It's finally definite; I will be traveling to Bombay and Calcutta, India in December 2007. Any tips or suggestions are welcome; would like to make contacts with people living there or anyone else with a love for this amazing place...Namaste!++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Guitar, film, friends, minha esposa, songwriting, punk rock idealism, poetry, old souls, picnics in graveyards, politically-incorrect ideas, black humor, science, objective truth, the study of cults/cults of personality, history, geography, philosphy, urban studies, anthropology, Latin America, India, Turkey, Iceland, Russia, ancient civilizations and more....some activities I like include traveling both near and far, reading, writing, art, creating music, going to shows and spending time with people who matter to me...Some sports I like are: professional tennis and soccer (World Cup!). Recent decades I identify with include: 1940's, 1950's, 1960's, 1980's. What else? Hmm, let's see...I've traveled to South America five times now with an eventual goal of FINALLY speaking fluent Portuguese, and eventually Spanish. I am also currently deciding between graduate programs, which I figure will take about a year to sort through all the twisted havoc and assorted academic/bureaucratic wreckage.
Fellow thought criminals or anyone whose interests dovetail with my own...old souls, cynics, genuinely independent thinkers, underground musicians/artists/writers, philosopher kings, oddballs, misfits. People grounded in their beliefs and not worried about keeping up with shallow pop-culture trends or current totalitarian standards of political correctness. Overall I get along fine with most people, though admitedly, I've a low tolerance for superficial, sycophantic, insincere types, as I do not suffer fools gladly. Lastly, political extremists of the far-left & right, don't bother adding me. I've no interest in adopting your pet causes or joining your fascistic crusades...my spare time's too precious to waste on such charades.
Oldschool Punk, Hardcore, Goth, Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Roots, Surf, Acoustic, Batcave, New Wave, avant garde, retro-futurist minimalism, Classical...Koyaanisqatsi is the soundtrack of my life.Some specific artists I like are* Anne Clark * Stiv Bators * John Foxx * Romeo Void * X * Au Pairs * Agent Orange * London After Midnight * Philip Glass * the Germs * the Chameleons * Lords of the New Church * Naked Aggression * TSOL * Tiger Army * Inocentes * Siouxie * the Adolescents * Christian Death * Batmobile * As Mercenarias * the Ventures * the Proletariat * the Adverts * Killing Joke * the Slits * the Violators * Rammstein* Chuck Berry * Psychedelic Furs * Girlschool * Gary Numan * Moral Crux * the Nuns * DK's * Fun Boy Three * Naked Raygun * November Group * Jim Carroll * Lene Lovich * Johnny Cash * Pete Shelley * Joan Jett * Bowie * Bad Brains * Blatz * False Prophets * The Alley Cats * UXA * Adam & the Ants * Lydia Lunch * the Specials * Social Distortion * Jerry Lee Lewis * Wanda Jackson * Gene Vincent * Madness * the Ramones * the Voids * Nina Hagen * Pere Ubu * Missing Persons * the Avengers * the Frigidettes * X-Ray Spex * Sisters of Mercy * Savage Republic * Code of Honor * No Alternative * the Weirdos * the Pandoras * the Fanatics * the Plasmatics * the Clash * Fluffy * the Eyes * Motorhead * 2.5 Children * the Pretenders * Super Heroines * Flipper * the Bravery * Ultravox * Black Halos * Catholic Discipline *
Old ones...black and white...noir....classics...both (in)famous and obscure...suspenseful...stimulating...B-movies...any Boris Karloff flicks.A sample of films I like (20's-90's):Metropolis (1927), Ossessione (1943), Come Back Little Sheeba (1952), Johnny Guitar (1954), The Rose Tattoo (1955), Marty (1955), The Seventh Seal (1957), The Children's Hour (1961), Lolita (1962), The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), Lady in a Cage (1964), The Hill (1965), The Last Picture Show (1971), Play Misty for Me (1971), The Hills Have Eyes (1977), Midnight Express (1978), Amor Bandido (1979), Ordinary People (1980), Rude Boy (1980), Urgh A Music War (1981), The Decline of Western Civilization (1981), Frances (1982), Another State of Mind (1984), X: The Unheard Music (1986), Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988), Ruby in Paradise (1993), Heavenly Creatures (1994), Crash (1996), Central do Brasil (1998), Vor [aka "The Theif"] (1998), Earth-1947 (1998) and The Last King of Scotland (2006).
The Twilight Zone (original series), the Night Gallery, Batman (60's era), the History Channel
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, Will There Really Be a Morning? Catcher in the Rye, The Bell Jar, Barbarians Inside the Gates, The Quest For Cosmic Justice, The Vision of the Annointed, No One Left to Lie to: the Values of the Worst Family, The George Seldes Reader, Letters to a Young Contrarian, 1984, Animal Farm, Vamps and Tramps, The Myth of Male Power, Profscam, The Shadow University, The Ariel, Cults in Our Midst, The Brazilians, Who Stole Feminism?, Inside the Hermit Kingdom: North Korea Through the Looking Glass, Radical Son, The Morning After, The Missionary Position, Why Orwell Matters, and Hardcore California. My current reading interests include anything on North Korea/Kim Jong Il.....some writers I like include Christopher Hitchens, George Seldes, Thomas Sowell, Henry Miller, Victor Davis Hanson, Camille Paglia, George Orwell, Christina Hoff Sommers & Edgar Allen Poe.
No hero worship here - I respect many individuals but worship no one. Who wants to be a bootlicker anyway? Still, a few who have earned my deep-founded respect are: Pancho Gonzales (he could simutaneously punish a tennis ball, an opponent, an umpire and audience; he didn't take crap from anyone, sugarcoat the truth, or suffer fools gladly...in the 1950's he turned a genteel, civilized, leisurely sport into a streetfight and never looked back), and the writers George Orwell, George Seldes and Thomas Sowell. What each man on this list possesses is the courage of his convictions, the shunning of jargon/artificial intelligence, lives/d authentically and is/was first and foremost, 100% sincere. Not an ounce of phoniness to be found in them.