Reinventing Holden Morrisey Caulfield
Music, art, films, friends, bicycles, airplanes, motorcycles, Hot Rods, tattoos, reading, Martial arts, green tea, Pho, Sushi, Yoga, philosophy, psychology, sexuality, sentimentality, dark chocolate, red wine, whiskey, beer.
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn, burn, burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!"
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Rock and Roll, Punk, Brit Pop, Synth Pop, Hair Metal, Glam Rock, Reggae, Ska, Dub, Hip hop, High energy, Karaoke, College Radio, Short Round, The Mumlers, The Entertainment Committee, Nonchalant, The Bobby Pins, The Extras, The Accidentals, Z!4k45.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, One Flew over the Cockoo's Nest, The Shining, Lost Boys, Dead Alive, Army of Darkness, Betelgeuse, Breakin', The Moulin Rouge, The Filth and the Fury, Sid and Nancy, Another State of Mind, If I Should Fall from Grace, Last Samurai, Crouching Tiger – Hidden Dragon, Ninja Scroll.
I've opted out. I don't have cable. I don't try to tune in channels with rabbit ears. I can afford cable I just don't want it. TV with few exceptions makes me sad. In short I don't watch television.
Currently reading:
The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies.
Year to date:
A long way gone. Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Original Zinn, Conversations on History and Politics by Howard Zinn
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by EB Sledge
Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan
Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang by William Queen
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan.
People who volunteer.
People who are actively trying to make the world a better place.