My interests are, quite obviously, letting my girlfriend open accounts for me, on popular sites like myspace.
I'd like to meet video store clerks and coffee house workers that will give me free coffee and videos. I also like the occasional math girl. I don't know why my girlfriend wrote this. I only like one video store clerk, and for some reason (cosmic radiation? hypnosis? botulism poisoning rotting her cerebellum?) she likes me. I owe her my life, because she saved me from a growling and testy herd of punk rock chipmunks with shivs. I was doomed! She swooped into the scene like a roaring sheena, and did a wonderful dance in her leopard spot underoos. She hypnotized those psycho vermin, and I was madly in love. I would only rent movies from her. I have NEVER gotten free coffee. And I shall never search for it again, either.
Much to Ephraim's chagrin, and Miranda's condemnation, I've been listening to rock for the last few years. I love it all though: Country, Folk, Jazz, Classical, Punk, Electronica, Metal, Classic Rock, Hip-Hop, Gospel, World, Experimental, Pop, and Latin. Mostly indie rock though.Favorites of the moment: Frank Black, Strokes, the Sounds, Belle and Sebastian, Trail of Dead, 50 ft. Wave, Ladytron, Peaches, Del, Lunachicks, Liz Phair, Boards of Canada...
I like very dour serious movies like Kung Pow, Spaceballs, The Holy Grail, Airplane, and Half Baked. Want a treat sure to change your life? Look for a short animated movie called Rejected on the Spike and Mike's compilations. Very dour it is.
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Truly, when it comes to zoning out antisocially, my preference would be reading pulpy science fiction or fantasy crap. In reality, I spend far too much time playing video games, though. I got cable to see Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, though, and that has come with some silliness. Who wants to be a super hero? is great. The PA is actually pretty good. South Park, Reno 911, Everybody hates Chris, Simpsons, Family Guy, the Office, My Name is Earl, Er, House, Law and Odor ... hell, Girlfriends is great. There are some pretty good sitcoms out right now. On BBC we sometimes get reruns of Coupling. That's probably the best show of the last 10 years, aside from the cartoons.
Books are people too. Some of the last books I've read are Naked, Dress your family in corduroy and denim, a confederacy of dunces, Beasts of No Nation, The Diamond Age, The chronicals of Narnia, American Gods, and Prodigal Summer. Classics that I love are Poisonwood Bible, Godel Escher and Bach, Siddartha, James and the Giant Peach, Ender's Game, The Game of Thrones, Catch 22, and A Farewell to Arms. (I threw in the Hemingway to sound smart, but it is actually really interesting if you read between the lines at the inexpressed emotion. Terror, hope, guilt, love, it was swell!) I try to read something good every other book. So I'll read some lame fantasy (or an occasional good one) and the next book will be something cultural or literary.
Noam Chomsky. His work will save countless lives in the future, once we learn democracy. If you ain't read it, you done courtin' ignerance. Now, it's like this. Them corporate entities (corporate means 'like a person,' right?) have one big bottom line. And that is their only goal: More money! The only reason they don't murder for money is that it doesn't make money; a corporation has to spend in legal fees, possible reperations, and negative public relations more than it would make. It IS cost effiecient to own the media and try to control popular opinion. The methodology of propaganda has been well documented, and you can read from news corporations themselves about how it is a mission objective.Want more? Don't believe me and want documentation? An independent bookstore will order for you a copy of Manufacturing Consent. Take an afternoon opening your eyes and watch this. The blinders coming off can be shocking, but it can help. Noam Chomsky's talks have been reproduced in excellent little books that are easy to read and are indisputably referenced! Try them. I love to read crap. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror. But I try to make everyother book that I read be something valuable. A 75 page paperback about Media Control, 9/11, or our well-documented foreign policy objectives fits the bill!Read or Bleed, people. Learn or burn. Only you can prevent unneeded war. And if you think terrorism is bad killing 10,000, please try to understand that a war killing 50 times as many innocents is 50 times as bad! Not twice, not 10 times, but 50 times. Iraq, Vietnam. It's your vote if you take it.