Music, Graphic novels, Vertigo/mature comics, Writing, Reading, Downloading, Cerebus, Billiards, Pool, Conversations, Raves, Techno, Laughter, Fantasy, Subtlety, New things, MP3s, New music, Nature of reality, Space, Unexplained phenomena, Humor, Quantum physics, Coast to Coast AM, Movies, The human condition, More music, Introvert..et..ness
Just about anyone. I want to meet people that have a good head on their shoulders instead of up their ass. People that think of music as more than entertainment. People with a sense of humor. People that "just don't get it." People that do "get it," so they can enlighten me. People that are down to earth.
Not, of course, that I myself have any of those traits. :-P Drop me a line. I'm hungry for wormmeat.
Below you'll see a video for "Mana-mana" as shown on The Muppet Show , episode one of season one. One of the most amusing things I've ever seen broadcast on television. Jim Henson was ahead of his time. And you're never too old for muppets. :-)
OLD MAN #1 TO OLD MAN #2: The question is.. what is a "mana-mana?"
OLD MAN #2 TO OLD MAN #1: The question is.. who cares??
HORSE the Band, Mindless Self Indulgence,
Atmosphere, Sage Francis,
Jimi, Sabbath, Zeppelin,
Beatles, Pink Floyd,
The Rapture, Death From Above 1979,
Felix da Housecat, Goldfrapp,
Regina Spektor, Ani DiFranco,
Omar Santanas, Rob Gee,
Dizzee Rascal, Lady Sovereign,
Origin, Pig Destroyer,
The Blood Brothers, Neon Blonde,
Aphex Twin, Vanetian Snares,
The '89 Cubs, TV on the Radio,
Bjork, The Fiery Furnaces,
KMFDM, Skinny Puppy,
Saved by Grace, Himsa, Shadows Fall,
At the Drive-In, Comets on Fire,
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mogwai,
Scott Stubbs, Seb Fontaine,
Glassjaw, Dead Poetic,
Paul Oakenfold, Sasha, James Lavelle,
Lamb, Tricky, Air, U.N.K.L.E.,
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Andrew Bird,
2 many DJ's, LCD Soundsystem,
Gang of Four, Television, Richard Hell, Crass,
Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, Head Wound City.
Right now, favorite artists include Joy Division, The Ex, Mogwai, The Velvet Underground, and Mac Lethal.
So I like a little of everything I guess; right now I'm really big into underground hip-hop and 70s punk. I'm always into electro, trip-hop, post-rock, breakcore, and intense, original heavy music (like Comets on Fire and Car Bomb).
What the BLEEP Do We Know?!, Dogtown and Z-Boys, Be77er Living Through Circuitry, Crumb, Genesis, March of the Penguins, Grass, Rize, Freestyle: the Art of Rhyme.
Night/Dawn/Day/Land of the Dead, Evil Deads, Braindead (Dead Alive), Cannibal Holocaust, Hellraiser, 28 Days Later, Saw, The Exorcist, The Beyond (Seven Doors of Death), The Stand, Shaun of the Dead.
The Dark Crystal, Pan's Labyrinth, Lord of the Rings, Willow, The Princess Bride, Legend, Mirrormask, Labyrinth.
Michael Moore, Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Smith, Tim Burton, David Lynch, Lucio Fulci, Alfred Hitchcock, Daron Aronofsky, Gregg Araki, Wes Anderson, M. Night Shyamalan, Terry Gilliam, P.T. Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, Richard Linklater.
The Breakfast Club, The Story of Us, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Pulp Fiction, Lost Highway, Natural Born Killers, Full Metal Jacket, High Fidelity, American Beauty, The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, Slam, Groove, The Motorcycle Diaries, Star Wars, Run Lola Run, Braveheart, Psycho, 24 Hour Party People, Fight Club, Eraserhead, Slacker, The Matrix, Pi, Goodfellas, Clockwork Orange, Garden State.
I run the gamut from comedy to horror (sometimes there's no seperation), but I'd almost have to say that nothing's better than a really good documentary. Learning is fun!
History Channel, Science Channel, CNN, Discovery Channel, Adult Swim;
Bullshit, Saturday Night Live, Whose Line is it Anyway, Friends, Daria, The Sopranos, Weeds, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Muppet Show, Mythbusters, Cash Cab, Henry Rollins Show.
Anime Series: Serial Experiments Lain, Cowboy Bebop, Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo, Berserk, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Now and Then Here and There, Ergo Proxy.
Anime Movies: Vampire Hunter D, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Akira, Ninja Scroll, Metropolis.
I don't watch a whole lot of broadcast television. Usually if I'm looking at the TV screen it's to watch something I've put in the DVD player or to play Grand Theft Auto.
Anything by Chuck Klosterman, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, or Hunter S. Thompson.
Sci-fi/Fantasy mostly - Ender's Game, Jack L. Chalker, George R. R. Martin, Isaac Asimov, Robert Aspirin, and Douglas Adams. Besides that, I enjoy Catcher in the Rye, some Charles Bukowski, some Edgar Allen Poe, and Ray Bradbury.
Comics: Sandman, Strangers in Paradise, Kling Klang Klatch, Johnny the Homocidal Maniac, Preacher, Watchmen, Y: The Last Man, The Crow, American Splendor, Cerebus, Books of Magic.
Martin Luther King Jr., Henry Rollins, Buddha, Harvey Pekar, and Jesus Christ. Much respect also goes to the Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc, who set himself on fire as a protest against religious persecution in Saigon, 1963, resulting in one of the most powerful images I have ever seen:
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." -Albert Einstein.
"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." -Thomas Jefferson, 1787