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Guy Fixsen

Composer
Sound Designer, Boom Operator, Sound Recordist, Sound Editor, Foley artist.
Great Britain, London

About Me:

Website: guyfixsen.com
Technical Skills: 30 years recording and mixing sound and writing music

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Fun stuff:

Films I wish I had made:

Fishtank Dogtooth Anywhere You, the Living Police, Adjective Old Boys Inception Greenberg Synedoche, New York Samson and Delilah Three Women A Prophet The Beat That My Heart Skipped Hunger No Country for Old Men I'm Not There Adaptation All About My Mother One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Dr. Strangelove There Will Be Blood The Godfather Casino The Dark Knight Star Wars The Matrix Kill Bill The Godfather The Big Lebowski Blade Runner Ghost Dog Solaris My Life as a Dog Fargo This Is Spinal Tap Goodfellas Fight Club Magnolia Being John Malkovich Harvey Brazil 2001: A Space Odyssey Return of the Pink Panther Palindromes Hero Me and You and Everyone We Know The Conversation Delicatessen Milk Bad Education Talk To Her Pulp Fiction Wild Strawberries

Directors I love:

Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Lars von Trier, Michael Haneke, Todd Solondz, The Coen Brothers, Robert Altman, Guy Nolan, Pedro Almodovar, Ingmar Bergman, Spike Lee, Spike Jonze

Actors I admire:

Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Robert de Niro, Jimmy Stewart, Susan Sarandon, Jim Broadbent, Tim Robbins, Frances McDormand, Dirk Bogarde, Sissy Spacek, Chris Cooper, Judi Dench, Miranda Richardson, Willem Dafoe, Jack Nicholson, Cary Grant,

Writers I Respect:

Haruki Murakami, Charlie Kaufman, Philip K Dick, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Milan Kundera, Bohumil Hrabl, David Mitchell

My desert island discs:

Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em - Eric B. and Rakim Joni Mitchell The Beastie Boys Bitches Brew Miles Davis Billie Holiday Jolene - Dolly Parton Bone Machine - Tom Waits The Man-Machine - Kraftwerk Welcome to My Dream - Mc900ft Jesus James Brown Tricky Leonard Cohen The Ramones The Cure Nick Cave New Order Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Thelonious Monk The Rolling Stones Janis Joplin The Doors The Smiths Queen Bob Marley Jimi Hendrix Stevie Wonder John Coltrane Neil Young Johnny Cash Wildbirds and Peacedrums Kid A - Radiohead My Bloody Valentine Surfer Rosa - The Pixies Psychocandy - The Jesus and Mary Chain Psapp José González Spirit of Eden - Talk Talk Future Days - Can Creature Comforts - Black Dice Black Voices - Tony Allen You're Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr Tim Buckley Buffalo Springfield The Dreaming - Kate Bush Electric Byrd - Donald Byrd Doc at the Radar Station - Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band You Are Free - Cat Power What Does Anything Mean? Basically - The Chameleons Patsy Cline Sunburst and Snowblind - The Cocteau Twins Revolver - The Beatles Vespertine - Bjork Bonnie Prince Billy The Breeders Booker T. and the M.G.'s 3 Ft. High and Rising - De La Soul Gris-Gris - Dr. John Doctor Octagon Pink Moon - Nick Drake Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan Entertainment! - Gang of Four - Woody Guthrie Sextant - Herbie Hancock Dry - PJ Harvey Joy Division King Tubby Keith Hudson Fela Kuti Gyorgy Ligeti Massive Attack Fred McDowell The Meters Mississippi John Hurt Derrick Morgan Fred Neil Sonic Youth The Young Gods Sun Ra Le Volume Courbe Dog Faced Hermans

Books I have given my friends:

The Road - Cormac McCarthy, Skinny Legs and All - Tom Robbins, No One Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July, What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt, A Scanner Darkly - Philip K Dick, Life is Elsewhere - Milan Kundera, Too Loud a Solitude - Bohumil Hrabl, The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger, Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth, Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami, A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking, Black Holes and Timewarps - Kip Thorne, One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Wild Swans - Jung Chang, A Patchwork Planet - Anne Tyler, The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov, Genome - Matt Ridley, Deep Simplicity - John Gribbin, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon, Under the Skin - Michel Faber. Neuromancer - William Gibson, Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut, Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer