People raised by Sharks, Funny People, Unpretentious People, Creative Sorts, Passionate Ones, Someone who can make me laugh - I'm too lazy to do it by myself. Also, Prester John, Blackbeard, Shi Xianggu, Reggie King, Aristotle, Christopher McCandless, Everett Ruess aka Nowhere Man, Orson Scott Card, Barefoot Contessa & Nigella Lawson, Jack Johnson, Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca, Ferdinand Magellan, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, John Wesley Powell, Haruki Murakami, Rumi, Stephen Colbert, and the first Ninja.*****************************************************O nce more I am roaring drunk with the lust of life and adventure, and unbearable beauty…Adventure seems to beset me on all quarters without my even searching for it…Though not all my days are wild as this, each one holds its surprises, and I have seen almost more beauty than I can bear. ~Everett Ruess------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------The virtues of the past are the vices of today. And many of what were thought to be the vices of the past are the necessities of today. The moral order has to catch up with the moral necessities of actual life in time, here and now. ~ Joseph Campbell**************************************************** **THE FOLLOWING QUOTES ARE STRAIGHT FROM THE MOUTH OF Stephen Colbert:I'm not a fan of facts. You see, the facts can change, but my opinion will never change, no matter what the facts are.*******************************************************T hen you write, "Oh, they're just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic." First of all, that is a terrible metaphor. This administration is not sinking. This administration is soaring. If anything, they are rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg.************************************************* ***I believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least. And by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.******************************************************* *“That's where the truth lies, right down here in the gut. Do you know you have more nerve endings in your gut than you have in your head? You can look it up. I know some of you are going to say 'I did look it up, and that's not true.' That's 'cause you looked it up in a book. Next time, look it up in your gut. I did. My gut tells me that's how our nervous system works.â€
Really grooving lately: Lavender Diamond, David Vandervelde, The Superimposers, The Legends, Thirdimension, (Loney, Dear), Pop Levi, Neil Michael Hagerty, The Howling Hex, Darkel, Elbow, Elevator To Hell, Of Montreal, Eric's Trip, Bon Savants, Moonbabies, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Samuraj Cities, J Dilla, The Essex Green, Michel Polnareff, The Orange Peels, The Intimate Strangers - "Love Sounds", Sambassadeur, The Bicycles, Montt Mardie, Oh No, Les Breastfeeders, Prototypes, Those Transatlantics, Susi & Guy, Pussy, Close Lobsters, Green On Red, White Shoes & Couples Company, Mahogany, Mas Rapido, Wheat, The Embassy, Richard Lloyd, Deviant Kid 001, The Pretty Things, Peter Bjorn & John, The Doleful Lions, Television Personalities, Delta, Shack, The Ark, Squire, McGuinness Flint, Moonrider, Sutherland Brothers & Quiver, The Wackers, The Concretes, Phoenix, David Werner, Turin Brakes, Fancey, The Wondermints, James Figurine, Lone Pigeon, The Lucy Show, Brothers & Sisters, Jim Noir, ComSat Angels, The Sound, Love Is All, Manu Chau, The Lassie Foundation, Q Lazzarus, Wheat, The Hollies, and turn that PRINCE uP extra loud!!!!!!!!!!!! Shakira, Fatlip, DJ Quik, Dempsey, Fanuelle, Dot Allison, Dr. Dog, The Shortwave Set, the new Lilys, Black Box Recorder, Go-Kart Mozart, the new Belle & Sebastian, The Auteurs, The Boomtown Rats, Pulp, Relaxed Muscle, Condello, Bronco Bullfrog, Jasmine Minks, The Field Trip, Busy Toby, Stockholm Monsters, The Pastels, The Real Kids, All Night Radio, The Green Pajamas, The Professionals, EATB, The Church, Vinicius de Moraes and Toquinho, Los Visconti(crying gauchos)--------- The Flatlanders, Euphoria, Rare Groove, Brazillian music to eat Brazillian BBQ to like Vinicius & Toquinho, Os Mutantes, Glam - especially T. Rex, Bowie, and Roxy Music. Secret Machines, The Earlies, HAL, My Bloody Valentine, Stories, Teenage Fanclub, Duran Duran, Kevin Ayers, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Raincoats, Prince, OUTKAST, Dr John, Bubble Puppy, The Poets, Audiolux, Wham!, The Peep Show, Bauhaus, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Love & Rockets, The Church, The Scots of St. James, Basket of Puppys, Hal, Calliope, Grapefruit, Fancy, OutKast, RZA, GZA, Slade, The First Edition, David Essex, The Who, Crowfoot, Black Heart Procession, Guns n' Roses, Cypress Hill, Keith West, Killing Joke, The La's, The Left Bank,Tomorrow, Jackson Heights, New Order, The Stranglers, Eugenius, Roky Erickson, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Octopus, Shoes, Jigsaw, The Sutherland Brothers, Tin Tin, Wu Tang Clan, Sandy Salisbury, The Zombies, The Sweet, Metallica, July, Pavement, Pixies, Dwight Twilley, Loop, Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, Radio Stars, Tommy James, The Merry-Go-Round, Hookfoot, Gypsy, Mighty Baby, Ian Brown, Pulp, Relaxed Muscle, The Small Faces, Funkadelic, Nick Gilder, Vic Godard, Uncle Tupelo, Tintern Abbey, Wilco, Heavy Stereo, Millenium, Velvet Crush, Swervedriver, Skip Spence, BJM, The Summer Hits, Stereolab, The Tyde, The Rain Parade, Public Nuisance, X, White Magic, Jacques Dutronc, The Twinkeyz, The Tremeloes, Kanye West, The Walker Brothers, We All Together, Teenage Filmstars, Alice Cooper, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Doves, Dukes of Stratosphere, Adam Ant, The Pooh Sticks, Sagittarius, Sandy Salisbury, Clear Light, The Clientele, SRC, The Spencer Davis Group, Petards, Super Furry Animals, The Runaways, The Motors, Slow Dive, Neil Young, Buffalo Springfield, Glen Matlock, Marvin Gaye, T-Rad, Tages, Guided By Voices, Sleepy Jackson, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, The Cult, The Bee Gees, Palace Music, Lou Reed, The Byrds, Walker Brothers, Scott Walker, Gary Walker & The Rain, Papas Fritas, Kings of Leon,Iggy Pop, The Professionals, The Kinks, Hot Legs, The Raincoats, The Human League, Simple Minds, Leonard Cohen, Les Fleur De Lys, The Beach Boys, Mercury Rev, Flaming Lips,Gene Clark, Love, Mark Eric, Slow Children, Primal Scream, Motley Crue, English Beat, Nick Nicely, The Equals, Pete Ham, Pilot, The Smoke(British and American) New Order, The Cure, Lilys, The Jam, Sparks, The Style Council, Tom Tom Club, Moose, The Flames, Tucky Buzzard, Eddy Grant, Electric Banana, The Pretty Things,The Move, ELO, Meat Whiplash, The Action, Denim, Devo, Digable Planets, Go-Kart Mozart, Big Star, Audiobullys, Big Audio Dynamite, The Clash, Billy Nicholls, Black Sabbath, The Boys, The Happy Return, The Rich Kids, Prince, Broken Social Scene, Death In Vegas, The Illusion, Cee-Lo, Cheap Trick, The Church, Kasabian, Ambulance LTD, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Donovan, Dinosaur Jr, Balls, XTC, The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Vegetable Garden, Buzzcocks, etc. You get the picture.
Young Frankenstein, A Touch of Evil - one of noir's greatest examples. Best film of 2006-- Harsh Times(with Christian Bale), I like some Brian De Palma = Carlito's Way, Carrie, Phantom of the Paradise, etc. Joel & Ethan Coen films=Blood Simple, Fargo, etc. Easy Rider, A Beautiful Mind, The Sheltering Sky, Mildred Pierce, Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill, Michaelangelo Antonio - esp The Passenger & Zabriskie Point, Anything Kaufman - Evolution, Blow, Baraka, Five Easy Pieces, Carnal Knowledge, The Last Detail, Kubrick - The Shining, Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut, Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Strangelove, The Killers, etc., David Lynch - Dune, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Wild At Heart, Eraserhead, etc., Arthur Penn - Little Big Man & Mickey One & Bonny And Clyde. Vampire Hunter D, Apocalypse Now, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, anything Hitchcock, The Graduate, Them, Dirty Pretty Things, Rocky, The Star Chamber, Traffic, Donny Darko, Ridley Scott - The Duelists, Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator, etc. Michael Mann - Heat, Collateral, Last of the Mohicans, etc., Fight Club, Chinatown, LA Confidential, Vanishing Point, Billy Jack, most Scorsese of course, Miyazaki - especially Spirited Away, Sergio Leone and his Maccaroni Westerns!!!!, Grizzly Man by Werner Herzog, Dogville, Breaking The Waves, Zentropa, The Idiots - Lars Von Trier, Mayor of Sunset Strip, The 40 Year Old Virgin, The Wedding Crashers, Wes Anderson's Bottlerocket, The Royal Tannenbaums, Rushmore, Team Zisu, etc. Terrence Malik = Badlands, Days of Heaven, Thin Red Line, Todd Solondz films, John Carpenter flicks - They Live, Joss Whedon - Serenity
The Wire,Entourage,Hardcastle & McCormick,Lost,Deadwood(1st season only),24,The Sopranos,Late Night with Conan O'Brien,Nature Documentaries, National Geographic & Discovery Channel, Animal Planet(Rest In Peace, Steve Irwin. Man, I loved his shows). A&E Biographies. History Channel, Travel Programs, Huell Howser, The Simpsons. Saturday Night Live. Conan O'Brien & Colbert Report.
Grendel, Ray Bradbury's canon, Perfume, Edgar Allen Poe, The Kite Runner, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, Under The Banner Of Heaven, The Song of the Dodo, Into The Wild, Into Thin Air, Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, Hunter S. Thompson, Phillip K. Dick, Vagabond for Beauty, Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey, Dune, Ender's Game, The God of Small Things, Aldous Huxley, Guns, Germs, and Steel, A Scanner Darkly, Stephen R. Donaldson
Space Cowboys & Western Samurai, Tarzan, and people raised by Sharks