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In a May 2006 blog post I published a photo of my DVD library. I'm ridiculously anal about organizing my collection, which is the primary reason that this page exists -- to log everything in the collection. But the secondary reason, and maybe the most important one, is that some of the movies in the collection bear explanation. Some are wonderful movies that you may never have seen, or maybe you've overlooked; others are movies that I probably should be embarrassed to own, but have good reasons for. Over time I hope to add some micro-reviews to the site.

So I present you with my collection. Links will take you to posts about the movie in question; movies with multiple posts will have multiple links.

Movies
8 Mile / 12 Monkeys / 21 Grams / 28 Days / 28 Days Later / The 40-Year-Old Virgin / 61* / A.I. Artificial Intelligence / About Schmidt / The Abyss / The Accidental Tourist / Adaptation / Alien / Aliens / Alien3 / Alien: Resurrection / All the King's Men / All the President's Men / All the Pretty Horses / Almost Famous / Always / Amelie / American Beauty / American Graffiti / The American President / American Psycho / American Splendor / Annie Hall / The Apartment / Apocalypse Now Redux / Apollo 13 / Armageddon / As Good As It Gets / The Aviator / Awakenings / Babel / Back to the Future / Back to the Future: Part II / Back to the Future: Part III / Backdraft / Bandits / Barton Fink / Batman Begins / Beautiful Girls / Being John Malkovich / Best in Show / The Big Chill / The Big Kahuna / The Big Lebowski / The Black Stallion / Blade Runner / Blood Simple / Boiler Room / Bonnie and Clyde / Bowfinger / Breach / The Breakfast Club / A Bug's Life / Bull Durham / Bullitt / Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid / Bye Bye Love / Capote / Casino / Catch Me if You Can / The Cell / Charade / Chinatown / Citizen Kane / City of Angels / City of God / A Civil Action / Clerks II / Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1, 2, 3) / Closer / Collateral / Collateral Damage / The Color of Money / Confessions of a Dangerous Mind / Conspiracy Theory / The Constant Gardener / Constantine / Contact (1, 2, 3) / The Contender / Cool Hand Luke / The Cowboy Way / Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon / The Dancer Upstairs / Dances With Wolves / Daredevil / Dark City / D.A.R.Y.L. / Dave / The Day the Earth Stood Still / Dead Poets Society / Death Proof / Deep Impact / Defending Your Life / Demolition Man / The Departed / The Devil Wears Prada / The Devil's Backbone / Die Hard / Die Hard 2: Die Harder / Die Hard With a Vengeance / Dirty Rotten Scoundrels / Disclosure / Dogfight / Donnie Brasco / Donnie Darko / Ed Wood / Ed TV / Edmond / Edward Scissorhands / Eight Men Out / Elizabethtown / Empire Falls / Empire of the Sun / Enigma / Equilibrium / Erin Brockovich / Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind / An Evening with Kevin Smith II: Evening Harder / Evolution / The Ex / Existenz / Fargo / Fearless / A Few Good Men / Field of Dreams (1, 2) / Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within / Finding Nemo / The Firm / A Fish Called Wanda / The Fisher King / A Fistful of Dollars / Footloose / For a Few Dollars More / For Love of the Game / Forrest Gump / Frequency / Friends with Money / The Fugitive / Full Metal Jacket / The Game / Gangs of New York / Garden State / Gattaca / Get Shorty / Ghost World / Ghostbusters / Ghostbusters 2 / Glengarry Glen Ross / Go / The Godfather / The Godfather Part II / The Godfather Part III / The Good, the Bad and the Ugly / Good Night, and Good Luck / The Good Thief / Goodfellas / The Goonies / Gorillas in the Mist / Gosford Park / The Great Escape / Groundhog Day / Half Nelson / Hard Candy / Harvey / Heartbreakers / Heat / Heaven / Hellboy / High Fidelity / Home for the Holidays / Hostage / House of Flying Daggers / The Hudsucker Proxy / The Hunt for Red October / Hustle & Flow / The Hustler / Ice Age / The Ice Storm / Idiocracy / Igby Goes Down / The Illusionist / In Good Company / In Her Shoes / The Incredible Mr. Limpet / The Incredibles / Indecent Proposal / Independence Day / Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom / Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade / Insomnia / The Interpreter / Intolerable Cruelty / The Iron Giant / It Could Happen to You / Jarhead / Jaws / Jeremiah Johnson / Jerry Maguire / Jersey Girl / Jurassic Park / Kindergarten Cop / Kiss Kiss Bang Bang / Kramer vs. Kramer / L.A. Confidential / L.A. Story / The Lake House / The Last Castle / The Last Kiss / The Last of the Mohicans / The Last Picture Show / The Last Samurai / The Last Starfighter / A League of Their Own / Leon (The Professional) / Life as a House / In the Line of Fire / Little Miss Sunshine / Living Out Loud / Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels / Lonesome Dove / Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring / Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers / Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King / Lord of War / Lords of Dogtown / Lost in Translation / The Lost Weekend / A Lot Like Love / Lucky You / M*A*S*H / Made / The Magnificent Seven / Magnolia / Man on Fire / The Man From Snowy River / The Man Who Wasn't There / March of the Penguins / Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World / The Matador / Match Point / Matchstick Men / The Matrix / The Matrix Reloaded / The Matrix Revolutions / Maverick / Memento / The Mexican / Miller's Crossing / Minority Report / Mission: Impossible / Mission: Impossible 2 / Monsters, Inc. / Monty Python & the Holy Grail / The Mosquito Coast / Moulin Rouge / Mr. Holland's Opus / Mr. & Mrs. Smith / My Life / My Own Private Idaho / Mystic River / Narc / National Treasure / The Natural / The Neverending Story / Nobody's Fool / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Ocean's Eleven / The Odd Couple / Office Space / An Officer and a Gentleman / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / Open Range / Orange County / Out of Africa / Out of Sight / The Outlaw Josey Wales / Pale Rider / Panic Room / Parenthood / Patton / The Perfect Storm / A Perfect World / Permanent Midnight / Planes, Tranes & Automobiles / Platoon / The Pledge / The Postman / The Prestige / Primary Colors / Proof of Life / Pump Up the Volume / Punch-Drunk Love / Pushing Tin / The Quiet American / Raiders of the Lost Ark / Rain Man / Raising Arizona / Random Hearts / Real Genius / Regarding Henry / The Right Stuff / Road to Perdition / Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves / The Rock / The Rocketeer / Rocky / Romancing the Stone / Ronin / Rounders / Roxanne / The Royal Tenenbaums / Rudy / Running on Empty / Rush / Saving Private Ryan / Say Anything / The Scout / The Searchers / Secretary / Serenity (1, 2) / Serpico / Shall We Dance? / The Shape of Things / The Shawshank Redemption / The Siege / The Silence of the Lambs / Silent Fall / Silverado / Sixteen Candles / Slap Shot / Sleepless in Seattle / Sneakers / Snow Falling on Cedars / Some Like it Hot / Somewhere in Time / The Sound of Music / Space Camp / Spanglish / The Spanish Prisoner / Spartan / Speed / Spider-Man / Spider-Man 2 / Spy Game / St. Elmo's Fire / The Stand / Stand By Me / Star Trek: The Motion Picture / Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan / Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home / Star Trek V: The Final Frontier / Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country / Star Trek: Generations / Star Wars: A New Hope / Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back / Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi / The Sting / Stripes / The Sum of All Fears (1, 2) / Super Troopers / Superman: The Movie / Superman II / Superman III / Superman IV / Superman Returns / S.W.A.T. / Syriana / Tears of the Sun / The Terminator / Terminator 2: Judgment Day / Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines / Terms of Endearment / The Thing Called Love / Thirteen Days / This Film is Not Yet Rated / This is Spinal Tap / Three Amigos / Three Days of the Condor / Three Kings / Tigerland / Tin Cup / Titan A.E. / Titanic / To Die For / To Kill a Mockingbird / Top Gun / Toy Story / Toy Story 2 / Traffic / Training Day / The Trouble With Harry / True Lies / The Truman Show / Unbreakable / Under the Tuscan Sun / Unfaithful / United 93 / The Untouchables / U.S. Marshals / The Usual Suspects / Vanilla Sky / The Verdict / Wag the Dog / Wall Street / The War of the Roses / War of the Worlds / Waterworld / We Don't Live Here Anymore / The Weather Man / Wedding Crashers / What Dreams May Come / When Harry Met Sally / White Squall / The Whole Nine Yards / Wonder Boys / Wyatt Earp / You Can Count on Me

Television
Battlestar Galactica (S1-S3) / Cheers (S1-8) / Firefly: The Complete Series / Freaks & Geeks: The Complete Series / From the Earth to the Moon / The Greatest American Hero (S1) / Harsh Realm: The Complete Series / He-Man & the Masters of the Universe (S1) / The Job: The Complete Series / Mad About You (S1&2) / M*A*S*H (S1-10) / Monk (S1) / Rescue Me (S1-S3) / SNL (S1, S2) / SNL: The First Five Years / SNL: The Best of Dan Aykroyd / SNL: The Best of John Belushi / SNL: The Best of Christopher Walken / Seinfeld (S1-5) / The Simpsons (S1&2) / Six Feet Under: The Complete Series / Sports Night: The Complete Series (1, 2) / Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip / Undeclared: The Complete Series / The West Wing (S1-6) / The Wire (S1-4)


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I've been a web designer since 1998. In the ensuing ten years I have worked in that capacity for an arctic ISP, a dusty Reno advertising agency, a boutique design firm with trendy brick interior, a nefarious taskmaster, an obsolete-but-oblivious (and cigar-permeated) development shop, and myself. At present I'm an associate creative director for Level Studios, a digital agency in San Luis Obispo, California. I used to keep a list of recent projects here, but lately my work has taken me into the application space, which isn't as easy to share. Instead, check out Level's portfolio.

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