emakbakia

About Me

i like things.

My Interests

Writing, reading, kyudo, film, photography, chess, shogi, beer, whiskey, history, travel, art, literature, cycling, anarchism, activism, unionism, such and such.

Music

The Doors, Wilco, the Smashing Pumpkins, Elliot Smith, The Clash, Crass, Conflict, Elvis, The Beatles, Radiohead, Olivia Tremor Control, the Beach Boys, Johnny Cash, Belle and Sebastian, Stereolab, The Smiths, Buddy Holly, The Buzzcocks, Led Zeppelin, The Velvet Underground, The Moody Blues, Air, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, A//Political, Dropkick Murphys, The Magnetic Fields, David Bowie, Jane's Addiction

Movies

Jean-Luc Godard, Stanley Kubrick, Buster Keaton, F.W. Murnau, Sara Gomez, Elia Suleiman, Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, Woody Allen, Jean-Marie Straub, Fritz Lang, Francois Truffaut, Stan Brakhage, Dziga Vertov, Pudovkin, Sergei Eisenstein, Ingmar Bergman, Martin Scorsese, Lev Kuleshov, John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Vigo, Lars von Trier, Jean Renoir, Orson Welles, Peter Watkins, Abel Gance, Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Hans Richter, Kenneth Anger, Man Ray, Agnes Varda, Alain Resnais, Andre Tarkovsky, Bruce Connor, Carl Theodore Dreyer, Chris Marker, Fernand Leger, Germaine Dulac, Joris Ivens, Jonas Mekas, Norman McLaren, Rene Clair, Werner Herzog

Television

The Simpsons, Arrested Development, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiam, Freaks and Geeks, Home Movies, King of the Hill

Books

Jack Kerouac, Alisdair Grey, William S. Burroughs, Umberto Eco, Norman Mailer, Richard Brautigan, Italo Calvino, Joseph Conrad, Herman Hesse, Comte de Lautreamont, Albert Camus, Robertson Davies, James Joyce, Kurt Vonnegut, Arthur Rimbaud, b.p. nichol, Lord Byron, Allen Ginsberg, William Blake, John Dos Passos