Duelling, Pugilism, Grappling, Knife-Fighting, Knot-Tying, Eloquent Discourse,Carousing, Casting Aspersions, Artillery, Interfering in the Electoral Process, Manly Feats of Derring-do.
I'd like to meet:
People with similar interests, people with different interests, people who are interesting, people who find me interesting. People who I know, and people who I don't know.
Music:
Too many to list, but here are a few: Tom Waits, Billy Bragg, Bob Dylan, Buddy Holly, Joe Strummer (W/ or W/O the mescaleros, G'N'R, The Clash, The Call, The Cure, The Cult, Johnny Cash, Woody Guthrie, The Ramones, The Specials, Rancid, Misfits/Samhain/Danzig, Duanne Peters and the Hunns, Die Hunns, The U.S. Bombs, The Duanne Peters Gunfight, Man-o-war, I'm not ashamed to admit I went through a Grunge faze, The Talking Heads, Velvet Underground, 80s pop, ska in general, Adam and the Ants, Motorhead, The Damned, the Kinks, Murder City Devils, AC/DC, Desmond Dekker, Sham 69, Joy Division, the random warbly songs you only hear once late at night while you're driving in the desert while you're thinking...God, I need a drink.
Movies:
The Breakfast Club is the Greatest. Movie. Ever. John Hughes taught me how to look at life. Motorama, Wes Anderson. Wes Craven. Akira Kurosawa. Jim Jarmusch. Anything with Sonny Chiba. Northfork, City of Lost Children, Time Bandits, Frankenstein, What Dreams May Come, The Professional. M. Knight Shyamalan (sp.?). I have a secret love of Romantic Comedies that everyone knows about. If it is a bad movie based on superhero or semi-historical figure I probably love it.
Toshiro Mifune Bitches!
Television:
"Violence on television only affects children whose parents act like television characters" -The Talking Heads (I think....). You could pretty much put anything else in place of the word "violence" and it would still pretty much be true. Other than that I don't have much to say about the tube. Oh, yeah; reality television is neither reality nor television.
Books:
The Hagakure, We The Living, Atlas Shrugged, What The Living Do, Ernest Hemingway, Helmet For My Pillow,
Heroes:
"It ain't braggin' if you can do it."
I once fought John L. Sullivan, the "Boston Strongboy", for 133 rounds in a blizzard. He won by referee stoppage when he punched my right eye out of my head. I still think I could have kept going. Damn that bastard could punch...
