mpathy
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Leading the youth to revolution... |
| Location | boston, mass, United States |
| Introduction | i love film. in fact, im obsessed. not in the cute little ive taken a film class and saw citizen kane way; but more of a im going to take a weekend and watch 16 movies kind of way. this is my movie log. currently, my goal is watch every movie on the theyshootpictures.com starting list of 7000+ films but also a bunch of other film lists, canons, and misc crappy new releases that find their way onto my netflix queue that i will watch. on this blog, im gonna write about it without using spellcheck or capitolization (you know, signs of 'the man' and his oppressive society!). im also a huge music fanatic and scientist (but we will not bring science here very often). in short, i get easily obsessed with things and cant stop moving. i also eat lots of yogurt. |
| Interests | indie rock, film (watching, theory, criticism), distance running, cycling, science (experimentation and thought), social critique, shock humor |
| Favorite movies | casablanca, the great dictator, cries and whispers, ikiru, this is spinal tap, the producers, my fair lady, to be or not to be, dr strangelove, the freshman (lloyd), pickup on south street, the bitter tears of petra von kant, love and death, ace in the hole, face in the crowd, band of outsiders, zerlako, mouchette, idi i smotri, wall-e, stars wars III and V, when a woman ascends the stairs, an autumn afternoon, pulp fiction, a tale of two sisters, seom, sansho the bailiff...i limited myself to one film per director |
| Favorite music | REM, radiohead, the cure, death cab for cutie, tori amos, alphabetically: air, ash, blur, bjork, beck, better than ezra, black rebel motocycle club, badly drawn boy, borken social scene, charlatans, cracker, depeche mode, the doves, flaming lips, eels, guster, idlewild, jump lil children, ben lee, lake trout, matthew good, rhett miller, aimee mann, new order, oasis, old 97s, placebo, stars, shins, sloan, bruce springsteeen, supergrass, garrisson starr, sufjan stevens, super furry animals, cat power, white stripes, wilco, pete yorn, cold war kids, decemberists, arcade fire, lcd soundsystem, the national, the hip, the gusters, the walkmen, kaiser chiefs, placebo, stars, stars of the lid, rilo kiley, jenny lewis, ben lee, ben kweller, pulp, oasis, stars, broken social scene, tara maclean, los campensinos, editors, nada surf, secret machines, the kooks, hot chip, vampire weekend, mgmt, they might be giants, no kids, stars, lily allen, dan deacon, mmw, doughty, firewater, french kicks, flight of the conchords, sigur ros, replacements, new order, shiny toy guns, shy child, puffy amiyumi, stereophonics, phil collins, btw, we are back to alphabetical andrew bird, animal collective, art brut, band of horses, black lips, bloc party, burial, crystal castles, crystal stilts, cracker, cut copy, death set, deerhunter, depeche mode, elbow, elliot smith, franz ferdinand, friendly fires, girl talk, high places, joanna newsom, josh ritter, jimmy eat world, interpol, justice, ladyhawke, ladytron, klaxons, metric, matt and kim, of montreal, modest mouse, okvervill river, old 97s, ra ra riot, telekinesis, school of seven bells, kills, kooks, presets |
| Favorite books | favorite book of all time: les miserables. all else: steinbeck (east of eden, of mice and men, travels with charley, cannery row), hunter s thompson (hells angels, fear and loathing in las vegas/campaign trail, the rum diary), dostoevsky (the idiot, the double, dream of a ridiculous man), tolstoy (war and peace, death of ivan ilyich, anna karenina), high fidelity, |
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