modernism, maps, architecture, astronomy, bigfoot, Dada, googie, Illuminati, solitude, old Jedi mind tricks, Macintosh, dreaming, Micronauts, ancient dusty photos, pinball, retro-futurism, Sub-Genius, pie, Scopitones, tattoos, exotic rum drinks, wine, public art and music, intense conversation, continuing my plan to visit at least one new country every year (so far so good since 2001), learning about anything I don't already know a little bit about. I keep discovering that there is always a middle path.
I like to go to new places, to get there slowly via back roads, and to write about it. Days: taking pictures, poking around flea markets, admiring architecture, and lingering at museums. Nights: stumbling between dive bars and getting into trouble.Continually devouring music, books, films, and art. I spend equal time with - and get equal enjoyment from - the fine arts and from pop culture.Favorite artists: Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Paul Delvaux, Heironymus Bosch, Odd Nerdrum, Alberto Vargas, Gil Elvgren, Hans Arp, Georgio DeChirico, Weegee, Man Ray, Mark Ryden, Alphonse Mucha, primitive and tribal, Dutch masters, Yves Tanguy, HRGeiger, Winston Smith, Japanese prints, Shag, Francis Bacon.
I'd like to meet:
I know just about everyone on my friends list in person, and I aim to keep it that way.
I regret to say that due to being SWAMPED with add requests from bands, events, and businesses, I am not adding ANY of them, even those being run by close friends, save for those that I am directly involved with. Hope you understand.
Music:
Les Paul, Lhasa, David Sylvian, Bartok, Devo, Elvis, Toru Takemitsu, Bauhaus, Beethoven, Bjork, Bob Wills, Brian Eno, Talking Heads, W. Carlos, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, David Bowie, Esquivel, Gang of Four, the Cars, Prokofiev, Japan, John Cage, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, Louis Jordan, Magazine, Oliver Messiaen, theremins, Modern Jazz Quartet, Arthur Lyman, Morphine, Nick Cave, pedal steel, Roxy Music, pre-disco ELO, Roy Orbison, Shriekback, The Specials, analog synthesizers, The Clash, Tones on Tail, Yma Sumac, Tom Waits, Wesley Willis, X, ukeleles, vibraphones, Tibetan singing bowls, Buzzcocks, Bad Religion, Cal Tjader, Gamelan orchestras, Gyorgy Ligetti, Uakti, taiko drumming, Kiss, J.S. Bach, Laurie Anderson, Django Reinhardt, hapa haole, MTV circa 1982.
Movies:
Major student of quality films from all decades, made in all languages, at all budget levels.
I adore all the usual directors: Lynch, Hitchcock, Bergman, Goddard, Jeunet, Jarmusch, Bunuel, Kubrick, Gilliam, Kurosawa, Kieslowski, Wenders, Cohen brothers, Hartley, Jodorowski, Aronofsky, Cocteau, Tex Avery.
Plus: 1970s/1980s Sci Fi, 1940s Film Noir, 1950s cult B-movies, French New Wave, Thin Man series, Secretary, Forbidden Zone, Forbidden Planet, Marx Brothers, old cartoons, anything from Criterion Collection... and of course, Spinal Tap and High Fidelity, both of which I have LIVED.
And a LOT more...
Television:
In the past: PBS, Young Ones, Twin Peaks, Our Gang, Banana Splits, Night Flight.
In the present: movies, at the rate of about two per week, and that's about it.
Books:
I always have two or three books going, and break it up with comics... anything on radical counter culture, history, Camus, Bukowski, Joseph Campbell, Dan Clowes, Douglas Adams, Kerouac, Jaime Hernandez, Jim Thompson, Steinbeck, Tom Robbins, Tibor Fischer, old 1940s Life magazines, Conrad, Vonnegut, existentialism, Burroughs, Kafka, Herbert, Heinlein, eastern philosophy, vintage quackery, anthropology, archaeology, Hunter S. Thompson, Edward Gorey, Orwell, R. A. Wilson, Barry Gifford, Roald Dahl, Heyerdahl, Melville, Kundera, Nietzsche, Moebius, Hesse, Mike Mignola, Confederacy of Dunces, Geek Love, virtually anything published by Benedikt Taschen. I have a special fondness for Don Quixote. I really want to read the Voynich Manuscript.
Heroes:
I remember standing by the wall,
the guns shot about our heads,
and we kissed,
as though nothing could fall...
