anthonyanthony

My name is Anthony.

I graduated with a BA in English from University of West Florida.

I currently live in Southern California and work at an advertising firm.

I moved around a lot growing up, but my family eventually settled in Pensacola, FL. I graduated from high school and college there, kicked around trying to find a job for a year. I had some fun times at a few really lame, too-low paying jobs.

I decided to move to California (Riverside, to be exact) where I spent four months (from fall '04 to spring 05) as a participant in the National Student Exchange program.

Met a girl.

Got a job.

Life is good.

I love all kinds of food (except for menudo and testicles).

I am endlessly arrested at the idea that I am a piece of machinery equiped with the ability to communicate (at best fuzzily) with other moving, speaking machines.

I read a lot. My favorite authors are Kurt Vonnegut, Chuck Klosterman, Bret Easton Ellis, Don Delillo and Douglas Coupland.

Just finished reading: IV, by Chuck Klosterman; starting Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

As far as music, I listen to a lot of stuff from M.I.A and the new Britney Spears, to the Flaming Lips and Built to Spill; from Tom Petty (and the Heartbreakers) and Billy Joel to Outkast and Aesop Rock. I am also really into the soundtracks to Blaxploitation films by artists such as Curtis Mayfield and Isaac Hayes as well as swedish pop sensations Jose Gonzalez, the Knife and Peter Bjorn and John. I have an 80 GB iPod filled to capacity.

...so yeah, a pretty wide swath. But really, relative to all the music that has been recorded and is listened to on a daily basis, my tastes in music are rather narrow and probably predictable, I think.

As far as movies go, anything that gives rise to the question "What is real?" is probably a good movie...if executed well. I love Hitchcock, The Big Lebowski, Southland Tales and Donnie Darko, The Phantom of Liberty and the Seventh Seal to give you an idea...if you care.