Fantasy, reality, philosophy, eschatology, ontology, Claude Levi Strauss, Thomas Jefferson, They Might be Giants, NC Wyeth, Pirates.
People who aren't bored with life. People who know who Anita Mui is. People who didn't think the first half hour of A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE was "boring."UPDATE: Hello! THIS IS AN INTELLIGENCE TEST: I will not add people unless theya) are actual friends of mineb) write me a note with a compelling reason to add them. Beat readers will be given extra consideration.UPDATE UPDATE: More intellgence testing. If you do not know me but would like to friend THE BEAT, please do so here.
Anything good. Tom Jones, Amon Tobin, the Pixies, U2, Beastie Boys, Les Claypool, PJ Harvey, Jesus Christ Superstar, Richard Rogers, Outkast, They Might be Giants, Stockhausen, Wagonchrist, Plastikman, Kraftwerk, KMFDM, the Walkmen, B 52s, Depeche Mode, Gustav Mahler, Jan Sibelius, Leos Janacek, John Coltrane, the GO! Team, etc etc etc.
Anything by Kurosawa, Scorsese, Fellini, Kubrick, Huston, Capra. Anything starring Audrey Hepburn or Alan Rickman. Lord of the Rings. Starship Troopers, Spinal Tap, Groundhog Day.
The Simpsons, South Park, The Daily Show, CNN, TCM, RAW IS WAR
JRR Tolkien, Ursula K Leguin, Frank L Baum, Chandler, Gibson, Harry Potter, Lord Dunsany, E. Nesbit, Grant Morrison, Alan Moore.
Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall, Buddha, Hildegaard of Bingen, Izzy Rubens, Bernard Herrmann, Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Marie Severin, Flo Steinberg, Johannes Brahms, Emily Dickinson, JRR Tolkien, Bruce Campbell