Sophie Parker, Kim Mack, and Leslie Gordon.
I am looking for someone to go adventuring with. Maybe someone will want to go explore the tortoise intaglio near Barstow, hike the cinder cones in Mojave National Preserve, going kayaking here and abroad, someone who would go to a nude beach to actually check out the great eroded cliffs, someone who would risk hypothermia to find a desert hot springs, someone who would get excited about the change in plant life in Joshua Tree’s transitional zone. Maybe you own a field guide. In the city, you would want to go to the Pacoima Historical Society meetings, find the ancient borders of the Mexican rancheros, be interested in why streets are named what they are, drive around and look at historical farmhouses in Hacienda Heights, attend midnight mass at Mission San Gabriel Archangel. You would enjoy getting lunch and tea at a Buddhist temple in Hacienda Heights, or going to festival at the Calabasas Hindu temple, or watching Mevlevi Sufis chant and spin. You would become my co-ethnographer while we have drinks in urban Mexican Bar in Boyle Heights, shopping in Little India, getting coffee in Little Ethiopia, or exploring an obscure occult store in Long Beach while pondering what the great moral philosophers would think about your current life decisions. You may actually enjoy karaoke at the Vermont Café or jazz at the Grand Star. When you hear the quote, “If all the bodies in the San Gabriel Mountains were to stand up, it would look like Venice Beach,†you would think it would be cool if it actually happened. You would enjoy spending hours in a library or historical archive, or waking up at 3 AM to go to the mountains and look for mountain lions so that you can use the techniques described in the pamphlet to protect yourself. You would enjoy dressing up in the most off-the-wall costumes for the Fetish/Bondage ball. Or exploring bizarre niche clubs, coffee houses, or organizations. You like to volunteer. I am looking for someone with a career or passion that is outside of relationship or sex. You have a passion for a certain band or type of music, a work of literature, art, or animal. You have enough confidence that your problems don’t take you down. You may be cosmopolitan, but don’t take it all seriously. Be cheesy, but smart. You would find it funny to dress like a clown and sing opera in a mall. And, finally, you like to travel domestic and abroad.
Peter Murphy, Natacha Atlas, Cheb Hasni, Cheb Khaled, Aphex Twin, Bjork, Muslimguaze, Psychic TV/Throbing Gristle, Merzbow, Tom Waits, Kraftwerk, Dead Can Dance, Nick Cave, Skinny Puppy/ohGR, Underworld, Smiths/Moz, Toires, Mercan Dede/Arkin Allen, Pixies, Mick Karn, Squarepusher, Ekova, Ministry, Creatures, X, Diamanda Galas, old Sonic Youth, Joy Division, RevCo, Depeche Mode, My Bloody Valentine, Flesh for Lulu, Dead Milkmen, Peter Gabriel,
Dead Alive: A powerful, compelling NZ drama based around the events of a strapping young boy struggling with his overbearing mother, "Riveting." I like Alien, Aliens ("Get away from her you BITCH"), and Alien Ressurection. I'm a huge fan of Troma films, like Tromeo and Juilet, Toxic Avenger, Bloodsucking Freaks, and Terror Firmer, off the top of my head. Of course, I like Pink Flamingos and Desperate Living. I do like lots of "art" house and independent movies that would classify me as pretentious but I won't name those here.
I don't watch TV. I have watched religiously Six Feet Under, Sopranos, and OZ. Fuck you, its not TV, its HBO.
Anything Terry Pratchett...he is brilliant (I despise most sci-fi/fantasy). Pretty unfamiliar w/ most modern fiction but Yeats & Wilde give me an erectiona s do most of the 19th Century Brit-lit, also I must say that I did like "DaVinci Code" but mostly for its art history not for the absurd plot and horrible grammar. I like Pop Science/Culture, biography. James Randi. Edward Said, "Orientalism"--because i'm an orientialist albeit one of the later ones. Cultural Materialism/Harris. "Philosophical Discourse of Modernity"/Habermas. "Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads" by Asma. It's very inside trade but I do enjoy: Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, Tony Bennett, Kevin Walsh, Patrick Mauries. I really dig the AMA Encycl. of Med., I just read, "Death Makes a Holiday: A cultural history of Halloween" by David Skal. It is fucking excellent, highly highly recommended! I'm currently engaged in a great read of "Secrets of the Sideshows" by Joe Nickell. I read a lot, suggestions?
"Heroes" are for Bette Midler songs (its a jab, but you should hear my karoake version).