A wide variety of music, playing drums or bass guitar, tattoos, politics, conspiracies, ParEcon, bibliophilia, cynicism, mass transit, bike riding, not eating meat, not drinking soda, being lazy with my wife, wikipedia, the word "minutiae", peanut butter, hummus, tofu, art (from fine to lowbrow), NPR, profanity, blasphemy, cheap beer, healthy debate, life as art, that wistful feeling one gets when you finish the last line of a really good book, Punk/Jazz, my beautiful new baby girl
I'd like to meet:
"urban Thoreaus", "beautiful losers", dissenters
Music:
Hmm, where to start? (in no particular order)... Fugazi, Black Flag, Shellac, Bad Religion, Motorhead, Gang Of Four, ALL/Descendents, Mission Of Burma, Jawbox, Burning Airlines, Channels, Wire, MC5, Pedro The Lion, The Ramones, Chavez, Built To Spill, Catherine Wheel, Van Halen, The Jesus Lizard, RHCP, Rush, Death Cab For Cutie, TOOL, The Mercury Program, Sensefield, The Who, System Of A Down, Hum, Karate, Queens Of the Stone Age, Jets To Brazil, Ryan Adams, Jawbreaker, Placebo, Bob Marley, Slint, Johnny Cash, Pink Floyd, Minor Threat, NOFX, Mandarin, Red Animal War, Doosu, Slowride, Saboteur, Tendril, Man Before Mars, Kerosene 454, Joy Division, Killing Joke, Dead Kennedys, FEAR, The Mars Volta, June Of '44, Propagandhi, Don Caballero, Foo Fighters, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Yes, Traindodge, Slayer, Blink 182, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Fire Theft, At The Drive-In, Sparta, The Smiths/Morrissey, Helmet, AFI, Coldplay, Metallica, Shiner, Public Enemy, The Cars, Deftones, The Police, Nine Inch Nails, Face To Face, The Misfits, Incubus, The Hives, Ex Models, Death From Above 1979, Guster, The Vines, Elbow, The Dismemberment Plan, Doves, Interpol, Old 97's, Dick Dale, Hot Water Music, The Clash, Deerhoof, Dillinger Escape Plan, Frodus, Decahedron, Further Seems Forever (versions 1 and 3), Circle Jerks, Bauhaus, Braid, Roadside Monument, Alkaline Trio, The Album Leaf, Smashing Pumpkins, Lagwagon, STP, the pAperchAse, Regulator Watts, Blonde Redhead, Dwight Yoakam, Cursive, 41 Gorgeous Blocks, Cleaners, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Gunfighter, Molly McGuire, Beastie Boys, Chomsky, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Beatles, Green Day, Crown Hate Ruin, Junior Brown, Ben Folds Five, Miles Davis, Black Sabbath, Soundgarden, Fantomas, Grey Matter, Hagfish, Earl Harvin Trio, Iron Maiden, Hoarse, The Jealous Sound, Tortoise, The Strokes, Jimmy Eat World, Megadeth, Alice Donut, Modern English, Social Distortion, Mike Ness, MXPX, Pinback, Third Eye Blind, No Knife, Prong, Radiohead, Starflyer 59, Refused, Living Sacrifice, Smoking Popes, Ruth Ruth, The Stills, The Melvins, Big Black, The Doors, Crass, The Minutemen, Subhumans, Drive Like Jehu, Low, American Lesion, Kyuss, Report Suspicious Activity, American Analog Set, Superjoint Ritual, The Flaming Lips, The Distillers, Sun Kil Moon, Idlewild, Big Black, The Stooges, Television, Rapeman, The Numbers Twist, Jaco Pastorius, The Damned, Sex Pistols, The Editors, The Velvet Underground, The Life And Times, Leonard Cohen, PiL, Rites Of Spring, Jimi Hendrix, The Dwarves, The Gits, Opeth, Trivium, In Flames, Weather Report, Denison/Kimball Trio, Cruiserweight, The Nouns Group, Japanther, Ghostland Observatory, Hot Snakes, Pere Ubu, The Rolling Stones, Willie Nelson, The French Kicks, Screeching Weasel, Only Crime, AC/DC, Anti-Flag, Desert Sessions, Gogol Bordello, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, ZZ Top, Ornette Coleman, 7 Seconds, Pearl Jam, NoMeansNo, Kings Of Leon, Neurosis, Wolfmother, Reagan Youth, Pegboy, Naked Raygun, Aloha, 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, The Gash, Angels And Airwaves, New Order, Pelican, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Johnny Thunders And The Heartbreakers, Archers Of Loaf, Q And Not U, Quien Es Boom, Medications, D.R.I., Thom Yorke solo stuff, New York Dolls, X, Dillinger Four, Rodan, Rancid, Light This City, Mastodon, The Draft, Embrace, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Sufjan Stevens, Municipal Waste, The Evens, Consonant, Against Me!, The Raconteurs, Dillinger 4, Killswitch Engage, +44, Afghan Whigs, The Marked Men, The Dandy Warhols, Immortal Technique, Giant Drag, Tad, The Queers, Mr. T Experience, Turbonegro, Charles Mingus, Centaur, Fucked Up, The Arcade Fire, Druids On Parade, Teenage Cool Kids, The Nightwatchman... I'm sure the way I have listed basically every single band I like is annoying as hell to most people. That's okay.
Movies:
The Corporation, The Big Lebowski, Bottlerocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, Amelie, Garden State, Frida, Memento, I Heart Huckabees, Fight Club, Lost In Translation, Buffalo 66, The Brown Bunny, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, American Beauty, Virgin Suicides, Vanilla Sky, Pulp Fiction, Donnie Darko, Eyes Wide Shut, Napoleon Dynamite, Good Will Hunting, Chasing Amy, Great Expectations, Outfoxed, Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling For Columbine, Supersize Me, Wal-Mart: The High Cost Of Low Price, Bush's Brain, The Yes Men, Loose Change, Painful Deceptions, In Plane Sight, The Money Masters, Wag The Dog, Sideways, American Splendor, The Machinist, Kinsey, Closer, Contact, 21 Grams, 24 Hour Party People, Fargo, The Village, The Cable Guy, High Fidelity, UHF, PeeWee's Big Adventure, Valley Girl, Gattaca, Elephant, Walk The Line, Suburbia, The Decline Of Western Civilization, Man On The Moon, Maria Full Of Grace, SLC Punk, This Divided State, Last Days, Brokeback Mountain, Noi, Up And Down, The Weather Man, Thumbsucker, Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room, Broken Flowers, Syriana, Me And You And Everyone We Know, Shopgirl, V For Vendetta, Still We Ride, Magnolia, Ramones: The End Of The Century, Another State Of Mind, The Power Of Community: How Cuba Suvived Peak Oil, Good Night And Good Luck, Refused Are Fucking Dead, Junebug, An Inconvenient Truth, The Big Buy, Fun With Dick And Jane, Why We Fight, Paradise Now, The Squid And The Whale, Little Miss Sunshine, Annie Hall, Vertigo, When The Levees Broke, Breaking The Bank, Terrorstorm: A History Of Government Sponsored Terrorism, CSA- Confederate States of America, Saved, Match Point, Bubble, Iraq For Sale, Team America, Manufacturing Consent, Marie Antoinette, Thank You For Smoking, Friends With Money, American Hardcore, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Death Of A President, Everything Is Illuminated, DiG!, Adaptation, The Beat Generation, Citizen Kane, The Departed, Babel, U.S. vs. John Lennon, Anarchism In America, The God Who Wasn't There, America: Freedom To Fascism, Children Of Men
Television:
Television, along with professional sports and organized religion, is nothing but an opiate of the masses.
Books:
Noam Chomsky- Manufacturing Consent, 9-11, Hegemony Or Survival, Understanding Power, The Chomsky Reader; Jack Kerouac- On The Road, Big Sur, Dharma Bums, Vanity Of Duluoz, Maggie Cassidy, The Subterraneans, Tristessa; J.D. Salinger- The Catcher In The Rye, Nine Stories, Franny & Zooey, Seymour, Raise High The Roofbeam Carpenters; George Orwell- 1984, Animal Farm, Coming Up For Air, A Clergyman's Daughter, Homage To Catalonia; Aldous Huxley- Brave New World, Island; Ayn Rand- Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Anthem, We The Living; Ray Bradbury- Fahrenheit 451; Daniel Keyes- Flowers For Algernon, The Touch; Hermann Hesse- Siddhartha, Demian, Beneath The Wheel; B.F. Skinner- Walden II; Charles Bukowski- Post Office, Factotum, Ham On Rye; Thoreau- Walden, Civil Disobedience; Henry Rollins- Get In The Van, Black Coffee Blues, Broken Summers; Greg Palast- The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Armed Madhouse; Eric Schlosser- Fast Food Nation; Howard Zinn- A People's History Of The United States, Terrorism And War; Michael Moore- Stupid White Men; Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies; Ken Kesey- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest; Henry Miller- Tropic Of Cancer, Tropic Of Capricorn; Hunter S. Thompson- Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas; William S. Burroughs- Naked Lunch; Fyodor Dostoevsky- The Idiot, Notes From Underground; Joe Cole- Planet Joe; Kurt Vonnegut- Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle; Hanif Kureishi- The Buddha Of Suburbia; Franz Kafka- The Metamorphosis and Other Stories; Edward Bellamy- Looking Backward, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels- The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings; Norman Finkelstein- Image And Reality Of The Israel-Palestine Conflict; Friedrich Nietzsche- The Anti-Christ; Walt Whitman- Leaves Of Grass; Dan Brown- The Da Vinci Code; Richard Feynman- The Meaning Of It All; John Perkins- Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man; Mark Twain- Letters From The Earth; Gregory Corso- Gasoline; Lizbeth Cohen- A Consumer's Republic: The Politics Of Mass Consumption In Postwar America; Abbie Hoffman- Steal This Book; Edward O. Wilson- Consilience: The Unity Of Knowledge; Salman Rushdie- The Satanic Verses; Anthony Burgess- A Clockwork Orange; Frank Portman- King Dork; Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner- Freakonomics; Anais Nin- Journal Vol. 5 1947-1955; Ralph Nader- The Good Fight, Allen Ginsburg- Howl And Other Poems
Heroes:
There is just WAY too much hero-worship in our society.
