MY NATIONAL ANTHEM:
desaparecidos - "the happiest place on earth"
I want to pledge allegiance to
the country where I live
I don't want to be ashamed to be American
But opportunity no, it don't exist
It's the opiate of the populace
We need some harder shit now
The truth is getting around
And each public school is a halfway house
Where the huddled masses sober up and up enough There's not enough to fatten the cows
And feed all of us
It's just a rationing of luck
What can't be bought gets raffled off
Oh God good God shed greed on thee
Your shining sea turned a dirty green
From the industry
off the shores of New Jersey
I got a letter from the army
So I think that I'll enlist
I'm not brave or proud of nothing
I just want to kill something
Too bad that now-a-days you just point and click
Swing low satellite
Hot white chariot
In the computer's blue glare
The bombs burst in the air
There was a city once now nothing is there
Our freedom comes at their expense
It makes sense, does it? Dollars and cents
They're stretching barbed wire across the picket fence
That is surrounding your housing development
Just in case you lack the confidence
Oh God my God give strength to thee
These amber waves purple majesty
Are nothing but backdrops for Disney
We'll look up close
It is superimposed on a blank blue screen
It is fantasy fucking magical
The dreams floats like a chemical
Through each snapped synapse our television past
That is beautiful no more no more
We cannot run from who we are. Our destiny chooses us.
I'd like to meet:
I'd like to meet Bobby Womack and have him walk me across 110th street.
Music:
!!!
annie
a-trak
barrington levy
bob dylan
belle & sebastian
dj mark the 45 king
a tribe called quest
afrikka bambaataa and the soulsonic force
aimee mann
al green
armani xxxchange
bauhaus
big star
billie holliday
bjork
black sabbath
bloc party
brian jonestown massacre
built to spill
butterfly train
charles mingus
cocteau twins
david bowie
david brookings
david ruffin
desaparecidos
devo
dexter gordon
django reinhardt
donnie hathaway
echo and the bunnymen
eddie kendricks
eels
egyptian lover
elliott smith
elliott smith
elvis costello
engine kid
flosstradamus
freestyle fellowship
gang of four
george jones
get up kids
gil-scott heron
grace jones
grandmaster flash and the furious five
grandwizard theodore
hank williams sr.
heatmiser
imogen heap
jimmie rodgers
jon spencer blues explosion
joni mitchell
joy division
junior high
kanye west
kid sister
king elementary
kool herc
kraftwerk
larry heard
laurie anderson
lcd soundsystem
leadbelly
levy
lifter
living better electrically
loretta lynn
lou reed
lucero
lucinda williams
m.i.a.
mark lanegan
marvin gaye
massive attack
ministry
modest mouse
mogwai
my bloody valentine
nasty nas
neil finn
new order
nina simone
os mutantes
out hud
patterson and millbrook projects
paul pena
polyrock
prince
public enemy
robert johnson
roberta flack
run d.m.c.
shuggie otis
sly & robbie
smashing pumpkins
sonic youth
spank rock
sparks
stevie wonder
sunny day real estate
the band
the beastie boys
the blood violets
the clash
the coach and four
the germs
the killers
the pase rock
the ramones
the shins
thelonious monk
thirty ought six
todd terry
tom waits
vhs or beta
we ragazzi
wilco
william bell
willie mitchell
woody guthrie
yes
zero 7
and innovators and inventors of sound everywhere
Movies:
Cidade de Deus (City of God) , Citizen Kane, Le Samourai, The Bad News Bears (with Walter Matthau), Crumb, Breaking Away, Wet Hot American Summer, Gummo, The Shawshank Redemption, Fresh, Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory, Over The Edge, My Own Private Idaho, Sneakers, L.I.E., Super Size Me!, The Piano, Happiness, Manufacturing Consent, The Cooler, American Splendor, Scarface, The French Connection, The Game, Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, The Accountant, Transamerica, Capote, Brokeback Mountain, Across 110th Street, Murderball, House of Games, Boys Don't Cry, The Sting, Cool Hand Luke, Oldboy, Hustle & Flow, Crash
Television:
I am ADDICTED to Law & Order, The Tomorrow People, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Six Feet Under, The Jeffersons, Arrested Development, Celebrity Poker Showdown, World Poker Tour, World Series of Poker, Poker Million, oh fuck it ALL POKER SHOWS OK, and Maude
Books:
Cathedral, The Stories of John Cheever, Atlas Shrugged, Writing in Restaurants, White Noise, The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, In Our Time, The Little Prince, Feel This Book, Barrel Fever, Naked, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, Middlesex, Prozac Nation, 'Tis, A Million Little Pieces, Everything Is Illuminated
Heroes:
Billy Bragg, Bob Mould, Lee Hazlewood, Townes Van Zandt, Lucinda Williams, Bob Dylan, Michael Stipe, Joe Strummer, Neil Young, Thurston Moore, Gram Parsons, Joni Mitchell