Andy Biscontini
| Occupation | Dirt farmer |
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| Introduction | Andy Biscontini is a nice guy who loves people and is kind to small animals. His movie "Every Dog's Day" is available at www.indiepix.net. You can rent it at Netflix. |
| Interests | The application of electrical current to personal health. |
| Favorite movies | Hara-Kiri, Days of Heaven, Jean-Luc Godard, Tom Palazzolo, The Third Man, The Coen Brothers, Local Hero, Greta Garbo, Nights of Cabiria, Cool Hand Luke, Billy Wilder, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Dawn of the Dead (Romero), Putney Swope, A Face in the Crowd, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Ida Lupino, Woman Under the Influence, Les Blank, Before the Rain, Underground, Brazil, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Lightning Over Braddock, Michael Ritchie, Big Deal on Madonna Street, Juggernaut, John Sayles, House of Frankenstein, Blade Runner, The Little Fugitive, Veronica Lake, Jacques Tati, Ugetsu, Days of Heaven, The Conformist, Two-Lane Blacktop, Godzilla, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Beat Takeshi, The Knack and How to Get it, Forbidden Planet, Greed, Yasujiro Ozu, Charlie Chaplin, Stanley Kubrick, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Ousmane Sembene, John Huston, Preston Sturges, Kwaidan, Sunrise, Ghost Dog, Gonin, The Mission (Johnny To), David Lynch, Wages of Fear, Fritz Lang, Open City, Attack the Gas Station!, Frank Capra, The Tin Drum, Star Wars, Claude Chabrol, Kenneth Anger, One False Move, Buzby Berkely musicals, W.R. Mysteries of the Organism, Ilya Chaiken, Akira Kurasowa, Maya Deren, Rules of the Game, Wim Wenders, Wong Kar-Wai, Save the Green Planet, W.C. Fields, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Shoot the Piano Player, I Stand Alone, L'humanite, the Marx Brothers, et al |
| Favorite music | The Drifters, Steve Albini, Charles Mingus, Billy Childish, Brian Eno, Stravinsky, Led Zeppelin, Sonic Youth, The Ronnettes, Art Blakey, Otis Rush, Can, Big Maybelle, The Mekons, Ruth Brown, 11th Dream Day, Shirley Bergeron, Subhumans, the Gordons, pre-1980 Human League, Outkast, Ween, the Fall, the Chills, Zorn, Jesus and Mary Chain, Roy Orbison, the Bad Seeds, Joy Division, Mahler, the Roots, My Bloody Valentine, Iron Maiden, pantagruel, Dr. Snitch, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Johnny Cash, Francis Dhomont, Clifton Chenier, Astor Piazzola, the Breeders, Chavez, Nervous Cabaret, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Asa Ransom, David Deporis, Throwing Muses, Sergie Kincaid, The Jam, Gibson Bros., Talking Heads, Patsy Cline, Tribe Called Quest, Sons of Hercules, The Kinks, The Cramps, Live Skull, Polly Jean Harvey, Soundgarden, Chocolate Genius, Flying Saucer Attack, Fugazi, the Saints, Birthday Party, De La Soul, Jesus Lizard, Dou Wei, U2, Teenage Filmstars, Johnny Society, Breaking Circus, Radiohead, Sun Ra, Howlin' Wolf, Captain Beefheart, Tom Waits, Sam Cooke,Crime + the City Solution, Mina, Link Wray, GbV, Galaxie 500, Volcano Suns, Lucio Battista, Mission of Burma, Zappa, et al |
| Favorite books | Flannery O'Connor, Herman Melville, Bertolt Brecht, John Dos Passos, Iain M. Banks, Haruki Murakami, Dashiell Hammett, The People's History of the United States, Victor Pelevin, Borges, Rabelais, Camus, John Barth, Ursula K. LeGuinn, Aristotle, Dante, Sartre, Albert Einstein, Simone De Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, Clockwork Orange, P.K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, Isaac Aasimov, Stanley Elkin's The Franchiser, Italo Calvino, Grahame Greene, W.B. Yeats, Annie Proulx, John Fante, Ray Bradbury, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Toomer, Franz Kafka, Alfred Bester, Mutiny on the Bounty, John Berryman, Dan Clowes, Alan Moore, Stephen King, Rilke, Nabokov, Los Hermanos Hernandez, Charles Burns's Black Hole, Gogol, Luigi Pirandello, Catch-22, Donald Barthelme, Foucault's Pendulum, Tom Perotta, Edgar Allen Poe, Pynchon, Infinite Jest, Gunter Grass, James M. Cain, The 9/11 Commission Report, Sucker's Progress, et al |