1. Death Proof
2. Noise
3. The Hottest State
4. Stranger Than Fiction
5. Dans paris
6. Michael Clayton
7. Half Nelson
8. Away From Her
9. Reign Over Me
10. Superbad
11. Across the Universe
12. Hot Fuzz
13. The Fountain

1. a career in filmmaking
2. someone to love
3. friends I'm comfortable with
4. a good day job
5. my own apartment
6. my own apartment in NYC
7. 24-inch iMac
8. Final Cut Studio 2
9. Tesla Roadster
10. Canon 814 Super-8 camera
11. Canon 814 XL Super-8 camera
12. HD LCD TV
13. more pillows
14. 1000-thread-count sheets
15. a full kitchen of cooking utensils
16. Nokia 6120
17. Xbox360

1. discovering Godard and the French New Wave
2. seeing Across The Universe and discovering The Beatles
3. my newfound love of Super-8
4. hearing Reckoner and realising Radiohead are actually a great band

I intend to cull this collection, and replace some of the finer films with Criterion Collection editions.

1. 12 Monkeys
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. 28 Days Later...
4. 8½
5. 9 Songs
6. A Clockwork Orange
7. A Decade Under The Influence
8. Adaptation
9. Æon Flux: The Complete Animated Collection
10. Akira
11. Alien
12. Aliens
13. Amadeus
14. American Beauty
15. American Psycho
16. Any Given Sunday
17. Apocalypse Now Redux
18. Attica
19. Bad Lieutenant
20. Barry Lyndon
21. Battle Royale
22. Ben-H...

1. Band of Outsiders
2. Masculin féminin
3. The Seventh Seal
4. Stranger Than Paradise
5. L'avventura
6. La Jetée / Sans Soleil
7. Days of Heaven
8. L'eclipse

Yes, I was the forerunner to all these things, and although I suffered in the short-term for being the trendsetter that I am, now is my time of reckoning.

• black computers
• sideburns
• aviator sunglasses
• irony in general
• briefcases
• Paul Kelly

1. William Shatner
2. Milla Jovovich
3. Jena Malone
4. Juliette Lewis
5. Crispin Hellion Glover
6. Michael Pitt
7. Charlotte Gainsbourg
8. Frank Sinatra

• "Existence precedes essence" Jean-Paul Sartre
• "I think you're underestimating your capacity to see darkness in hearts." Alan Shore, Boston Legal
• "What does that mean? Know me? Know me? No one ever knows anyone else. Ever. You will never know me." Lauren, The Rules of Attraction
• "A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I revers...

1. Eva Green
2. James Spader
3. Sarah Polley
4. William Shatner
5. Charlie Sheen
6. Anna Paquin
7. James Woods
8. Shannyn Sossamon
9. Jeff Daniels
10. Philip Seymour Hoffman
11. Nick Cave
12. Al Pacino
13. Robert De Niro

1. born 20 August, 1984 in Brisbane, Australia
2. learned to speak at six months old; first words were "Hello Dad" over a toy telephone
3. went to Expo in 1988, persuaded my grandmother to hire a dolphin-shaped pram that I never rode in (I was four years old, those things are for babies)
4. 1988, had major life-saving surgery, the first type performed in Australia
5. 2001, graduated high school
6. died in 2031 in a spac...

• Stanley Kubrick
• Michael Mann
• Terrence Malick
• Martin Scorsese
• Quentin Tarantino
• James Cameron
• Ridley Scott
• Michelangelo Antonioni
• Andrei Tarkovsky
• Gus Van Sant
• Takeshi Kitano
• Jim Jarmusch
• Jean-Luc Godard
• Agnès Varda

1. form a band
2. make "New Year's Day" short film
3. make "Hotel Room" short film
4. finish writing "The Architects"
5. make "The Architects"
6. have sex with more than two people/find true love
7. buy better olives for Martinis
8. write story based on the box Alexandra found, perhaps call it.. "Box of Moonlight"

1. Emma Lung
2. Emily Browning
3. Victoria Thaine
4. Erik Thomson
5. Kendell Nunn

1. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
2. Dostoevsky, Crime & Punishment
3. Nietzsche, Beyond Good & Evil
4. Sartre, Being and Nothingness
5. Sartre, Nausea
6. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
7. Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen
8. Arthur Schnitzler, Traumnovelle
9. Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
10. Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
11. those books that Susu and Alexandra keep talking about

• Cointreau (only recently discovered this)
• fresh baguettes
• virgin olive oil
• gin
• vermouth
• tonic water
• mortadella
• pastrami
• salami
• Wild Turkey (that's right, I've gone off Jack Daniel's)
• Canadian Club
• dark chocolate
• green pitted olives
• water crackers
• Swiss cheese
• Shiraz
• cashews
• sparkling apple juice

Why this car is the pot of gold at the end of my rainbow.

1. 100% electric = no emissions
2. 0-100km/h (0-60mph) in 4.3 seconds
3. costs less than $0.01/km to drive
4. top speed of over 210km/h (130mph)
5. two gears: 1st (0-100km/h) and 2nd (100km/h and faster) waaahoooooo!
6. better performance than a Lamborghini
7. 400km (250m) journey distance between charges (can drive from LA to San Diego)
8. drive-by-wire system (no mechan...

In chronological order.

1. in grade 2 when, standing alone in front of the whole class, it was revealed that I didn't know the months of the year, and the whole class laughed at me
2. in grade 2 when Amanda Park asked me "why don't you have any friends Paul?"
3. in grade 3 when I didn't win the class wildlife costume contest (I put a lot of effort into that costume)
4. in grade 3 when my parents fought every nigh...

1. get a real job
2. make a film
3. write
4. write some more
5. stop wasting time
6. stop wasting money
7. move to New York

1. make a film that gets 5-star reviews
2. write a screenplay for a film that gets 5-star reviews
3. write a novel
4. move to New York
5. live in Paris
6. be interviewed by the magazine I currently write for
7. meet Eva Green
8. make a film with Eva Green
9. read rumours about myself
10. design a computer game based on Apocalypse Now
11. date a model/famous actress
12. have a meal at Kate Mantilini in LA

1. New York City, NY
2. Brooklyn
3. Berlin
4. Paris
5. St Petersberg
6. Camden, London
7. Moscow