the DANIMAL

I'd like to meet:

Clara Bow

Claudia Cardinale

Natalie Wood

Aishwarya Rai

Christina Ricci

Winona Ryder

Rose McGowan, Sophia Loren, Catherine Bell, Salma Hayek, Maria Bartiromo, Penelope Cruz, Natalie Portman, Louise Brooks, Claudette Colbert, Helena Christensen, Faye Dunaway, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Audrey Hepburn, Lauren Bacall, Lillian Gish, Brigitte Bardot, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Mila Kunis, Reese Witherspoon, Rita Hayworth, Jane Russell, Vivien Leigh, Jessica Alba, Kate Winslett, Helena Bonham Carter, Keira Knightly

Shakira

Alison Goldfrapp

Petula Clark

Faye Fife(Rezillos), Penelope Houston(Avengers), Nikki Corvette, Roach(Groovie Ghoulies), Siouxsie Sioux, Justine Frischmann & Donna Matthews(Elastica), Poison Ivy(Cramps), Poly Styrene(X-Ray Spex), Terri Nunn(Berlin), Annabella Lwin(Bow Wow Wow), Jane Wiedlin(Go-Go's), Suzi Quatro, Joan Jett, Debbie Harry, Karen Carpenter, Dolores O'Riordan(Cranberries), Gaye Advert(Adverts), Beki Bondage(Vice Squad)

Music:

Bobby Darin

The Beach Boys

Paul Revere and the Raiders

The Who

The Music Machine

Cheap Trick

The Ramones

The Damned

XTC

Screeching Weasel

60's, 70's, 80's, Rock 'N Roll, Punk, Garage, Glam, NewWave, Synth, New Romantic, Indie, Pychedelic, Surf, Rockabilly, (old)Country...not that new cunt-ry crap, Soul, Motown, Stax, old-skool Rap, etc.

I LOVE pop-rock with lots of multi-layerd harmonies and orchestral instruments and whatnot: Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, Beach Boys, Andy Partridge, XTC, Burt Bacharach, Ben Folds, the Decemberists, Belle and Sebastian, Love, the Shins, the New Pornographers, Rufus Wainwright, Air, Mellow, Blur, Surfjan Stevens, etc.

Movies:

Once Upon A Time In The West - Sergio Leone

Midnight Cowboy - John Schlesinger

Chinatown - Roman Polanski

RAN - Akira Kurosawa

Sunset Boulevard - Billy Wilder

A Place In The Sun - George Stevens

"Seems like we always spend the best part of our time just saying goodbye."

Amadeus - Milos Forman

Dances With Wolves - Kevin Costner

Metropolis, Platoon, The Fog of War, Fistfull Of Dollars, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Death Race 2000, Logan's Run, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Dr. Strangelove, The Party, Modern Times, Freaks, TRON, Better Off Dead, UHF, Dolamite, The Wild Bunch, The Graduate, Lenny, Double Indemnity, On The Waterfront, Once Upon A Time In America, The Mission, Buffalo 66, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Happiness, 28 Days Later, 'Dogma 95' flicks, any Charlie Chaplain, Election, Pecker, Billy Jack, Taste Of Cherry, Color Of Paradise, Blowup, Papillon, Dirty Harry, Thomas Crowne Affair (the original one w/ Steve McQueen & Faye Dunaway), The Manchurian Candidate (the original one w/ Frank Sinatra & Laurence Harvey), Planet of the Apes (the original one w/ Charlton Heston & Roddy McDowall), Mad Max, Road Warrior, Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Aliens, Straw Dogs, Mommy Dearest, Whatever Happenned To Baby Jane?, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?, Charade, Vertigo, North By Northwest, West Side Story, Splendor In The Grass, Rebel Without A Cause, Five Easy Pieces, Kramer vs. Kramer, End Of The Century, Rocky, Million Dollar Baby, Being There, the Right Stuff, Network, Good Night and Good Luck, All the President's Men, The Front Page, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Verdict, The Falcon and the Snowman, Patton, Where Eagles Dare, Horror of Dracula (w/ Christopher Lee & Peter Cushing), On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Return to Oz, Dark Crystal, Never Ending Story, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Television:

FRONTLINE

Washington Journal

NewsHour

Democracy Now!

The Colbert Report

BBC News, NOW, Meet The Press, Face The Nation, This Week, Hardball, Countdown, The Daily Show

The Simpsons

Mr. Show

Space Ghost Coast to Coast

Kids In The Hall, Extreme Elimination Challenge, Three's Company, Turner Classic Movies, Sundance, IFC, Arrested Development, Larry Sanders Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, E! True Hollywood Story, VH1 Legends, Adult Swim, Pee Wee's Playhouse, SCTV, Liquid Television, 120 Minutes, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Thunderbirds, UFO, Land Of The Lost, Twilight Zone, History Channel, Discovery Channel, NOVA

Books:

1984 - George Orwell

The Sorrows of Empire - Chalmers Johnson

Punk is a Four-Letter Word - Ben Weasel

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee - Dee Brown

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, Lord of the Flies, Catch 22, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Jungle, Animal Farm, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken, Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil, Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, the Guardian UK, The Nation magazine, Mother Jones magazine, This Modern World comic strip, Red Meat comic strip, HISTORY, POLITICS, SOCIOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY

Heroes:

"Of course, there is no doubt that if we lived in a police state, it would be easier to catch terrorists. If we lived in a country that allowed the police to search your home at any time for any reason; if we lived in a country that allowed the government to open your mail, eavesdrop on your phone conversations, or intercept your email communications; if we lived in a country that allowed the government to hold people in jail indefinitely based on what they write or think, or based on mere suspicion that they are up to no good, then the government would no doubt discover and arrest more terrorists. But that probably would not be a country in which we would want to live. And that would not be a country for which we could, in good conscience, ask our young people to fight and die. In short, that would not be America." - Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin)

Seymour Hersh

fellow Capricorn and eccentric genius, Howard Hughes

whistleblower and patriot, Daniel Ellsberg

"Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government." -Lenny Bruce

"We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable and complacent. We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late." - Edward R. Murrow

"The advice 'bomb them back to the Stone Age' may show that the speaker is already there himself, but it could, if followed, force all of us to join him." - Robert F. Kennedy

"If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man." - Rod Serling

the father and martyr of Rock 'n Roll, the Moondog, Alan Freed

"If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life." - Gus Grissom

a man who's never ashamed to cry in public...over a football game, Dick Vermeil

the truth-tellers: Ray McGovern, Lawrence Wilkerson, Joseph Wilson, Scott Ritter, Larry C. Johnson, & Chalmers Johnson

Martin Luther King Jr, Mark Twain, Brian Lamb, Amy Goodman, Bill Moyers, Christiane Amanpour, Harry S. Truman, Senator Eugene McCarthy, Barry Goldwater, Robert Capa, Shirin Ebadi, Frank Sontag, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, George Orwell, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, Chief Joseph, Archbishop Oscar Romero, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Ralph Nader, Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Michelle Bachelet, John Conyers, Joe Biden, Chuck Hagel, Dennis Kucinich, Lech Walesa, Mikhail Gorbachev, Steven Colbert, Jon Stewart, Keith Olberman, Carl Bernstein, Phil Hendrie, Andy Kaufman, Bill Hicks, Molly Ivins, Sergio Leone, Ennio Morricone, Akira Kurosawa, Peter Sellers, Johnny Cash, Jello Biafra, Bobby Darin, Billy Wilder, Lester Bangs, James Dean, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Greg Palast, Charlie Chaplain, George C. Scott, Lee Van Cleef, Al Franken, Robert Redford, George Clooney, Richard Burton, Brian Wilson, Ben Weasel, Stanley Kubrick, Oliver Stone, Michael Moore, Frank Capra, Elia Kazan, Roger Corman, Paul Newman, Sam Peckenpah, Milos Forman, Fat Mike, Roman Polanski, John Schlesinger, Dee Dee Ramone, Joe Strummer, Jack Lemmon, Rudy Ray Moore, Matt Groening, Mike Judge, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, Paul Reubens, Fritz Lang, John Waters, Russ Meyers, Blake Edwards, William Holden, Dr. Demento, Rodney Bingenheimer, Peter Jackson, Gerry Anderson, Max Cannon, Jon Voight, Tom Laughlin aka "Billy Jack," Bill Walsh, Jerry Rice, "Crazlegs" Elroy Hirsch, Lynn Swann, John Riggins, Jack Murtha, Dustin Hoffman, Geoffrey Rush, James Woods, Christopher Lee, General Lee, General Eisenhower, General Bradley, General George "Blood and Guts" Patton, Field Marshal Erwin "the Desert Fox" Rommel, Chuck Yaeger, Scott Crossfield, Yuri Gagarin, Gene Kranz, Kelly Johnson, everyone who has contributed the American and Russian aerospace programs