Conceptual art and conceptual artists, Fluxus, Dada, Surrealism, making video art, alcohol, all things comedy, writing, acting, theater, dancing, gambling in Vegas, stories and storytelling, Mini Cooper Ss, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Amplitude, Karaoke Revolution, Soul Calibur III, Halo, comic books, learning, intelligence, the mid-90s San Francisco rave scene, Lindy Hop and Swing, blues dancing!, Swig on Sunday nights, S Factor, trapeze and the Circus Center, Shibari, improv, Improv Everywhere, Dr. Tattoff, Erik my hair guy (i seem to have lost him; tell him to call me; wait Coco found him in LA; Erik, call me), Chor Boogie (he's a person, not a place or thing. aerosol artist to be exact), making an ass of myself.
I'd like to meet:
People I won't hate and the Daves I know.
Music:
Bloodhound Gang, Henry Rollins, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, BT, John Lurie, Marvin Pontiac, Will Harrison, Streetwalkin' Cheetahs, Sexy Lilliputians, Tonal Chaos, Tone, Charles Mingus, John Coltraine, Thelonius Monk, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Smashing Pumpkins, The Primitives, everything 80s especially what I listened to in high school (Depeche Mode, Cure, Smiths, Joy Division, etc.), old school punk (especially DCHC), weird Japanese pop, old school hip hop like Run DMC, Beastie Boys, some new school hip hop (Kanye West, Eminem, Mos Def, Ludacris, TI, Lil Jon, Timbaland), deep house, drum and bass, trance, Portishead, Sneaker Pimps, Cibo Matto, Ken Nordine Word Jazz, Red Hot Chilli Peppers especially Flea, sea chanties.
Movies:
Italian Job (2003), Knockaround Guys, Pitch Black, xXx, Fast and Furious, American History X, Fight Club, Usual Suspects, Closer, sex, lies, and videotape, Dancing at the Blue Iguana, Lost in Translation, Pootie Tang, Office Space, Down By Law, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, True Romance, Reservoir Dogs, Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, Wedding Singer, Punch-Drunk Love, Blades of Glory, Bowling for Columbine, In the Shadow of Motown, The Idiots, Dancer in the Dark, This Is Spinal Tap, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, Dr. Strangelove, Citizen Kane, Psycho, Hellraiser, Peter Sellars Pink Panthers, High Strung, John Hughes films, Jim Jarmusch films
Television:
Star Dates, Food 911, Tyler's Ultimate, Family Guy, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, CSI, House, Burn Notice, The Closer, My Boys, Simpsons, Dinner for Five, Fishing with John, Insomniac with Dave Attell, Chappelle's Show, Primetime Glick, Kids in the Hall, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, Last Comic Standing, Celebrity Poker Showdown, the L Word, Sex and the City, Intervention, Film Fakers, Big Brother All Stars, Hells Kitchen, Top Chef, Flavor of Love 2, The Hills, Dog Whisperer, Strictly Dr. Drew, any sort of CourtTV type of forensic drama based on a true case, most anything on the Discovery Channels, History Channel
Books:
Maxwell Perkins: Editor of Genius, Audio Postproduction for Digital Video, Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace, Impro, Hour of the Star, Story of the Eye, My Mother Demonology, American Psycho, From Hell, Good Omens, Survivor, Diary, Haunted, And the Ass Saw the Angel, Black Coffee Blues, The Sucker's Kiss, The Sot-Weed Factor, Lolita, The Great Gatsby, Look Homeward Angel, The Moviegoer, Tabloid Love, anything by Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean collaborations, Tom Stoppard plays, David Mamet plays, I just love reading.
Heroes:
Marcel DuChamp, Henry Rollins, Tom Waits, Maxwell Perkins, Dave Attell, Brian Reagan, Greg Proops, Dave Chappelle, Nick Cave, Clive Barker, Xu Bing, Tibor Kallman, Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, Alan Moore, Frank Miller, James Morel, Eli Cohen, Hannah Senesch, Jimmy Pop, Andy Warhol, Kathy Acker, Karen Finley, Miranda July, David Bowie, Brian Transeau, Louis C.K., Steve Odekirk, John Lurie, Tony Oursler, Kembra Phfaler, Janeane Garofolo, Flea, Andy Kaufman, Yves Klein, George Bataille, Howard Hallis (aka the male version of me), Ryan McGuinnes, Andrew Hurteau, the entire BATS company (esp. Joshua Raoul Brody, Rafe Chase, Dave Dennison, Laura Derry, Zoe Galvez, Kasey Klemm, Kat Koppet, Gerri Lawlor, Craig Neibaur, David Norfleet, Tim Orr, Diane Rachel, John Remak, Regina Saisi, Barbara Scott, and Rebecca Stockley), Sheila Kelley, Frankie Manning!!!
