Music, Politics, assorted things that make me well and various things that make me sick, writing songs about sex, death, and god...
Great minds so we can think alike. And inevitably disagree.
NEERRvana,THE THERMALS!!!! (ergo Urban Legends),Pixies, Breeders, The Amps, Yeah Yeah Yeahs (1st album mostly) Imperial Teen, old Beach Boys, Placebo, CCR, Cream, Matthew Sweet,Jay Z, The Chilling Details, The Obvious, Hole (1990-1996 ONLY), Blur, Meets West, Radiohead, Did i mention THE THERMALS? Pavement, Beastie Boys, NIN, Yo La Tengo, Afghan Whigs, The O-matics, The Slits, The Raincoats, (old)Smashing Pumpkins, The Beatles, SLEATER KINNEY!, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Black Flag,Dead Milkmen, Mission of Burma, 999, Dead Kennedys, Buzzcocks, PJ Harvey, The Clash, Le Tigre, Missy Elliot,Helen Stellar, Gossip, Veruca Salt, White Stripes, The Twilight Singers, Weezer(1st 2 albums ONLY), Mary Timony, Helium, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty,Johnny Cash...so on and so forth..And THE THERMALS (go to their myspace right now!!)
I heart Huckabees, anything Todd Solonz, Dan's Dad's House (I and II), anything Andre Perkowski, Fight Club, 1990: The Year Punk Broke, Snatch, Barrio 13, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, all Bruce Lee stuff, Eternal Sunshine on The Spotless Mind, Best In Show, A Mighty Wind, Beetlejuice, Waiting For Guffman, Spanking the Monkey, This Is Spinal Tap, The Science of Sleep, (anything Gael Garcia Bernal), Dig!, Trainspotting, Rebel Without A Cause, Giant, Scanner Darkly,Waking Life, Fast Food Nation, Dazed and Confused (and ALL Richard Linklater), Gone With The Wind( I know it's wrong, but what should I do?)I Shot Andy Warhol, Pans Labyrinth,all Kevin Smith except Jersey Girls and that other sappy shit, Julie Johnson, anything John Waters... it has to be wierd and it has to be quality.
I have to admit I like the LOST. I know I lose all my indie cred with that one. The Office! Dunder Miflin, how cute is JIM?! Kids In The Hall, Mr.Show, Arrested Development, Reno 911!, Curb Your Enthusiam (Get me the doll!)The State, Stella. Does Variety Shac and Eugene Mirman count even though they're only on the internet? Anything so good it has to be cancelled cos it's not fucking everybody loves raymond or whatever.
She's Come Undone, Come As You Are, Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From The Punk Underground 1980-1990, Our Winter of Discontent, Lord of the Flies (a society is composed of the morality of the individual and his/her actions)Romeo and Juliet, Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crime Series, House of Leaves, I Know This Much Is True, Flowers for Algernon, White Oleander, Howl, Cunt, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, To Kill A Mocking bird, A Clockwork Orange, In Cold Blood, East of Eden, On The Road, Sula, Get Fuzzy, any Calvin and Hobbes collection,Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide, Endgame, Parable Of The Sower, The Kitchen God's Wife, Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenence, ALL KURT VONNEGUT especially Welcome To The Monkey House and Cat's Cradle, SPIN Alternative Record Guide(this is years b4 spin started to totally suck) BUST magazine, GRRRLS, and lots lots more...
Both Kurts, aforementioned, Kim Fucking Deal, Al Gore, Jasper Johns, Kathy Fucking Foster, Jon Stewart, Sandra Day "say O" Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, MLK, all the women who made my right to be secure in my goddamn person possible by securing their own, Steven Colbert (look up his speech at the White House Press Dinner),Al Gore, all those suffering, injured and murdered Pro Patria (war is over if you want it!), all the peeps who bring the progress and die anonymous or undercelebrated so that people can TRULY have social justice and actual freedom. And The Constitution (PATRIOT Act has nothing on that shit!)