adventure, alternative construction, anarchism, anything with maple syrup, apples, baba yaga, bascal tumblers, bike messengers, bikes, birds, botany, calliope, peonies, camping, cast iron, cataloguing things, cicadas, cobblestones, comfort food, cooking, corrosion, corvids, crass records, death, deathrock, decay, down comforters, droning noises, dry air, duck confit, dumpster diving, eggs, ethnic monographs, featherbeds, feathers, fesenjan, fin de siecle paris, flea markets, folk magic, folk remedies, gardening, goth, harris tweed, heavy silverware, heirloom seedstock, herbalism, history, hoarding, hurdy-gurdys, ice cream, iceland, icelandic sagas, independence, japanese crafts, jars, late-1800s graphic design, lilacs, line drawings, making crafty things, maple syrup, maps, most anything outdoors, native plants, natural fabrics, non-electric appliances, old farming textbooks, old french bike parts, old paint, orchards, orchids, organic farming, pancakes, paper ephemera, paprika, persimmons, photography, pinecones, polycerate sheep, pomegranates, punk, randonneuring, reading, recycling, rolleiflex tlrs, rust, satsumas, scrounging, self-sufficiency, shells, shinto, snakeskins, sorting, stroop wafels, stupid 80s crap, surrealism, teasels, textures, thread spools, tin boxes, travel, tulips, umberto dei, victorian era ornamental plants, victorian ghost stories, waffles, willpower, wooden boxes, wool, zines, being too independant for my own damn good, and a whole hell of a lot of other stuff.
more people wholl make me think being social is worth it.
good lord. alien sex fiend, ambient noise, amebix, antisect, apparat organ quartet, asschapel, at the gates, bad brains, barrelhouse piano, bauhaus, beastie boys, big black, bill monroe, birthday party, bjork, black metal, bluegrass, boban markovic, calliope, christian death, chumbawamba, cocteau twins, conflict, crass (band and label), current 93, darkthrone, death cult, death in june, devo, discharge, doc watson, dock boggs, droning noises, earth, erase errata, fanfare ciocarlia, fields of the nephilim, flux of pink indians, freakwater, frostbite, fuzzbox, gamelan, gang of our, germs, gogol bordello, goth, hammers of misfortune, hurdy-gurdys, iron maiden, jamc, joy division, kocani orkestar, kukl, love and rockets, lustmord, manu chao, march violets, mastodon, the melvins, minutemen, mission of burma, mum, neubauten, nomeansno, nurse with wound, oi polloi, old country, opeth, organum, pipe organs, play dead, red lorry yellow lorry, rudimentary peni, run dmc, sex gang children, shellac, siouxsie, sisters of mercy, skeletal family, slayer, southern death cult, spk, stanley brothers, swans (pre-jarboe), sunn 0)))), szeki kurva, THE EX, the creatures, the cult, the cure, the epoxies, the fucking champs, the funerals, the mission uk, the pixies, the slits, the sugarcubes, the wake (both of them), theatre of hate, tones on tail, toy dolls, uk decay, under two flags, virgin prunes, willie nelson, x, x-ray spex, xmal deutschland, zounds, zu ... where to begin? where to end? i like more types of music than i can shake a stick at, and going to record stores is a horribly overwhelming ordeal for me. i usually end up walking out without buying anything, because the level of decision-making required is more than i can handle.
movies? i dont watch that many. come make me watch more. i like movies that leave you disoriented at the end, or where everyone loses. les triplettes de belleville! oh, and im a sucker for "breakfast at tiffany's" or "rosemary's baby". double feature? hmm.
ive never owned one, cause i dont watch it that much, or i fear that id watch it too much if i did. im good with the simpsons, some law & order, and happy to finally get decent cycling coverage in the states. sometimes i like to watch cops and laugh at what an effective tool it probably is for convincing people that the police always get their man.
mostly non-fiction. lots of alternative construction, rural living, organic farming, folk history lately. some fiction. zola "the belly of paris" & "the dream", laxness "independent people", tully "beggars of life", jack black "you cant win", andre breton "nadja", cocteau "les enfants terribles", anthony bourdin "les halles cookbook", fergus henderson "the whole beast" and the latest issue of cometbus. nikolai gogol! ambrose bierce! j. s. lefanu! flaubert "bouvard and pecuchet", m. r. james! turgenev! cant! stop! reading!
im not really sure i have any. to some degree, i admire anyone who truly just *is* who they are, in a sea of people desperately *trying* to be themselves, or someone else, or "unique".