Dustin the Tool

I'd like to meet:

Anyone with half a brain.The Dude, Max Fischer, Boo Radley (w/ Scout Finch of course!), Yossarian, Tyler Durden, a tour w/Captain Jack Aubrey and Setphen Maurtrin or Captain Archer. A pint with any or all of the Beatles, Noam, a pint with Jesus, Mohammad, Shiva, and Siddartha, just so we could work some shit out, the guy that rolled the first one, the real me, any and all of my heros, a conversation with my dog would be nice, Stevie Ray Vaugn, Marconi, a pint and a smoke w/ Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pip cause those little bastards can drink, Howard Stern, Jared Diamond, Ivo Andric, Jackie Brown, Che Gueverra at 23, Kermit the Frog, John the Savage, Hawkeye...

...and those that want to leave the world a cleaner better place than it was when they came into it.

Music:

Longwave, Tool, Radiohead, coldplay, Travis, the Strokes, Snow Patrol, Franz Ferdinand, The Datsuns, the Beatles, Kasabian, Beck, Interpol, Rage Against the Machine, Dale Watson, Oasis, any other band with "the" in it, Pink Floyd, ancient druid fertility songs, the White Stripes, Funeral Rites, the laughter of dead children, 70's metal cause sometimes you just gotta rock. Guns n' Roses (fuck off, remember when they broke out Nelson, Winger, Bon Jovi and Poison were 1.), the squeek of penis in poon, Fantastic Planet, Sunny Day Real Estate, the sound of man getting his nuts smashed in a car door, the sound of a beer opening, click of a lighter, bubbling water, quitting time, cats in love, a growing appreciation of jazz and opera. any music when you are otherwise, anything original and sincere,

Movies:

The Big Lebowski, Rushmore, Office Space, Fight Club, Heavy Metal, Lost in Translation, typically the Cohen Brothers, Wes Anderson, Boondock Saints, the Transporter, Snatch, Star Trek and Star Wars (duh, I'm a child trapped in the body of an adult.) Lord of the Rings, (duh I'm a dork trapped in the body of an egotistical former nerd.) Any dick flick my Kevin Smith (duh I have a dick, the balls are in the wife's purse.) most war movies, Anything subversive and dark. Brazil, 1984, I love political movies. Unless its a Jesus blood orgy. The guy that made that one is fucking nuts. Girl with a Pearl Ear Ring, orginal and sincere is always good

Television:

TV eats your soul. Science Fiction can save you. The genre helps make the debate more palatable and allows some abstract reasoning and conflict resolution with out all that messy reality getting in the way. (How do you sit down with someone who is willing to kill themselves to just kill you. We live in a most intractable situation.) Before we get to the Sci Fi diatribe... Rome is the best historical TV show ever. They get everything right, the history, the politics, the society. They show Rome, the ancient world, and our own humanity in all its bloody, backstabbing, jiggling boobies best. Its comment on the hubris of power is especially cutting in these times. Enterprise is the best Star Trek ever, it is one of the best shows on televison. But is of course is off the air because the vapid fuckwads at UPN want to pimp America's top model instead of topical and well acted television. However, Battlestar Galactica gets everything right and is what Enterprise could have been. Enterprise returns to the original purpose the science fiction genre developed. It takes modern problems and looks at it through the alien eyes of the future. (In Enterprise's season 3 they flew through a hostile region of space searching for a weapon of mass destruction. they've dealt with political and religious extremeism, socialy abhorent diseases, cultural clash, the moral delimma of war. Too many topics to list here. It's all Very insightful.) Both Battlestar and Enterprise's writing and story lines remind me a lot of Bradbury, Orwell and that sort, with Star Trek going back the original gunboat diplomacy focus of the orignal series.Battlestar deals with pending genocide from an enemy that works in the shadows and happily kills itself to kill you. The characters are flawed make mistakes. People get killed off left and right. Download the first season, then get your ass in the couch for season 2, you won't be disapppointed. More people should watch this show.The Shield on FX is a modern Shakespearean tragedy. Vic Macky can abuse a child molester anytime he feels like it.Watch the Daily Show everyday it's on.

Books:

Chuck Palahniuk, Steinbeck, Jared Diamond, Noam Chompsky, Without a doubt To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is my favorite book. the Aubry-Maurtin novels by O'Brian are the best historical fiction I've read. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Don Quiote, the People's History of the United States, Mythology by Edith Hamilton, Alas Babylon, 1984, the Handmaiden's Tale, the owners manual for a 1976 AMC Pacer, the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Republic, The Consolation of Philosophy, the Prince, the Second Treatise on Civil Government, Leviathen, Rights of Man, The Wealth of Nations, Beyond Good and Evil, On Liberty, the Origin of the Species, the Double Helix, the Best and the Brightest, Manufacturing Consent, the Wealth and Poverty of Nations, Guns Germs and Steel, Collapse, Freakenomics, the Closing of the American Mind, the Rand McNally Atlas of the Ancient World. I have lots of different philosophy and history in my library. chompsky is sometimes laborious but always thought provoking. I love dicitonaries, I have 7 at last count. But I want more. I'm looking for a good eytmilogical dictionary. Word origin is a good way to cross the cultural divide. If you are looking for a good cheap paperback dictionary, which every person should have in my opinion, Webster's New World dictionary is my personal favorite.

Fuck Censorship!

Heroes:

the people that invented fire, the wheel, beer, agriculture, philosophy, marijuana, and writing; Epictetus, socrates, plato, aristotle, pythagoras, marcus aurelius, Spartacus, Justinian, Boethius, Thomas Aquinas, King John I, Martin Luther, Johannes Gutenberg, Copernicus, Gallello, Da Vinci, Adam Smith, John Locke, Issac Newton, Cervantes, Mozart, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Bernardo O'Higgins, Alexis De Tocqueville, Lewis & Clark, Abraham Lincoln, Karl Marx, Arthur Guinness, John Stewart Mill, Sam Houston, Mother Jones, Teddy Roosevelt, every poor bastard that fought in WWI, Woodrow Wilson, John Steinbeck, Franklin Roosevelt, everyone who fought for freedom in WWII, Albert Einstein, Mahattma Ghandi,Charlie Chaplin, Groucho Marx, Beatnecks, The Warren Court, Hugh Heffner, Chuck Berry, Harper Lee, Elvis Presley, Jack Kerouac, The Beatles, Abbie Hoffman, Bill O'Reilly (for being a monumental dumbass), George Orwell, Hippies, Braburners, draft card burners, Martin Luther King, vietnam soldiers, Herb Albert and the Tiajuania Brass, Malcolm X, John F. Kennedy, Josef Heller, Robert Kennedy, Neil Armstrong, Pink Floyd, the Clash, jrr Tolkien, Patrick O'Brian, Woodward and Bernstien, Jimmy Carter, Mikael Gorbachev, Noam Chompsky, all the people who fought for freedom in the Eastern Block, anyone who kicked the current administration's ass in school, The inventors of the internet, Chuck Palahniuk, radiohead, my wife cause she is the smartest chick I've ever met,the people of Holland, the developers of filesharing, the poor bastards in Iraq right now, all those who fight for freedom now.