lovers, hessians, gore-goths, wicked hose-beasts, hopeful romantics, total cheeseballs, losers, etc... maybe a few winners and nice folks with jokes. basically, people who give as good as they get. anyone with solid interests. no dabblers, no hobbyists. asses, evolution, architecture, frontside grinds, basketball, snow, reading, ice skating, hockey, writing music, touring, geeks, spazzing out, dead-eyed calm, fake dancing, hood rats, travel and fiction writing, film, cooking, goin' half on a baby, and smashing the state, etc...
Harsh realms with hearts of gold. People with ideas and ideals."It's my nature to persevere. There was nothing else I could do."- Eddie Bunker, No Beast So Fierce (1933-2005). Exactly.
Nina Simone, Beyond Possession, Rein Sanction, Talk Talk, Botch, Lungfish, The Clash, Pelican, Arab Strap, BORIS, Squirrel Bait, Elvis Costello, Husker Du, Brian Eno, Television, Black Flag, Prefab Sprout, Talking Heads, Slint, Voivod, Pharoah Overlord, Amon Duul, Fugazi, Bad Brains, Idaho, MELVINS, Popul Vuh, Neutral Milk Hotel, Scratch Acid, Drive Like Jehu (duh), Neil Young, Iron Maiden, Slayer, His Hero Is Gone, Cardinal, Rites of Spring, PJ Harvey, Nice Strong Arm, John Cale, Califone, Boredoms, Behead The Prophet/No Lord Shall Live, Circus Lupus, Radio Birdman, Skull Kontrol, Pink Mountaintops, Unwound, Come, Swearing at Motorists, The Monorchid
Miller's Crossing, Network, Knife In The Water, Bad News Bears, The Shining, Brazil, West Beirut, Burnt By The Sun, Baraka, Being There, Almodovar films, Last Tango In Paris, 5 Easy Pieces, Groundhog Day, The Indian Runner, Meatballs I & II, The Wrath of God, Revenge of the Nerds
Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Adult Swim), Nova, In Search Of (With Leonard Nemoy), MSNBC in the Morning, Bullfights, Conan, Lost: The Complete First Season (nerd alert), or anything on the hotel's pay-per-view (preferably with room service and a compadre)
w.e.b. dubois: the souls of black folk, of human bondage: W. sumerset maugham, their eyes were green and their hands were blue, too far from home (anthology): paul bowles, joseph conrad: heart of darkness, master and margarita: mikhail bulgakov, italo calvino: baron in the trees, bukowski: run with the hunted, gabriel garcia marquez: love in the time of cholera, strange passengers, john fante: ask the dust, Nina Simone: lyrics/quotes, robert johnson: we: jungian analysis of the tale of tristan and iseult
1) "I've lived out my melancholy youth. I don't give a fuck any more what's behind me, or what's ahead of me. I'm healthy. Incurably healthy. No sorrows, no regrets. No past, no future. The present is enough for me. Day by day. Today! Le bel aujourd'hui!"- Henry Miller2) “The wealth of the universe is for me. Every thing is explicable and practical for me .... I am defeated all the time; yet to victory I am born.†- Ralf Waldo Emerson