Drinking, sleeping, occasionally battling terminal laziness. Turning the other cheek. Wondering how all these holes got in my fence.
Ennio Morricone, Bowie, R.E.M., Elvis, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, The Smiths, Bernard Hermann, PJ Harvey, Tom Waits, Iggy/The Stooges, Warren Zevon, James Brown, most of Sun Records' artists. Anything good before 1994. I'm astonished at how quickly I've become an old man. It sneaks up on you, kids.
Best of 2007: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Zodiac, Grindhouse, The King of Kong.
Perennial faves: Badlands, Psycho, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Buffalo '66, Two-Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter, and anything else by Monte Hellman or starring Warren Oates. Oates and Hellman together? Oh snap.
"This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise, it is merely lights and wires in a box."-- Edward R. Murrow
"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want."--Clive Barnes
"...a medium best suited to illumine and dramatize the issues of the times has its product pressed into a mold, painted lily-white, and has its dramatic teeth yanked out one by one."--Rod Serling
Ian Fleming, Jim Thompson, Steve Ditko, true crime, and that old perv bastard Henry Miller.
"Men are not equal in ability and one can't treat them as if they were.â€