writing, music, ancient history (and history in general), philosophy, reading, interviewing, talking, finding interesting forgotten places, urban decay, art, playing music, politics, movies, mysticism, religion, making the world a better place a little bit at a time, photography, filmmaking, sound mixing and production, underground comics, understanding people and the world, women, 'zines, Bill Hicks, stand-up comedy in general, documentaries, the occult...a lot of stuff not coming to me now.
I'd like to meet:
Critical thinkers not bound purely by linear logic nor entirely opposed to the idea when it's useful and anyone whose heart bleeds for the authentic life.
Music:
A lot of stuff that doesn't get played on mainstream radio and some stuff that does. Lately I've been digging on Unwound, The VSS, REM, Versus, Eyes Caught Fire, Portishead, The Vitamins, Hungry Giant, Lake, Mission of Burma, Sonic Youth, Minor Threat, Christian Death, Daniel Johnston, High Dependency Unit, The Gordons, Thee Oh Sees, High Places, Alphabets, Dengue Fever, Sole, Time, Savage Republic, Beat Happening, Mercury Rev, Portishead, The House of Love, Unrest, Bad Luck City, Beach House, Colder Than Fargo, Fucking Orange, The Replacements, The Stooges, Death in June, The Silver Cord, Bowery Electric, Pleistocene, Bikini Kill, Bright Channel, Overcasters, The Verve, Bad Brains, Pylon, Lake, Ghost, Comsat Angels, The Sound, Felt, Half-Handed Cloud, Pharmacy and some other stuff.
Movies:
Anything that isn't clearly a marketing vehicle and doesn't involve uninspiredly hackneyed premises. Basically, I hate most Hollywood movies anymore and have little patience for anything that has to spell everything out to me in graphic detail. Most recently I saw Juno and actually liked it quite a bit. Oddly, though, it didn't have me getting into the Moldy Peaches. Never was into that band for some reason. I didn't dislike them either. Also watched Athens, GA Inside Out.
Television:
TV is something I no longer get to watch except when I visit relatives or when I stream Democracy Now ... Since I picked up the 2nd season of Chapelle's Show, I've been watching it on and off. Negrodamus kills me. I've been a big Paul Mooney fan since I was in high school (he always seemed to have more of an edge than many of his contemporaries) but never saw him in much until then. One of the living comedy greats of our time and fairly obscure. And that Charlie Murphy stuff STILL gets me laughing pretty hard because it's just so ridiculous.
Books:
Hardly anyone reads...I read a lot. If you're interested in the books I like, ask. Mostly I read non-fiction. Still working on the Mike Sager book but I got derailed into reading Party Out of Bounds about the Athens, GA music scene that I was reading to prepare for an interview I did with one of the main people who were part of that in the 80s.
Heroes:
This stays intact: As in people who made me want to do something different with my life? Where do I start? Let's keep it to people I know who are doing something with music and narrow it down...Kurt Ottaway, Myshel Prasad, Jeff Suthers, Shannon Stein, Brian Banks, Ross Etherton, Jason Heller, Jeremy Ziehe, Andrew Warner, Bobby Jamison, Sarah Goodroad, AJ Hathaway, Tonja Nolan, Kevin Nolan, Taj Yelton, Ed Marshall, Sean Boyd, Mike Atchley, David Spethman, William Neiman, Suzi Bromfield, Sarah Lucey, Brian Kaufmann, Sophia Throop, Becky McMullen, Robin Burnett, Ryan Hurd, Noah Winningham, Kellie Palmblad, Joel Brown, Lydia Brown, Dustin Bingham, Heather Bingham, Holly Dorr, Kathryn Ellinger, Michael Trenhaille, Danny Huber, Toshimi Ichiki, Cyndi Wonderful, Amy Fantastic, Germaine Baca, Michelle Olsen, Sherry Hern, Claudine Rousseau, Yoon Park, Brent Burkhart, BJS, Adam Avery, Maia Fortis, Christian Eklund, Darnelle Apodaca, Aaron Johnson, Julio Orozco, David Goff, Kate Johnson, Doug Spencer, Hayley Helmericks, Lucas Rouge, Dave Yob, Diana Sperstad, Josh Taylor, Nate Hayden, Ben DeSoto, Andrew Novick, Brittany Gould, Nick Houde, Travis Egedy, Luke Fairchild, Eddie Dugan, Ryan Sniegowski, Scott Bagus, James Barone, Wymond Miles, Maureen P. Herman, Malcolm X, Kathleen Hanna, Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox, Billy Karren, Carrie Brownstein, Corin Tucker, Janet Weiss, Robert Burleson, Josh Bergstrand, Sonya Decman, Sara Thurston, Eli Mishkin, Elaine Acosta, Bryan Feuchtinger, Ben Bergstrand, Tyler Campo, Erin Tidwell, Bree Kutz, Allie Hale, Fernando Guzman, Taylor Evans-Rice, Andrew Elkins, Simon Elkins, DJ Von Feldt, Wendy Marlow, Alisa Dowell, Sarah Slater, Linda Ruth Carter, Andrea Allen, Jocelyn Holst, Matt Brown, Jaime Jennings, John Porcellino, Misun Oh, George S. Patton Jr., Alexander the Great, Cleopatra, Douglas MacArthur, Chuck Potashner, Kat Roscoe, Alyssa Detert, William Fewer-Reed, John Lydon, Greg Sage, Robert Hazan, Henry Rollins, Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert, Katherine Peterson, Logan Corcoran, Andy Falconetti, Eric Van Leuven, Jeff Almond, Yuzo Nieto, Dean Wareham, Phil Oakey, Wayne Coyne, Jarvis Cocker, Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Amy Goodman, Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus, Julius Caesar, Hadrian, Aung San Suu Kyi, Joseph Campbell, Betty Friedan, Thomas Paine, Patti Smith, Tom Verlaine, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Greg Palast, Ian MacKay, Guy Piccioto, Brendan Canty, Joe Lally, Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, John Cale, Maureen Tucker, Doug Yule, John Lennon, Roni Sarig, John Peel, Michael Azerrad, Critical Mass, Vincent Bugliosi, Martin Luther King, Food Not Bombs, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott...I'll stop there for now.
