i'm a white kid struggling for an ethnic identity while being pretty blandly eastern european.
i'm a gay/human/animal rights activist and a vegan.
singing, dancing, rolling down the grassy sides of hills and making out, marlboro lights, fine japanese products, teaberry chewing gum, art fags. pretending to be promiscuous.
international pop stars. people who don't take themselves too seriously, who don't make bad jokes. preferably with some nice facial flaws. those who revel in their own "depression" need not apply. go slit your wrists somewhere else, you poseur-ass queer.
i'm an unappreciated scholar.
i hate punk rock revival.
i'm a real elitest piece of shit when it comes to this stuff-- i'm serious. if i'm into a band i have to own every single one of their records, know everything about them. and i'm incredibly competitive fan. you won't beat me, so don't try. if you have the greatest hits and you have the t-shirt la-dee-fuckin'-da, you ain't shit. i don't listen to the radio. i don't watch mtv. and i liked them before they were cool.
r.e.m., david bowie, sleater-kinney, the pixies, elvis costello. besides these who i follow obesessively,
i have a deep respect for anyone who can write a really amazing, accessable pop song.
but most of the time i regard albums more than i do bands or singles... the album has lost some value in the world of downloads (which is retarded-- it's stealing.) but i'm still enraptured by records. amazing records?
by the way by the red hot chili peppers
masquerade in the key of crime by the stryder
midnite vultures by beck
surfer rosa by the pixies (notoriously good recording.)
brutal youth by elvis costello
synchronicity by the police
unplugged in new york by nirvana (not intentionally a record, but whatever.)
the b-52's by the b-52's
fear of music by the talking heads
i've seen a slew of bands live, whether i wanted to or not:
r.e.m., david bowie, skinny puppy, jen chapin, peter mulvey, elvis costello and the imposters, the black crows, queens of the stone age, the red hot chili peppers, trunk full of dead bodies, fall from heaven, sting, billy joel, u2, pj harvey, the dropkick murphys, good charlotte, mxpx, the movielife, mest, the brief, no doubt, garbage, the distillers, the polyphonic spree, anti-flag, taking back sunday, avenged sevenfold, coheed and cambria, piebald, sim redman band, thursday, a new found glory, the eyeliners, bush, default, seether, coldplay, zwan, pete yorn, ricky martin, jessica simpson... (hell yeah.)
reservoir dogs
pulp fiction
kill bill
i want to jump tarantino's bones. i love the blood. i love the violence. i love the nerd-- i just love him.
anything by david lynch.
velvet goldmine
scarface (before it was cool.)
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
slc punk
monster
fight club
dances with wolves
lost in translation
sayonara
k-pax
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
fear and loathing in las vegas
passing stones
casablanca
master of the flying guillotine
escape from alcatraz
ichi the killer
shogun assassin
true grit
carlito's way
hollywood shuffle
anything with billy sunset carson...
ever after
titus
bad japanese grindhouse
twin peaks, queer as folk, seinfeld, south park, reno 911, unsolved mysteries, the daily show, anything on the national geographic channel-- particularly taboo-- the adventures of pete and pete, old school ren and stimpy, hogan's heroes. the graham norton effect. THE KIDS IN THE HALL!!
the collected works of mark doty--
firebird
heaven's coast
sweet machine
atlantis
all of that stuff...
paul auster--
moon palace
timbuktu
mr. vertigo
the book of illusions
i thought my father was god
geek love by katherine dunn
a clockwork orange by anthony burgess
the bell jar by sylvia plath
to kill a mockingbird by harper lee
one flew over the cuckoo's nest by ken kesey
skin by roald dahl
the virgin suicides by jeffery eugenides
i am a wee bit of a comicbook fag--
dork by evan dorkin
milk and cheese by evan dorkin
lenore by roman dirge... his individual books are pretty funny also.. something at the window is scratching, the cat with the really big head, etc...
migraine boy by greg fiering
toothpaste for dinner by drew (www.toothpastefordinner.com)
johnny the homicidal maniac-- and jhonen vasquez in general before he became the darling of the goth scene.
andy kaufman, quentin tarantino, wendy o. williams