Thirty-eight years old, live and work in San Francisco Bay Area. I see at least 200 movies theatrically every year. I direct, write, and act in plays, too.

Favorite films: Irma Vep, Ikiru, Last Year at Marienbad, My Favorite Year, The Phenix City Story, The Jacket, The Pillow Book, Zentropa, Dawn of the Dead (original), Hellzapoppin', Godzilla: Final Wars, Beyond the Clouds, Wings of Desire, Grindhouse, Ju-On: The Grudge 2, Danger: Diabolik!, The Limey

Favorite music: Wire, Gary Numan, John Zorn, King Crimson (1980s and onward), Robert Fripp, Peter Hammill, The Fall, pretty much anyone who did a Peel Session, Kronos Quartet, Sparks

Favorite TV shows: The Wire, The Twilight Zone, 30 Rock, Venture Brothers, Doctor Who (old school, though I enjoy the recent series), Metalocalypse, Dollhouse, The Daily Show, Sports Night, The Prisoner, Alive From Off Center, Night Flight, Profit, TV Party

Favorite books/writers: Burroughs' The Western Lands, Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema, the Shuji Terayama book Yuri sent me from Japan, Haruki Murakami, Grant Morrison, Warren Ellis, the BFI Film Classics/Modern Classics line

Favorite activities: Moviegoing, fogwalking, daydreaming, monkeyfun

Last movie seen theatrically: Liverpool