David Boyles
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Location | Tempe, AZ, United States |
| Introduction | Arizona born and raised, I am a graduate student in English Literature at Arizona State. I pay the bills keeping the books for H&R Block, tutoring, and teaching SAT prep. You could describe me as a redneck bookworm with an unhealthy obsession with pop culture. In my academic work, I try to tie these elements together by focusing on Shakespeare's relationship to popular culture and film studies. On this site, I basically try to do the same thing, but in a much more free-wheeling (some would say incoherent) manner. |
| Interests | literature, Shakespeare, religion, independent film, football, country music, punk rock, musical theatre, |
| Favorite movies | Chasing Amy, Slacker, Waking Life, Dazed and Confused, Pulp Fiction, West Side Story, Singin' in the Rain, Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums, A Face in the Crowd, GoodFellas, The Apartment, Some Like it Hot, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Yellow Submarine, Bull Durham, Rock & Roll High School, Wedding Crashers, Old School, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Seven Samurai, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Favorite music | The Ramones, The Clash, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, The New York Dolls, Ryan Adams, Sublime, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Social Distortion, Arcade Fire, Bloc Party, |
| Favorite books | Shakespeare, Marlowe, Sidney, the Romantics, James Ellroy, Tom Wolfe, Greil Marcus, Lester Bangs, Clive James, Camille Paglia, |