Your government is in control again. Here. Here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America.
Bill Hicks, Clifford Brown, Moondog
I try to play as much music as I can. Bands I play with (some often, some not) include Cat Hair Ensemble, Ebola Music Orchestra, Bodies of Water, Dorian Wood, Cobra Lilies, Smells Like Flan and the Killsonic Marching Gang. I have also played live with and/or recorded with Ferraby Lionheart, Listing Ship, Edwardo and some others. Do I play "rock trumpet"? Jazz? I hate it when people ask me. I play music with my friends. I play music that I would like to hear. Isn't that really the only answer?
Favorites include McCabe & Mrs Miller, Brazil, Clockwork Orange, Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia, a whole slew of noirs and westerns. Oh, and The Fountain!
I don't think TV is evil, nor is it completely filled with suckitude. I know it's cool to not watch/have a tv, but then I'd miss out on The Wire, Battlestar Galactica, Dexter and a couple other shows that are as good or better than anything, ever. I DO prefer to watch tv seasons of these great shows on DVD.
Michael Chabon, M. John Harrison, Philip K. Dick, George Pelecanos, Cormac McCarthy, James Ellroy, etc.Basically as much twisted, rising-above-genre junk as I can stuff in my eye-holes.