photography (black and white, color), film (super 8, 16mm, 35mm), video art; writing (novels, screenplays, and philosophy and psychology tomes that i may never complete in my life time); bike ridin in boston (not clip in spandex outfitted shaved flesh style...old school 12 year old care free exploration and movin about style); bar-hopping, people reading, reading in the park, reading at the beach; sports doin, traveling when possible; space and dream and day dream and fantasy travelin when not possible...sci fi lovin...techno gidgit and gadit fidgitin and shimme-in...future shapin...utopian hopin...dystopian fearin...bring on the revolutionin...philosophizing, psychologizing, shooting the shit, playing and laughing hard, thinking harder...geek or nerd???
I love 80's dance, new wave, and rock, love 60's and 70's rock, 70's disco, 50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's Soul and R&B our and about at a bar or club or at a house party or my own spot. The old Crooners. Old school Political 'fuck the man' hip-hop from 88. 90's grunge and modern 'new' rock. If I'm at a spot and its playing I'm down to get down to modern R&B and hip-hop - absolutely cannot beat for listening pleasure and on the dance floor. Death Metal. Hardcore. Psychobilly. Heavy Metal. Punk. Glam Rock. Gothic. Industrial. Electro. Synthpop. Also in the right situations Electronica, Dark Jungle, Techno, Dance - i.e. rave and club sounds. Also listen to NPR and Extreme Games for political insight on the radio. I guess i can say what most others say, 'i love anything but country', but thats sort of the easy out answer, and who can hate on Willie Nelson?
I'm a real movie lover, from old black and white classics, to foreign films, to modern blockbusters, and cult films...Broken Flowers had a splendid ending (I found two great meanings produced by the ending so far), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind stands as one of the best more recent films I saw and Before Sunrise and Sunset were two great recent oldies by the famous Gen-X director...saw Tron when it was playing at the Coolidge...Blade Runner was just recently named by science geeks as the greatest sci-fi film of all times (Arisia 2006 concurred with this opinion), and I fully agree, having written a final term paper at Emerson on it that discussed its many great merits...If I had to name a few classics: All of Kubrick, EVEN BARRY LYNDON AND EYES WIDE SHUT! The Europeans of the 60's and 70's and up to mid-80's rock, especially Bergmann, Fellini, Herzog, and Godard. Of course the classic German films by Murnau and Lang.
Nip-Tuck, Shield, Sopranos, Monk, Touching Evil...all great TV on this year. Firefly and Lucky were great last year. Karen Sisco and Wonderfalls were great till they were cancelled! Lucky was great last year till it was cancelled! Don't be a film snob and front on the boob-tube...Over the years I've seen more consistently dynamic and challenging drama on TV than I have seen at the movies, and that includes the IFC and the Coolidge. And its free, leading me to rhetorically ask, what more could a utopian-loving, equality-for-all lemming ask for? Or is it that Marx, if alive today, would say Television is the drug of the masses?
somthing might just come to me...I only own over 1000 books...libraries and antiquariat book stores are something I love to go no matter where I am here or abroad. For existentialism: Hesse, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Sartre, Kierkegaard, Camus, Rilke, Kafka, Shestov, and de Azua. to name a few...(the list goes on and on)...for scifi n cyberpunk: Gibson, Heinlen, Orwell, Asimov, Bradbury, Frank, Caidin (and the beat goes on....)
Husserl or Heidegger? Marx or Stirner? DaVinci, or Vermeer, or Goya? Kerouac or Bukowski? Bolt or Kaufman? Kurbrick or...is there anyone but?