Clarke Reader
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Colorado, United States |
| Introduction | “I don't tick. I am not a machine. (If I did tick, I should have no views on it, and you had better ask the winder)” - J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Interests | reading novels, writing (preferably stories), messing around on the computer, classic rock, jazz, all things Lord of the Rings, movies (both at the theatre and home), relaxing with friends, watching television, compulsivley checking livejournal and my e-mail, philosophy, rainy days, existentialism, quotes (see for yourself), eating, journalism, being sarcastic (tact is for those who aren't witty enough to be sarcastic), collecting tv shows on DVD, Film on the Rocks, playing guitar and piano, Firefly, Audrey Hepburn, Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, talking to people on AIM, writing fanfiction and real fiction. |
| Favorite movies | The Lord of the Rings, Almost Famous, Lost in Translation, Pan's Labyrinth, Garden State, Sideways, Spirited Away, Jurassic Park, Rushmore, Casablanca, King Kong (2005), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, In Good Company, Jerry Maguire, High Fidelity, Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy, Serenity, Elizabethtown, Shakespeare in Love, As Good As It Gets, Match Point, Say Anything..., Spaceballs, Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail, Young Frankenstein, Back to the Future Trilogy, Caddyshack, Gladiator, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Lion King, 10 Things I Hate About You, Ferris Buelller's Day off, Love Actually, Ocean's 11, The Matrix, The Harry Potter Movies, Broken Flowers, The 40 Year-Old-Virgin, Wedding Crashers, The Matador, Children of Men, Memento, Mulholland Drive, Fight Club, First Knight, 21 Grams, The Holiday, Stranger Than Fiction, Volver, My Fair Lady, Knocked Up, Some Like it Hot, Sabrina (1954), Citizen Kane, Roman Holiday, Pulp Fiction, The Treasure of the Sierra Madres, The Simpsons Movie, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Annie Hall, Death Proof, The Shawshank Redemption, How to Steal A Million, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Royal Tenenbaums, Dr. Strangelove, Kill Bill 1 & 2, The Golden Compass, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Stardust, Once, Amelie, Paris Je t'aime, The Darjeeling Limited, Unforgiven, Into the Wild, No Country for Old Men, Apocalypse Now, There Will Be Blood, Atonement, The Savages, Juno, I'm Not There |
| Favorite music | Led Zeppelin, Dave Matthews Band, Jimi Hendrix, John Mayer, James Taylor, The Band, Miles Davis, Norah Jones, Pearl Jam, Frank Sinatra, John Coltrane, The Beatles, The Who, Coldplay, The Shins, Wilco, Maroon 5, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Vince Guaraldi, John Legend, Band of Horses, Eric Clapton, Cream, Jack Johnson, The Killers, Rage Against the Machine, AFI, Paul Simon, Counting Crows, Michael Tomlinson, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Marley, Death Cab for Cutie, Donnovan Frankenrieter, Ryan Adams, Elton John, Ben Harper, Tristan Prettyman, U2, The Allman Brothers Band, The Arcade Fire, The Beach Boys, My Morning Jacket, Foo Fighters, David Gray, Nick Drake, The Pretenders, Sufjan Stevens, The Postal Service, Against Me!, The Police, Tom Waits, Al Green, Neil Young, Bloc Party, Joe Purdy, Nickel Creek, Johnny Cash, Oasis, Franz Liszt, George Gershwin, Diana Krall, The Black Keys, Kanye West, Common, Mos Def, Radiohead, The Smiths, Teitur, Jamie Cullum, Michael Buble, Ben Taylor, Ray LaMontagne, Sigur Ros, Warren Hayes, Arctic Monkeys, Kings of Leon, The Decemberists, Joni Mitchell, Tom Petty, Keller Williams, Modest Mouse, Mae, Lucinda Williams, Kasey Chambers, Katie Melua, Snow Patrol, Beck, Bob Seger, Bright Eyes, Patti Griffin, Lupe Fiasco, Wolfmother, The Apples in Stereo, Alicia Keys, Jay-Z, Yo La Tengo, Talib Kweli, Hank III, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Strokes, Elvis Costello, Joe Bonamassa, Air, The Flight of the Conchords, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding |
| Favorite books | The Lord of the Rings, The Stranger, The Fionavar Tapestry, Atlas Shrugged, The Town and the City, Franny and Zoey, Catcher in the Rye, The Shannara Series, The Wheel of Time Series, Angels and Demons, The Sorrows of Young Werther, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Razor's Edge, Bleak House, The Chronicles of Narnia, Focault's Pendulum, The First Second and Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, The Warlord Trilogy, The Roald Dahl Omnibus, The Grail Quest Trilogy, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Diary of a Drug Fiend, Raise High the Roofbeam Carpenters, Nine Stories, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Harry Potter Series, His Dark Materials Trilogy, Sometimes A Great Notion, A Moveable Feast, The Master and Margarita, The Sherlock Holmes Series, Slaughterhouse Five, The Fountainhead, We the Living, Anthem, Jane Eyre, 1984, Veronika Decides to Die, Tigana, The Once and Future King, The Book of Merlyn, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series, The Sun Also Rises, Rabbit Run, The Hobbit, The Silmarilion, The Life of Pi, Fluke or I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings, Lamb: The Gospel Accrording to Biff Christ's Childhood Pal, Into Thin Air, The Kite Runner, High Fidelity, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Turning Angel, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, Fight Club, The Painted Veil, Day of the Jackyl, The Dark is Rising Sequence, The Age of Innocence, O Pioneers!, Cat's Cradle, Lisey's Story, Love Me, The Lion's of Al-Rasaan, Atonement, No Country for Old Men, Dandelion Wine |