Film, theatre, music, literature, history, religion, politics, sex...uh...art, photography, psychology, physiology, musicology, stinkopology, monopowapolology. Okay, I'll stop.
I'd like to meet:
Filmmakers, theatre fakers, music quakers, love shakers, hate mongers, bong tokers, breath takers, sandwich haters, breast strokers, cack smokers, book brokers, cheek pokers, cola cokers, rock n roller stokers.............uh........my brain hurts.......gotta stop.
Music:
Yes, music. What? I like all kinds of music except for Christian rock. Well, that and crap music. Mainly I like my Ipod on random, so, here are some random choices from my Ipod: ACDC, Adam and the Ants, Al Green, Allen Shawn, Anthology of Amercian Folk Music, Arcade Fire, Archers of Loaf, Bach, Batttlecats, Beastie Boys, Beatles, Beck, Belle & Sebastian, Billie Holiday, Billy Joel, Bjork, Blondie, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bright Eyes, Bulgarian Women's Choir, Captain Beefheart, Charlie Parker, Charlie Rich, Chet Baker, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Clash, Common, Crass, Crooked Fingers, The Cure, Cypress Hill, The Damned, David Bowie, Dead Boys, Dead Kennedys, Descendents, Detroit Cobras, Devils Are Dreaming Soundtrack, Devo, Dilated Peoples, Dr. Dre, Duran Duran, Edith Piaf, Elmore James, Elvis Presley, Eminem, Fela Kuti, Fiona Apple, Folk Implosion, Frank Sinatra, Fugazi, Fugees, Fur Cups for Teeth, Gary Lucas, Gershwin, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Hedwig, Hot Hot Heat, Hot Snakes, Iggy & the Stooges, Janes Addiction, Janos Starker, Jordi Savall, Joy Division, Katherine Whalen, The Kills, Kings of Leon, Kukl, Kurt Weill, Lambert Hendrick Ross, Le Tigre, Led Zeppelin, Leonard Bernstein, The Liars, Louis Armstrong, Beethoven, Magnolia Soundtrack, McLusky, Meat Puppets, Medeski Martin & Wood, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Modern Lovers, Modest Mouse, Moldy Peaches, Mos Def, The Movies, Mozart, Muddy Waters, NWA, NaS, Nat King Cole, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Nelly, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Ol Dirty Bastard, Osi Sladek, Outkast, Paolo Conte, Patti Smith, Peaches, Pete Fountain, Philip Glass, Phillip Roebuck, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Pogues, Postal Service, Primus, Puccini, REM, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Ramones, Regina Spektor, Reverand Horton Heat, Robert Wyatt, The Roots, Rushmore Soundtack, Sahara Hotnights, Sammy Davis Jr, Schubert, Scott Joplin, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Serge Gainsbourg, Sex Pistols, Shangri-Las, Shuggie Otis, Sinead Oconnor, Sly & the Family Stone, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Steely Dan, The Strokes, Talib Kweli, Television, Thelonius Monk, These Are Powers, Thome Yorke, Tom Waits, Tricky, TV on the Radio, Unbearable Lightness of Being Soundtrack, Velvet Underground, White Stripes, Willie Nelson, The Willowz, Wu-Tan Clan, X-Clan, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Young Buck.....phew.
Movies:
I'm a movie fanatic. I like all genres. Even those big budget, mindless Hollywood ones can be good once in a while although I do tend towards less polished stuff. Indie films, foreign, old old old and new too...so, in the spirit of my IPod list above.....here are a few of the films I own on DVD or VHS.....A Day at the Races, 400 Blows, Lolita, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Manhattan, Broadway Danny Rose, Annie Hall, Bullets Over Broadway, Hannah & Her Sisters, Stardust Memories, Marat/Sade, Black Hawk Down, Breathless, 8 1/2, Resevoir Dogs, The Night Porter, George Washington, Glengarry Glenross, Knife in the Water, M, Ben Hur, Sophies Choice, Days of Heaven, Badlands, The Misfits, Some Like it Hot, Do the Right Thing, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, Godfather Trilogy, The Warriors, Magnificent Seven, Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr., Faces, Crouching Tiger, Oliver!, The Holy Grail, Barfly, Affliction, Outlaw Josey Wales, Aaltra, Dead Man, Barton Fink, Stranger Then Paradise, Yong Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, About Schmidt, Blade Runner, Irreversible, Raging Bull, Jules & Jim, Seven Samurai, Ran, Chinatown, Caligula, The Awful Truth, The Big Sleep, Zorba the Greek, Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, Red Dust, King of Hearts, Rebel Without a Cause, Phantom of the Opera, Birth of a Nation, Nosferatu, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Diabolique, The Thing, Mondo Trasho, Oliver Twist, Moby Dick, Cabinet of Dr Cligari Steamboat Bill Jr, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, Circle of Iron, Straight Jacket, Marquis, Night of the Generals, Frankenstein, Seven Year Itch, Graduate, Dr Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, On the Waterfront, Mahabarata, The Apartment, Wizard of Oz, Gerry, Brazil, Lord of the Rings, Full Metal Jacket, 2001, Requiem for a Dream, The Tenant, Mean Streets, Singin in the Rain, Night of the Hunter, Human Nature, The Right Stuff, The Exorcist, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Bottle Rocket, Slums of Beverly Hills, Star Trek the Movie, Cries & Whispers, When Harry Met Sally, Waiting for Guffman, Life of Brian, Das Boot, Frances, Excalibur, Manchurian Candidate, Grey Zone, Happiness, Titus, Barbarella, MASH, American Beauty, Gone with the Wind, How to Draw a Bunny, Touch of Evil, Citizen Kane, Platoon, Return of the Pink Panther, Angel Heart, Dear Hunter...okay, that's enough.
Television:
I really don't watch much TV any more and I can't sling conversation about who ate what on Survivor and who got kicked off Temptation - blah-blah-blah - reality TV is neither reality nor TV. If you're gonna watch mindless crap, watch porn. At least it's honest mindless crap.But of course there are those few gems out there: Deadwood, Curb Your Enthusiasm, K Street, Frontline, Seinfeld, Six Feet Under, Arrested Development, Sopranos, NOW with Bill Moyers, American Masters, POV, Independent Lense, Spongebob Squarepants, South Park, Simpsons, Family Guy, All in the Family, Taxi, MASH, Star Trek, The Honeymooners, Conan O'Brien, Letterman, Carol Burnett, I Love Lucy, Milton Berle, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Faulty Towers, old Saturday Night Live, The Flinstones, old Scooby Doo, You Bet Your Life....
Books:
Good books good. Bad books bad. Is that too vague? Okay, random glancing through my huge book collection yields: Atrocity by Katzetnik, From the Beast to the Blonde by Warner, Ali & Nino by Said, Huckleberry Finn by Twain, A Scanner Darkly by Dick, Lynch on Lynch, Four Plays by Wallace Shawn, Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde, Complete Tails of Gogol, Three Essays on Sexuality by Freud, Philosophy in the Boudoir by de Sade, Satanic Verses by Rushdie, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Hurston, Long Days Journey in to Night by ONeill, Images by Bergman, Final Cut by Bach, Operation Shylock by Roth, Night Inspector by busch, Black Dahlia by Ellroy, Kicking the Pricks by Jarman, Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, Seventh Million by Segev, Meditation and Kabbalah by Kaplan, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas by Thompson, The Conversations by Ondaatje, Tales of Ordinary Madness by Bukowski, The Empty Space by Brook, The Age of Spiritual Machines by Kurzweil, Please Kill Me by McNeil, Black Looks by hooks, Artaud on the Theatre, Cruddy by Barry, Hero With a Thousand Faces by Campbell, Cassavetes on Cassavetes, Peer Gynt by Ibsen, Wish I Could be There by Shawn, Hamletmachine by Muller, Borges Collected Poems, The Unseen Hand & Other Plays by Shephard, Moby Dick by Melille, Autobiography of My Mother by Kincaid, Narrow Rooms by Purdy, Crash by Ballard, Groucho Harpo Chico & Sometimes Zeppo by Adamson, War of the Worlds by Wells, Labbec by Bataille, Complete Tales of Poe, Immortality by Kundera, Shadows on the Hudson by Singer, Bat Chain Puller by Loder, Gog & Magog by buber, The Prophet by Gibran, Butter Battle Book by Seuss, Tale of the Allergists Wife by Busch, A Crackup at the Race Riot by Korine, Innocent Libertine by Colette, The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway, Neuromancer by Gibson, Dream Cycle of HP Lovecraft, Gates of Eden by Coen, Letters and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, The American Dream & Zoo Story by Albee, Lolita by Nabokov, The Trial by Kafka, Filth by Irvine Welsh, Stanley Kubrick Director by Walker, Portable Henry Rollins, In the Blink of an Eye by Murch, Post to Neo by Tomkins, Conversations With Wilder by Crowe, Loitering With Intent by OToole, The Drowned and the Saved by Levi, Tough Jews by Cohen, Tremor of Intent by Burgess, Lord of the Rings Trilogy by Tolkein, A Dream of Passion by Strasberg, Communist Manifesto by Marx, Coyote vs Acme by Frazier, Brave New World by Huxley, Woody Allen on Woody Allen, Film Festival Survival Guide by Gore, Depraved Indifference by Indiana....okay....I could go on all night with this....must....stop.
Heroes:
Oh man. Heroes? That's a tough one. I'd have to go with my grandmother I guess. I never met her but because of her my father survived the Holocaust and therefore made it possible for me to be here. So yeah, that's a good answer. My grandmother wins.
