in no particular order...design, writing, art, music, my wife, my dog...I dunno, stuff...lately I've been interested in growing a kick ass handle-bar moustache, but the wife isn't too hip to that jive...I vowed to read more, write more and do something healthy this year...so far, so good.
I'd like to meet:
one st. louisan who can drive worth a damn...and who ever might have google-mapped directions to funky town.
Music:
I'm in a band called strawfoot...
I listen to just about everything, save from anything with the words "emo", or "pop" in them...
what I'm listening to this week: (to name but a few)
William Elliott Whitmore
Devotchka (check them out, then thank me fer it)
Slim Cessna's Auto Club
fugazi
Shins
Gomez
Beta Band
Rev. Glasseye
Old Crow Medicine Show
Flogging Molly
Gogol Bordello
16 Hsp
Pokey Lafarge
Curtis Eller
Hank Sr. (NOT jr.)
Mr. Johnny Cash
Hayden (he's a canadian treasure)
Alabama Thunderpussy
Uncle Tupelo
Bad Folk
the Monads
Spearhead
John Coltrane
Miles Davis
Mingus
Monk
Brubeck
Francis Albert
Mel Torme
The Woven Hand
and a ton more...
Movies:
too many movies, so just a few...
first off Wonderboys and Stranger Than Fiction are just about my favorite movies on the face of the earth (right now)
Little Miss Sunshine
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Boondock Saints
the Royal Tenenbaums
Dazed and Confused
Blood & Concrete; a Love Story,(indie movie greatness with a nekkid jennifer Beals and James LeGros at his absolute finest)
Big Lebowski (the dude abides)
Hudsucker Proxy
fuck it...every Coen brothers movie to date
Fight Club (and I must say I'm Looking forward to Chuck's next movie, "Choke", which is a great book)
Tombstone (you called down the thunder well you got it; I'm yer huckleberry; yer a daisy if you do/yer no daisy, and of course, you tell them I'm coming, and hell's coming with me, ya here?! HELL'S COMING WITH ME)
Shaun of the Dead
Train Spotting
I just saw Donnie Darko for the first time (finally) and I gotta say...that was one fucked up, but strangely good movie...
Nightmare Before Christmas
Happy Gilmore (you can trouble me for a warm cup of shut the hell up. now you will go to sleep or I will put you to sleep. look at the name tag. yer in my world, now grandma)
Office Space (cause I've gotta say, I'm a michael bolton fan. I celebrate his entire catalogue, I see you've been missing work. I wouldn't say I've been missing it, bob)
Run Lola Run
Warriors (come out to play-ay) so many more I can't think of.
Television:
television is slowly plotting my death...I did like the Wonder Years when it was on...But then, we all have our guilty pleasures...
Books:
Bukowski
Christopher Moore
Kinky Friedman
Douglas Coupland
Chuck Palahniuk
David Sedaris
Kerouac
my cousin Mark (Twain)...
My novel, Rorschach's Ribs, is now available, available from Vicious Books
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Heroes:
Heroes set you up fer disappointment if you dig too deep...Better to have role models, of which I have a few.
