(post) punkhermit

I'd like to meet:

Anyone that can change my pessimistic world view.

Someone to stare at the full moon with while basking in the moonlight.

Genuinely kind people, really. No fakers!

People who are both equally cynical and optimistic about the future.

Music Nerds & Fanatics: People who live for that perfect beat, melody, riff, chorus, lyric, or sound that makes living just a little bit easier.

(Also folks who always have a melody stuck in their head and who keep running lists of bands to research!)My MO: I'll look into most bands that are compared to the Velvet Underground. I'm rarely disappointed.

Music:

I saw Broadcast live on Nov. 12th 2005 and it was one of the best experience of my life! This is a taste of what is was like. It's a little shaky cause I was dancing my ass off!

The Velvet Underground, Broadcast, Stone Roses, The Gossip, Echo & the Bunnymen, Young Marble Giants, The Verve, Trail of Dead, Manitoba, Liliput, Doves, Midnight Movies, T. Rex, Can, The Chills, Kevin Shields, Album Leaf, The Dears, Stereolab, Mission of Burma, Air, Sparks, Marianne Faithfull, Juana Molina, Black Heart Procession, Suicide, Autolux, Ikara Colt, ESG, Colder, Primal Scream, Television, The Concretes, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, M83, X-Ray Spex, Enon, Mono, The Cramps, Royksopp, The Faint, Slowdive, The Libertines, Jesus and Mary Chain, Metric, The Rapture, Neko Case, Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Ramones, My Bloody Valentine, Blonde Redhead, Silver Apples, Os Mutantes, Sparklehorse, Talking Heads, Young People, M. Ward, Lee Hazelwood, The Clash, Sigur Ros, Gun Club, Mogwai, Vincent Gallo, Helio Sequence, Les Savy Fav, Rilo Kiley, Shop Assistants, The Rezillos, Nico, The Buzzcocks, Spiritualized, The La's, Depeche Mode, The Kinks, Mercury Rev, Goldfrapp, The Kills, Lush, Bjork, Q and Not U, Mirah, Pere Ubu, Radiohead, Mclusky, Pinback, Felt, Gang of Four, The Raveonettes, X, Rogers Sisters, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Clientele, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Calexico, Mars Volta, Ladytron, DJ Shadow, Brian Eno, The Smiths, Pulp, Ted Leo, Franz Ferdinand, The Shins, David Bowie, The Arcade Fire, Baxter Dury, Lou Reed, Sufjan Stevens, Nick Cave, Magnetic Fields, Queens of the Stone Age, The Fiery Furnaces, Radio Birdman, PJ Harvey, TV on the Radio, Dizzee Rascal, Andrew Bird, Francoise Hardy, The Streets, Death From Above 1979, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Books, Feist, Erase Errata, Stiff Little Fingers, The Stills, Boards of Canada, Wire, Yo La Tengo, Supergrass, Sonic Youth, Add N to X, Kaito, Sleater-Kinney, Elliott Smith, Mark Lanegan, Patrick Wolf, Big Star, Morrissey, Love, Chicks on Speed, Clinic, Le Tigre, Wedding Present, Mclusky, The Zombies, Kings of Convenience, Electrelane, Massive Attack, The Pretenders, Beta Band, Lali Puna, On!Air!Library!, Nina Simone, The Go! Team, Four Tet, The Slits, Elvis Costello, Wilco, The Notwist, Marine Girls, Explosions in the Sky, The Thermals, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Fall, Iggy Pop, Joy Division, Broken Social Scene, Devendra Banheart, Portishead, Pixies, Calla, Bowery Electric, Xiu Xiu, Dios Malos, Sun Kil Moon, The Raincoats, Interpol, Martina Topley-Bird, Galaxie 500, Nancy Sinatra, Luna, Cat Power, Mazzy Star, Low, Hope Sandoval, The Walkmen, Scott Walker, Mum, Serge Gainsbourg, Pop Group, Ennio Morricone, Black Box Recorder, Quix*O*Tic, Joanna Newsom, White Magic, Smog, The Make-up, !!!, Au Pairs, Slint, Animal Collective, Bloc Party, Saturday Looks Good to Me, The Futureheads, American Analog Set, Tricky, Spoon, Delta 5, Devo, Slumber Party, Pony Up!, Keren Ann, Antony & The Johnsons, Nouvelle Vague, Thunderbirds Are Now!, The Radio Dept., The Vera Violets, Menomena, Junior Boys, M.I.A., Art Brut, Maximo Park, Brazilian Girls, The Organ, Stina Nordenstam, Secret Machines, Laura Veirs, Seefeel, The Rakes, etc.

Movies:

Afropunk, Japanese Story, El Norte, Santa Sangre, Morvern Callar, Ghost World, Lost in Translation, Dopamine, Eye of God, Bread & Roses, In the Company of Men, The Shape of Things, House of Sand and Fog, In the Bedroom, Requiem for a Dream, Glengarry Glen Ross, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Waking Life, Bartleby, Wings of Desire, Dead Man, Real Women Have Curves, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Men with Guns, An Injury To One, Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square, Lone Star, Sunshine State, All the Real Girls, Dark Days, Fog of War, La Bamba, Kill Bill, Amores Perros, Dogville, Y tu Mama Tambien, Whale Rider, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Adaptation., Being John Malkovich, Napoleon Dynamite, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Velvet Goldmine, Hedwig & the Angry Inch, The Dreamers, A Little Romance, Buffalo 66', The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Midnight Cowboy, Maria Full of Grace, But I'm a Cheerleader, Muriel's Wedding, I Heart Huckabees, Vera Drake, What the Bleep Do We Know?, My Summer Of Love, Young Adam, American Splendor, Sylvia, Pollock, In the Mood For Love, Dangerous Beauty, Raise the Red Lantern, Indochine, House of the Flying Daggers, Girl, Interrupted, My Beautiful Laundrette, East Is East, Festen, The Mother, Coming To America, Trading Spaces, Twin Falls Idaho, Shawshank Redemption, March of the Penguins, My Terrorist, Winged Migration, A Room with a View, Wilde, Kinsey, Equus, Damage, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, 'Night, Mother, The Saddest Music in the World, Contact, Angels in America, Grizzly Man, Gegen die Wand, Down With Love, The Wicker Man, Funny Games, The Edukators, Crash, Fellini's Casanova, Once Upon a Time in the West, A Tout de Suite, Brokeback Mountain, Henry & June, A Fond Kiss, Times Square, Chulas Fronteras, etc.

Television:

I love Doc Day on Sundance, anything on Sundance, National Geographic Channel, Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Jeopardy!, Law & Order re-runs, old-ass episodes of Unsolved Mysteries, PBS specials and docs, old Simpsons episodes, Netflix when I can afford it, old movies on either AMC or TCM, etc. Oh yeah, I abhor MTV & the total shite on VH1!

Books:

The Handmaid's Tale, A Radical Line, Fast Food Nation, How to Get Stupid White Men out of Office, Lipstick Traces, We Got the Neutron Bomb, The Exception to the Rulers, Ghost World, David Boring, Palomar, Nickel and Dimed, Quirkyalone, No Logo, Quarterlife Crises, War is a Force that Gives us Meaning, Get Your War On, Burn Collector, We Owe You Nothing, Found, The Vagina Monologues, Days of War Nights of Love, From The Velvets To The Voidoids, Please Kill Me, Slackjaw, Prozac Nation, Noonday Demon, Songbook, Pass thru Fire, What every person should know about War, How Soon is Never?, The Smiths and Beyond, Pretty in Punk, She's a Rebel, Girl's Guide to Taking over the World, Angry Women in Rock, The Sex Revolts, Morrissey Shot, The Velvet Years: Warhol's Factory 1965-67, Chicano!: The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, Latino USA, The Celluloid Closet, I Put a Spell on You, Lady Sings the Blues, Live through This, Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America, Let it Blurt, The Secret History of Rock: The Most Influential Bands You've Never Heard, The Portable Curmudgeon, The Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll, Our Band Could Be Your Life, Get Your War On, Into the Wild, Female Chauvinist Pigs, etc.

Heroes:

Frida Kahlo, Angela Davis, Cesar Chavez, Emma Goldman, Bayard Rustin, Sandra Cisneros, PJ Harvey, Nina Simone, Morrissey, Lou Reed, Moe Tucker, Patti Smith, Exene Cervenka, Chrissie Hynde, Debora Iyall, Poly Styrene, Lesley Woods, Hope Sandoval, Andrea Zollo, Karen O., Chan Marshall, Kathleen Hanna, Beth Ditto, Cedric Bixler Zavala, Janeane Garofalo, Zack de la Rocha, Chris Rock, Sylvia Plath, Oscar Wilde, Simone de Beauvoir, Veronica Franco, Manuela Saenz, Trish Keenan, David Cross, Tilda Swinton, etc.