Poetry, art, economic theory, comic books, hard science, fire, applied mathematics, general combustion, smurfs, current events.
I'd like to meet:
Everyone I can this time around.
Music:
Naked Raygun, New York Dolls, Fugazi, Black Flag, Bad Brains, Backyard Babies, Devo, The Supersuckers, Husker Du, Replacements, Jesus Lizard, Groovie Ghoulies, The Devil Dogs, Ramones, Sex Pistols, MC5, Gluecifer, The Dragons, Supagroup, Big Black, Brainiac, Buzzcocks, Sick of it All, Minutemen, The Chameleons UK, Hookers, John Coltrane, Pretenders, Roger Miller, Joao Gilberto, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, Loop, Motorhead, Pussy Galore, Yo La Tengo, Half Japanese, Glenn Branca, Killing Joke.
Movies:
Any movie with Zombies. Starting with George Romero: Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead. Then onward: Return of the Living Dead, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, After Death, Alien Dead, All Souls Day, Army of Darkness, Astro-Zombies, Beyond Re-Animator, Boy Eats Girl, Dead Alive, Bride of Re-Animator, Children of the Living Dead, Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things, Choking Hazard, Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town, C.H.U.D., C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D., The Dead Hate the Living!, Dead Meat, The Dead Next Door, Diary of the Dead, Doom, The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, Fido, Flesheater, Grindhouse, Hell of the Living Dead, Hide and Creep, Homecoming, Hood of the Living Dead, House of the Dead, House of the Dead 2, I Walked with a Zombie, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, King of the Zombies, Last Man on Earth, My Boyfriend's Back, Night of the Comet, Night of the Creeps, The Omega Man, Outpost, Pet Sematary, Pet Sematary II, The Plague of the Zombies, The Plague, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Planet Terror, Plane Dead, The Quick and the Undead, Raiders of the Living Dead, Re-Animator, Redneck Zombies Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Resident Evil: Extinction, Revolt of the Zombies, Route 666, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Severed, Shatter Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Shock Waves, Slither, Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies, The Stink of Flesh, Undead, Vampires vs. Zombies, Versus, Video Dead, White Zombie, Wild Zero, Zombi 1 through 3, Zombiegeddon, Zombie Genocide, Zombie High, Zombie Honeymoon, Zombie Nightmare, Zombie Planet, Zombie Town, Zombies, Zombies of the Stratosphere, Zombies on Broadway. Man I love Zombies, they forward the perfect metonymic relationship between Americans and our views on death. Ecologically they are earth firsters, interested in returning the earth to a pre-humanity state of existence. And they also eat people.
Television:
I do not watch TV.
Books:
Pretty much any poetry published. In a given year I read a unreal amount of books and manuscripts. Some faves include the Collected poems of Paul Blackburn, Collected poems of James Wright, On the level everyday: selected talks on poetry and the art of living by Ted Berrigan, Talking in Tranquility: interviews with Ted Berrigan, The Dream Songs by John Berryman, Gunslinger by Ed Dorn, Kora in Hell by WCW, Lunch poems by Frank O' Hara, A Hungry Ghost Surrenders his Tacklebox by Maj Ragain, Blue Mound To 161 by Garin Cycholl, Milk Chip Monday by Julie Otten, Borders My bent Toward by George Kalamaras, One Wish Left by Tony Gloeggler, Drunk and Disorderly by Alan Catlin, Uncontainable Noise by Steve Davenport, Patterson, Views of Jeopardy and Monolithos by Jack Gilbert, The telling by Laura Riding Jackson, A whole bunch more. Any. You name it.
Heroes:
Thor (I almost named my first born Mjolnir), Yellowjacket (the biggest loser in all of hero-dom), Edward Gorey, Berni Wrightson, Simon Perchik, Gerritt Lansing, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Lorine Niedecker, Susan Stewart, the Punisher, Paul Blackburn, Leslie Marmon Silko, Jack Gilbert, Red Wolf, George Kalamaras, Geoffrey Gatza, Arthur Rackham, Amy King, Darth Vader, Bill Knott, Tim Burton, Jack Kirby, Neal Adams, Hunter S. Thompson, Sherman Alexie, Neil Gaiman, David Baptiste Chirot, Speed Racer, George Tuska, Jeff Pezzati, Carroll Arnett, Santiago Durango, Ian MacKaye, Jim Steranko, Nick Cardy, Nick Fury, the Supersuckers, Guy Picciotto, and of course, Steve Albini.
