Music, reading, the 1960s, philosophy, poetry, tattoos, Dylanology, G.I.S., film, WWII, northern mythology, DJing, city-life, and the b's (Brooklyn, boxing, baseball, bars, beer, bourbon, and blasphemy).
Old friends. People with something to say, and maybe a laugh to share... Do not just send me a friend request if i don't know you -- drop me a line first, otherwise I will not add you. I am not collecting virtual-friends here.
NOT BANDS THAT I DON'T PERSONALLY KNOW!
I especially love sounds from the 1960s (folk, freakbeat, garage, psychedelic, r'n'b, soul, ska, and rocksteady), punk-rock, '50s rock'n'roll, deep blues, power-pop, bebop, Jamaican '70s (roots, dub, and deejay), VU, TVPs, Dylan, Can, Spacemen 3/Spiritualized, etc.
Film noir, French new wave, Woody Allen films, westerns, documentaries, Hitchcock films, British cinema... Don't Look Back, Casablanca, Apocalypse Now, Glengarry Glen Ross, Mister Roberts, Style Wars, Battle Of Algiers, Some Like It Hot, Blackboard Jungle, Citizen Kane, Taxi Driver, Army Of Shadows, Gimme Shelter, The Long Goodbye, Small Faces, Ivan's Childhood, Angels With Dirty Faces, Ace In The Hole, The Manchurian Candidate, The Warriors, Diner, City Of God, Harold And Maude, etc.
These days: The Wire, Extras, No Reservations, Sunday Morning, Gangland, The Office, and Family Guy... Old faves: Homicide, I Love Lucy, Freaks And Geeks, The Prisoner, Oz, Naked City, All In The Family, The Honeymooners, Seinfeld, Johnny Staccato, M*A*S*H, Band Of Brothers, The Odd Couple, Twilight Zone.
My Secret History, Letters To A Young Contrarian, Farenheit 451, The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier And Clay, Catcher In The Rye, Behind The Shades, The Stranger, Please Kill Me, The Great Gatsby, Perfume, Psychotic Reactions And Carburetor Dung, With Charity Toward None, Demian, Last Exit To Brooklyn, Deep Blues, The Ginger Man, Homage To Catalonia, Among The Thugs, The Prose Eddas, Chronicles, The Deuce, and work in general by Baudelaire, Will Self, Phillip Roth, Eliot, Bertrand Rusell, Amy Hempel, Babel, Rimbaud, James Ellroy, Hemmingway, Denis Johnson, Mary Gaitskill, Dylan Thomas, Richard Price, Martin Amis, Jim Thompson, Thom Jones, Nietzche, Russell Banks, Auden, Robert Stone, Arthur Miller, Cormac McCarthy, Garth Ennis, etc.
Not so fond of calling 'em "heroes" -- more like inspiration. Of the living: my parents, Bob Dylan, and Christopher Hitchens... Of the not-with-us-anymore: Arthur Miller, Bertrand Russell, Jackie Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Albert Camus, George Orwell, Greg Shaw, and King Tubby.