My interests run toward anarco-syndicalism, RASH , SHARP, class war skinheads, frightening bigots, drinking pitchers at Joe's Bar with my brother and my friends. I'm a PBR enthusiast, or I loves me a 40 o 45. Vodka-- the nice shit. Every dollar I earn goes to rent, my boy, food, Oi!, beer, and books. Not much else matters. I'll wear my whities down to an elastic strip with some threads hanging off. I'd rather be cheap with myself and save the dough to souss my friends.
I can't stand bigots, racists, haughty capitalists and imperialists. Against gay marriage? Then you think queers should be treated differently from straights, and you're a homophobe. And I guess that makes you my fucking enemy.
I was raised to be a bland Protestant, but apostatised when I was 19. I'm a devout Pelagianist and Moorish Orthodox Qaim. But my religion is for me, not for you. I don't believe in converting people. I don't even like to discuss it.
I'd like to meet:
China Mieville
Joseph Smith, Jr.
Music:
Insurgence Records! Listening to a lot of old Oi! esp. The Oppressed, 4 Skins, Sham69, Last Resort, CockSParrer, old Business, don't really care for their last few albums. I'm into most Paddy Punk that isn't overly whistle-bound, Chango Loco y Los Rudos, Pogues, the Tossers , Social Distortion, Runnin' Riot , Against Me!, Guttersnipe (the swedish one). In the randomly-not-loud-or-aggro direction, I'm a big fan of The Men They Couldn't Hang , largely overlooked in the States but an important band in AntiFa circles in Britain. The Real McKenzies (what if Dropkick were a punk band? They might be the RK's). Hey, and of course the Spunk Lads .
Movies:
Shaun of the Dead kicks ass. Currently big into the Polish Brothers films, Twin Falls Idaho and Northfork.
Books:
Sept 07.
After reading a small library each on Mormonism and the Spanish Civil War, I'm starting on learning about the history of Japan. Right now I'm reading a book about Zen and Samurai culture, after which I'll move into a short general history, a book on the Commodore Perry...err...incident, and a book called The Samurai, an historical novel about the Samurai envoy sent to Mexico, on to Spain & the Vatican, and then returned to a Japan no longer interested in international relations.
2.July.06 Been reading lately about struggles against fascism and neo-liberalism, mostly books from my buds at AK . Biography of Flores Magon , titled Dreams of Freedom . Also a book on the Weather Underground called Outlaws of America . Just finished a book on Basque history called The Basque History of the World , which had interesting content but was poorly and clumsily written, somewhat of a labor. And then a great memoir by Ramor Ryan called Clandestines: The Pirate Journals of an Irish Exile , following him as an agent of international solidarity with all sorts of struggles and events, from Belfast to Croatia to Nicaragua. Right now, I'm reading Marcus Aurelius and about to start some Phillip K Dick short stories. Eclectic and unfocused? Poppycock.
Overall:
China Mieville (eh, King Rat sucked, but his other three novels are amazing), HP Lovecraft, Noam Chomsky , and nowadays definitely Ward Churchill.Check out the AK Press catalog for plenty of good reads. I liked Rudolf Rocker's Anarcho Syndicalism a lot. Reading Ho Chi Minh had a stong influence on me as a lad, as well as Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman. I've also read a lot of "religious" stuff-- almost went to school for religious studies, but then decided to study Mexican architecture instead. The Holy Koran of the Moorish Science Temple of America. Chuang Tzu, Lao Tzu (try Whitter Bynner's translation). Shucks...y'know...stuff.
Heroes:
the guy who wrote this at Something Awful :
"You would pull her panties down with a creak like opening an Egyptian sarcophagus and she would shriek and take a picture of you with the camera phone that has replaced her vagina."
that's my hero.
