i've been tagged by senor steve caratzas to write about my obsessions/passions/whatnots in groups of 8. because i consider steve a good friend i'm game.

now let me open up another anchor steam christmas ale to kill the tickle that is germinating in the back of my throat: feels like a cough, a cold, coming on, and let her go.

8 [not-living: i mean breathing] poets better than the movies

constantine cavafy
catullus
jimmy 'jam' schuyler
osip mandelstam
thom gunn
john forbes
bill griffiths
christophe tarkos

8 favorite words

shit
fuck
sumbitch
cool
rad
aintnothing
yomamma
carpefuckingdiem

8 obsessions/loves of my life

family
poetry
cinema
sex
beer
drive-in theaters
otherstream topics [i.e. ufology, cryptozoology]
movie trailers

8 things that piss me off

aggressive drivers
mobile phones used loudly in public places
spitting in public
the word 'gifted' as it is used in a sentence like 'my grandmother gifted me this clock'
smelling someone's cigarette smoke
persons stuck in a queue and bitching about it when they could step out if they so choose
littering
questions that begin, 'if you don't eat meat, what do you eat'

8 cities i've not been but would love to go

reykjavik, iceland
dublin, ireland
belfast, ireland
st. petersburg, russia
venice, italy
edinburgh, scotland
mexico city, mexico
ontario, canada

8 filmmakers that i can't help but love and admire

lucio fulci
dario argento
the coen bros
david lynch
stanley kubrick
jess franco
ingmar bergman
ruggerio deodato

8 seminal films of my life

star wars
2001 a space odyssey
blue velvet
saturday night fever
grease
repo man
decline of western civilization
attack of the mushroom people

okay, that's it. realize i can go on and on with these lists, but man i've got a bit of a buzz, my throat's still scratchy and finally how much can one person reveal of himself with a series of lists? part of me hopes that what is revealed is a whole lot. the reality is rather rashomon-like. and if i wrote these lists tomorrow night there'd be another group of far different answers.

i like making these lists just the same, and i like the tagging. so you, yes you, consider yrself tagged.