"You should have been born about 20 years before you actually were"
-Mr. Vandewalker, high school creative writing teacher
"Hey bro, you are my best friend, I couldn't have made it with out you."
-Greg H., Brother
"He's such a good boy"
-Jeanne C., Auntie
"(bav) appreciates moxie"
-sK
"I know your tricks now. I'm on to you."
-Bradd N.
"He's just this guy, you know?"
-Zaphod Beeblebrox, President of the galaxy
abandoned buildings, achieving apotheosis, ann arbor, anthropology, body modification, books, burned-out buildings, cacophony, caffeine, chess, clubbing, comix, computers, concerts, costume parties, costuming, counterculture, cthulhu, culturejamming, cyberpunk, cynicism, dancing, detroit, diy, eating brains, fractals, gallows humor, gaming, giantmicrobes.com, horror, hugs, humanism, idealism, immanentizing the eschaton, interesting hair styles, irony, iterations, james whistler, kuru, lightning, listening, make-up effects, memetics, metaprogramming, movies, music, neil gaiman, nikola tesla, observing, patches, performance art, philosophies to live by, photography, piercings, pirates, poi, pop culture, psychology, punk, puns, R.K. Milholland webcomics, reading, reality tunnels, robert anton wilson, robotic pirate-zombies, robots, santarchy, sarcasm, science-fiction, self-awareness, self-criticism, self-evolution, shiny things, silliness, social engineering, social experiments, sociology, special effects, stanley kubrick, stream of consciousness, subcultures, sun worship, surrealism, suspension, talking shit, tattoos, technology, temporary autonomous zones, themes, thunder, transhumanism, urban ruins, used books, vodka, walking, warren ellis, webcomics, your mom, zombies
I'm usually willing to meet/talk to anyone if there's a common point of reference. Sadly, common points of reference are sometimes hard to come by.
More specifically?
People with good taste in music:: While I have favored styles of music, I'm willing to listen to almost anything as long as it's good, regardless of genre. If it has the ability to captivate me, make me dance, or make me think then I will enjoy it. With one exception:
I just don't get "emo".
People with good taste in literature: I am a voracious reader. A man-whore for the printed word. Compulsive, even. I will read anything. Stun me with your recommendations.
People who have something to say beyond the usual: I like being challenged. I would rather get into a friendly argument with someone and come out of it with something new to think about or a new way of looking at things than talk about the same thing in consensus all the time. I can handle chit-chat for a little while, but get easily distracted when there is nothing new to talk about.
People with a warped sense of humor: The stranger the funny, the better.
NOTE: I don't have an overwhelming need to whore-up my friends list numbers. Everyone on it is either someone I know in ReaLife(TM), someone I've at least talked to, or musicians/actors/writers I'm a fan of. If you want to add me to your friends list, please send me a message that has a kernal of relevant discussion potential other than the ubiquitous "YER KEWL, ADD ME!" or "I like your profile, now come to my porn site". If I don't know you from somewhere, and I don't get a message from you, then I will not add you as a friend.current obsessions: This unit needs new music. What are you liking these days?
crunchy: skinny puppy, wumpscut, ministry, my life with the thrill kill kult, kmfdm, sister machinegun, project pitchfork, pigface, throbbing gristle, psychic tv, download, einsturzende neubauten, revolting cocks, nine inch nails, cyberaktif, doubting thomas, frontline assembly, haujobb, dance or die, hanzel und gretyl, coil, out out, kompressor, velvet acid christ, snog, ohgr, das ich, combichrist, hocico, [:SITD:]. grendel, suicide commando, stromkern, destroid
beepy: covenant, cut.rate.box, vnv nation, juno reactor, the orb, orbital, depeche mode, aphex twin, new order, apoptygma berzerk, gary numan, squarepusher, ladytron, kraftwerk, praga khan, delerium, front242, fischerspooner
mopey: siouxsie & the banshees, sisters of mercy, bauhaus, joy division, dead can dance, peter murphey, love and rockets
oi: black flag, suicidal tendencies, social distortion, bad brains, the distillers, the cramps, pennywise, sex pistols, dead milkmen, dead kennedys, bad religion, anti-flag, henry rollins, minor threat, fugazi, spit for athena
grrls: blondie, concrete blonde, tori amos, sarah mclachlin, the creatures, bif naked, the cranes, shonen knife, meg lee chin, massive attack, portishead, sneaker pimps, l7, bikini kill
other: parliment-funkadelic, rolling stones, musicals, electric 6, MC5, iggy pop, david bowie, the cure, shriekback, iggy & the stooges, jane's addiction, the cult, MC frontalot , digital underground
anything that has pirates, robots, or zombies is very good. if it has a robotic zombie pirate, then its even better.
specifics would include:
Recently viewed and loved:land of the dead, videodrome, charlie & the chocolate factory, at the mouth of madness
General: fight club, the wall, naked lunch, moulin rouge, chicago, fear and loathing in las vegas, dr. strangelove, 2001: a space oddessy, the shining, a nightmare on elm street, alien, no retreat no surrender, surf nazis must die, let sleeping corpses lie, plan 9 from outer space, ed wood, from hell, rocky horror picture show, godzilla, dracula, frankenstein, the creature from the black lagoon, better off dead, cecil b. demented, say anything, 10 things i hate about you, 16 candles, not another teen movie, can't hardly wait, breakfast club, st. elmo's fire, dawn of the dead, return of the living dead, evil dead, evil dead 2, army of darkness, pirates of penzance, monty python and the meaning of life, the life of bryan, night of the living dead, day of the dead, rockula, high fidelity, empire records, invasion of the body snatchers, the puppet masters, the blob, war of the worlds, the matrix, the tenant, drunken master, ghostbusters
on DVD, thanks.
any
Nikola Tesla
Albert Einstein
Alexander Shulgin