Life, Death, Sex. Everything comes down to them one way or another.
I'd like to meet:
Anyone who can make me laugh. It's cool if they do it intentionally but I love meeting people who bump into stuff too.
Music:
I love anything done well. This excludes "music" made without musicians.
BTW, Turntables and laptops are not musical instruments. Sampling and mashing don't make you a songwriter, they make you an aural collage artist.
You remember collage? They were those things that the unimaginative or untalented kids did in art class so they could pass without trying. Mashing or using other people's recordings in your music so you don't have to write your own is like that.DJ's are not musicians. At best, they are performance artists. When did being able to play a fukkin record become an artform? From what I can tell these douchebags show up at a venue, set up their gear and play pre-recorded material. How is that talent? In junior high these guys were called the A/V squad and they ran the slide projector for science class. Believe me, no-one confused them with the guys in school who played in rock bands. Now, somehow people have become so numb and apathetic that they think it doesn't matter how a beat is made as long as they can screw to it. Lame, lame, lame. People should demand better than re-hashed, plagiarized, electronic poop. Support your local musicians. They work for a living.
Movies:
State of Grace, PCU, Valley Girl, Halloween, Jaws, The Godfather I & II,
Ski School 1 & 2, The Big Red One, everything Kevin Smith does, Notting Hill,
The Magic Christian, Van Wilder, Arsenic & Old Lace, Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels, The Ref, Shawshank Redemption, Friday the 13th series, My Bloody Valentine, Sin City, Casablanca and on and on....And of course, whatever project you are currently working on Dear Reader...
Television:
The Daily Show rules, Rescue Me, Entourage, Boston Legal, any Law & Order, House, the Class is pretty good, Presidential press conferences are usually funnier. Bush and Cheney make a great comedy team. They're like Gilligan and the Skipper.
Books:
Heart of Darkness, collected works of W. B. Yeats, Anything by Christopher Marlowe, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 72', Edward Goreybooks, Shel Silverstein especially: Where the Sidewalk Ends.
Heroes:
Ted Williams, W. B. Yeats, and anyone who does things the hard way when they don't have to just because it's the right thing to do.Anyone who does what they know is the right thing, even when nobody's looking.
