staring at people across subway platforms, finding books on the street, making tourists feel uncomfortable, smiling at dogs, staring at babies, bad puns, sexual tension, women with a past, and men with a future
"Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question. This question is one that a very old man asks. My benefactor told me about it once when I was young, and my blood was too vigrous for me to understand it. Now I do understand it. I will tell you what it is: Does this path have a heart? All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. They are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my own life I could say I have traversed long, long paths, but I am not anywhere. My benefactor's question has meaning now. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you."
tom waits, charley pride, james brown, sublime, otis redding, marvin gaye, the pixies, electric six, nofx, the stone cutters, fugazi, bob marley, peter tosh, the clash, the slackers, kanye west, the temptations, rufus thomas, prince, starship, the supremes, digable planets, tears for fears, de la soul, pink floyd, the dictators, elmore james, b.b. king, led zepplin, stiff little fingers, jimi hendrix, sam & dave, wilson pickett, madness, bad religion, the ramones, david bowie, operaton ivy, the beatles, the delfonics, the 13th floor elevators, tori amos, desmond dekker, 2 skinnee j's, george jones, johnny cash, the mamas and the papas, nellie mckay, weezer, public enemy, Amy Winehouse, the motherfuckin' D
oldboy, primer, adaptation, wonder boys, the taking of pelham 1-2-3, almost famous, unbreakable, the untold story, the royal tannenbaums, mystery men, swingers, reservior dogs, mad max:beyond thunderdome, basquiat, requiem for a dream, half baked, aliens, happiness, g.i. joe: the movie, chopper, waxworks 2, the big lebowski, groundhog day, love serenade, cold fever, empire of the sun, the color purple, apocalypse now, say anything, things to do in denver when you're dead, delicatessen, anything by john cassevettes or the coen bros.
Spooks, Family Guy, Farscape, Law & Order: SVU, Good Vs. Evil, Red Dwarf, Fishing With John, Star Trek, The X-Files, Futurama, Arrested Development, Scrubs, Lost
memories of another day, 1984, fear and loathing in las vegas, the electric kool-aid acid test, please kill me, the archaic revival, food of the gods, the subterreans, the outlaw book of american poetry, neuromancer, a clockwork orange, ham on rye, disposable people, sula, naked lunch, the temporary autonomous zone, alice in wonderland; Eugene Miller, Lorraine Hansberry, Henry Miller, Pablo Neruda, Charles Bukowski, Edward Albee
The damned, the despised, and the depraved