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I like all forms of movies. I'm a movie geek, so I watch all kinds of films, but - and I read all kinds of things, too. But the poetry that speaks to me the most directly will contain mundane things, will contain details.

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Jim Jarmusch
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: January 22
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