hip hop, hardcore, punk, Leonard Cohen, poetry, politics, existing, activism, agnosticism, anarchism, art, atheism, buddhism, capitalism, catholicism, classical, country, creation, criticism, pacifism, poetry, socialism, taoism, I think you get the idea...if it's an "ism" I probably have some sort of love-hate relationship with it.
Probably you. I imagine everyone is worth meeting, y'know? But YOU...you've got that shit that makes you...well...you. And I want to learn it.
Mostly, tolerant people with open minds and open hearts. My AIM is shanehall42 if you care to reach out like that. Feel free.
Oh yeah, and definitely hit me up if you are one of these people:..
"Given the chance I'd die like a baby on some faraway beach when the season's over. Unlikely I'll be remembered
As the tide brushes sand in my eyes, I'll drift away "
"I got the job because I was so mean, while somehow appearing so kind..."
"Her sense of taste is such that she'll distinguish with her tongue the subtleties a spectrograph would miss"
"Just waiting, seasons change, ah hah, you'll see
Some day these dreams will pull you through my door."
"The boy who tried to vanish to the future or past
Is no longer here with his sad blue eyes."
"This race and this world. This feeling and this girl. This revolver, this fire - I'll hold it up higher."
Or this guy:..
"And you won't make me jealous if I hear that they sweetened your night:
We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be all right."
"Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried, in my way, to be free."
"Yes, you who are broken by power,
you who are absent all day,
you who are kings for the sake of your children's story,
the hand of your beggar is burdened down with money,
the hand of your lover is clay."
"And she will learn to touch herself so well
as all the sails burn down like paper."
"Take this longing from my tongue, all the useless things my hands have done."
"You were the manual orgasm, I was the dirty little boy."
"True love leaves no traces
If you and I are one
It's lost in our embraces
Like stars against the sun"
"I looked for you in everyone
And they called me on that too
I lived alone but I was only
Coming back to you"
"We were fighting in Egypt
When they signed this agreement
That nobody else had to die
There was this terrible sound
And my father went down
With a terrible wound in his side
He said, Try to go on
Take my books, take my gun
Remember, my son, how they lied
And the night comes on
It's very calm
I'd like to pretend that my father was wrong
But you don't want to lie, not to the young"
"And I'll dance with you in Vienna
I'll be wearing a river's disguise
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder,
My mouth on the dew of your thighs"
Or:..
"This was the moment I feared..."
"I take dead bodies and I boost them up live
So straighten up and be alert because the ruler's arrived"
"Now in these times, at least to me
There's a lot of people out here tryin' to sound like Ricky D
Not tryin' to cause trouble cause its really a small thing
But they're bitin what I'm writin
God it's great being the king
Some sound allright, but then they act illy
Try conquering my crown and that's really very silly"
"If goodness is what you're filling your soul with
And wanna find a woman you can chill and grow old with
Who keeps no secret, like who they creep with,
realise early it's a 2 way street, kid"
Straight up, Rick. Straight the fuck up.
Agnostic Front,Against Me!,Shel Silverstein, No Redeeming Social Value, Brian Eno, Alving Youngblood Hart, Sick of it All, Dead Kennedys, Life of Agony (as well as Keith's solo efforts), Dresden Dolls and Ani DiFranco. I love gutter ass punk and rap...nerdy ass rap, and one particular song from The Godfather more than life. I have it trapped in a music box I keep on top of my piano. Beethoven, Mozart and the whole lot of them. Vincent Gallo, Wesley Willis, Reverend Horton Heat, Bad Brains, Biohazard, Dylan, Television, Leonard Cohen, Tree, Roxy Music, Sam Black Church, Aceyalone, KRS-One, Sheer Terror, Slapshot, Gravediggaz, Cage, Cannibal Ox, Capitalist Casualties, Pharoah Monche, Slick Rick, Tribe Called Quest, Atari Teenage Riot, Sage Francis, Cro-Mags, Bowie, Depeche Mode embarrasingly enough as well as Fiona Apple. Atmosphere, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Ellis Ashbrook, Brother Ali, Buck 65, Rufus Wainwright...have I repeated myself yet? Left Hand Does, John Cage, Roxy Music....I like stuff, y'know? Anything, really. Or anything like these things.
Clockwork Orange, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (BBC series or the new one), Star Trek movies (yeah yeah, I know), Saddest Music in the World, Chelsea Walls, Airplane!, What's Up Tiger Lily (and a lot of his other ones), I liked Pi but couldn't watch it a lot, Happiness, I kinda dug Suspiria because of the set designs, Pulp Fiction, Resevoir Dogs, Grindhouse (more Rodriguez' part) and NOT Kill Bill. Ha.
Not allowed in my house. I catch it while I'm out, and it makes me feel like I live on a different fucking planet.
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, George Orwell's 1984, A Clockwork Orange, Celestial Chess (obscure fiction by Thomas Bontley - similar to HP Lovecraft in many ways), Noam Chomsky's political works, Howard Zinn, James Loewen's "Lies My Teacher Told Me". These are examples. I wish I had more time to read.