my friends, being old, a smart woman with smart a mouth, making suckcessories, being overly earnest, high/low culture, politics, quantum physics, rocknroll, biking, running, yoga, graphics, sleep, disco naps, Vice Magazine, Drity Sex, the library, science fiction, looking gay but not actually being gay, the Onion, Peaches, Shawn Wolfe, Charlie Chaplin, Basquiat, Shepard Fairey, Beethoven, Miles Davis, Mejor Vida Corporation, Claire Zulkey, Denis Johson, David Berman, Michael Gondry films, Over the top Oliver Stone political movies, dumbass comedies, Beck, Missy Elliot, self improvement millionaires, Diesel, Vice Magazine, American Bulldogs, trains, grafitti. And board games. Booming spring and summer thunderstorms.
I like highbrow & lowbrow things. Smart things. Jonathan Glazer, Spike Jonze early work. Liam Sullivan, Olde English, WonderShowzen, The Andy Milonakis Show, Shynola, The Onion, The Daily Show. Films by Charlie Kaufman and Michel GondryFeel free to look at some of my ad copy here:http://www.creativehotlist.com/skylabincSee my little freelance design outfit, Skylab, here:www.skylab-inc.com ............................................................ ............................................................ ........... Academics. Cultural critics. Clowns. Painters. Photographers. Health nuts, yoga people, sports playing types and good cooks. ............................................................ ............................................................ ........... Anybody with experience and contacts in advertising, television, fashion and film. Anyone who is either talented or good with money or just enthusiastic who wants to start an oxymoronic punk rock poetic ad firm.
BAD BRAINS, The Ramones, Art Brut, Nick Drake, Louis Armstrong, REPLACEMENTS, and HUSKER DU, and COWS, 1980s Soul Asylum, Walt Mink, Peaches, Louis XIV, Queens of the Stone Age, Black Eyed Peas, Kanye West, Missy Elliot, MIA, Beck, Blur, Iggy Pop/Stooges, The Cars, Guns N' Roses, T-Rex, Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Rolling Stones, Final Conflict, DK, AOF, Sweet, Cheap Trick, The Sex Pistols, Weezer, Princess Superstar, Top 40, Helmet, Madonna, Brian Eno, David Bowie, Kiss, U2, The Who, Mark Mallman, Outkast, Neptunes, NWA, 80s music from cheese metal to top 40 to hardcore, Cuban big band, Cuban salsa, James Brown, Cesaria Evora,Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto, Pixies, Some Interpol, Postal Service, and Depeche Mode, Boards of Canada, Frank Sinatra, Les Paul, The Kinks, John Coltrane, Sweet, Led Zeppelin, 70s style funk, Samba, HarMar Superstar, Kellis, Morcheeba, The Strokes, The Hives, The White Stripes, Jackson 5, Parliament, Funkadelic, Deftones, Refused, Dillinger Four, Dead Kennedy's, Princess Superstar, Foxy Brown, Def Leppard, Husker Du, Alice in Chains, Duran Duran, Soundgarden, Probot, Foo Fighters, Afghan Whigs, Shudder to Think, old Metallica, Billy Joel, Cat Stevens, The Faces, The Rushmore Soundtrack, Beethoven from Immortal Beloved. Basically a shitload of mostly out of style music.
Mafia movies, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Weather Underground, The Graduate, Anyting with Jack Nicholson, Gladiator, Being John Malkovich, The Audition, Fassbinder movies, Hal Hartley movies, Jacob's Ladder, CSA, Fot of War, Napoleon Dynamite, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, Zoolander, Caligula, All Woody Allen moves before he married his kid, Andrei Tarkovsky fillms--Mirror and Stalker, Raising Arizona, In the Name of the Father, Time of the Gypsies, La Jetee, Man on the Moon, Johnny Dangerously, Star Fucking Wars, Alien, Aliens, Heat, The Insider, Love and Death, American Movie, Blade Runner. Any film with Daniel Day Lewis, Al Pacino, Owen Wilson or Russel Crowe. Scorcesse films. And big historical, crime, politics, or science fiction movies. And inscrutable art films.
TV--better than movies: The Andy Milonkis Show, Wonder Showzen, Battlestar Galactica, Drawn Together, The Daily Show, Lost, Good Times, Inside the fucking actors studio, the Apprentice and the Runway, The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Strangers with Candy, Mad TV, PBS type documentaries, crappy made for TV movies
The Time Traveler's Wife, Dead Leaves, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Elegant Universe, The Road, Jesus' Son (Denis Johson), Airships (Barry Hannah), Girls! Girls! Girls! (Claire Zulkey), CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (George Saunders) Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day (David Sedaris), The Little Prince (St. Exupery) Poems (ee cummings) Before Night Falls (Reinaldo Arenas) Empire (Hardt, Negri) A Woman In Berlin (anonymous), Evolution (Stephen Baxter) Kinski Uncut (Klaus Kinski) John Lennon's little books 1964-1964, Without Feathers (Woody Allen), Oh The Places You'll Go (Dr. Suess) The Red Truck (Rudy Wilson), Dry (Augusten Burroughs), The White Hotel (?), Dreams (Jung), Sculpting in Time (Andrei Tarkovsky), Moby Dick--seriously, it's a funny book (Melville), Dispatches (Michael Herr), Foucault Reader, Chomsky Reader, anthing by Hunter S. Thompson, James Baldwin, Sharon Olds, Gore Vidal****Going After Cacciato (Tim Obrien), The Power of Now (Eckhart Tohle), Zen Mind Beginner's Mind, The Four Agreements, Discover Magazine, ARTFORUM, IDEA Magazine, and all of the Onion Books.
Muhamed Ali, Peaches, Malcolm X, Oscar Romero, My brother Tom, My sister Kerry, Christy Brown, Paul Wellstone, Johnny Cash, Stephen Hawking. Strippers who actually save some of that money. People who save other peoples' lives, people who are consistenly honest, people who are completely badass and compassionate at the same time. "Patrick, you cannot ride in two cabs with one behind." ---My Grandmother