bringing down The Man, making Whitey pay for His sins, riding my bike instead of dispensing fossil fuels, keeping BGHs, GMOs, pesticides, antibiotics & the flesh (and by-products) of animals (yes, sealife included; i'm not really sure how/when fish started being considered a vegetable...??) out of my digestive system, partaking in heated and stimulating intelligent conversation, eating entheogens, reading, painting, learning, exploring, creating, healing (myself and others)...and LIVING!! : D
people who like to dance. people who keep their joy like a secret. people without fear. people who are terrified of themselves and everything around them. people with love. people with walls thicker than the earth's crust. people with open minds, open hearts. people who wear defenses like a shield and cynicism like a badge. people who create their world from scratch. people who paint by numbers. people the same as i am. people different from me. i think that about covers it...
this will only give you a small idea of my lust for music... tori amos, beatles, cat power, bjork, underworld, johnny cash, joni mitchell, pearl jam, smashing pumpkins, nina simone, neil young, beth orton, interpol, elliot smith, toadies, indian rope trick, tia carerra (no, not the 'wayne's world' hooker), friends of dean martinez, tommy guerrero, madonna, breeders, cure, miles davis, eels, sleater kinney, ween, jon richman, cat stevens, jacob marley's ghost, indigo girls, tool, de la soul, charlie parker, bob dylan, mistress barbara, portishead, morcheeba, ll cool j, clash, sex pistols, rancid, dropkick murphys, fugazi, shannon wright, the muppets christmas album, don henley's boys of summer (don't ask??), burger ink, pavement, (and (of course), therefore, steven malkmus), the replacements, deathray davies, morphine, wesley willis, white stripes (b4 2002), foo fighters, modest mouse, placebo, sinead o'connor, ladytron, pixies, radiohead, led zeppelin, dead kennedys, the entire soundtrack on donnie darko, sarah mclaughlin, local h, nirvana, jewel (b4 she got her teeth fixed), velvet underground (w/or w/out nico), elvis costello, pharcyde, tribe called quest, pink floyd, kt tunstall, badly drawn boy, longwave, killers, harry connick jr, blonde redhead, yo la tengo, mary prankster, ideola, and rachael sage payne (my friend who is an incredible singer, songwriter & guitarist! who i miss very much b/c she moved to sweden, then to seattle. boohoo).
KILL YOUR TV!!!!! well, just kill CABLE tv, okay? thanks. movies are cool. these are the ones i think are...: eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (this is by far the best movie since savannah smiles), leon, fight club, money pit, drop dead fred, basquiat, donnie darko, adaptation, harold & maude, the hudsucker proxy, manufacturing consent, mystery men, tv nation, keep the river on your right, the awful truth, roger & me, bowling for columbine, interviews w/bukowski, eXistenZ, barton fink, crumb, naked lunch, crash, toys, big lebowski, wonder boys, se7en, pollock, american movie, flirting with disaster, fear and loathing in las vegas, rushmore, magnolia, boogie nights, dogtown & z boys, meantime, dracula, natural born killers, rosencrantz & gildenstern are dead, flawless, happiness, zoolander, sid & nancy, love, liza, about schmidt, american beauty, muriel's wedding, usual suspects, office space, true romance, step into liquid, supersize me, amelie...
hey, look out your window; yeah, open the blind, you idiot. see that? that's what's called REAL LIFE. get up off your ass and live it. :) (but that 'planet earth' thing is pretty kickass, especially on my dad's retardedly huge hd tv. sorry.)
rosie & the ringer, unicorns in the rain, the stand, word processor of the gods, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, the screwtape letters, catcher in the rye, animal farm, adbusters (mag), 1984, stranger in a strange land, storming heaven, orlando, who's afraid of virginia woolf?, (memoirs of) a dirty old man, zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, lila, culture jam, the prophet, the dictionary, the hobbit, the lion, the witch & the wardrobe, the complete poems of stephen crane, anything bukowski, howl, food of the gods, buzzed, forced entries, basketball diaries, stupid white men, job: a comedy of justice, lsd: my problem child, anything intelligible & educational on hallucinogens, textbooks on how to expand my healing abilities; writers: bukowski (allofit), stephen king, kerouac, ginsberg, hofmann (abbie & albert), terence mckenna, hunter s, jim carroll, douglas adams, michael moore, robert heinlein, aldous huxley, my friends amber & john,...
my personal belief is that heroes are self-defeating and depricating. it's sort of a way to allow yourself to be less than you'd like to be and still feel okay about not achieving what you intend. you should be your own hero. go on, put on some tights and a cape and kick some ass. feels pretty good, doesn't it? :p