Writing and reading (little bit of everything), various types of rock music, playing video games (BIOSHOCK keeps me up nights, and I don't care!), playing my bass guitar poorly, watching films....and recently, covered wagons
I'd like to meet:
James Joyce. Oh, wait.... he's dead. Crap. Umm, Vladimir Nabokov! Dead too, dammit!
Music:
Sonic Youth, The Rolling Stones (particualrly the '68-'72 run of albums, and Some Girls), Tom Waits, The Stooges, My Bloody Valentine, Wilco, The Who, The Kinks, Bright Eyes, Mississippi John Hurt, The Arcade Fire, Neil Young, CSN&Y, Tool, Black Sabbath, Robert Johnson, Television, The Pogues, Soundgarden, My Morning Jacket, The Rev. Horton Heat, Pixies, Patti Smith, Primus, Iggy Pop, Hound Dog Taylor, Led Zep, PJ Harvey, MC5, Santana, The Velvet Underground, Smashing Pumpkins, The Clash, Love, Queens of the Stone Age, T-Rex, Kyuss, Modest Mouse, Alice in Chains, Incubus, The Mars Volta, Lou Reed, Lucinda Williams, Circa Survive, At The Drive-In, Stone Temple Pilots, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Radiohead, Cursive, Rage Against the Machine, Pearl Jam, Jimi Hendrix, Mos Def, System of a Down, Frank Zappa, Jane's Addiction, Metallica (old stuff, NOT new), Parliament, Weezer, Pink Floyd, Rush ---------Top 10 Favorite Albums:1. Daydream Nation, Sonic Youth (1988)
2. Exile on Main St., The Rolling Stones (1972)
3. Loveless, My Bloody Valentine (1991)
4. Rain Dogs, Tom Waits (1985)
5. Raw Power, The Stooges (1973)
6. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco (2002)
7. Beggar's Banquet, The Rolling Stones (1968)
8. Forever Changes, Love (1967)
9. The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society, The Kinks (1968)
10. Rubber Soul, The Beatles (1965)Honorable Mention: The Bends, Radiohead (1995)
Yet another Honorable Mention: Who's Next, The Who (1971)
Movies:
No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Fight Club, Mulholland Dr, Kill Bill, City of God, Seven, Pan's Labyrinth, Amorres Perros, Eternal Sunshine, Ran, Sin City, Pulp Fiction, 21 Grams, Lord of the Rings, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, Jackie Brown, Dogma, Jacob's Ladder, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Usual Suspects, Reservoir Dogs, The Motorcycle Diaries, and many more
Television:
The Sopranos, 24, Chappelle, South Park, The Daily Show, X Files, Law and Order SVU, The SoupCaruso One-Liners from CSI MIAMI!!!
Books:
Blood Meridian (just started), The Old Man and the Sea, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Heart of Darkness, The Sun Also Rises, Dubliners, Mrs Dalloway, Lolita, Pale Fire, Cat's Cradle, A Clockwork Orange, A Passage to India, Maus, Slaughterhouse Five, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Sin City, Life of Pi, Fight Club, Our Secret (Susan Griffin essay, absolutely brilliant), The End of the Affair, many many many others.
Heroes:
James Joyce! The man! Scribbledehobble!And let's not forget...Cormac McCarthy, Frederick Douglass, Anthony Burgess (pure genius), Art Spiegelman, Frank Miller, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, TOM WAITS!!!
