C.W.Sills

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About me

Gender Male
Location Chicago, IL, United States
Introduction Chicago Based Writer, Traveler, Student,
Interests Film, Jazz music, political satire, The Economist, David Bowie, Pedro Almodóvar, the Spanish language, Eastern Europe, traveling, HBO's "The Wire, " listening to House M.D. be a bastard, Arrested Development, BBC World News, David Lynch, cranberry juice, the author Cormac McCarthy and the city of Chicago.
Favorite Movies Do The Right Thing, Talk to Her, Amores Perros, The Deer Hunter, Casino, Dead Ringers, City of Lost Children, Ran, Mulholland Drive, Cinema Paradiso, Short Cuts, All About My Mother, Mad Max Trilogy and Time Bandits. Just some titles thrown out.
Favorite Music David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Elliott Smith, Talking Heads, Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Ennio Morricone, Radiohead, The Clash, The Pixies, The Strokes, Nirvana, Lauryn Hill pre-craziness, D'Angelo, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Sonic Youth's "Daydream Nation, " Patti Smith, Ben Harper, The Beatles, The Replacements, My Bloody Valentine, The Stone Roses, The Rolling Stones, The Band, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, The Who, Nina Simone, Nine Inch Nails, Franz Ferdinand, Beck and oh, I don't know, Marvin Gaye.
Favorite Books Anything by David Sedaris, Europeana, The Alechemist, Blood Meridian, The Things They Carried, Bad News, parts of Friedman's "The World Is Flat, " Bob Dylan's Chronicles: Vol 1, the Miles Davis autobiography and Let's Go Europe.