I am a mystery even to myself.
I enjoy laziness and other leisure pursuits. The surreal. The arcane. The baroque. The beatific. The grotesque. The ephemeral. The absurd. The right shoes. Unconventional Music. Warped humor. Jungian psychology. Found sounds. Vivid colors. Abandoned machinery. Creepy trees. Qualities of light. Any newly-discovered species. Alternate realities. Retro-futurism (e.g. Norman Bel Geddes' airliners, the 1939 World's Fair, 'House of Tomorrow' films from the '40s), Underground anything. Robots. Street preachers. Crackpot history. Prehistoric technology. Anomalous phenomena. Hypnogogic fugues. Spiritual warfare. Libertarian politics. Good beer. Good steak. Good arguments. Skinny ties. Comparative mythology. Schizophrenic art. The American Revolution. Revolution in general. Apocalypse culture. Cheesecake. Steampunk. Sunglasses. The number nine. Ghosts. Cats. Keeping my cool. Thinking things though. Quashing rash impulses. Talking to God. Playing the bass. I like to play Go if I can find an opponent, which I hardly ever can. My favorite sports are heavyweight boxing and women's figure skating. I gotta say though, this past Winter Olymics, curling made a believer out of me. The game is mesmerizing...I also like to "gain altitude" occasionally.
Other "humans".
A well crafted piece of work is (slightly) more important (to me) than instrumentation, style or genre. That being said, I love neo-psychedelia, 60's psychedelia, old school electronica, new wave, no wave, darkwave, dark ambient, shoegazer, space rock, prog rock, kraut rock, glam rock, punk rock, garage rock, swamp rock, folk rock, roots rock, trip hop, powerpop, Europop, agitpop, Gospel-pop, psychopop, psychobilly, goth country, authentic country, alt-country, delta blues, bluegrass, bluenote jazz, freeform jazz, crime jazz, acid jazz, stoner metal, ultra lounge, Voodoo ceremonial, and a lot of other stuff, much of which defies categorization and most of which is fairly obscure. Look through my friends and you'll get the idea.
Slingblade (mmm-hmm), Pi (weirded me out for days, plus they play Go!), Howl's Moving Castle (best animated movie ever, IM ever-humble O), Buffalo 66 (love will save you!), Brazil (love will get you killed, or at least catatonic), SLC Punk (those were the days), The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra ("Aliens? Us? Is this one of your Earth 'jokes'?"), Happiness (which is a very damn messed up flick), Murnau's Faust (my favorite movie of all time), Eraserhead (no comment), Vulgar (again, no comment), Weird Science (I can't help it, don't judge me), Blade Runner (Roy Batty quotes William Blake), Dead Man (speaking of W.B.), The Chocolate War (gorgeous soundtrack), Highway 61 (highly recommended), The Shining (I STILL jump out of my skin when Danny rides his Big Wheel around the corner and...), Raising Arizona (most quotable of all time awardee), King Kong (but not DeLaurentis')...and Clint Eastwood's westerns (how does he get that look in his eyes? I've stood in front of the mirror and tried, to laughable effect).
History International, Science Channel, Discovery Times, Turner Classic Movies, IFC, Sundance, FOX News, and whatever my beautiful sweet wife Lori wants to watch.
Richard Adams' "Watership Down" was my first book and remains my all time favorite. My tastes run from dark fantasy to magical realism to American gothic to urban fantasy to alternate history to space opera to weird western to cyberpunk to splatterpunk to Victorian sci-fi to golden-age pulp to hard-boiled crime to Grand Poetry, and so on. Examples: Neal Stephenson. Simon R. Green. Neil Gaiman. Jules Verne. Nancy A. Collins. Christopher Moore. Rob Thurman. China Mieville. Edgar Rice Burroughs. William Gibson. Stanisaw Lem. Theodore Sturgeon. Ursula K. Le Guin. Brian Lumley. C.S. Lewis. H.P. Loveraft. Carl Jung. Susanna Clarke. Jim Butcher. Joe R. Lansdale. Kurt Vonnegut. Elizabeth Kostova. Shirley Jackson. Robert A. Heinlein. Charles Baudelaire. Robert Louis Stephenson. Tad Williams. G.K. Chesterton. Lewis Carroll. Aldous Huxley. Ken Kesey. Edgar Allen Poe. J.G. Ballard. Adam Lee. Charles Williams. August Derleth. Arthur Conan Doyle. Joyce Carol Oates. Tim Powers. Stephen King. Umberto Eco. Douglas Adams. Charles DeLint. Harlan Ellison. Andrew Vacchs. Philip K. Dick. Orson Scott Card. Franz Kafka. Clive Barker. George Orwell. H.G. Wells. Lord Dunsany. Joseph Campbell. Anne Rice. Jim Thompson. Arthur Machen. Malachai Martin. John Shirley. Robert E. Howard. William Blake...and I try to read the Bible every day, albeit in a half-assed kind of way.
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