosophy...society...religion...punk rock...well, actually...anything, if I‘m being honest...
-Picnics
-Paganism
-House shows
-Drinking vodka in the bathtub
-Foreign horror movies, indie cinema in general and anime
-East Asia
-Used bookstores, second-hand CDs and thrift shops
-12:00 AM phone calls
-Lingering over dinner with a glass of good wine at my Mom‘s
-Spending time in a new city
-Spontaneous trips
-Ritual
-Accumulating weird things (lobster paraphernalia and leaf-shaped dishes, for example)
-My grandmother‘s jewelry...especially her charm bracelet...
-Harvest festivals, county fairs and haunted houses
-Great live music (especially the local scene)
-The Mountain State
-Candlelight
-Family
-Friends
-Berry smoothies, french fries, blackberry pie, seafood (salmon and shellfish), s‘mores and flourless chocolate tortes...yum...
-Museums filled with fascinating things
-Magic: The Gathering (no dork comments, please
-Bug Bites (not the itchy kind...the dark chocolate with bug trading card included kind...)
-Going out on the town
-Arboretums
-Yule cookie baking...and the infamous cookie tree...
-The beach
-Turning all the lights off for the night and pretending it‘s the 1800s...but with widespread indoor plumbing and better board games...
Music
-Rasputina
-Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (and The Birthday Party)
-Misora Hibari
-L7
-Peaches
-Sleater-Kinney
-Bright Eyes
-Marty Robbins
-The Jesus And Mary Chain
-Dar Williams
-PJ Harvey
-Hajime Chitose
-The Breeders (and most definitely Pixies)
-The Magnetic Fields
-The Carter Family
-Reverend Horton Heat
-Tori Amos
-Johnny Cash
-Morrissey (and The Smiths)
-Garbage
-Portishead
-Shivaree
-Hank III (+ his daddy and granddaddy, obviously...though the order of affection is Senior, Grandson and then Junior in my heart of hearts...)
-DK‘s
-Ghoultown
-ICP
-Liz Phair (OLD Liz...not her new pop tart stuff...though that one song is horribly catchy...)
-Tricky
-Murder ballads of any kind
-Nirvana
-Damien Rice
-Sneaker Pimps
-Sex Pistols
-Tom Waits
-House of Pain
-The Pogues
And on a local level...all of which represent some of the best music I‘ve ever heard...
-Billy Matheny and The Frustrations
-Ish
-Purepleaser
-The Love Me Knots
-Arms Over Arteries
-The Emergency
-The Morgantown Rounders
Etc. etc. etc. So on and so forth.
Movies
I have insomnia and obviously a lot of time to kill at night. According to Netflix, my favorite genres are...
-indepedant
-foreign
-horror
-anime and animation
-drama
...which is actually pretty much what I watch.
My current three favorite directors are Sofia Coppola, Vincent Gallo, and Asia Argento (in no specific order).
I also really like Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, and Akira Kurosawa. Like like. A lot. ;)
Here‘s the survey:
-The Virgin Suicides
-Lost in Translation
-Shimotsuma Monogatari (AKA Kamikaze Girls)
-Razor Blade Smile
-Blood (the English cult vampire film)
-Eat Drink Man Woman
-Lady Snowblood (and the sequal, Love Song of Vengeance)
-Throne of Blood (and every other Kurasawa film, actually)
-Pretty Baby
-Shiri
-The Ring (I like the American remake better, but I‘d have to say the whole Japanese Ringu series is pretty good)
-Saw
-Dancer In The Dark
-Hedwig and The Angry Inch
-Chungking Express
-Whale Rider
-28 Days Later
-Audrey Rose
-The Cutting Edge (total guilty pleasure, watched it over and over again as a kid)
-Drop Dead Gorgeous
-Old Hammer horror films
-The Wicker Man (OLD version, thank you very much! Who knows WHAT was going on in the Nic Cage one?)
-Elephant
-The Royal Tenenbaums
-The Devil‘s Rejects
-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
-The Woodsman
-All three Ginger Snaps
-6ixtynin9
-The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
-ALL Nelson Eddy/Jeannette MacDonald musicals (particularly Bittersweet and Naughty Marietta)
-American Gothic
-Buffalo ‘66 (and The Brown Bunny...love that Vincent Gallo..)
-Lolita (the Dominique Swain/Jeremy Irons one...sorry...I just think it‘s better...)
-Orlando
..Raising Arizona and The Big Lebowski
-Wings of Desire
-Broken Flowers
-Match Point (and most other Woody Allen)
-A Scanner Darkly :)
I‘m not yet up to true otaku standards, but I am a bit of an anime geek. *surprise, surprise* I heart...
-Witch Hunter Robin
-Vampire Princess Miyu
-Boogiepop Phantom
-Haibane Renmei
-Millenium Actress AND Perfect Blue
-Jin-Roh
-Metropolis
-Samurai Champloo
-Wolf‘s Rain
-Aeon Flux
-Gunslinger Girl
-Blood+
-Jigoku Shoujo
-Monster
-ALL Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli
Television
I don‘t have cable, so I watch almost nothing that‘s current.
-Anything Joss Whedon...in particular Buffy the Vampire Slayer (my favorite) and Firefly
-6 Feet Under
-The Daily Show AND The Colbert Report
-Forbidden Love (KBS‘s Gumiho)
-Forever Knight
-Oh! Mikey
-Vermillion Pleasure Hour
-Chapelle Show
-I also likes the Adult Swim...especially Robot Chicken and Aquateen Hunger Force...
Erin‘s Catalogue @ LibraryThing
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