Spinning my wheels, running around in circles, dumbing things down, pulling myself up by my bootstraps, getting my head in the game, bringing my A-game, being proactive, moving forward, never saying die because winners never quit and quitters never win, hoping for the best while expecting the worst, taking things with a grain of salt, taking the bull by the horns, taking the high road, knowing when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em, carpe diem-ing, wang-chunging tonight, hoping no one throws a stone at my glass house, neither a borrower nor a lender being, looking on the brightside, not having a cow, not worrying and being happy, having a nice day, not saying anything if I don't have anything nice to say, rising and shining, being bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, getting up early to get worms, hanging ten, lying to people about being Rick James and then insulting them, RELAXing, putting a sock in it, mixing my metaphors, getting between a rock and a hard place, getting up a creek without a paddle, himming and hawwing, letting the Force be with me, being hella cool, pleading the fifth, being not unlike various things in simile, looking over the fence to see what color the grass is, keeping up with the Joneses, saving Ferris, dropping it, getting on track, getting off track, getting back on track, greasing the wheels, getting the wheels turning, going to the dogs, lying down with dogs and getting up with fleas, getting shot down, giving 110%, going the whole nine yards, giving it everything I've got, dividing myself against myself and falling over, making the choice of a new generation, shooting the bull, shooting the shit, shooting the breeze, pissing things away, pissing in the wind, getting behind the 8 ball, getting out in the nick of time, getting out by the skin of my teeth, getting egg on my face, putting my foot in my mouth, skating by, swearing to God, getting my head together, getting my shit together, getting thrown out on my ass, not letting the door hit me in the ass on the way out, not waiting up, not bothering to knock if the house is a-rockin', succinctly informing people of my impending return, deciding who I'm gonna call, looking both ways, not talking to strangers, finishing everything I've been served, not leaving the table until I excuse myself, getting my foot in the door, emailing, texting, leaving a voicemail, putting on a happy face, putting on the ritz, putting things in perspective, looking at it your way, walking a mile in your shoes, not judging a book by its cover, agreeing to disagree, being at the end of my rope, having it up to here, wondering aloud, not being able to eat the cake I have, getting the best of both worlds, standing on top of the world, keeping a stiff upper lip, taking things as they come, crossing bridges when I come to them, Gitting-R-Done, so on and so forth, and things of that nature, literally.
I'd like to meet:
Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, Brian Wilson, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Elton John, Van Morrison, Robbie Robertson, Steve Harris, Nikki Sixx, Slash, Billy Shears; David Cross, Lewis Black, Jon Stewart, Robin Williams, Dave Attel; Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Jimmy Carter; both George Bushes, Kim Jong il, Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosovic, Saigon Jane, Dick Cheney, Ariel Sharon, Vladimir Putin; Lucy, James Lipton, Wil Ferrell, Roy Disney, Teddy Kennedy, Neil Armstrong, Gene Kranz, Ray Bradbury, Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda. And...
oh, yeah. You won't be at my wedding, but you should save the date for my wake. I will be dying on January 10, 2071. 92 ain't bad.
Music:
The Beach Boys, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Leon Russel, Elton John, Sigur Ros, Robot Ate Me, Radiohead, the Postal Service, Rilo Kiley, Flogging Molly, Trojan Records, Two-Tone Records, the Damned, Frank Zappa, the Allman Brothers Band, the Band, Van Morrison, AC/DC, Toto, Men at Work, Love, Bread, Butterfield Blues Band, Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen, Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, Frou Frou, Big Country, Erasure, Dead or Alive, Solas, Altan, Bonnie Rideout, Ri Ra, The Roots, WU-TANG!, Dirt McGirt (RIP), Klaus Nomi, Edie Sedgwick, Iron and Wine, Beth Orton, Ferry Corsten, Norman Cook, MAIDEN!, Sepultura, Rage Against the Machine's first album, Nirvana, Ministry, Faith no More, Richard Tauber, Cure, DM, Ron D. Core, Dieselboy, the Decemberists, the Pet Shop Boys, the Church, Tears for Fears... But whatever man, I totally listen to everything and stuff.
Movies:
The NOMI Song, The Last Waltz, A Scanner Darkly, Reno 911: Miami!, The Royal Tenenbaums; Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels; Snatch, The Three Faces of Eve, The Brothers Quay, Waiting for Guffman, Dog Show, The Ring, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Time Bandits, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder), Matilda, The Secret of Nimh, Jezebel, The Serpent and The Rainbow, The Last House on the Left, Night of the Living Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Troll 2, Willow, Ghostbusters, The Blues Brothers, Smokey and the Bandit, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh), Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas, KissKissBangBang, Bubba Ho-tep, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Empire Strikes Back; South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut; Porky's, Citizen Kane, Mallrats, Dogma, The Godfather, An Evening with Kevin Smith, Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down, The Lord of the Rings.
Television:
ATHF, The Daily Show, Ren and Stimpy, Home Movies, Metalocalypse, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Molto Mario, Essence of Emeril, Mr. Show, the State, Reno 911!, BBC America, Army/Navy/Air Force/Marines commercials, Devry commercials, the Disarrono commercial. Iron Chef (Japanese). SUPERGROUP. Wildboyz.
Books:
The Dwarf, At the Mountains of Madness, Catch A Wave: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, The Zombie Survival Guide, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, The Federalist Papers, Trainspotting, Oryx and Crake, Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Collected Essays of George Orwell, Collected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, A Wizard of Earthsea, Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, The Complete Poems and Letters of John Keats, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Selected Works of Y.B. Yeats, Heart of Darkness, The Fig Eater, Nectar in a Sieve, A Wrinkle in Time, The House with a Clock in its Walls, The Red and The Black, The Upanishads, The Bible, The Tao Te Ching, The Chuang-zu, The Bhagavad-gita, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Panzer Operations: The Eastern Front Memoir of General Raus, Utilitarianism, On Nature, A Treatise on Human Nature, Selected Writings of Immanuel Kant, Little Boy Blue, The Associated Press Handbook, The Divine Comedy, The History of God, Little Miss Bossy, Little Miss Late, Mr. Messy, Little Miss Naughty, Mr. Clever, The Monster Manual, The Dungeon Masters Guide.
Heroes:
Marion True, Billy Carter, Nero, "Scooter" Libby, Martha Stewart, Kenneth Lay, Richard Nixon, Rasputin, Harriet Miers, The U.S. Armed Forces, The Shah, Rob Pilatus, Fabrice Morvan, Gray Davis, Alberto Gonzales.
