being prepared. fearing not. being just. heavy on the garlic, ginger and onions. And of course Sumo (really, the best sport around)
I'd like to meet:
The Old Yellow Serpent
Thanksgiving Prayer By: William S. Burroughs
The Last Sparrow
Music:
pre-1975 Cambodian rocknroll (Si SInSamuth, Ros SereiSothea), Hank Williams, Sr., Los Campesinos!, 66 Saints, Nico, The Black Angels, pre-"Daydream Nation" Sonic Youth, Hole's "Live Through This", is the single best "grunge" album, period (the rest of that crap those guys did was nothing compared to this album), Clara Rockmore, Bikini Kill, Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass, The Birthday Party, Juned, Mahoumad Amad (and most pre-1975 Ethiopian jazz/pop), Phillip Glass (The Fog of War, Piano Solos), early-Sleater-Kinney, The Breeders, Gang of Four (Entertainment), The Buzzcocks (Singles Going Steady, A Different Kind of Tension), X-Ray-Spex, Team Dresch (Personal Best), Swans (Filth, Cop), Patsy Cline, early PiL, The Velvet Underground, Magazine (The Correct Use of Soap), My Bloody Valentine, Interpol (Turn On The Bright Lights), Nat Cole, early-Patti Smith Group, early-The Fall, The Raymond Scott Quintet, Joanna Newsom, Arctic Monkeys, old school/first wave Ska, Eyeless in Gaza, and of course every note played and sung by Joy Division
Movies:
Midnight Cowboy (this movie really informed me on storytelling when I saw it at 16 on late late night TV in 1976 - it taught me you could tell a story that was ugly, beautiful, and sad; and it could be the greatest story ever told), Flower Island, Wanda, Sympathy For Mr. Vengance, Out of the Blue, Stranger Than Paradise, Goodfellas, Sonatine, Rainy Dog, Auntie Mame, Rivers Edge, The Queens, Jackie Brown, Scenes at the Sea, Trash, Z, A Better Tomorrow 1 and 3, Nobody Knows, A Woman Under the Influence, Ghost Dog, Breathless, Bad, Female Trouble, Bullet In The Head, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Hole, Gonin, Black Angel 2, Battle For Algiers, The Wizard of Oz, Cyclo, Wanee and Junnah, Barking Dogs Never Bite, After Life, Gloria, A Fist Full Of Dollars, Ju-On/The Grudge, ChungKing Express, Faces, In the Mood for Love, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, L.I.E., Salaam Bombay, Nabi, The Fog of War, Vegas in Space, Opening Night, Pixote, Yellow Hair 2, Eyes of the Spider, Unknown Pleasures, Even Dwarfs Started Small, Fallen Angels, Mulholland Drive, Week-End, Blue Velvet, Hard-Boiled, The Misfits, Elephant
Television:
NBC News Overnight with Linda Ellerbee (July 1982-Dec. 1983) (Overnight was the best news show ever broadcast on TV in the United States), Roseanne, Prime Suspect, The Simpsons, Frontline, The Sopranos, EastEnders, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Wire, Family Guy, POV, Six Feet Under (seasons 1, 2), Twin Peaks (season 1 and parts of 2), Reno911, Little Britain, In The Life, Degrassi (all of them), US Antiques Roadshow, The Bob Newhart Show (first one), The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Carnivale, Da Vinci's Inquest (a Canadian serial, the best "crime" drama ever)
Books:
North, Castle to Castle, Rigadoon - Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus - Charles C. Mann, Dra- and Frances Johnson - Stacey Levine, almost everything by John LeCarre, everything by Patricia Highsmith, Blood Meridian, Sutree, Outer Dark, The Orchard Keeper, Child of God - Cormac McCarthy (despite the taint of Oprah), Nova Express, Wild Boys and The Place Of Dead Roads - William Burroughs, everything by H. P. Lovecraft, Godspeed - Lynne Breedlove, A Peoples History Of The United States - Howard Zinn, Our Lady Of The Flowers and Funeral Rites - Jean Genet, A Hundred Years Of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, My Loose Thread and Closer - Dennis Cooper, To The Light House and Mrs. Daloway - Virginia Wolf, Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor, everything by Paul Bowles, The Moss Gatherers and Shoot The Buffalo - Matt Briggs, Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby, Jr., Cities of Quartz and Late-Victorian Holocausts - Mike Davis, Hermione, Popo and Ginger and I Am Secretly An Important Man - Steven "Jesse" Bernstein, Nobody Dies Alone - Donald Goines, Tomorrow Will Make You Cry, If He Hollers and The Lonely Crusade - Chester Himes, Hothead Paisan - Diane Di Massa, Pop. 1280 and The Grifters - Jim Thompson, Two Serious Ladies - Jane Bowles, Zigzagger and The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue - Manuel Munoz, Housekeeping - Marylinne Robinson, The Gospel Singer - Harry Crew,
Heroes:
Phoolan Devi, Emiliano Zapata, Cynthia McKinney, Lydia Lunch, Jesse Bernstein, William Burroughs, Dorothy Carolyn Ravenscroft Owens, Dominic Ruscigno, Ralph Nader, J. M. W. Turner, Emma Goldman, Nico, Friedrich Nietszche, Takeshi Kitano
