"Is life worth living? Well, that depends on the liver, baby..."
-Bootsy Collins
I'd like to meet:
"The people had come to witness a sensational case, to see celebrities, to get material for conversation, to be seen, to kill time. They would return to unwanted jobs, unloved families, unchosen friends, to drawing rooms, evening clothes, cocktail glasses and movies, to unadmitted pain, murdered hope, desire left unreached, left hanging silently over a path on which no step was taken, to days of effort not to think, not to say, to forget and give in and give up. But each of them had known some unforgotten moment- a morning when nothing had happened, a piece of music heard suddenly and never heard in the same way again, a stranger's face seen in a bus- a moment when each had known a different sense of living. And each remembered other moments, on a sleepless night, on an afternoon of steady rain, in a church, in an empty street at sunset, when each had wondered why there is so much suffering and ugliness in the world. They had not tried to find the answer and they had gone on living as if no answer were necessary. But each had known a moment when, in lonely, naked honesty, he had felt the need of an answer."
Ayn Rand, "The Fountainhead"
Music:
DISASTER SIMULATOR, Sorry So Sloppy, The Shadowboxer Gentlemen, Continuum, Sinbad and the Hi-Tops, Shoot the Dancing Bear, Sexual Harris and the Fellatio Bandits...eh, anything else? Nah, that's about it...
Movies:
Wet Hot American Summer, Being John Malcovich, the Shining, I Heart Huckabees, 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fletch, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Caddyshack, Melvin Goes to Dinner, Mallrats, Deconstructing Harry, Adaptation, Gremlins, specifically 2: the New Batch, Punch Drunk Love, Boogie Nights, Sin City, Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Begins, Batman Together, Beetlejuice, Night Shift, Houseguest, Encino Man, Spies Like Us, Lost in Translation, Ghostbusters, Blazing Saddles, Haunted Honeymoon, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, A Clockwork Orange, Scarface, 200 Motels, Easy Rider, Raw, Dazed and Confused, Edward Scissorhands, Gigli, Sean of the Dead, the Machinist, the Woodsman, Shadows and Fog, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Black Knight, Quick Change (it's bad luck just seeing a thing like that), Eyes Wide Shut, Reservior Dogs, Tombstone, Weird Science, Real Genius, Better Off Dead, The Golden Child, Hi-Fidelity, Beverly Hills Cop, First Kid, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Blue Velvet, True Romance, Run Ronnie Run, Nothing But Trouble, Mulhulland Drive, Big Trouble in Little China, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Tango and Cash, Overboard, Meatballs, Revenge of the Nerds 2, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey, Singles, Little Shop of Horrors, the Wizard of Oz, Return to Oz, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King, the Big Lebowski, Uncle Buck, PCU, Delerious, Who is Harry Crumb?, Suicide Club, American Psycho
Television:
Mr. Show, Arrested Development, Seinfeld, Upright Citizens Brigade, The State, Stella, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage, Da Ali G. Show, Lost, Family Guy, RAW, Kids in the Hall, the Office, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
Books:
How to Be a Good Houseguest by Kevin Franklin, The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Timequake, Slaughterhouse 5, Mother Night, Bluebeard, Player Piano, Welcome to the Monkeyhouse, Slapstick, Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegutt- The Trial, Amerika, The Metamorphosis, and collected Franz Kafka- On the Road, Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and other Jack Kerouac- How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, Lenny Bruce- Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops, by George Carlin- A Light in August, As I Lay Dying, Absalom Absalom, by William Faulkner- The McDonaldization of Society by George Ritzer- The Bible by Too Many Cooks- The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, The Cosmic Trigger by RAW - Man and His Symbols by Carl Gustaf Jung - Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison - Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis - A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee - The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins - The Jungle by Upton Sinclair - Come As You Are by Michael Azerrad - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll - The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis - Origin of Species, Charles Darwin - Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Daniel C. Dennett
Comics: Neil Gaimen: Sandman, 1602, Mr. Punch, Good Omens (novel) - Grant Morrison: the Invisibles, Animal Man, We3, Seaguy, New X-Men, Doom Patrol, Seven Soldiers, Arkham Asylum - Frank Miller: Sin City, Dark Knight Returns - Erik Larsen: Savage Dragon - Dave Sim: Cerebus - Sam Keith: the Maxx - Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird: old b/w TMNT - Alan Moore: Watchmen, Top 10, From Hell, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 1969, V For Vendetta -
Heroes:
Frank Zappa, Woody Allen, Franz Kafka, Joseph Campbell, Rowdy Roddy Piper
