some very basic information about richard until he decides to put something more up....
 
  

richard is 24 and lives in carrboro, north carolina...
 

favorite music: 
'popular' - the cure, joy division/new order, depeche mode, the smiths/morrissey, cocteau twins, nine inch nails, the smashing pumpkins, radiohead, nick drake, my bloody valentine, the jesus and mary chain, pulp, the durutti column, david bowie, pink floyd, the velvet underground/lou reed, the doors, nirvana, the pixies, r.e.m., the beatles, xtc, echo and the bunnymen, manic street preachers, the stooges/iggy pop, kraftwerk, mazzy star, television, sonic youth, placebo, slowdive, kate bush, talk talk, led zeppelin, enya, the clash, weezer, the stone roses, jimi hendrix, brian eno, talking heads, siouxsie and the banshees, the church, big star, peter gabriel, elvis costello, beth orton, soundgarden, belly, godspeed you! black emperor, black rebel motorcycle club, coldplay (first album), chris isaak, pearl jam (first album), the sex pistols, jane's addiction/dave navarro, uncle tupelo/wilco, alice in chains, mogwai, tool....
classical - j.s. bach, barber, beethoven, brahms, elgar, grieg, handel, khachaturian, mozart, pachelbel, ponchielli, rossini, shostakovich, johann strauss, richard strauss, tchaikovsky, vangelis, vivaldi, wagner....

favorite authors: franz kafka, albert camus, friedrich nietzsche, jean-paul sartre, george orwell, samuel beckett, (pre-christian) fyodor dostoevsky, charles baudelaire, thomas hardy, stanley donwood, edgar allan poe, edith wharton, j.d. salinger, sylvia plath, a.e. housman, philip larkin....

favorite filmmakers/films:
filmmakers - woody allen ("annie hall," "manhattan," "stardust memories"), pedro almodovar ("all about my mother"), darren aronofsky ("pi," "requiem for a dream"), ingmar bergman ("the seventh seal," "wild strawberries," "through a glass darkly," "the silence," "persona," "hour of the wolf," "cries and whispers"), luis bunuel ("un chien andalou," "belle de jour"), danny boyle ("trainspotting," "the beach," "28 days later"), alfonso cuaron ("y tu mama tambien"), lisa cholodenko ("high art"), the coen brothers ("fargo," "the big lebowski"), francis ford coppola ("the godfather," "the godfather part II," "apocalypse now"), sofia coppola ("the virgin suicides," "lost in translation"), david cronenberg ("shivers," "the brood," "scanners," "videodrome," "the dead zone," "the fly," "dead ringers," "naked lunch," "crash," "spider"), cameron crowe ("say anything...," "vanilla sky"), stephen daldry ("billy elliot," "the hours"), federico fellini ("la dolce vita," "8 1/2"), terry gilliam ("brazil," "12 monkeys"), jean-luc godard ("breathless," "alphaville," "weekend"), michel gondry ("eternal sunshine of the spotless mind"), mary harron ("i shot andy warhol," "american psycho"), hal hartley ("henry fool"), werner herzog ("aguirre, the wrath of god," "the enigma of kaspar hauser," "heart of glass," "stroszek," "nosferatu the vampyre," "grizzly man"), alfred hitchcock ("rear window," "vertigo"), jim jarmusch ("dead man"), spike jonze ("being john malkovich," "adaptation"), philip kaufman ("the unbearable lightness of being"), elia kazan ("a streetcar named desire," "east of eden," "splendor in the grass"), richard kelly ("donnie darko"), krzysztof kieslowski ("blue"), stanley kubrick ("dr. strangelove, or how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb," "2001: a space odyssey," "a clockwork orange," "the shining," "full metal jacket," "eyes wide shut"), akira kurosawa ("ikiru"), doug liman ("swingers"), richard linklater ("slacker," "before sunrise," "waking life"), david lynch ("eraserhead," "blue velvet," "wild at heart," twin peaks tv series, "twin peaks: fire walk with me," "lost highway," "mulholland drive"), adrian lyne ("fatal attraction," "lolita"), julio medem ("sex and lucia"), monty python ("monty python and the holy grail," "life of brian," "the meaning of life"), christopher nolan ("following," "memento"), alan parker ("midnight express," "pink floyd - the wall," "angel heart"), roman polanski ("knife in the water," "repulsion," "rosemary's baby," "chinatown," "the tenant," "tess," "frantic," "the ninth gate," "the pianist"), jean renoir ("rules of the game"), martin scorsese ("the big shave," "mean streets," "taxi driver," "raging bull," "cape fear"), kevin smith ("clerks," "chasing amy"), todd solondz ("welcome to the dollhouse," "happiness"), quentin tarantino ("reservoir dogs," "pulp fiction"), francois truffaut ("the bride wore black"), orson welles ("citizen kane," "the trial")...
other films - "all the president's men," "american beauty," "barfly," "blade runner," "das experiment," "the deer hunter," "deliverance," "easy rider," "falling down," "fight club," "film" (samuel beckett), "ghost world," "the graduate," "heathers," "hedwig and the angry inch," "high fidelity," "i <3 huckabees," "la belle et la bete," "labyrinth," "modern times," "a night at the roxbury," "1984," "office space," "one crazy summer," "pollock," "river's edge," "the searchers," "sunset boulevard," "tadpole," "torment," "the trial" (jones)....

favorite tv shows: twin peaks, the twilight zone, monty python's flying circus, fawlty towers, beavis and butt-head....

 
 

some pics taken with richard's cheap webcam:
 

some cool sites:

shadow play - cool durham, nc band
all-music guide - still the most comprehensive music website
celebrity atheist list

email me:

[email protected]

 
 

...more to come...