Joseph Kugelmass
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | What I really want to do is direct. |
| Location | Irvine, California, United States |
| Introduction | Q: What kind of life do you wrap in polyester and tie with silly string? A: My life, the absinthe poster for romantic kickboxers who make top five lists. I call it cusack nouveau. When I was growing up, I used to hide my Ace of Base tapes, and proclaim my love of Sleater-Kinney. Now I do the opposite. |
| Interests | In addition to games of pool and pints of beer, I like glamorous temptations, unexpected turns of events, country music, idealism, swimming holes, city blocks, passionate appeals, crisp and sweet pastimes, mellow predelictions, and lustrous or lucid or opaline things. |
| Favorite Movies | RITA HAYWORTH: Gilda, The Lady from Shanghai. MICKEY ROURKE: Rumble Fish, Barfly. PAUL NEWMAN: The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke. ED NORTON: The 25th Hour, Fight Club. PRESTON STURGES: Sullivan's Travels, The Lady Eve. FRANK CAPRA: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It's A Wonderful Life. WALLY SHAWN: Clueless, The Princess Bride, My Dinner With Andre. WOODY ALLEN: Zelig, Annie Hall, Bananas. BRANDO: Streetcar Named Desire, Apocalypse Now. AUDREY HEPBURN: Breakfast at Tiffany's, Roman Holiday. SCARLETT JOHANNSON: Match Point, Lost in Translation, Ghost World. DAVID THEWLIS: The Big Lebowski, Naked. ANTONIONI: L'Avventura, Blow Up. BERTOLUCCI: The Conformist, The Dreamers. |
| Favorite Music | Some of these artists are destroyers (Iggy), some survivors (Tom Waits), some observers (Mountain Goats), and some utopians (The Beatles). Some just have a lot of attitude. The list: Elvis, AC/DC, Iggy and the Stooges, The Beatles, Tom Waits, The Mountain Goats, Otis Redding, The Shins, The New Pornographers and all their individual members, Tool, A Perfect Circle, The Strokes, Radiohead, The Rolling Stones, Interpol, Franz Ferdinand, The Faint, Bright Eyes, Sage Francis, Jay-Z, Outkast, U2, REM, Nine Inch Nails, The Velvet Underground, Ani Difranco, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple. |
| Favorite Books | Psychotic Reactions and Carburator Dung (Lester Bangs), Mystery Train (Greil Marcus), The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, Jesus' Son, In Search of Lost Time, Hamlet, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Gilead, The Death of Adam, Written on the Body, Jitterbug Perfume, Delta of Venus, Saint Genet, Being and Nothingness, Without Feathers, Dave Barry's Bad Habits, The Alexandria Quartet, The Catcher in the Rye, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Selected Poems of Langston Hughes, Emerson's Essays, Prufrock and Other Observations. |