Film, literature, indie rock, social justice, sushi, Rottweilers, mix tapes and CDs, moscow mules, literary theory, queer theory, gender deconstruction, autumn, dressing in layers, striped socks, ending the Bush regime, the various and sundry charms of the 2004 world champion Boston Red Sox (sorry Andrew), transcendence
I believe you are sincere and good at heart.
If you do not attain happiness, always remember that you are on the right road. Try not to leave it. Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness, look into it every hour, every minute. Avoid being scornful, both to others and to yourself. What seems bad to you within yourself will grow pure by the very fact of your observing it.
Avoid fear, though fear is only the consequence of every sort of falsehood. Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and don't be frightened overmuch at your own evil actions.
I am sorry I can say nothing more consoling to you. For love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed, so everyone can see. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last too long, but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding, as if on a stage. But active love, active love, is labour, and fortitude.
-- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Oh, and as always...DOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Al Green, Joy Division, the Cure, Guided by Voices, Wu-Tang Clan (ODB RIP), invisible friend, anilore, Paul Robeson, Aesop Rock, Lily Allen, Antony and the Johnsons, Archers of Loaf, Band of Horses, Beat Happening, the Beatles, beatrice blinded, the Bee Gees, Biggie Smalls, the Birthday Party, Bjork, Blake Babies, Bloc Party, Blonde Redhead, David Bowie, Broken Social Scene, James Brown, Built to Spill, c depp, Neko Case, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Cat Power, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Chopin, Cocteau Twins, John Coltrane, the Commodores, Sam Cooke, the Coup, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Damon and Naomi, dead prez, Death Cab for Cutie, Desmond Decker, John Denver, Neil Diamond, Ani Difranco, Dirty Projectors, Dizzee Rascal, Donovan, Duran Duran, Bob Dylan, Edo G, Ella Fitzgerald, Fleetwood Mac, Galaxie 500, Gang of Four, Marvin Gaye, Ghostface, Goodie Mob, the Gossip, the Halo Benders, Husker Du, Ida, the Innocence Mission, Interpol, Mahalia Jackson, Jay-Z, the Jesus and Mary Chain, George Jones, King Geedorah, the Kinks, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Kool Keith, Fela Kuti, Talib Kweli, the La's, Lady Sovereign, Ladytron, Les Chauds Lapins, lispector, Lords Kitchener and Beginner, the Magnolia Electric Co., MF Doom, Charles Mingus, the Minutemen, Mission of Burma, Modest Mouse, Thelonious Monk, the Monkees, Mos Def, My Bloody Valentine, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Order, the New Pornographers, Stevie Nicks, Nico, Sinead O'Connor, Outkast, Pavement, the Pixies, Portishead, Postal Service, Pretty Girls Make Graves, early Primal Scream, Quannum/Solesides/Latyrx, Radiohead, Red House Painters, Otis Redding, R.E.M., ride, Ned Rifle, Kenny Rogers, the Rondelles, Rover 78, Schubert, Sigur Ros, Judee Sill, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sleater-Kinney, the Smiths, the Softies, Songs:Ohia, Sonic Youth, the Spinanes, Candi Staton, Steel Pulse, Stereolab, Cat Stevens, Stone Roses, the Sugarcubes, Sun Kil Moon, Swervedriver, The Thermals, Tracy + the Plastics, Tupac, Vast Aire, Velocity Girl, the Velvet Underground, Victory at Sea, Violet Nine, viking moses, Tom Waits, Dinah Washington, The Wedding Present, Wire, Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder, the wrens, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yo La Tengo, the Young Marble Giants, Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn, Billie Holliday died for our sins, yeah, its a lot...how much time ya got....
All Hal Hartley, Meshes of the Afternoon, Persona, The Decalogue, Baseketball, Orgazmo, Eternal Sunshine, South Park, Crumb, American Splendor, Anticipation of the Night, The Blues Brothers, Rashomon, Throne of Blood, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, The Hidden Fortress, Black Orpheus, Enter the Dragon, Night of the Hunter, Le Cercle Rouge, Cape Fear (both versions), A Streetcar Named Desire, Annie Hall, 8 1/2, Shadows, all Goddard, all Nick Park, The King of Comedy, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Once Were Warriors, Amelie, Shaft, The Third Man, Raging Bull, This Is Spinal Tap, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, City of God, My Best Fiend, The Conformist, Whale Rider, Notorious C.H.O., High Art, Love and Death, Batman Begins, Oldboy, Sideways, Rushmore, Pootie Tang, Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo, North by Northwest, The Proud Valley, Nothing But A Man, The Empire Strikes Back, Modern Times, Beastmaster, Broken Flowers, La Jetee, Jackie Brown, Bamboozled, Do the Right Thing, The Jazz Singer (the Neil Diamond version), Nine to Five, Walkabout, Dog Day Afternoon, Double Indemnity, A Hard Day's Night, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Coffee and Cigarettes, Brokeback Mountain, Good Night and Good Luck, Down by Law, Fahrenheit 9/11, Miller's Crossing, Manufacturing Consent, Fargo, My Brother's Wedding, Killer of Sheep, Citizen Kane
I really like dog shows.
All Virginia Woolf (esp. The Waves), The Grapes of Wrath, Crime and Punishment, Here I Stand by Paul Robeson, Lies My Teacher Told Me, Revenge of the Latchkey Kids by Ted Rall, Gas War by Ted Rall, the Iliad by Homer, the Aeneid by Virgil, Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl (with the Donald Chaffin illustrations), all Jung, all Chomsky, all Keats, all Derrida, all Cornel West, Spirit on the Wall, No More Masks, Anna Karenina, Beloved by Toni Morrison, Keith Haring: Journals, Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers, Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet, People's History of the US by Howard Zinn, Jews for Buchanan by John Nichols, Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child, My Life in France by Julia Child, Wish I Could Be There by Allen Shawn, Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
My mother, my grandmother, Paul Robeson, Howard Zinn, Greg Palast, Berkeley Breathed, Noam Chomsky, Kurt Vonnegut, John Peel, Bruce Lee, Robert Smith, Bruce Timm, and