I respond to and connect with anything consisting of creativity, integrity, laughter, intelligence, or passion.
[abstraction, activism, adventure, aesthetics, anti-consumerism, art, astronomy, astrophysics, balance, classic cinema, comedy, consciousness, conspiracies, creation, criticism, destruction, dreams, emotion, existentialism, expression, fantasy, foreign films, ideas, imagination, individuality, introspection, karma, live music, lyrics, meditation, minimalism, mystery, mythology, oddities, open minds, pain, perception, pleasure, poetry, postmodernism, propaganda, protest, reality, rebellion, revolution, rhetoric, situationism, spontaneity, thought, tragedy, truths]
I'd love to find my very own Byronic hero, someone who will fuck me mentally, physically, and spiritually. But I'm certainly not expecting to find that here.
I will converse with virtually anyone, until it becomes excruciatingly tedious to do so.
Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
[Aerosmith, The Arcade Fire, Air, Bach, The Beatles, Beck, David Bowie, Bright Eyes, Cake, Nick Cave, Coldplay, The Cure, Dashboard Confessional, Nick Drake, Eels, Danny Elfman, The Faint, Ben Folds, Foo Fighters, G. Love, Guns N'Roses, The Honorary Title, Jack Johnson, Joy Division, Ben Kweller, Led Zeppelin, Sondre Lerche, M83, Dave Matthews Band, Modest Mouse, Mono, Morrissey, Muse, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, No Doubt, Our Lady Peace, Pedro the Lion, Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, Portishead, The Postal Service, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Radiohead, REM, The Shins, Frank Sinatra, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, The Stills, Stravinsky, The Swans, The Toadies, The White Stripes, Wilco]
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
[2001, Amelie, American Beauty, Annie Hall, Being There, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Big Fish, Billy Madison, Breathless, Casablanca, Un Chien Andalou, Clerks, A Clockwork Orange, Crash, Donnie Darko, Dr. Strangelove, Edward Scissorhands, Empire Records, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fight Club, Finding Neverland, Garden State, Great Expectations, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, High Fidelity, His Girl Friday, I Heart Huckabees, An Inconvenient Truth, Irreversible, The Life Aquatic, Little Miss Sunshine, Moulin Rouge, Napoleon Dynamite, Notorious, Office Space, Pan's Labyrinth, Pulp Fiction, Punch Drunk Love, Roman Holiday, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Science of Sleep, Secretary, Sin City, Sixteen Candles, Spellbound, Star Wars, Stranger then Fiction, Sullivan's Travels, Sunset Blvd, Thank You for Smoking, V for Vendetta, When Harry Met Sally, Wings of Desire]
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
[Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Arrested Development, The Colbert Report, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Daily Show, Family Guy, Futurama, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Jeopardy, Kids in the Hall, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, NewsRadio, Oblongs, PeeWee's Playhouse, Project Runway, Real Time with Bill Maher, Robot Chicken, Seinfeld, Sex and the City, The Simpsons]
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
[1984, Catch-22, A Clockwork Orange, Culture Jam, Dracula, Fast Food Nation, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, Great Expectations, The Great Gatsby, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series, Love and Napalm, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Nation of Rebels, Salmon of Doubt
magazines: Adbusters, Bitch, .ISM]
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his or her freedom.
[Douglas Adams, Jean Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir, David Bowie, Kenneth Burke, Albert Camus, Noam Chomsky, Stephen Colbert, Billy Corgan, Salvador Dali, Richard Dawkins, Rene Descartes, Marlene Dietrich, Marcel Duchamp, Albert Einstein, Michel Foucault, Al Franken, Benjamin Franklin, Betty Friedan, Bill Gates, Alberto Giacometti, Beck Hansen, Audrey Hepburn, Alfred Hitchcock, Abbie Hoffman, Jenny Holzer, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Jefferson, Wassily Kandinsky, Grace Kelly, Stanley Kubrick, Kalle Lasn, David Letterman, Niccolo Machiavelli, Karl Marx, Ralph Nader, Friedrich Nietzsche, Conan OBrien, Thomas Paine, Pablo Picasso, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sagan, Jean-Paul Sartre, Amy Sedaris, Jerry Seinfeld, William Shakespeare, Jon Stewart, Igor Stravinsky, Mr. T, Hunter S. Thompson, Leonardo da Vinci, Kurt Vonnegut, Sarah Vowell, Oscar Wilde, Tom Wolfe]