Music. Now I know everyone says 'music,' but do they really mean it? Oh wait, there is a music section. More on this later :) I spin records for fun, no false ideas about making a career out of djing. It's a great (expensive)hobby. Lots of nerdy stuff, basically any sci-fi; movie or written. Movies in general, I really like the more offbeat sort of films as well, like "The Hunger" (any 80's movie with Susan Sarandon doing lesbian scenes, David Bowie, AND Bauhaus, well that's a recipe for goddamn brilliance right there), SLC Punk, ect. Conversation. Everyone loves to talk but when's the last time you actually had a conversation with someone? Architecture of course, artwork in general as well.
Someone who combines the sensibilities of a 1950's robot with the dynamic flair of a 1970's street pimp.Everyone! More specifically, someone who has the same quirks that I do. Now this is a hard one: Nerdy enough to read sci-fi and watch Unscrewed on TechTV (R.I.P., it was the best show ever made), introverted enough to be comfortable going out and having a drink by yourself, yet on the other side of the coin outgoing enough to go out and be around large groups of people and have a blast when it's called for. Kind of a strange mix. Be passionate about SOMETHING, don't just coast. Someone who'se been around the block enough that they are tired of bullshit and games. Someone slightly to all-the-way off the beaten path. No room for completely well-adjusted people here :) And someone who'se easily entertained, because I'm excited about just about anything. haha.
*update* Lately I've really been enjoying this revival of the jack-house/acid stuff (not to be confused with the short lived acid "revival" of a few years back, where every hack DJ would try and toss out an uninspired acid track or two and call it a day. We knows good acid when we hears it. Tadd Mullinix and his alter egos, that whole sound. It's a bit slower, but layers upon layers my friends. Mix that in with 25 year-old house records and you've got yourself a fun night planned.*old list* Techno. No trance, no drum and base, no hardcore, no breakbeats, no goddamn UK hard house, just techno. Minimal Techno. Detroit. Walking that fine, blurry line between the clicks and clacks. Downbeat is fine, trip hop is always fine. I'm talking Richie, I'm talking Magda. Villalobos and Matthew Herbert. Minor-key abrasive Jeff Mills records. Green Velvet. Chicks on speed. M. Dear and everyone on the Ghostly Label/spectral sound. Minus label as well. It's too bad D.C. has such a small techno scene. People pay $40 to see idiots like Tiesto and Sasha, but when the good acts come through, only the tech-heads come out of the woodwork. OK enough ranting :) Oh and of course there will always be a very special place in my heart for all the old early 90's records from way back when. "Camera's ready, prepare to flash!" Lately I've really been listening to lot of very strange 80s/90s styled gothy/punky/electro/country/rockabilly wierdness. Sort of the strange areas where those things collide. You should definately listen to Radio Ghoul School, the very latest in awesomeness, and it plays all of that sort of music. Go listen to anything by The Vanishing (The Disafectionate, or Princess Poison perhaps). I think Miss Jesie Evans and I are just going ot have to get married. Sorry ladies. On the non-electronic side, I used to be very hardcore into the Smashing Pumpkins/NIN, ect. ALSO: Fiona Apple/Portishead/Bjork/and a wide assortment of amazing female singer/songwriters. ALSO 2: Tenacious D rocks seriously hard, I suggest you buy thier album and watch thier DVD as soon as possible, although I must warn you ahead of time not to do so unless you are ready to be blown away. ALSO AGAIN: KAREN O! *update* Might as well just list a smattering of artists/bands that I enjoy, and that you should as well! Ghostface Killah, Mos Def, Urban Thermo Dynamics, Urban Renewal Program, Deadbolt, The Frantic Flintstones, Speedy J, Mathew Herbert, Dresden Dolls, Billy Corgan, Nine Inch Nails, Talking Heads, Sufjan Stevens, Sugarcubes, Long Beach Dub Allstars, 311, AFI (old afi), Azure Ray, Bloodhound Gang, Bright Eyes, Chicks on Speed, Prefuse 73, Wu Tang, Dizzee Rascal, Enigma, Every Time I Die, Felix Da Housecat, The Cure, Miss Kitten, The Hacker, Garbage, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Kill Memory Crash, Sublime, M83, Marilyn Manson, New Order, Depeche Mode, B-52's, Smashing Pumpkins, Adam X, Ada, Afrika Bombaataa, Baby Ford, Luz Casal, Demented are Go! The Detroit Experiment, Gorillaz, Run Stop Restore, Mount Sims, Bauhaus, Joy Division....anyway I like a lot of different things, you get the idea.
Anything and everything, I love them all. "Evil Dead" to "Sneakers." "7 Deadly Weapons of Kung-Fu" to "SLC Punk." Throw in your classics, your b-movies, your tragically misunderstood commercial flops. How about Michael Radford's "Nineteen Eighty-Four," or "Strange Days?" "Human Traffic" and "Ghost in the Shell." Everything.
I'm not a big TV fan, -but- WTTW Channel 11 is, simply put, a phenomenal channel. The L Word, Nip Tuck (awesome), Deadwood, and most things on sci-fi, tech-tv, and comedy central. Coupling (British version only). Mr. Show was also amazing, go get the DVDs. -Currently- No cable, no broadcast, TV only used for Netflix, thank you very much.
The Road, Cormac McCarthy. Might just fuck you up for a whole month if you become emotionally invest in it. Forever War by Joe Haldeman, one of my all-time favorites. Good, classic sci-fi with an actual basis in reality and excellent writing. Go pick it up. Ender's Game (of course). Speaker for the Dead was also beautiful. It's a shame Card took the series in such a lame direction after these two, but they are his characters, he can do what he wishes. The Singluarity is Near, Ray Kurzweil. Just might change your life. I don't read nearly as much as I would like to, but school keeps me pretty busy, so when I read its usually work related and not for pleasure :( Techno Rebels by Dan Sicko, if you want a pretty spot-on musical history lesson. Fight Club was also really really good. Check it out and you'll have a better appreciation for how well they made the movie out of it.
Went downhill after mid-season