eating @ the counter @ greasy spoons with book in hand, most dive bars especially those that have karaoke, international politics especially the popular leftist takeover of Latin America that is occurring, driving long distances with the windows down, and baseball. Oh, and hugs. Hugs are great. Also, dancin', but I mean, cuttin' a mean ass rug like your kid's soul depended on it. I believe I think about the world way too much and never write it down.
Whomever makes me laugh. Be they dead or alive. Preferably, the latter.
Too much to name. It depends on my moody ass. Lately, I've been listening to Tapes n' Tapes, Sonic Youth, TV on the Radio and tons of Bloc Party. Some Ozomatli, Antony and the Johnsons, Stereophonics, Ghostface Killah, Otis Redding, Morrissey (The Smiths, included), The Beatles (always, I guess), The New Pornographers, Elefant, Common, The Cure, Jurassic 5, Perez Prado, Blackalicious, New Order, NORTEC Collective, The Dears, Sam Cooke (how fuckin' awesome is he!!!), CAFE TACUBA, Beck, The Doves, Mogwai (fuckin' ridiculously great new album), Outkast, Interpol, Miles Davis, P.J. Harvey, Radiohead, Postal Service, Built to Spill, Depeche Mode, The White Stripes. Everyone needs to go out and get the new Sonic Youth and TV on the Radio. Also lately I find myself listening to a ton of Death Cab for Cutie, Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Nada Surf, Spoon, and Kanye West. Also that KCRW Sounds Eclectico. Some cheesy old skool Chicago House music. Oh, and Los Bukis. It's constantly changin'......
Cinema that has had a profound effect on me: Soy Cuba (I am Cuba), Los Olvidados, The Battle of Algiers, Pixote, Last Tango in Paris, Harold and Maude (best love story ever), Harlan County, U.S.A., anything Wong Kar-Wai, but especially Fallen Angels, Happy Together, and In the Mood for Love; Reds, All the Real Girls, memorias del subdesarollo (Memories of Underdevelopment), Amores Perros, Manhattan, Elephant, Amelie, the last three Pedro Almodovar flicks, everything John Sayles but especially Matewan, Lonestar, and Men with Guns (Hombres Armados); Bully, Princess Mononoke, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, La Guerre est Finie & Hiroshima, Mon Amour both by Alain Resnais who freakin' rocks, The Cranes are Flying, Que Viva Mexico, El Castillo de la Pureza, Ratcatcher, Spellbound (the documentary), The Wild Bunch, The three color trilogy (Blue, White, Red), Once Upon a Time in the West, Days of Heaven, The Last Picture Show; Most Bunuel, Gutierrez Alea, Truffaut, Kubrick, Godard, Bertolucci, Fellini, Glauber Rocha. Some Antonioni and Herzog. Yeah, I'm a film snob.....BITE ME! Oh yeah, I have to admit that "Notting Hill" is my favorite romantic comedy.
The Simpsons, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Six Feet Under (final episode is one of the best ever!!!), The Office (BBC, not that shitty NBC shit), Family Guy, Arrested Development (R.I.P.), Antiques Roadshow, ESPN Sportscenter, Baseball Tonight, The Wonder Years, and whenever I don't fall asleep, The Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart. Oh, how can I forget South Park and Chicago Bears Football.
Grapes of Wrath, Love in the Time of Cholera, 1984, any book of poems by Pablo Neruda and Wallace Stevens, The Secret History, In the Time of the Butterflies, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Eagle and the Serpent, Marxism and Art, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Slaughterhouse Five, The Alchemist
My Father........always!!!. Ernesto Guevara De la Serna Lynch. Jose Clemente Orozco. John Sayles. Antoine Doinel. David Brent, manager at Wernham-Hogg, Slough branch.