from The Speed of Darkness
obviously, procrastinating & making lists. hobbies: arranging/consuming words & sounds, making out/in abandoned houses & factories, singing along really loud while commuting, tramping around industrial wastelands or decayed docks. slinking about bus & train graveyards; tearing my pants on razorwire. sharing books. reading/making zines. the great mixtape exchange cycle. riding my broke bike. gardening for diane. hanging out with horses. hugging with redwoods, live oaks, white birches, cypresses (hey, i live in California…). cooking for and with my friends. maps, fonts, and knots.interests: anti-authoritarian anti-imperialist politics & practice. demilitarization of society. fighting militarism, capitalism, white supremacy, the patriarchy, and imperialism. anticapitalist queers organizing and rioting. hash browns, diners, and roadtrips. no-border camps, national liberation struggles, and freedom of movement for all people. greece, wyoming, whiskey. disintegrating the U.S. military and its ability to fuck up/end peoples' lives around the world, by ending recruitment and supporting GI resisters.getting dragged out to dance nights, usually by Ingrid. kale. whaling disasters. minoan & mycenean art & architecture, sumerology, assyriology, babylon, histories of early human civilization, migration & empire-building.russian futurism, pre & post-Rev. cillian murphy, clea duvall. toast & coffee & sweet black tea with vanilla soymilk. pears, pittayas, collarbones. generator shows. double features. square riggers. power tools. getting my ass back to new orleans.toast. community-based direct action organizing for justice. horizontalidad. the movement of movements. belief, hope, and joy. particularly as experienced collectively. especially on the streets/@ the barricades.
greasers (and class traitor soc's).
other antiwar kids of vietnam vets.
the fierce and tender who cultivate revolution,
people working for immigrant justice and a world without borders.
antiwar veterans fighting the empire, and
people currently in the military who want to get out.
other anarchist families/ coparenting radicals in non-nuclear families.
like josh says, big gay showponies.
bike punx whose city-ridin fixies have handbrakes. particularly:
girls who are boys who like boys to be girls and people who are all and/or neither.
theme daters, and/or hotties itching to nurture my inner emo boy. points if you can incorporate urban decay, peach iced tea w/ jamesons, and gendersubversive versions of 80s teen movie narratives.
anticapitalist hotties. oh wait! i know some of those.
random dudes i've never met: knock it off!
although i don't believe in church & state marriage, right now i want to be forever wed to Envy.
music? yes please. especially:
running: the arcade fire, pinback, atari teenage riot/slayer, cap’n jazz, sleater-kinney, postal service, nine days wonder
walking: against me!, neurosis, mountain goats, codeine, weakerthans, manu chao, cat powerriding (horses): the cure, M.I.A., coil, asian dub foundation, planes mistaken for stars, gillian welch, johnny cashriding (bike): the pipe bomb (of course), sonic youth, submission hold, blonde redhead, judgment day, aztlan underground, emperor, refusedwriting: bloc party, chumbawamba, einsturzende neubaten, GSYBE, FATA, mirah, scorn, huggy bear, victory at sea, snow patrol, black starsnogging/shagging: tragedy, low, monochrome, envy, at the gates, cursive, MBV, big black, portishead, tristeza, slowdive, interpol, well tricky & sparklehorse now i guessdriving: magnetic fields, love & rockets, dead prez, rainer maria, judgement day, adorable, homomilitia, strike anywhere, mystic, calexico, journey, destiny's child, now it’s overheadcontemplating: red house painters, the intima, shellac, the swans, 18th dye, neutral milk hotel, silver mt zion, azure rayconstructing things: smog, huggy bear, discount, milemarker, versus, denali, these arms are snakes, nick cave, mecca normal, bonfire madigangardening: atom & his package, leonard cohen, leatherface, jawbreaker, the creatures, xiu xiu, tartufi, and you will know us...missing philly: policy of 3, unrest, test dept, throbbing gristle, bikini kill, ministry, slint, pigface, minor threat, team dresch, aphex twin, modest mouse, emperor julianjust about everything: pixies, envy, the ex, fugazi, HNIA, weakerthans, mission of burma, joy division, old wire, smiths, seam, ...but alive, dirty 3, dead can dance, the intima, rites of spring, trackstar, interpol, crass, arab strap, bjork, high on fire, brainiac, geraldine fibbers, jawbox, pavement, liarbird, bright eyes, monkees, did i mention judgment day at least three times yet?
flavor of my week: funeral diner
science of sleep, brokeback mountain,city of lost children, heathers, institute benjamenta, high art, crouching tiger hidden dragon, underground, black cat white cat, romper stomper, ZOOLANDER, spirited away, the goonies, heavenly creatures, badlands, but i'm a cheerleader, pump up the volume, donnie darko, 28 days later, waterworld & the day after tomorrow, jackass, the matrix, LOTR, blue crush, raising arizona, poison, safe, fire, billy elliott, show me love, dirty pretty things, men with guns, dead man, wet hot american summer, pooty tang, office space, can't hardly wait, mean girls, picnic at hanging rock, svankmeyer's alice & faust, brothers quay shorts, pirates of the caribbean, the doom generation, princess mononoke, whale rider, bigger longer uncut: the south park movie, the pie's the limit, boom! the sound of eviction, lord of the rings of free trade, this is what democracy looks like
not so much. exceptions made for jackass, south park, freaks and geeks, 6 ft under, and the L word (preferably at mel's).
OK the May 07 request, would everyone please read:
Planet of Slums- Mike Davis
the Darker Nations- Vijay Prashad
Oryx and Crake- Margaret Atwood
Road from Ar Ramadi, Camilo Mejia's memoir
and then tell me what you thought? cool.
oh i love books especially by these people:
arundhati roy
eduardo galeano
gloria anzaldua
cherrie moraga
adrienne rich
muriel rukeyser
paula gunn allen
leslie marmon silko
e. annie proulx
nazim hikmet
amber hollibaugh
aaron shurin
diane di prima
lousie gluck
c.d. wright
anne carson
sharon olds
ntozake shange
alice notley
marge piercy
joy harjo
pablo neruda
theodore roethke
federico garcia lorca
james wright
sherman alexie
henry miller
john yau
yiorgos seferis
rainer maria rilke
gabriel garcia marquez
bell hooks
michael ondaatje
mary gaitskill
mike davis
audre lorde
dorothy allison
pat califia
les feinberg
dodie bellamy
milan kundera
barbara kingsolver
louise erdrich
suheir hammad
jorge luis borges
keri hulme
tim o'brien
janet frame
mary renault
francesca lia block
j.g. ballard
tom robbins
octavia butler
flannery o'connor
phillip pullman
sandra cisneros
emma goldman
jeanette winterson
andre breton
timothy dunn
roland barthes
easton & liszt
hardt & negri
deleuze & guattari
jp sartre
becky thompson
mab segret
mayakovsky
anna ahkmatova
and laura goldstein!