"the best way to know life is to love many things." -- Van Gogh
The most interesting people to me usually don't seem to fit in anywhere. often they are the dirty, smelly losers some phoney wannabe screenwriter/actor/producer steps over without noticing on their way to the starbucks counter for their double latte, while they dial their cell and dream about how famous their uninspired rip off of i dream of genie is going to make them. ok, the highly distracted and entitled can be interesting, too... usually after they've lost everything and had to earn what they already think makes them better than everybody else.Also, I'd like to meet Ayaan Hirsi Ali. What an amazing spirit.And if there's anyone i really wish i could have met it's Malcolm X. i can remember seeing him on the news when i was kid and thinking how i wanted to be like him. i also remember watching my parents shifting uncomfortably in their chairs. Malcolm X should have been the president of the united states. instead he was assassinated in front of his family while the authorities looked on. welcome to america, baby.
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I keep going to every new science fiction film only to have my hopes dashed against the rocks of Hollywood ignorance and mediocrity yet again.
Better yet, shoot your kids up with heroin. It's more fun and less addicting.
My story THE INEVITABILITY OF DEATH (about reincarnated porn stars and drugged messiahs breeding volkswagons in the backyard) can be read here FOR FREE:My favorite Samuel R. Delany novels include Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, Atlantis, Dhalgren, Neveryona, Dark Reflections, etc. etc. Favorite Roger Zelazny includes Lord of Light, Jack of Shadows, Roadmarks, Isle of the Dead, etc. Favorite Harlan Ellison of course is Deathbird Stories. Octavia Butler: all thoser early novels like Clay's Ark and Pattern Master. Russell Banks: Rule of the Bone, Clousplitter, Continental Drift, The Darling. Also love Joanna Russ, Alice Walker, early Margaret Atwood, Charles Sheffield, Tim Powers (of course!), James Joyce, PK Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (everything!), Borges, Kafka, Daryl Gregory. what a ridiculously incomplete list...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Noam Chomsky, Malcolm X, Russell Banks, The Green Lantern. Aquaman. Space Ghost... before he sold out and became a talk show host. Harlan Ellison... before he became a crotchety old Jewish hobbit.