Weightlifting. NBS. Czech beer. Streetpunk. Guinness. Rock art, from runestones to Chumash pictographs. Carnivorous plants. Cello. Philosophy and history. The game of Go. Landscaping and mindscaping. Backrooms and backroads.
Spammers, derivative indie bands with emaciated fans decked out in nautical stars, high school kids who post endless surveys, and lifeless losers who post multiple pointless bulletins.I need the target practice.
I maintain the skinhead showfinder at oi.home.mindspring.com . I like music that jumps into my blood and pulls me into the pit: Hudson Falcons, Inspecter7, Cocksparrer, Dropkick Murphys, the Business in its prime, Main Street Saints, Wretched Ones, Niblick Henbane, Ultima Thule... yeah, mostly oi.
A lot of classical music works for me too, especially if it is harder than hardcore: Mozart, Sibelius, Beethoven, Wagner, Shostakovich.
TV is for human puppets.
Politics: I vote for politicians who are pro-gay, pro-gun, and defend the ENTIRE bill of rights. I vote against politicians who put fundamentalists into positions where they can do real harm to civilization, nature, science, or liberty. Government works best when it has to work for the consent of the governed.
Ethnicity: I am not from the Caucasus. The term "Caucasian" is a last relic of nineteenth-century racialist Anthropology. I'm a mix of Germanic and Celtic.
Education: I am a doctor who can't prescribe drugs.
Samuel Delany respects the unexpectedness of reality, especially in Times Square Red/Times Square Blue and the Mad Man.
Marx is the antidote to the empty slogans of contemporary politics. He was right that class struggle is the motor of history. Karl Popper is the antidote to Marx with his warnings about ideologies that insulate themselves from disproof. If you can't prove a theory wrong, it is probably bullshit. Certainty is the enemy of truth.
Michel Foucault showed that how we are ruled is a more real question than who rules in Discipline and Punish and History of Sexuality, but James Scott layed it out more bluntly in Seeing Like a State.
Nietzsche shows how to balance the Apollonian and the Dionysian and to fight for the right to party.
The Havamal, the best of the long poems of Norse mythology salvaged in medieval Iceland and collected in the Poetic Edda, is the real Skinhead Bible.
Odin is the scholar-warrior who sacrifices himself for knowledge, and fights for what matters even if it is all hopeless in the end.
Freyr and Thor protect us, keep us fed and keep the seasons rolling.