Soldering irons, photocopiers, too many sneakers, vintage typewriters, tattooes of photocopiers and typewriters, woodworking, fast music and also sad music, taking apart everything I can get my hands on, building everything you can imagine.
I'd like to meet:
People to cuddle on the floor and listen to The Replacements with.
Black-haired, vegetarian, Jewish girls in jeans and tshirts who drink from the pitcher and like thrashcore and old country.
Greg Ginn.
Other dee-eye-why people.
Bonus points for a bandsaw or spray booth.
Someone who can teach me to cast aluminum.
Music:
What Happens Next?, Life's Halt!, DS13, lots of Swedish thrash and d-beat and HC, noisey things and fast things and sad things, Magnetic Fields, Discount is my favorite band ever, Edith Piaf, Suzanne Vega, old country songs, ABBA and Cher and Gang of Four and Billy Bragg and Sonic Youth and that Nena song "Just a Dream" and Bauhaus and wierd compilations of 80's college radio bands whose names I can never remember and who's albums I can never find, and a lot of things I'm not thinking of because I just get happy about music but I'm not enough of music kid to spout off names and also Stetsasonic is awesome and Erik B. and lots of stuff. Right now I'm really obsessed with this one Moving Units song I downloaded from the ThreeOneG record label site.
Movies:
I don't get to see a lot of movies or films. There's a whole list of
ones I really like but I don't remember right now. Amelie was just
what I needed when I saw it in Olympia with my friends but that was a
long time ago. And Jeff took me to see a movie once that was really
good. And so did Jessica, but I don't remember what those two were.
But they were so very good that you should also see them.
Television:
when I was a kid I was in love with this show "The Secret Life Of Machines". And quite a few summers ago, Helen and I were obssessed with this British soap on PBS, "East Enders". But I don't really do the T.V. thing at all; it's just not me.
Books:
Anne Carson's "Autobiography of Red" is fucken ace. Totally brilliant and I want everyone to read it.
Otherwise : Kafka, Doestovesky, Camus, Raymond Carver, truckloads of indie comics and zines and stuff, Thomas Mann, Asimov, random books I come across in coffee shops, things by sad dead Eastern Europeans and Russians, Francesca Lia Block, Dahl's short fiction (I'm a big proponent of short fiction in general) etc
also, other people's spiral bound notebooks.
Heroes:
Joe Hill. Greg Ginn. Selene. Shawn Lee. Mother Jones. Emma Goldman. Alison Mosshart. Adrian Tomine. Anna P.
