A DC-compiled list of favourites
(as of December 11, 2003)


Movie: (of all time) Robert Bresson's The Devil, Probably; Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons; Andy Warhol's Chelsea Girls; Robert Bresson's Lancelot du Lac; Robert Bresson's Four Nights of A Dreamer; Yasujiro Ozu's Late Spring; Alain Resnais' Providence; Kenneth Anger's Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome; Robert Bresson's Mouchette; (recently) Gaspar Noe's Irreversible; Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line; Errol Morris' Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control

TV Show: (of all time) Twin Peaks; (recently) 24, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Novel: (of all time) Sade, 120 Days of Sodom; Maurice Blanchot; Death Sentence; Jean Genet, Funeral Rites; Ivy Compton- Burnett, The Present and The Past; Georges Bataille, The Story of the Eye; (recently) Agota Kristof, The Book of Lies; James McCourt, Time Remaining

Poetry book: (of all time) Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell / The Illuminations (Enid Peschel translation); John Wieners, The Hotel Wentley Poems, John Ashbery, Tennis Court Oath; James Tate, Absences; Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen; (recently) Ronald Koertge, Sleeping with Roget's Wife; Amy Gerstler, Medicine

Sport: baseball

Politics: anarchist

Religion: none

Comedian: Bill Murray

Theater: Bertholt Brecht/Kurt Weill, "The Threepenny Opera" Robert Wilson, "The Civil Wars"; The Wooster Group, "LSD"

Food: cold sesame noodle

Color: white, red, black

Band: Guided by Voices

Singer: Gram Parsons

Song: The Velvet Underground, "White Light White Heat" Captain Beefheart "Big Eyed Beans from Venus"; Randy Newman, "Marie"; Robert Pollard, "Far-Out Crops"; Sebadoh, "Brand New Love"; The Beach Boys, "Surf's Up"; The Ramones, "I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement", Rolling Stones, "We Love You", Pavement, "Grounded", etc.

Concert: The Flaming Lips @ The Palace, LA ('Soft Bulletin' tour), My Bloody Valentine @ The Palace, LA ('Loveless' tour), Gang of Four @ The Starwood, LA ('Entertainment' tour), Orbital at Cardiff University, UK ('Snivilization' tour), Sonic Youth @ Paradiso, Holland ('Sister' tour), Kraftwerk @ The Palladium (1999 reunion tour), Public Image Ltd. @ The Olympic Auditorium, LA ('Metal Box' tour), Guided by Voices @ Jabberjaw, LA ('Bee Thousand' tour), Spirit @ Anaheim Convention Center ('The Family That Plays Together' tour).

Visual artist: Johannes Vermeer; Charles Ray, Torbjorn Vejvi, Vincent Fecteau, Mike Kelley, Paul Thek, Evan Holloway, Jason Meadows, John Williams, Katie Grinnen, Liz Craft, Bill Henson, etc.

Magazine: (recently) Electronic Gaming Monthly, Haunted Attraction Magazine

Video/computer game: (of all time) Conker's Bad Fur Day; Dust, Riven, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Resident Evil: Zero, Nine, Buried in Time; (recently) Eternal Darkness, Pikmin, Zelda: Wavewalker, Skies of Arcadia: Legends

Porn movie: Jean Daniel Cadinot, All of Me

Porn star: Pierre Buisson, Peter Kurst, Cory Adams, Jeff Hunter

Beauty: Pitcher Eric Gagne's slow change up, Vincent Kartheiser Blur's Alex James circa Parklife, Paris, Santorini, southern Utah

City: Paris