learning how to spell, fantasizing about having magical powers, the fifth and sixth dimension, ART Art art...which i just discovered, dancing with dogs, spacing out for hours on end and calling it meditation. Self control, running fast, holding my head under water, massages on mushrooms, clean water, becoming who and what i want to be and then questioning why i desired these changes in the first place, eliminating craving, finding a guy i can sex up and grow old with....finding non-artist who like the arts . Talking to people, watching people, making jokes esp. about things that are supposed to be sad or sacred. Wondering about the differences between men and women and trying to distinguish between nurture and nature and all the shit society and time has put upon us. Seizing the here and now. Enjoying the journey. Trying to shake my training, POLITICS.
Other true blood radicals.
so very much.immortal tech., NIN, ladytron, nick drake, operation ivy, pennywise, dj shadow, paul oakenfeld, gorillaz, death cab for cutie, tori amos, jeff buckley, lee scratch perry, bob marley, matisyahu, pink floyd, led zepplin, bright eyes, beck, system of a down, ben harper, the beetles, velvet underground, taj mahal, david grey, the police, von iva, bjork, tricky, digable planets, dead prez, the roots, white stripes, rage against the machine, nirvana, Eric clapton, yeah yeah yeahs, the shins, the rapture, the doves, modest mouse, boards of Canada, Damian Marley, thelonius monk, Mozart, lots of the classic stuff esp the creepy Gregorian chants, Tool, mindless self indulgence, the old 97s, Radiohead, death in 1979, miles davis, muddy waters , oh yeah old that cool bluesy shit, interpol, mice parade, Wolf parade, anything mellow like plastic man or synthetic like DJ keoki or fast and hard speed like sick of it all, old school metalica...ok i'm fading and i haven't even scratched the surface. I love music - it tears you open and heals the soul.
Dead Man, Ghost Dog, Coffee and Cigarettes..... All Jim Jarmusch films. All about my mother, talk to her ...almost all films by the Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, he really helped me understand the human condition. All of Spike Lee's, Oliver Stone's , and Martin Scorsese's films. Bamboozled was so good. The six degrees of connection, The game, harry potter (i read the books too), the first Matrix and only the first one. Most of Buster keeton's work. Slacker, Dreamers, House of fools, Before Sunrise, and waking life, Pulp Fciton, "Amores Perros", all of Felini's work, Blow up, four hundred Blows, Dr. Strange love, clock work orange, Barry Lyndon and everything else by the late and great Stanley Kubrick. A Street Car Named Desire and most films with a young and sexy Marlon Brando.Delicatessen, City of lost children, Amelie and most everything else that comes out of the French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, he even made Aliens four cool. Freddy vs. Jason because it enacted my childhood fantasy, having grown up on horror films, and I laughed so hard I cried. Requiem for a dream, Dark days, Donnie Darko, all of the Cohen bothers' films, Michael Moores' Docs...and on and on. a third of my life is two dimensional.
The family guy, the Simpson’s, the daily show. Nowadays I don't watch TV. And, I’m not just saying that like some people do, really truly, I don't. I don't have the energy to constantly deconstruct all the insidious advertisements. But, being an escapist and a media junkie I rent TV shows and watch like whole season or two in like thirty hour binge session. Though not always top quality I’ve watched and enjoyed nip tuck, the sopranos,six feet under, strangers with candy, the L word, Lost, and 24 hours.
House of Leaves, A 100 years of solitude, geek love, youth in revolt, the island, the prophet, running with scissors, all four of J.D. Salinger's books, the dark tower series by Steven king plus allot of his masterpieces like Insomnia, Carrie, etc. Fahrenheit 451, 1984, the power of one, watership down, monster dogs, mist of avalon, Amusing ourselves to death, Brave new world, Grapes of Wrath, Catch 22, Slaughter house five... in fact everything by Kurt Vonnegut. All the Douglas Adams books; The Hitchhikers Guide and more. Lord of the Rings, Jitterbug perfume. all writings by my favorite non-fiction politcal authors like Chomsky, Zinn, and Goodman. Detective novels like the alphabet series, the long goodbye, the maltese falcon. David Sadris' "I write pretty", some ann rice, Siddharta. plays/sceen plays; A raisin in the sun, most of Woody Allen's old stuff, after the fall , Death of a Salesman or anything by the late great Miller. my brothers latest novel Blood and Bones & i still want more.
I'm still looking...but Gandhi, Bob Marley, Amy Goodman; anyone martyred by the new fascist regime