laying Music, traveling anywhere, roadtrips down the street to across the country. Meeting people. Discussions over coffee. nighttime walks. potluck dinners. Chris's noise. Brians interior design. politics and activism. trying not to eat animals. trying to eat more babies. Stand up comedy. art and music. philosophy and understanding.
girls that skateboards, guys that wear make-up, people who play chess and wanna travel.
Depeche Mode, Modest Mouse, Iron and Wine, Bright eyes, Azure Ray, Joy Division, Echo and the Bunnymen, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Leonard Cohen, Wilco, Sonic Youth, Pavement, Sebadoh, Pedro the Lion, Slint, The Decemberists, Voltaire, Rasputina, Switchblade Symphony, Bed Box, the Get Sets, Deathcab for Cutie, Xiu Xiu, Deerhoof, Mogwai, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Silver Mt. Zion, Death From Above 1979, Metric, The Silver Jews, Elliott Smith, Blonde Redhead, Mirah, Neutral Milk Hotel, DNtel, The Notwist, Nick Cave, The Smiths, Morrisey, The Talking Heads, Placebo, Tori Amos, Explosions in the Sky, The Cure, Mindless Self Indulgence, The Octopus Project, HIM, Neil Young, And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Cursive, Murder by Death, Zoe Keating, etc. etc. etc.
I once didnt buy grocerys so I could afford to go see more movies. They are something of a passion for me. My favorites are Todd Solondz, Gus Van Sant, and Lars Von Trier. but I also enjoy John Waters, Kevin Smith, Tim Burton, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, P.T. Anderson, Oliver Stone,Sam Raimi, Stanley Kubrick, Michel Gondry, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Terry Gilliam, John Hughes. Garden State, Memento, the boondock saints, lost in translation, wet hot american summer, unbreakable, hackers, everything with James Dean, The lord of the rings trilogy (fellowship being number 1) those damn harry potter movies, those damn lindsay lohan movies, all sappy teen dramas in general, the classics, foreign and independent. "Death to those that make bad cinema"
i'm always so torn on TV, i wish I didnt like it but i do. Entourage, Nip/Tuck, The Office (BBC version), Arrested Development, Trailor Park Boys, Da Ali-G show, Dead Like Me, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, King Of the Hill, Southpark, Any super hero cartoons, Home Movies, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Harvey Birdman, Samurai Champions, Sailor Moon, Gundam GT, Firefly, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls, Popular, Pete and Pete, Rocko's Modern Life, Ren & Stimpy, Clarissa Explains It All, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Curb Your Enthusiasm, anything on the History channel and Discovery Channel.
Jack Kerouac, Chuck Palahniuk, Lisa Crystal Carver, Henry Miller, William S. Burroughs, Nick Hornby, Kurt Vonnegut, Gabriel Garcia Marques, Milan Kundera, Bret Easton-Ellis, Howard Zinn, Richard Rorty, Jean Jacque Rousseau, Walt Whitman, Dante, Arthur Miller, Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, Charles Bukowski, Robert Heinlein, Philip K. Dick, Albert Camus, Sam Keith, Jhonen Vasquez, etc. etc. etc.
So many distant celebrities and historical figures have been sources of inspiration and guidance, but my real heroes are my friends. I dont know what I'd do without them.You know who you are.