The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of other things, of shoes and ships and ceiling wax, cabbages and kings, of KARAOKE!!! Making short films, wine, sex, mycology (Stamets/McKenna), quantum physics (EPR, Bose-Einstein condensates, holography), secular theology, bar psychology, sailing, genetics (mostly genetic behavior- Dawkins stuff, recombinant therapies, aging, junk DNA), Marx Brothers, astronomy, STAR WARS, cooking (fusion, Thai, cannabis), good standup comedy, driving around playgrounds in my van scoping for kids, long-form improv comedy, music (I play piano, mandolin, harmonica, Irish tin whistle, and the skin flute), cockfights, animation, artificial intelligence (neural networks, chat bots, genetic algorithms), our Moon technology is far superior, media theory, mullet hunting, parrots, space tourism, spectacle (monster truck shows, wrestlemania), good satire, videoconferencing, neurochemistry, history, the Muppets, absurdism, pornography, hedonism, art (russian religious icons, Bosch, Van Eyck, Paul Klee, Magritte, Klimt, Picasso, Louis Wain), philosophy, fencing, swimming, plenary indulgences, food hacks, are you still reading all this shit?, abnormal psychology, serial killers, oh you touch my tra-la-la cognitive science, horticulture, peak-oil speculation, liquid Schwartz, writing novels, and generally anything that contributes to my own Personal Amusement.
Heaven is getting paid to make people laugh.
I'd like to meet:
Brundlefly. Misfits and miscreants, dissolute roughians. Polysleepers. All god's children. Especially those children who enjoy enlightenment, rampant drug & alcohol abuse, and laughing at other people's misfortunes. The Germans call that "schadenfreude". You read books? You read several at a time? You wash down David Foster Wallace with Christopher Moore? Me too, TOTALLY OMFG! Let's talk about that. Let's talk books and movies and science and whether or not cellphones kept close to one's gonads are causing genetic mutations. We must find these things out, pronto. I try to provide as much truth-in-advertising as can be expected from a dubious site such as this one. Trust that it will be well worth the time, as I have little to spare and I would dare not waste any of yours. There is no wrong answer. Except maybe hog anus.
Also anyone interested in joining my ragtag band of misfit comedy genius types in our quest for Personal Amusement and yucks.
Yes, well, it is that kind of party and yes, we wholeheartedly encourage you to stick your dick in the mashed potatoes.
(Ride the snake.)
Music:
Rolling Stones, Beck, Tori Amos, Johnny Cash, Portishead, Air, Ween, The Beatles, Outkast, Prince, Busta Rhymes, BT, Gwar, The Doors, The Cars, David Bowie, Massive Attack, Elton John, Otis Redding, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Leon Redbone, Cake, Vangelis, Flaming Lips, Scorn, Mike Patton, Duran Duran, Lionel Richie, DJ Shadow, Nikka Costa, The Darkness, Dub Narcotic Soundsystem, Remy Shand, Z-trip, Brian Eno, Driveby Truckers, John Mayer, Soul Coughing, The Doors, Marvin Gaye, Pink Floyd, The Cure, The The, Eels, Bill Frisell, Stan Getz, Sade, Willie Nelson, Charlie Hunter, Grateful Dead, Tenacious D, Mike Olfield, Danny Elfman, Rick James, Sam Cooke, David Gray, the list goes (halcyon) and on and on and on and on and on...
Television:
Spaced, Twin Peaks, Family Guy, Simpsons, Match Game, Quantum Leap, Beavis and Butthead, Chapelle's Show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab, Daily Show, Da Ali G Show, Spaced, Wild Palms, Six Feet Under, Degrassi, Punky Brewster, Fishing with John, Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Cop Rock, Mr. Show, Upright Citizens Brigade, House, TV Funhouse, Max Hedroom, Black Adder, Monty Python, Good Eats, History's Mysteries, Unwrapped, Darkplace, Lost, Secret Life of Machines, Junkyard Wars, Frontline, TV Nation. Battlestar Galactica On the web:Mr. Wong, Lambchop the Donkey, The Money Shot, Homestar Runner, Fensler Films, channel101.com, pinkfive, tiki bar, hope is emo
Books:
House of Leaves, Neuromancer, Snow Crash, The Illuminatus, The Golden Compass, A Wrinkle in Time, Cat's Cradle, It, Foucault's Pendulum, A Scanner Darkly, anything by Clive Barker or John Shirley, The Long Walk, Tropic of Cancer, Running with Scissors, Pippi in the South Seas, Richard Scarey Books, DSM-IV, An Incomplete Education, The Gunslinger series, Fletch, Beggars in Spain, Jim Thompson's darker shit, Gregory McDonald's Fletch novels, Dawkins, Hoffsteader, Leon Lederman, Bill Bryson travelogs, Masters and Johnson, Nancy Friday, Frank Herbert, Michael Palin, Michael Lewis, William Fucking Shakespeare, and of course all those books they make you slug through in high school like Catcher in the Rye or Gatsby where you kinda get it and sorta understand why you should get it, but don't really get it until a few years later when you've fucked up a few times, fucked over a few people, lost your path, found it again, and now have something to say about the subject.
Heroes:
Rick James (he should be canonized), Bertrand Russel, Richard Feynman, H. L. Mencken, Bill Hicks, Eddie Izzard, Howard Hughes, James Cameron, Leonardo Da Vinci, Doug Stanhope(standup, not Man Show), Adam Carolla(Loveline, not Man Show), The Dali Lama, Pippi Longstocking, Mary Poppins, Sam Rami, Robert Rodriguez, Richard Pryor, Oliver Reed, Orson Welles, Linus Pauling, James Randi, Phillip K. Dick, Marquis De Sade, Norman Lear, Albert Hoffman, Richard Branson, Trey Parker, Will Rogers, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Dorothy Parker, J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, my Granddad
