..Stretching. Reading. Libraries rock. Art: mainly drawing and oil painting. Playing music: guitar, drums, bass... writing and arranging songs...rocking out in bands, as singer-songwriter or as drummer, and in solo projects that I enjoy recording at home. Canvassing: Getting paid to walk around talking to people about politics. Cooking good food. Nutrition. Gleaning. Going to shows. Doing cool stuff. Backpacking. Minor league baseball. Whupping a horse's ass with a belt (figuratively). Lucid dreaming. Bowling. Shooting pool. Mind-blowing, two-hour-long sex. Riding the bus. Walking around. Cycling. The game of world domination. Brunettes. Water. Writing, in the form of short stories or poems or just journal entries about interesting stuff. The random conversations you have with strangers. Justice in Portland. A cup of coffee and a cigarette. Rhinos are pretty cool.
Wes Jones, the national top dog at Grassroots Campaigns, Inc... so I can sit down with him and discuss my demands for ethical compensation in the canvassing industry.
Also, anyone in the following categories is pretty much automatically cool: Canvassers. Bike messengers. Musicians. Restaurant and bar employees. People who make a living off their art. People who prefer to stay in hostels when traveling. Girls that don't wear too much makeup (or none at all). Teachers. And anyone who takes at least a few minutes of each day to think beyond the trivial bullshit of their daily life as a consumer and make an effort to be the change they want to see in the world.
About posting comments: I don't mind offensive, vulgar or controversial comments, but if you post something that causes my page to expand horizontally your comment will be deleted, because I am obsessive-compulsive.
I'm a big music geek. I enjoy stuff from just about any genre out there, but my focus is on rock and roll, which I believe to be an integral part of the American character. My absolute favorite band since 1997 has been Wilco, and you don't even want to get me started on this amazing band. Or the Beatles...
Not much of a movie buff. Usually I'd rather be doing stuff than sitting in front of the TV watching a movie. You just have to catch me in the right mood. The Big Lebowski, American Beauty, I Heart Huckabees, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, High Fidelity, Amelie, Clerks, That Thing You Do, Fight Club...
..Not interested. Turn your goddamned TV off and go do something. If it's a really good show, OK, but mute the commercials and avert your eyes. We live in an age of such prevalent advertising - on TV, on the web, on the bus, on the outside of the bus - that we're all being brainwashed into the optimum consumers. Even if you think you're too savvy to fall for ads - you're taking them in whether you want to or not, and absorbing the message into your subconscious.
..Christopher Moore. David Sedaris. Jim Knipfel. Lester Bangs. Hunter S. Thompson. Kurt Vonnegut. Tom Robbins. Stephen King (he's good, dammit). Robert Pirsig. Mainly I just love reading. I read like most people watch television. I tend to check out too many books from the library at once and either have to renew some of them or just not get around to reading 'em. Between novels I like a good short story to cleanse the palatte, or something non-fiction on a topic I want to learn about. I'm also a huge fan and subscriber of both Adbusters and National Geographic.
Jeff Tweedy. Abraham Lincoln. Bike messengers. Hunter S. Thompson. Glenn Kotche. Dave Grohl. Jack Kerouac. Bill Watterson. Nicholas Gurewitch (he draws the webcomic The Perry Bible Fellowship). Rene Magritte. Salvador Dali. John Muir. Indiana Jones. Holden Caulfield. Gavin Clark. Kurt Cobain...