LIKES: Music, psychology, reading books, writing plays, performance art, laughing at others, laughing at myself, running, walking, working out with the one dumbell I own, telling funny stoner ben stories, practical jokes, the half door, MO'S MIDTOWN, linen pants, funky watches, telling those same stories again, good movies, bad movies (i.e. 'dolemite the human tornado), reinventing myself as a pretentious british new wave frontman, farfetched ideas, unfeasible solutions, tenuous conclusions. DISLIKES: Music 'magazines" such as 'Blender,' political 'commentators' such as Ann Coulter, arrogant people that aren't me, planes, SUV's, underwear, the E! channel, the Bush administration (obviously), Exxon-Mobile, Nancy Grace, fake hippies, extreme conservatives, extreme liberals, catchphrases, movie quotes, steve miller band, all things emo, fear, ignorance, jealously, and idleness.
Anyone that won't make me repost bulletins to be their friend!!! Man, I've lost sooooooo many friends that way...
oh lord time to bust out the cd collection: Al Green, Art Tatum, Arto Lindsay, Beatles, Beck, Ben Folds Five, Black Sheep, Bloc Party, The Blue Nile, BLUR, BOB DYLAN, Bob Marley, Cake, Charlatans UK, Charles Mingus, Claude Debussy, The Cure, David Bowie, The Dears, DE LA SOUL, The Doors, Dr. John, Dr. Dre, DONNY HATHAWAY, Duke Ellington, Elliot Smith, ELVIS COSTELLO, Elvis Presley, Frankie Lymon, Gorillaz, Hal, The Hollies, Huey Lewis (actually just the song "The Power of Love" from Back to the Future. . .yeah, you know what I'm talkin about), the song "We Are The World", James Brown, Jamiroquai, Jane's Addiction, Jeff Buckley, Jelly Roll Morton, JELLYFISH, John Coltrane, Led Zeppelin, Long Beach Dub Allstars, Madness, Martin Sexton, Men at Work, Modest Mouse, MORRIS DAY & THE TIME, Mr. Bungle, Muse, Orchestra Baobab, Parliament, Pharcyde, Phillip Glass, Beniamino Gigli, Mahalia Jackson, Pink Floyd, Pixies, Police, Portishead, Primal Scream, Prince, Prince Paul, PULP, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers circa before-they-sucked, Rentals, Rick James, Rolling Stones, The Shins, The Smiths, Spoon, Squeeze, Stereophonics, STEVIE WONDER, STP, Stravinsky, Ella, Sublime, Super Furry Animals, SUPERGRASS, TALKING HEADS, They Might Be Giants, Tom Waits, U2, XTC, The Zombies, plus a lot of other miscellaneous jazz and classical artists as well as the song "careless whispers."
If it's disturbingly honest, unabashedly bold, utterly ridiculous, or beautifully human I'll enjoy it.
Daily Show and Colbert Report, and The History Channel for general ambience.
Summer reading for Scotty B: Leo Tolstoy short stories, Buzzmarketing by Mike Hughes, 48 Laws of Power, "You've Got To Read This!" short story anthology, Mother Tongue (history of language), various biographies of anyone influential or insane, and lots of psychology journals. And sometimes I spend hours at Border's and read a few pages of everything I see. And other times, I write my own stuff!
Mike Straus...and now he's my classmate.