good friends from faraway places. my bicycle. summer in portland. green chile. laughing until you can't breathe and it hurts. flirtation. hotpants and other silly outfits. sleazy pirate names. thunderstorms with lots of lightning. watching the sunrise after staying up all night. gardens. the food group of vegtables that start with the sound of "ah" (that's advocados, asparagus, artichokes and olives). freight trains and the cute and amazing people who ride them. pen and ink. making out in alleys. genderfuck. diagrams, especially flow charts. bike intertube whips, shackles, and the hotter hat (the hat that makes everyone hotter). george orwell. duct tape. taxidermy. bookbinding. penspaperglueandscissors. cigarettes and whiskey and wild wild women. watching plants grow. rusty things, abandoned buildings and urban waste. the desert, but also pirates (arroyo pirates? yes, arroyo pirates). doityourself. mail. adventure and sunshine and mayhem.
I'd like to meet:
art nerds. radicals. herbal healers. gardeners. bike mechanics. stained glass artists. political theorists. silk screening masters. welders. beer brewers. a patron. lost friends. builders of ships in bottles. mcguyver punks. master thieves. cartographers.
Music:
live.... amazing= silver mt zion. RABBITS (!!!). when sunn made the bones of my skull grind together and then i had visions. anon remora. order of the gash, even the 10th time in as many days. didimao. chromium 6. the painted saints. beirut. same sex dictator. massive meat split. ludicra. samothrace.
i've been listening to the first grails album and the rabbits live on the radio cd nonstop for weeks.
other things which i like to use to speed up the onset of deafness include: asunder. born against. this is my fist. damad.los crudos.lost world.sake.submission hold. crass. vice squad.siouxsie and the banshees (but only the albums before that stupid pink one...superstition?).dystopia. the better to see you with. tragedy. undermountains. yourefuckingfired... bobbykork. city of caterpiller. pg99. oi polloi. defiance ohio. the burning paris. the smiths. the mob. spitboy. contravene..the cure (but only the really suicide-inducing, pre-90s albums). baroness (but they are FIRED for putting those vocals on that red album. who told them that was a good idea?). antiproduct. antischism (and other associated peoples such as dotfuckingcom and initial state). tem eye oski.the devil makes 3. wormwood. bloodhag (the faster you go deaf, the more you have to read!!!!). godspeedyoublackemperor...and whoever the hell does that amazing metal cover of "paint it black" (who the fuck is that?!?)
Movies:
hate. city of god. the passion of joan of arc. city of lost children. baron von munchousen. santa sangre. the devils back bone. the young poisoner's handbook. rabbitproof fence. the yes men. i just saw incubus...and holy fuck. holy fuck. holy fuck. so much william shatner. so very metal. so good.
Television:
the twin towers collapsing, while listening to godspeed you black emperor
Books:
right now: The Mistress: Histories, Myths and Intrepretations of the "Other Woman" by Vicotria Griffin; DMZ comics , part one and two (the not so distant future of a second US civil war) & also the Fables series, both put out by vertigo comics; and The Dictionary of Word Origins, for all your general nerd-out and specific band naming needs.
Recently finished/still lingering over: In Our Strange Gardens by Michael Quint (eerie wartime story involving the prisoners having to choose which of their own will be executed); Half Life by Shelley Jackson (cojoined twins want to eliminate eachother! also, the cover is real pretty); Good Time Girls of the Alaska Gold Rush by Lael Morgan (hooray for secret histories!); Changing Planes by Ursula K. LeGuin (short stories); The Path to the Nest of Spiders by Italo Calvino ; The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye by Jonathan Letham (short stories which make my skin crawl...)...
other recent and not so recent finds: The Massacre at El Mozote, the story of the mass slaughter of a salvadoran village and the subsequent coverup in the usa. The Sparrow (priests in space!). The Burn Journals. A Place of My Own (fucking rad story of a man learning to build a small house. it's by michael pollan, who also wrote "The Botany of Desire" which is amazing amazing amazing), A Brief History of the Land of the Dead. The Truth About Celia. The Stone Fields. Evidence of Things Unseen (eerily like my own family history, yessir). Sandinos Daughters.
atomic war apocalypse sci-fi: This is How the World Ends. Earth Abides. A Gift Upon the Shore.
authors that I read everything by, past and present: Jose Saramago (Blindness and The Stone Raft are my favorites). Isabell Allende (the more morbid the better). Gabriel Garcia Marquez, holy fuck (Memories of My Melancholy Whores most recently, In Evil Hour and One Hundred Years of Solitude are my favorites). Neil Gaiman. Emma Goldman. George Orwell. The His Dark Material series by Phillip Pullman. Ursula K. LeGuin.
other authors: bell hooks. Derrik Jensen. Italo Calvino. Anais Nin. Audrey Niffenegger. Nick Blinko.
by topic: pirates. wonky armchair revolutationary theory. weather underground history. feminist theory/history. sandinistas. power dynamics, personal and political.... us foreign policy/interference. gardening books. diy/practical how-to instructions (thanks, hippie parents, for giving me the foxfire books at an early age...). music theory/bass lessons. alternate relationship structures. dictionaries!!!
Heroes:
joel peter witkin.
and as proof that i've been reading too much derrick jensen, the bolt weevils make me smile real big.
