Subculture, philosophy, criminal psychology, mythology, body sculpting, basketball, mixed martial arts, cannabis culture, conspiracy theories, sensory exploration, the subconscious, the abject, cults, music trivia, art, traveling, and the "everythingness" of anything. And I am obsessed with quirky music components, especially cowbell and falsetto.
Longtime loves:
X-Ray Spex: Germ-Free Adolescents
Nirvana: Nevermind
Beatles: "White" album
Guns N' Roses: Appetite for Destruction
PJ Harvey: To Bring You My Love
Violent Femmes: Violent Femmes
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Extra Acme USA (yeah, leave it to me to have an album of b-sides on my list)
Ani DiFranco: Living in Clip (and a double live album, too)
The Gits: Frenching the Bully
GWAR: Scumdogs of the Universe
The Roots: Phrenology
Patti Smith: Gung Ho
Sisters of Mercy:Some Girls Wander by Mistake
Concrete Blonde: Bloodletting
Janis Joplin: Pearl
Deftones: Adrenaline
Hole: Live Through This
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours
Lucinda Williams: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Mary Prankster: Roulette Girl
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magick
Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes
Ramones: Ramones
Sublime: Sublime
Jane's Addiction: Nothing's Shocking
Tool: Aenima
Beastie Boys: License to Ill
Pixies: Doolittle
Social Distortion: Social Distortion
Sloppy Seconds: Destroyed
The Smears: Love Is Fer Suckers
Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bullocks...
Gossip: Movement
Meryn Cadell: Angel Food for Thought
Diamanda Galas & John Paul Jones: The Sporting Life
Sinead O'Connor: The Lion & the Cobra
Newer crushes:
Dir En Grey: The Marrow of a Bone
Modest Mouse: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
My Chemical Romance: The Black Parade
Wired All Wrong: Break Out the Battle Tapes
Isis: In the Absence of Truth
Sage Francis: Human the Death Dance
Johnette Napolitano: Scarred
Dax Riggs: We Sing of Only Blood or Love
Georgie James: Places
Jody Gnant: Pivot
Sia: Some People Have Real Problems
Secret Flings:
Lubricated Goat: Plays the Devil's Music
God Bullies: Mama Womb Womb
Drunks With Guns: Second Verses
Blatherskite: Abstract
East of Eden (Starring James Dean, a.k.a. my imaginary boyfriend)
Labrynth (Starring David Bowie and his ridiculously huge codpiece)
Bound (Starring Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly in some scenes that always make me stop the movie to have sex)
The Cube (Starring a cool, pseudo sci-fi puzzle plot)
Up in Smoke (Starring Cheech, Chong, and the benevolent Mary Jane)
I don't really watch TV anymore. I turn my TV on about once a month.
If my house was on fire and I could save only six of my many books, I'd grab:
Candide by Voltaire (probably my all-time favorite book)
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving (because it reminds me of my family and makes me wistful)
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski (because it's Buk and because there's a signed playbill between the pages)
Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite (to appease the part of me prone to concocting vivid, gruesome scenes of homoerotic gore with which to terrify myself)
Dien Cai Dau by Yusef Komunyakaa (because a book of brilliant poetry is hard to find)
The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath (because a thick volume of brilliant poetry is even harder to find)
“The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.†-- Ralph Waldo Emerson