"I must return to battle," the Gaucho said, breathless. He stood for a moment watching the carnage. "But don't they look like apes, now, fighting over a female? Even if the female is named Liberty." He drew a long pistol, checked the action. "There are nights," he mused, "nights, alone, when I think we are apes in a circus, mocking the ways of men. Perhaps it is all a mockery, and the only condition we can ever bring to men a mockery of liberty, of dignity..."
- this was written by Thomas Pynchon in his novel V.
I'd like to meet:
people who like him
and the man in the box (well and the one who opened it too)
Music:
in no order: Radiohead, The Who, The Band,
Pink Floyd, Sonic Youth, Mission Of Burma, The Midnight Movies, Berlioz, Mozart, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, Herbie Handcock, Elliot Smith, Nick Drake, Richard Wagner, The Pixies, Leo Kottke, Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Dave Von Ronk, the Minutemen, Credence Clearwater Revival, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, J.S. Bach, DNA, Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, Wilco, The Flaming Lips, Xiu Xiu, Deerhoof, David Bowie, Beck, Valiet Khan, Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Mahler, Schonberg, Webern, the Doors, Dinosaur Jr., The Replacements, Husker Du, Gram Rabbit, Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, Igor Stravinsky, Glenn Branca, Theoretical Girls, The Roots, Public Enemy, Bob Marley, Neutral Milk Hotel, Wolf Parade, Weezer (Pinkerton), The White Stripes (pre elephant), the Butthole Surfers, Lou Reed, Ugly Cassanova, Modest Mouse, Pier Boulez, George Crumb, Elliot Carter, Coltrain, The Beatles, Crosby Stills and Nash with or without Young, The Byrds, Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys, Dire Straits, Debusey (piano works), Minor Threat, Sigur Ros, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, At The Drive In, Alman Brothers Band, Cash, The Greatful Dead (circa 1972 give or take 5 years), The Beach Boys, the Temptations, Smokey Robinson, Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, The Jackson 5, Buddy Holly, Billy Holiday, Janis Joplin, R.E.M., The Velvet Underground and many many more
Movies:
Fight Club, Taxi Driver, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove or..., Akira, The Princess Bride, Not Another Teen Movie, Dawn of the Dead, Trading Places, Ghostbusters, Animal House, Spies Like Us, all 6 Star Wars (emphasis on Empire of course), Stripes, Groundhog Day (enough Harold Ramis?), Deer Hunter, Pi, Godfather I and II, Goodfellas, Life Aquatic, Broken Flowers, Momento, The Machinist, Batman Begins, all 3 X-Men, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, the butterfly effect is interesting but could have been a lot better, Road Trip, Old School, Wedding Crashers, Dodge Ball, the 40 Year Old Virgin, Apocalypse Now, Night of the Living Dead, the Good The Bad and the Ugly, parts of 2001 a Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, Blazing Saddles, History of the World part I, Space Balls, Young Frankenstien, The Producers, Borat - Cultral Learnings...., The Machinist, god - everything good or bad that doesn't bore me to tears and yes that includes movies with Brendan Fraiser and Stifler (though I am not a fan of American Pie 2 or 3).
Television:
South Park, Dave Chappelle, The Family Guy, the history channel, Powerpuff Girls, Gundam Wing, Sapranos, the Daily Show, Ali G, Curb Your Enthusiasm, the original Man Show, 24 is growing on me, Law & Order (the original), project runway somehow amuses me, I was addicted to Dragonball Z for a while but I kicked that addiction thank god, Penn & Teller’s Bull Shit, The Simpsons, Arrested Development, The Office. But I don’t really watch any of these all that often.
Books:
The Freelanced Pallbearers, Ulysses, The Crying Of Lot 49, Et Tu Babe, Gravities Rainbow, Green Eggs And Ham, A Light In The Atic, Waiting For Gaddot, The Ubu Plays, The Electric Coolaid Acid Test, The Giving Tree, Tripmaster Monkey, Div Grad Curl, Mr. Thomkins, Kraps Last Tape, Six Characters In Search Of An Auther, The Dumb Waiter, Garfield book 3, 3 Lives, The Golden Ass, Slow Learner, The Giving Tree, Lost In The Fun House, The Wizard of Oz series, the Godfather, The Philosphy of Andy Warhol, On the Genealogy of Morals, Teenage Mutan Ninja Turtles book 1, V. though I haven't finished it yet
Heroes:
this performance is just... amazing
