this question is almost as bad as the "so what do you like to do" question @ bars...ask me that while im working and i'll kick you in the head, these are random things i like... (a better question besides what do i hate but that would take about the time it takes to retype rembrance of things past) long walks on short tangents, cigarettes and coffee, browsing used bookstores, good accidents, lists, crossword puzzles, having a cigarette after runners high, fernet, jamesons, anything not contrived, nature or cities nothing in between please, open blue masses, 4am in the morning (with 4pm coming a close second), sleep although i dont, black laundry straight out of the dryer with bounce sheets, ritz crackers, steel toed boots with lots of laces (i dont cheat), chess (the game not in life) yes i open with reti, overanalyzing something to the point where the truth emerges but taking actions before that point is reached and justified, music and art that actually says something, music and art that doesnt say anything but is interesting in an aesthetic way, light as an artform, stop-animation, rauschenberg, moholy-nagy, vintage magazines, collage and mess, polaroids, photography, press-type, process, screenprinting, people who can talk in hexa color codes, drawing with ink pens, the zen of taking apart mechanical not electrical objects, relics of the past, typography old school, words, broken glass, japanese anime porn, fences to climb over, ferrets i miss mojo, geeking out (thats a list in itself), final fantasy, fighter airplanes (i wanted to be a kamikazi pilot as a kid, talk about death wish), riding on trains, languages and the words that don't overlap, movies both junk and unjunk, tetris bubble crack and that one game on super nes with the squares, etc...
but there is genius in their hatred / there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you / to kill anybody / not wanting solitude / not understanding solitude / they will attempt to destroy anything / that differs from their own / not being able to create art / they will not understand art / they will consider their failure as creators / only as a failure of the world / not being able to love fully / they will believe your love incomplete / and then they will hate you / and their hatred will be perfect /
tom waits, johnny cash, ministry, nick cave (and the bad seeds), birthday party, msi, tool, miles davis, thelonious monk, chet baker, herbie hancock, satriani, erik satie, stravinsky, depeche mode, isleys, marvin gaye, otis redding, postal service, skinny puppy, ohgr, siouxsie and the banshees, the clash, neutral milk hotel, legendary pink dots, kraftwerk, opeth, scissor sisters, she wants revenge, rat pack, christian death, seu jorge, the cure, sex pistols, x marks the pedwalk, david bowie, misfits, kmfdm, joy division, talking heads, switchblade symphony, old smashing pumpkins, metallica, einsturzende neubauten, ladytron, bauhaus, white stripes, pigface, throbbing gristle, black heart procession, front line assembly, mike patton/mrbungle/fantomas, aesop rock, sage francis, louie prima, black flag, ramones, sneaker pimps, kronos quartet, massive attack, nomeansno, ...
kurosawa kurosawa kurosawa, fight club, grand illusion, sullivan's travels, pi, twelve monkeys and la jette, kubrick depending on patience, run lola run, alice, brothers quay, looking for richard, serpico, scarface and all the old gangster mafia movies, the empire strikes back, clerks, chinatown, city of lost children, ghost in the shell, fear and loathing, swingers, what to do in case of fire, documentaries on almost anything, boondock saints, jim jarmusch - ghost dog, night on earth, etc, fellini, taxi driver, seconds, reservoir dogs, chris cunningham, jan svankmeyer, city of god, high fidelity, 24 hour party people, raging bull, final fantasy advent children, spirited away, vampire hunter, gattaca, roman polanski, human traffic, advent children: final fantasy, nightmare before christmas, clive barker, ... and too much more...
smash your TV!although .... all in the family, get smart, and old sitcoms rock...
emile zola, dosteovsky, martin amis, rushdie (at the moment...survival value untested), zamyatin, huxley, sartre, camus, palahniuk, kafka, james joyce, neil gaiman, marquez, sebald, pier lagerkvist, hesse (read as pulp only, please, more elmore leonard), ezra pound, kundera, frank herbert, beckett, tom stoppard, howard brenton, paul auster, sol yurick, jay mcinerney, nietszche, sophocles, hunter s. thompson, mike carey, nabakov, ts eliot (even though hes a pompous asshole), sun tzu, machiavelli, barthes, bukowski, warren ellis, walter tevis, y:the last man, 100 bullets, arturo perez-reverte, orson scott, card, sylvia nassar: a beautiful mind, r. buckminster fuller
dave mckean, peter saville (cmon factory records...), lee miller (smoking a cigar in hitlers bathtub, whats more punk than that), JOHN HEARTFIELD