i get a lot of exterminator ads on my pages for some reason.
music, mid-20th-century design, writing, politics, video, rats, mice, bats, free booze, consequence avoidance, city life, alligators, art, argument, discussion, debate, books, trying to stay awake during the day. current obsessions: the future of the music industry; how who owns and controls the means to distribute information has never been so important as it is now (though it has always been terribly important); facebook scrabble
Surly comic strip characters. Insomniacs. Only children. People who are scary nice for real. Rutilated rodents. The curly-haired. The curly-brained. The curious. Anyone who will pay me to write things or bring me dinner at 5 am. Jarvis Cocker. Alex Chilton. Alligators. Me, with my mouth shut.
mouse on mars dj shadow polly jean harvey cat power nick cave leonard cohen robert wyatt ornette debussy chopin nick drake francoise hardy eminem man's best friend echo & the bunnymen books blonde redhead jessica wing kool keith any good hip-hop bob dylan roky erickson low flaming lips big star swell maps modest mouse pere ubu television, kraftwerk aphex twin adult ellen allien barbara morgenstern alarm will sound broken social scene joy division the cure pulp sonic youth spank rock andrew bird automato mbv aphex twin the fall battles archie bronson outfit will oldham bill callahan no wave old skool new skool avant- -core prog moog post-punk post-genre etc +++
now playingthe lost weekend, little odessa, little otik (otesanek), the celebration, mystery train, dead man, brother from another planet (or anything by john sayles), night on earth, hands on a hard body, my life as a dog, babe, donnie darko, delicatessen, brazil, rushmore, female trouble, fast, cheap &; out of control (+ other errol morris!), barfly, nashville (altman in general), human nature and anything else directed by michel gondry.
what's it called if it's not on television anymore? veronica mars. six feet under. athf. twelve ounce mouse. colbert/stewart.
celine's journey to the end of the night. trainspotting. other greats, recent and rediscovered: camus. kafka. beckett. burroughs. chekhov. djuna barnes. nicholson baker... motherless brooklyn was a pleasure to read despite its ubiquity. "we should only read the books that wound and stab us...we need the books that affect us like a disaster." -- kafka
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