cinema, dancing, deep disco house, gonzo ethnomusicology, 23, sushi, hysteria, magick + TM + ancient Californian wisdom, comic books, head, cats and the sacraments of Bast (dawn, civilization, home, bounty, plenty, enlightenment, art, music, dance, creation, birth, fertility, sex, physical pleasure, lesbians, truth, hemp, marijuana, drugs, the moon, and the rising sun), Lacanian heuristics/sadism, catamites, trannies and other pied pipers at the gates of gender binarism, bloated metaphors, glorious messes, lost causes, three-hankie weepies, over-writing, Variety-speak ("Sticks Nix Hick Pix", "Dakota Fanning starrer wows auds in nabes," etc.), road trips, slumber parties, conspiracy theories, thongs, dime novel wisdom, dime bags, the OED, Del Taco, Jack Chick tracts (learning to love Tony Alamo as well), the New York-L.A. rivalry, T'n'A, G'n'T, Illuminati-style true globalization and the crumbling of nation-states, immanentizing the eschaton.
Women in love. Women in revolt. Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Eat, sleep, shit, techno.
Keywords: failed revolutions, utopias (race/class/gender), sociology, bass slapping, death of rock and roll, last night a DJ saved my life, hormones, beats international, situationism, skronk, scratch, glitch, jack, cash from chaos, never trust a hippy (unless they're German), that Bryan Ferry - he's so dreamy!, 24 hour party people, and so on.
I think my favorite radio single of all time is "Help Me" by Joni Mitchell. McKay and I listened to it on repeat for an hour and a half one morning. While not exactly Top 40 material, see also Leonard Cohen "Famous Blue Raincoat" and Scott Walker "Duchess"
Maybe my favorite video of all time:
I don't listen to the things I like ironically - that's a big waste of time, yeah? So when I say I love Dr. Hook, I mean it.
John Cage said that to really have any appreciation of music, you must first lose any idea of taste. I think I do quite well, under the circumstances.
Tee hee! I like everything except country and rap LOL heee! (Uh, wait, that's actually true if you mean young country and gangsta rap.) And as a corollary: no, I don't have to respect his rhymes... While I'm being a total cunt, I also despise emo, screamo, hardcore (punk, not techno), post-hardcore (Rites of Spring had their moments, but that's about all I can say), reggaeton, dancehall, and all of these quaint/precious/nasal acts like the Decemberists, Death Cab for Cutie, Bright Eyes, etc, who at the very least, comprise a genre by dint of annoying me in the very same way.
Not everyone understands house music. It's a spiritual thing.
Current heavy rotation: The Best of M_nus, Moodymann: Silent Introduction, Shriekback: The Y Records Years, Jackie Mittoo: "Reggae Magic," Boney M - "Rasputin," Karma - "High Priestess"
Fassbinder, Hitchcock, Celine and Julie Go Boating, Haut Bas Fragile, Powell and Pressburger (esp. A Matter of Life and Death, The Red Shoes, A Canterbury Tale, Black Narcissus), Imitation of Life ('59), 24 Hour Party People, Kinsey, The Ten Commandments ('56), late Bunuel, The Falls, Fellini, The Curious Dr. Humpp, pre-Code stuff (esp. Female, Baby Face, Two Kinds of Women), Marx Bros. (Paramount), Auntie Mame, Suddenly Last Summer, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Fight Club, Danger: Diabolik, Dead Alive, SS Girls, The Opening of Misty Beethoven, Score, Trash, Heat, Diary of a Lost Girl, Pandora's Box, Lubitsch, The Leopard, Paisa, Teorema, Macunaima, The Amulet of Ogum, Husbands, Gloria, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The Crime of Monsieur Lange, La Chienne, Billy Wilder, Lucifer Rising, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, Performance, Bad Timing, The Earrings of Madame de..., Playtime, My Man Godfrey, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Funeral Parade of Roses, Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Chronicle of a Summer, Weekend, Alphaville, 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, Numero Deux, La vie est un roman, Persona, Fanny and Alexander, Shame, Evil Dead, The Crowd, most Chabrol, Le Corbeau, The Wages of Fear, Les Amants du Pont Neuf, , Rohmer's "Moral Tales" cycle, Small Change, Murmur of the Heart, The Tenant, Zorn's Lemma, Hapax Legomena, A Star is Born ('56), Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, The Boy Friend, Pixote, Les Vampires, Irma Vep, 8 Women, demonlover, Kwaidan, The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3, The Thin Man, Laura, The Big Sleep,The Big Lebowski, The Big Combo, Children of Paradise, Since You Went Away, Now Voyager, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Taxi Driver, F for Fake, Citizen Kane, Velvet Goldmine, New York Doll, The Filth and the Fury, the cinema of Paul Verhoeven/the volatility of Michael Douglas, High School, Clueless, Le Samourai, Herzog/Kinski, WR: Mysteries of the Organism, Gigi, Night of the Iguana, Night of the Bloody Apes, And Then There Were None, Sleuth, the Dirty Dozen, The Wild Bunch, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, Predator, Dazed and Confused, Borat, Just One of the Guys, Boogie Nights, Leaving Las Vegas, Nashville, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Last Tango in Paris, The Conformist, Daisies, Adam's Rib, overblown courtroom dramas, Sex and the Single Girl, The Great Race, Tony Curtis in general, Awakening of the Beast/Ritual of the Maniacs/Something Weird trash, Kiss Me Deadly, The President's Analyst, Style Wars, 70s European soft-core porn.
The Prisoner, The Singing Detective, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Banacek, Columbo, Miami Vice, Twilight Zone, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Simpsons, Frasier, Dark Shadows, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Histoire(s) du Cinema, A TV Dante, PBS Mystery, Mystery Science Theater, Mr. Show, Silk Stalkings, Melrose Place, Mannix, Flying Circus, Are You Being Served?, Absolutely Fabulous, French and Saunders, The Young Ones, Chris Rock Show, VH1 Behind the Music, E! Fashion Emergency, Talk Soup (Henson epoch), Connections, The Day the Universe Changed, Win Ben Stein's Money, Bob Ross's voice, House M.D. (hottest misanthrope ever), Six Feet Under, and...
Y'all betta rekonize:
The spirit of:
Louise Brooks, William Gaddis, Henri Langlois, Antigone, Grant Morrison, Eddie Izzard, Luis Bunuel, Jack Parsons, Dr. John Lilly, my high school English teacher, my grad school rhetoric teacher (both named Barb....), Lord Fanny, Jean-Luc Godard (often his commitment more than his films), Burroughs, Genesis P-Orridge, Quentin Crisp, the Curious Dr. Lacan, Cary Grant, John Cassavettes, Mark E. Smith, gospel house divas, genderfuck pariahs, sex priestesses of the holy temple, and anyone in history who has not ceded on their desire to spread love to the bitter end.