acoustic guitar, ethnic food, wandering around the city, local music, wine, being a Bush-hatin' liberal, webcomics, video games, microbews, diner tricks, top-shelf spirits, cryptozoology, sailing, blackjack, driving way too fast whilst singing way too loudly, lockpicking, weird australian animals, brunch, feminism, finding the sloth in the rainforest part of the national aquarium, playing with makeup, travel, photography, rennfests, things that go fast, things that go boom, picking my nose, making fun of your mom, taking walks at night, profanity, camping, calvinball, victorian flower language, swimming, trivia, birds of prey, talking to my cat, writing on bathroom walls, zoos, creating pigeon stampedes, and napping.
My evil twin, Christopher Walken, your mom, anyone who can tell a good story and/or mix a good drink, and of course:
My favorite people this week: (
A Perfect Circle , Aimee Mann, Alexi Murdoch, Andrew Bird, Ani DiFranco, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Barenaked Ladies, Beastie Boys, Belle & Sebastian, Ben Folds +/- 5, Ben Gibbard, Bitch and Animal, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Brand New, Brazilian Girls, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, BT, Built to Spill, Cake, Cat Power, Chali 2na, Clint Mansell +/- Kronos Quartet, Cold War Kids, Colin Meloy, Counting Crows, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cut Chemist, Daft Punk, Damien Rice, Dave Matthews +/- Band, David Bazan, David Bowie, Death Cab for Cutie, Devendra Banhart, Devon Sproule, Elliott Smith, Feist, Fiona Apple, Frou Frou, George Clinton +/- Parliament Funkadelic, Girl Talk, Green Day, Greenskeepers, Guns N’ Roses, Headphones, Hot Hot Heat, House of Pain, Iron & Wine, James, Jeff Buckley, Jenny Lewis, Johnny Cash, Journey, Jurassic 5, Kaki King, Kings of Leon, Led Zeppelin, Lily Allen, Lords of Acid, Manu Chao, Matisyahu, Metric, Mindless Self Indulgence, Modest Mouse, Morrissey, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nick Drake, Nirvana, Oingo Boingo, Otis Redding, Pearl Jam, Pedro the Lion, Phish, Pink Floyd, Poe, Portishead, Rachael Yamagata, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Ray Charles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Regina Spektor, Richard Buckner, Rilo Kiley, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Smashing Pumpkins, Spoon, Sublime, Talking Heads, Tarkio, Tegan & Sara, The Beatles, The Beta Band, The Black Crowes, The Cure, The Decemberists, The Doors, The Flaming Lips, The Go! Team, The Gothic Archies, The Killers, The Long Winters, The Magnetic Fields, The Pixies, The Police, The Postal Service, The Shins, The Smiths, The White Stripes, They Might Be Giants, Thievery Corporation, Tom Petty, Tool, Tori Amos, U2, VAST, Violent Femmes, We Are Scientists, Weezer, Wesley Willis, Wilco, Wolfmother etc etc etc. MUSIC IS MY BOYFRIEND.
First off, nearly all things Smith, Tarantino, Python, Park, Coen, Lynch, Gilliam, Aronofsky, Hitchcock, Anderson, Miyazaki, Burton, and Kubrick. Lord of the Rings, Eternal Sunshine, Princess Bride, Shaolin Soccer, Labyrinth, High Fidelity, Mirrormask, Willy Wonka, Pan's Labyrinth, Star Wars (the old ones), Blues Brothers, Boondock Saints, Secretary, The Hobbit, The Secret of Nimh, Steal This Movie, Anchorman, The Saint, Ghostbusters, Say Anything, Early Adam Sandler movies, Napoleon Dynamite, The Wall, Ray, Pirates of the Carribean, A Christmas Story, Heathers, Love Actually, Sideways, Super Troopers, The Dark Crystal, Dodgeball, Groundhog Day, A History of Violence, Donnie Darko, White Oleander, Forrest Gump, Garden State, PCU, Empire Records, Closer, 40 Year Old Virgin, King Kong, March of the Penguins, A Scanner Darkly, North Country, Gangs of New York, Fight Club, V for Vendetta, Amelie, When Harry Met Sally, Joe vs the Volcano, American Beauty, Office Space, Sean of the Dead, Go, A Beautiful Mind, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Seven, Momento, The 1st Matrix, all Indiana Jones, Aliens, What About Bob, Reality Bites, The Sweetest Thing, Romeo + Juliet, Dracula, Dracula... on and on and on..
step up and forfeit your frontal lobe
to the sexed-up strobe of celebrity
never mind that the nanoseconds in between
are some of the darkest darkness you've ever seen
keep your eye on my finger
and listen to the sound of my voice
get your subliminal decree and your false security
be all that you can be
be all that you can be
in hospitals and schools
airports and banks and bars
big ones on street corners
little ones driving by in cars
glowing through countless
bedroom curtains at night
that 20k tone
and that pale blue light
saying
daddy knows best
yes, this is the news
in 90-second segments
officially produced
and aired again and again and again
by the little black and white pawns
of the network yes men
while the stars are going out
and the stripes are getting bent
Why book when you can author? I like just about anything by Tom Robbins, Douglas Adams, Anne Rice, Tolkien, David Sedaris, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchet, Chuck Palahniuk, Augusten Burroughs, Mark Danielewski, HP Lovecraft, Gregory Maguire, Edgar Allan Poe, Darby Conley, Graham Roumieu, Bill Watterson, Jhonen Vasquez, Gary Larson. Big ups for Choose Your Own Adventure. Currently playing with Only Revolutions, Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre and very slowly trudging throughCollapse, A People's History of the United States and a handful of others. Also wildly addicted to audiobooks.
Janeane Garofalo, Nimbus, Advil, Atia of the Julii, Dita von Teese, Keith Olbermann, Charles Darwin, and whoever invented chocolate buttercream frosting.