............Film, books, Bruce Sterling's weblog, Mogwai, Britpop, more movies, relevant situationism, little fluffy clouds, big spiky sea urchins, books/music/film, pugs, oral hygiene, aural hygiene, poppycock, balderdash, assorted tomfoolery. Drive-In movies, especially old sci-fi & horror & chopsocky, i.e. AIP and Shaw Bros. Sitting in a coffeehouse watching people. Road-tripping. Absurdism. Old-school everything. The Rat Pack. Bill Murray. Sushi. Suzy. Subarus. Radio Flyer wagons. Zombie comedies. Truth + Lies = Here + Now. Music music music. My friends, without whom yadda x 3. And yet more film....
............. Emily Kane (of Art Brut fame. I want schoolkids on buses singing her name.) Rainer Maria Rilke. Harry Dean Stanton. Dick Miller. Arthur Miller. John Frankenheimer. Ray Harryhausen. Gore Vidal. Ian MacKaye. Billy Mumy. Harlan Ellison. Berkeley Breathed. Crispin Glover. Johnny Depp. That guy from "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis." Sidney Poitier. John Carpenter. James Ellroy. Elizabeth Short. *Veronica Lake!* Legs McNeil. Thomas Paine. Egon Schiele. Terry Gilliam. Judy Blume. Dario Argento. *Asia Argento!* Warren Oates. Harpo Marx. Vincent Price. Frances the Hedgehog. Satan's *Other* Cheerleaders. Morrissey. Roger Corman. Jane Birkin. Darby Crash. Will Shatter. Tim Yohannon. Ben Franklin. Harold of "Purple Crayon" infamy. Louise Brooks. Brigitte Bardot. Klaus Kinski. *Nastasja Kinski!* Everyone who ever wrote for The New Yorker. Charles Addams. Gahan Wilson. H.P. Lovecraft. E.A. Poe. "The Usual Gang of Idiots" from Mad Magazine. All the Marx Brothers. Anyone remotely associated with the film version of "V For Vendetta." Fassbinder+Lou Reed+Bukowski+the "Hey Kool-Aid!" Pitcher (at a Brooklyn Dodgers game, preferably), John Cassavetes/Peter Falk/Diane Lane, and, it goes without saying, the Godhead, Mr. Warren Oates, late of Depoy, KY, currently bringing you the head of, uh, whoever runs the afterlife. (I need to figure out if there's going to be sushi, or if I have to bring my own.)And quite possibly you, you lucky devil, you.Oh? Word.
...............Art Brut, Akira Ifukube, James McMurtry, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Shearwater, Al Jolson, Nina Simone, Billy Bragg, Rainer Maria, Dylan, Leonard Cohen, The Postal Service, Misfits, Primal Scream, Smiths, Stan Getz, Blur, Radiohead, Suede, Belle & Sebastian, I Love You But I've Chosen The Fall, My Education, Ride, My Blood Valentine, Yeah x3s, Philip Glass, Nick Cave, Stan Ridgway, Charlatans, 'Mats, TMBG, Serge Gainsbourg, Stereo Total, Handsome Boy Modelling School, Bird, Chet Baker, Ennio Morricone, Cruiserweight, Stones, Dylan, Byrds, Stan Freberg, Rilo Kiley, Folk Implosion, Massive Attack, Tricky, trip hop, film scores, PJ Harvey, any Manchester stuff, the Clash, the Cure, Echo & the Bunnymen, 80's pap, bubblegum, Puffy AmiYumi, Patti Page, Neko Case, Loretta Lynn, Dwight, Merle, Willie, William Shatner, Charlatans, DJ Jester, DJ Mel, 626 Soul, Muppet soundtracks, ...of the Spheres, Jonathan Richman, John Lurie, Tom Waits, Bjork, Theremins, New Order, This Microwave World, the Streets, Love & Rockets, Siouxie, Slowdive, Ride, Elvis, Pulp, PIL, the sound of one paw scratching...etc.
.............."The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things," "Oldboy," "Three ... Extremes," "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance," "City of Lost Children," "Rock 'N' Roll High School," "Lovers of the Arctic Circle," "Girl on the Bridge," "Re-Animator," "Bell, Book & Candle", "The Third Man," "From Dusk Till Dawn," "Begotten," anything from American International Pictures, anything with Vincent Price, any Toho giant monster man-in-suit films (especially "Destroy All Monsters," "Godzilla's Revenge"), "Dumbo," "J'Accuse," "Rear Window," "Dear Pillow," and Truffaut, Fellini, (Paul) Morrissey, Antonioni, Bava, Fulci, Wong Kar Wai, Coscarelli, Romero, Corman ... Anything, really, that speaks to and from the heart (however maligned, moribund, or maddeningly misinflamed, above or beyond the pale, i.e. "Bride of Frankenstein" and Karloff's Klassic Kwote: "We belong dead!") and/or challenges you, yes, *you,* you lucky, lucky moviegoer, you, alone in the dark yet again and loving every moment of it... Truly, heaven is a postscript when you've already experienced "Wings of Desire" in 70mm with Nick Cave two rows down....
.............is evil. Except for the (semi-) new "Freaks and Geeks" complete series DVD, which is great. And Turner Classic Movies. And "Heat Vision and Jack." And the Naked Cathode Static, still the purest form of audiovisual stimuli going.
..............Anything by Ray Bradbury, David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell, John Pierson, Hawking, A.A. Milne, Garry Trudeau, Pauline Kael, the Sunday Times, Beats/Blake/Poe, Andrew Vachss, Michael Chabon, Herman Hesse, Neil Gaiman, the entire writership of The New Yorker magazine (and Spy!, too), Legs McNeil, Jack Rabid, Cheever, FJA, John Bloom, Woodward & Bernstein, Ernie Kovacs, McLuhan, Stan Lee, Jhonen Vasquez, Mike Mignola, Bill Watterson, James Ellroy, Ross MacDonald -- and he's not a writer, but Takashi Murikami! Superflat! Yes!
......Ich, ich bin dann kønig, und du? Du kønigin! Obwohl sie unschlagbar scheinen. Werden wir helden, für einen tag. Wir sind dann wir an diesem tag. Für immer und immer! Und wir sind dann helden. Für...einen...tag.......................................... .......................