"I think it's funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their fellows. Nowadays, they're afraid that somebody will name what everybody knows. Have you pratical people ever thought that that's all it would take to blast your whole, big, complex structure, with all your laws and guns-just somebody naming the exact nature of what you're doing?"
-Francisco d'Anconia, "Atlas Shrugged"
Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish-a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow-to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested...
Res ipsa loquitur.
Let the good times roll.
* Hunter Thompson
John Coltrane, Buddha, Jesus Christ, Chuang Tzu, Lao Tzu, Voltaire, Plato, Noam Chomsky, Nicola Tesla, Hunter Thompson, Albert Einstein, Ben Franklin, Douglas Adams, Sergei Rachmaninoff, my father as a younger man, my mother as a younger woman, Charlie Parker, Thich Naht Hahn, John Paul II, Richard Bach, Sonny Rollins, Dave Matthews, Lenny Pickett, Paul Simon, Steve Gadd, Ernie Watts, Joe Pass, Mark Ribot, Tom Waits, Roger Hawkins, Leo Kottke, Adrian Legg, Chris Potter, John Medeski, Billy Martin, and Chris Wood, Karl Denson, Dustin Hoffman,Trey Anastasio, Edgar Meyer,Scarlett Johanssen, Natalie Portman, Amanda Peet, and Laetitia Casta.
adopt your own virtual pet!
so very much...John Coltrane, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Jeff Coffin Mu'Tet, Dave Matthews, Sonny Rollins, Stan Turrentine, Milt Jackson, Gary Burton, Cannonball Adderly, Art Tatum, Jack Johnson, Steve Winwood, Ellington, Basie, Stevie Wonder, Frank Zappa, Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, Mark Ribot, Tom Waits, Paul Simon, Nick Drake, Damien Rice, Aretha Franklin, Phish, The Meters, Parliament, Lenny Pickett, Tower of Power, Earth, Wind, and Fire, Bob Seger, The Muscle Shoals Horns, The Staple Singers, The Gamble Brothers Band, The Roots, Black Eyed Peas, Outkast, Maroon 5, Blues Traveler, Counting Crows, Ray Charles, Tom Scott, Iratowns, Guy Smiley Blues Exchange, Sergei Rachmaninoff, W. A. Mozart, Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert, Hector Berlioz, Igor Stravinsky, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Ben Folds Five, Grandmaster Flash, John Mayer, U2, Bill Withers, Herbie Hancock, Phil Woods, New Grass Revival, Del McCoury, Jerry Garcia and Dave Grisman, Charlie Hunter, Garage a Trois, The March Fourth Marching Band, Soundgarden, Metallica, Gulliver, Trey Anastasio Band, Sting, The Police, and it doesn't ever stop...I don't particularly like rap or country(the "pop" country or "bullshit" country), but there are great examples of both.
"The Music Business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson
The Usual Suspects, Amelie, Fight Club, The Shawshank Redemption, Waking Life, A Beautiful Mind, I "heart" Huckabees, Anything Monty Python, "V" for Vendetta, The Constant Gardener, Shaun of the Dead, Garden State, 1 Giant Leap, Donnie Darko, Hotel, What the Bleep Do We Know, Sideways, Kill Bill 1 and 2, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lost in Translation, Good Will Hunting, The Matrix 1 and 2, Batman, Ray, Seven, Very Bad Things, Swingers, Spaceballs, All of the Alien movies, Predator (Billy! Get to de choppa!), Interview with a Vampire, Saw, Bad Santa, A Mighty Wind, Best in Show, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Where the Buffalo Roam, Evil Dead 1 and 2, Army of Darkness, American History X, Superman1-5, Patch Adams (saw it with a very special girl), The Silence of the Lambs, The Last Supper, Trainspotting, Airplane!, Kentucky Fried Movie, Blazing Saddles, Friday, Almost Famous, Bird, Gladiator, Indiana Jones Trilogy, Apollo 13, Castaway, Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump, Titanic (go ahead, I have been railed on previously), Frailty, EdTv, Keeping the Faith, Closer, All of the Star Wars movies, Charlottes Web, Suicide Kings,...so damn many.
pretty much blows...but I have an unhealthy addiction to House M.D. I also like Family Guy, Mr. Show, Arrested Development, and The Daily Show. Food Network. Colbert Report.
Illusions, Ishmael, This Blinding Absence of Light, 100 Years of Solitude, Life of Pi, Meditations, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Be Here Now, Zen and the Art of Motercycle Maintenance, Plato (Aristotle was an asshole, by the way), Stranger in a Strange Land, Time Enough For Love, The Past Through Tomorrow, Number of the Beast, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The Cat who Walks Through Walls (absolutely not related to the cat who solves mysteries or some happy shit like that), Another Roadside Attraction, Jitterbug Perfume, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, Still Life with Woodpecker, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, Peace is Every Step; Living Buddha, Living Christ; A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, It, The Shining, Christine, The Stand, The Eyes of the Dragon, The Dark Tower Series, Tales of Innocence, Tales of Experience, Iron and Silk, Lord of the Rings, Thomas Covenant Series, Wheel of Time Series, Dune Series, Inaccurately named Hitchhiker's trilogy, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Proud Highway, A Cafe on the Nile, Noam Chomsky, Erich Fromm, Erving Goffman, Chuang Tzu...a list that grows every day. Anything robert heinlein, gary snyder, stephen king, jack kerouac, tom robbins, kurt vonnegut, or hunter thompson. These are my heroes who create my heroes, or change my mind.