Unconventional lust- For life, experience, exception. Finding satisfaction in uproar; it allows for exquisite revelations and self-reflection. Philosophy, introspect, knowledge, new perspectives, travel, books, drink, film, writing, music, records, independence, solitude, cooking..... "Be hopeless, but without despair." -Henry Miller___"How many times undone can one person be, as they're careening through the facade of their favorite fantasy?" -Ani DiFranco. I am in love with Hunter S. Thompson. "All my life, my heart has sought something that I cannot name." -quoted by Thompson from a long-forgotten poem he once read. "Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name." -Dylan Thomas. "When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow." -Anais Nin. "The mark of an educated mind is the ability to entertain an idea without accepting it" -Aristotle, "...Different people want different things in this world, and you have to be careful about taking risks. Hungry people have the cunning of wild beasts. A thing that seemed strange and wrong yesterday can seem perfectly reasonable tomorrow, or visa versa." -Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear. And one final Thompson quote: "No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."---"Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted..." -Lullaby, Chuck Palahnuik.."the problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer." -Joan Collins.
If Hunter S. Thompson was alive, I'd want to meet him. Certainly more than anyone else I don't already know.
Air, Ani DiFranco, anti-flag, Amon Tobin, A Perfect Circle, Appleseed Cast, arms bend back, at the drive-in, bear vs. shark, the beatles, Beck, ben folds five, bennie goodman, the beta band, better than ezra, billie holiday, Blondie, Bob Dylan, boy sets fire, brand new, cake, chopin, The Clash, coheed and cambria, collective soul, dave matthew's band's older shit, The Dead Milkmen, dean martin, Death in Vegas, Deftones, the Descendants, distorted penguins, duncan sheik, ella fitzgerald, Elliot Smith, Fiona Apple. the Gin Blossoms, Glassjaw, Goldfinger, gorillaz, Guster, hey mercedes, the hippos, incubus, Jack Johnson, Jimmy Eat World, Johnny Cash, louis armstrong, Massive Attack, matthew good band, miles davis, the Misfits, Modest Mouse, Moist, Mozart, My Bloody Valentine, Nat King Cole, NICK DRAKE, Nirvana, NOFX, operation ivy, Pixies, PORTISHEAD, Primus, propellerheads, radiohead, radish, rolling stones, secret machines, Sebadoh, the Shins, Sigur Ros, Silverchair, Simon & Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra...Mmm, Smashing Pumpkins, sneaker pimps, Sonic Youth, spacehog, Sparta, sponge, thelonius monk, Thursday, Tom Waits, Toadies, unwritten law, The Verve Pipe, the Velvet Underground, Violent Femmes, the Weakerthans, old Weezer and a shit-ton more of course. "I feel the same way about Disco as I do about herpes." -Hunter S. Thompson. Disco is of course, radio for me.
Grosse Pointe Blank, Vanilla Sky, Closer, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Cool Hand Luke, Elizabeth, Constantine, The Godfather I and II, The Virgin Suicides, Catch-22, High Fidelity, My Man Godfrey, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Philadelhpia Story, The Boondock Saints, Snatch, The Man With the Golden Arm, The Big Lebowski, Gia, Rounders, The Fifth Element, Indiana Jones' movies, Abres Los Ojos, Scarface, His Girl Friday, The Royal Tenenbaums, Oscar and Lucinda, All About My Mother, Max, Harvey, The Croupier, Say Anything, The Swimming Pool, A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, A Christmas Story, Rebel Without a Cause, Benny And Joon, The Grifters, Gilda, Pal Joey, Jeepers Creepers 2, Sin City, Goodfellas, Ocean's Eleven(original), Fight Club, The Seven Year Itch, Interview With the Vampire, The Basketball Diaries, The Believer, The Missing, Super Troopers, Kill Bill I and II, Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms, From Dusk Till Dawn, Suicide Kings, The Deer Hunter, Taxi Driver, Army of Darkness, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Nightmare on Elm St. series, Some Like it Hot, Better Off Dead, 21 Grams, Lost in Translation, Donnie Darko, The Beach, Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, On the Town, American History X, The Birds, The Sting, Belle Epoque, All The Real Girls, Return of the Jedi, Sonny, War of the Worlds, Splendor in the Grass, Hud, Seven, The Usual Suspects, L.A. Confidential, Reality Bites, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, It's a Wonderful Life, Bad Santa, Enter-The Dragon. American Psycho, Hurly Burly, O, Brother, Where Art Thou? Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Rear Window, Breakfast At Tiffany's, The Big Sleep, In Dreams, Primal Fear, Great Expectations, 80's movies, The 25th Hour, and a fuck lot more..
Dexter.
Every book and most short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, East of Eden and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, and her poetry and journals. Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, of course. The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy by Tim Burton, The Sicilian and The Godfather, Mario Puzo. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenide. A Moveable Feast and The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway... The Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller. High Fidelity. The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys. White Oleander. The Beach. The Rum Diary, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Songs of the Doomed, and selected stories, articles and interviews by/of Hunter S. Thompson. Carson McCullers, Sherlock Holmes stories. Anais Nin. The Transmetropolitan graphic novels are now added because I've read six of them.
I have no heroes.