Spacing out when I should be paying attention. This can be at work, with my family, in the middle of sparring, or just about any other time where it may be critical to keep one's attention focused on the task at hand.
Azrael. Call me crazy but I bet the angel of death knows how to have a good time. If you read that and thought I meant the cat from the smurfs...I still respect you.
Hudson Criminal, The Frisk, Shadowboxer, The Nerve Agents, Fury 66, Nothing Substantial... hey wait a minute I mean Bauhaus, Nick Cave, The Boys Next Door, Lords of the New Church, Guns n Roses, Skinny Puppy, Ohgr, Black Flag, Gang of Four, David Bowie, the Jesus Sisters, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Wire, Sick of it All, Sick of it All, Sick of It All, Slayer, did I say Guns and Roses? the Clash, Iggy Pop, Quicksand, George Thorogood, The Knife, Muse... Anything that spontaneously causes heshers and rockers to compulsively air drum, I am all for.
Bright Future, The Last Life in the Universe, Shark Skin Man Peach Hip Girl, Ichi the Killer, Aragami, Versus, Visitor Q, Izo, Kamikaze Girls, Battle Royal, Gojoe, Zatoichi (Takashi Miike and/or Asano Tadanobu...see a trend here?) Lost in Translation, Broken Flowers, the Life Aqautic, A History of Violence, The Proposition, Heat, Fellini's 8-1/2, The Decline of Western Civilization (PUNK), Sin City, Fight Club, The BBC version of Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, 300,
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Ethics Without Ontology, Miss Lonely Hearts/Day of the Locust, Ada, The Last Samurai (not same as the story the Tom Cruise Movie is based on), Everything Is Illuminated Being and Time, The Politics of Experience, The Politics of the Family, Self and Other, Journey to the End of the Night, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Nausea, The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Book of Five Rings, Freedom Evolves, any Bukowski.
Dan would be my hero if he would finish the Hudson Criminal record. Bertrand Russel, Michael Brennan, Duane Peters, Dave Eggers, Slash, sometimes later Wittgenstein - other times early Heidegger, Nietszche if I have been drinking, Hillary Putnam when I feel like changing my mind. Bardamu, Roquentin, Mersault, both my Grandfathers whom I am mostly familiar with anecdotally. I am also fond of the Gods of the Teutonic myth cycle in as much as they can be considered heroes, because, unlike other myth cycles, they are all doomed. To that end, all their actions are noble, valorous, and beautiful.