Shane

I'd like to meet:

Disinterests:
old navy, forced relaxation, "all night long" by lionel richie, any hiphop track that so much as mentions a lexus, headphone cords caught in the wheels of office chairs, industrial designers that suggest we just "i-mac it", someone trying to finesse me into acquiescence w/ subtle convincing, massive vertical slow loading browser choking blogs, someone asking on repeat "how'd it go again? how'd it go again? how'd it go again? how'd it go again? how'd it go again? how'd it go again? how'd it go again? how'd it go again? how'd it go again? how'd it go again? how'd it go again? how'd it go again? how'd it go again?" in response to a descriptive noise employed during conversation, affected over-the-top casualness, anyone who meticulously validates their tastes against a consensus, SNORG Ts, grunge guitar for remix "improvement", funk-o-metal, idm autechre ripoffs, being force-filtered though a consumer maze in malls dept stores and supermarkets, safety in numbers, karaoke, garden furniture and statuettes placed inside restaurants, both charles dickens and his modern counterpart the long winded stephen king, repeating captcha attempts, heavy awkward furniture, aukland, auklanders (except you of course), but.. certainly any auklander still impressed with anyone engaged in blaring cellphone usage in dining establishments, dick hubbard, automatic filing systems gone wild, jack nicholson's chronic sunglasses, a prairie home companion with garrison keillor, garrison keillor , elastic, driving in tunnels wearing sunglasses, incomplete information and/or all pathways to complete information crucially blocked, pocketbooks and handbooks that are too big for bookshelves, civic art structures in one city made to look like civic art structures in another city, gangs in one city mimicking gangs in another city, interchangeable non-unique recreational zoning, primary colors, drizzling saliva and tongue protrusion from someone overdosing on ecstasy, sudden blinding penetrating sunlight from a car rearview mirror, wattie's soup, video game fx film camera lense discussions, chocolate anything when it contains walnuts, scratchy wool sweaters, thick wool socks, a broken watch, loosing my skeleton gloves someplace in town so some absolute nitwit can end up wearing them, political fearmongering, vermin that chew through protective packaging, jokes about coffee, repeating death of headlights after hard rains, hearing about rugged indiviualism, politeness, red symons, nicholas cage (wtf happened to you dude? please come back to us in the unnecessary bad leutenent remake), bingo, news music, office phones, callers who babble drawn out voice mail messages the crescendo of which are always an unexpected rapid fire delivery of lengthy international phone numbers that only they are fluidly familiar with, scientology, scientologists, invasive editing styles on the discovery and national geographic channels and the total absence of anything chilled there where there used to be nothing but all that good chill, persistent coyness, facebook, "children and all that jazz" by joan baez, people who emerge in my presence to "bitch", failures in cinematic and television suspense, the overbearing use of soundtracks, retelling and then retelling jokes, bureaucratic threats from official organizations, wrong numbers from far away lands in the dead freeze of night, glands that swell painfully in response to rustic fevers, long tasteful pauses between tracks, relentless shakycam television realism, that guy with the weird hat in virtually any rendition of fiddler on the roof, hiphop references in world news and financial reports, those hypnotized by the false concept of automotive excellence, forced dinner theater attendance, paul mcartney, filmic car chase filler, coldplay again laboriously whining their falsetto vocal gas-leakage, those who insist on getting you right back on the subject of your recent failed relationship just moments after you thought you've clearly steered them off it for good, spelling, human spell correctors, people who announce software spell correction mistakes, medieval times, daryl hall alerting listeners that he "no can do", repeating tired flat well worn 'jokes' from the movies cartoons commercials and all that invasive media force fed us on full bleed, someone not taking no for an answer no matter what it was that i decided not to say yes to, people who say "HEY LOOK ALL THE LEAVES ARE DYING! GUESS SUMMER IS OVER", movies involving high-tech command centers, a cascading loss of small but necessary objects like thumbdrives credit cards and house keys just as i am stepping out, any book that opens with "Chapter One: Washington", shower controls located obtrusively at hip level requiring intense concentration to prevent bumping yourself into scalding or frigid bathing experiences, so-called experts that seem totally unable to profit or influence from their special knowledge, central overhead lighting casting sick dirty shadows in all corners, creeping black mold on walls and clothing and seeing your breath indoors in the near 100% humidity 0C/32F new zealand air, caught off guard in department stores by hit songs with little more purpose than to sentimentally milk tears on an otherwise perfectly fine day, the deafening boredom of george michael, plastic bags languidly splashing about in the back of a horrible rented PT cruiser spilling their commercial guts among every deep nook and crevice of the inconvenient aft form factor, peach and teal condo supermarket fast lane cancer encroachment on anza borego & salton sea, matt damon, bug zappers installed directly over eating areas, rock-and-roll language applied to distinctly non-rock-and-roll situations, dog fights, proud and adamant lack of home insulation, vexing memories of being fed canned fruit cocktail under a dim discount tiffany lamp and sat before the televised images of donny and marrie osmond, incorrectly applying and then attempting to re-apply adhesives, adorable cute catchy little tunes and sad little guilty tinkling music boxes, window sills piling with the blanked husks of burnt out houseflies, excruciatingly long outdoor events, clowns, clown schools, early morning lawnmowers, absolutists, overcompensators, willem dafoe, precise sterling grammatic excellence in communication and literature, absurdities in track lighting, waves of car exhaust from idling vehicles, lingering colds and associated secondary infections, super slick electronic reggae, ..same for dub, the spoon in the sink water faucet surprise fanning blast and food fountain trick, "how y'all doin today" fake smile greetings in megaplex restaurants, bland bland bland food, the track "wonderful christmas time" by wings, manual transmissions in traffic jams, friends that suddenly try to sell you water purification systems, cockroaches overflowing from the silverware drawer, the wellington boyracer scourge, robert mugabe, the diuretic israeli/palestinian conflict, hypermacho male clothing configurations, flat tires, golf course frustrations and steadily increasing scores therein, dropping books in bathtubs, an unknown angry man yelling "fuck it" from within a tennis court while we attempted to relax in the shade on a grassy hill one late summer day in new zealand around 2005, drum and bass, ultra-aggressive "trance" music, chronic new zealand and australian fisticuffs, neocons, hyperliberals, leaf blowers, renaissance fairs, searching through vast lists with tiny needle-like fonts, horrid reading light, demands for absolute silence, tract-home living, alpha males, fake english accents, waiting rooms, kevin costner, cops that call you "buddy" or "pal", international flights w/o sleeping pills, nazis, edie brickell and new bohemians "WHAT I AM IS WHAT I AM YOU WHAT YOU ARE OR WHAT" - SHUT UP WHY AREN'T YOU DEAD MAY YOUR LIMBS SWELL AND DROP OFF, smartass child actors and the termite-queen hollywood womb from which they effortlessly glide en masse, sorting small clinging objects, legions of segways advancing from over the horizon, all things taxes, executives in stairwells energetically discussing excel spreadsheets, vacation and holiday stress, tacky brass hotel staircase landings, pointless nose-breaking water polo goalie experiences, pointless muscle tearing freezing water forced ocean swims, purple-hot skin boiling lifeguard X-treme boredom instant cancer and/or early morning swim coaching, tom millich, john bowman, key-chain on the finger zapping off into the car just as the door closes and the keys even somehow vanishing forever, X-treme anything, miserable unterminated sailing hours at sea the bay the harbor anywhere, stepping on thumbtacks, jerks on steamboats in kansas city sporting crisp straw hats strumming banjos and making a sick racket, smile for the camera - that's not a natural smile - smile - smile, ..and all that exposed family photo in the mall, christmas shopping, weddings, my very dry hands touching very dry paper napkins, frantic weekend ICE travel in anywhere germany, slick screamin rockin slammin poundin modern blues, slick screamin rockin slammin poundin modern ska, migraine inflicting ragtime piano, swing dancing and rockabilly nitwits, boiled runny vegetables, trying to find the weird invisible spot on a roll of tape to peal from - picking at it - getting it - having it come off in thin hairlike strips - around - around - around - shredded - destroyed, fox news, people who grind around endlessly in parking lots searching for the closest possible spot / who come to a absolute dead halt in the middle of the road before turning, fascination with royal and presidential families, beatlemania and associated retroactive trends that are little more than glaring signs of bad aging, memories of trips to the orthodontist where they insisted on playing KRTH101, loud natalie merchant, soft natalie merchant, reasonable volume natalie merchant, adult contemporary natalie merchant, soft rock natalie merchant, crossover jazz rock fusion natalie merchant, progressive natalie merchant, natalie merchant, natalie merchant, natalie merchant, natalie merchant, natalie merchant, natalie merchant, natalie merchant, natalie merchant, flat adult conversation over frustratingly dim candle light and bland dinner followed by a "well i'm tired, i guess it's time for us to go home", hangovers, short tempers and type A personalities, burnt toast, kiwi ingenuity, typing with long fingernails, the inevitable confrontation with 38 special in used cd bins / herb alpert and the tiujana brass in used record bins, machismo, wrestling and wrestlers, navy seals, very young children shouting "hey fucker" from over the fence in the relative safety of a school playground as i walk by to get to my car to go home to get away from the lousy day at work i just had, running into people i was hoping were dead, anyone who has it all figured out, michael bolton, john bolton, john negroponte, voice mail messages in endless quantities that really do prove time is money and how much it really costs, the telemarketing cancer, someone zealously tearing into a package of sweet-n-lo on the other side of the restaurant and me somehow tasting it moments later, hare krishnas and their jingly jangly strained bliss, smug boy-bands drowning in their retro, having to go all the way back and get something i forgot, non-chain restaurants made to look like chain restaurants, pointless pride, people who demand that you sit down, back-lit signs, civic zoning sacrificed to the advertising billboard apocalypse especially in culver city and surrounds, the films of mel gibson, mel gibson, 80s night, girls on "talk to the hand" light jogs in the san francisco marina who invariably wear white trainers light gray sweat pants white fisherman's warf or hardrock cafe sweat shirts mirrored sunglasses and white baseball caps with their blank blond hair pulled out the back in a ponytail, "that's not art" and "that's not music", driving by that cattle shit factory on the 5 between LA and SF, my obsessive compulsive disorder, superheros and the comics they road in on, laser shows, tyco drumming, laser shows with tyco drumming, "hey nineteen" by steely dan, consistent thumb-stumbling predictive txt errors, the endless jet ski tyranny over otherwise placid lakes, people who describe borders as "cafe culture", accidental deafening early morning hotel room surprise alarm clock wakeups, aggressive urine-soaked panhandling, shows on the discovery channel involving the final days of the SS or hitler or killer helicopters or wrestling wild animals to a drum and bass soundtrack, amway cults, social networking strategies, The Secret, neo, desperately searching through the philosophy section at borders for something totally legit and instead running up against "The Philosophy of the Simpsons" or "The Philosophy of Southpark" or "The Philosophy of The Matrix", "adorable" kids who remain undisciplined even in the very recent aftermath of a cussing screaming and breaking things fit, the omnipresent boneheaded quotes of winston churchill, operational down escalators neatly paired with non-operational up escalators, product placement in feature films, people steadfastly honking in front of houses and apartment buildings, exit signs placed blindingly close to film screens in a dark theater, freeeeeezing cold restaurants, a "that's just the way it's always been so that's just the way it's always going to be" attitude to world affairs, ..or applied to anything else, diuretic hot topic conversation, legions of dumbbells traveling in caravans over hills and bridges and through villages, oakley blades, dick cepek, americans using the wacky nutty crazy tv announcer voice, finally passing a bus marked with an "L" learner's permit in wellington only to find myself jammed securely behind another one immediately ahead of it, knives scratching on surfaces of plates while diners mindlessly hack and saw at tough cooked steaks at the next table, hannity & colmes, hannity, colmes, grossly inflated gas guzzling pickups, The Matrix, bill o'reilly, the slow drip effect downstream from traffic circles, guys joking around calling each other "fag", medical waste at the beach, orange county restaurants with names that are plurals or quasi-possessives like "shooters" or "spoons" or "taps" or "peppers" or "sliders", books about "angels", those two way personal radios everyone insists on using - YEAH I'M HERE IN BORDERS RIGHT NOW ARE YOU SURE HE WANTS THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER I GOT LOTS OF RED STORM RISING HERE - WHAT'S THAT? OK I CAN'T HEAR YOU WE GOT SOME FEEDBACK OR INTERFERENCE GOING ON ON CHANNEL 16 - WHAT'S YOUR 20 - OK 10-4 - AFFIRMATIVE WE'RE GOING UP TO THE CHECKOUT COUNTER NOW WE'RE COMING IN THE DAIHATSU AND WE'LL SEE YOU AND PAM AT BURGER KING IN 10 MINUTES, OVER - I SAID WE'RE GOING UP TO THE CHECKOUT COUNTER NOW WE'LL SEE YOU AND PAM AT BURGER KING IN 10 MINUTES - I SAID WE'RE GOING UP TO THE CHECKOUT COUNTER NOW WE'LL SEE YOU AND PAM AT BURGER KING IN 10 MINUTES, OVER., people who think "everything boils down to this" or that "in this world there are basically two kinds of people", the constant loud ringing in my ears, people who think that if enough is enough then more must be better, mosquitoes, cockroaches, sand flies, roger moore, mac/pc controversies, people who fully lay on the horn the moment the light turns green, power trippers in airport customs, orror vaqui, deforestation for more phone books chopsticks and dubious furniture, nice tidy endings, scientology / landmark forum / est (same root of evil), quantity over quality, micro-scheduling, comic-book story lines, ..and most other political machinations, relentless clearly closet-gay homophobes, endless meetings, stairs, anyone who believes arrogance is occasionally justified, a man in the distance at lake havasu sitting heavily near his covered pickup truck demanding "i need a beer I NEED A BEER" from the sedating grasp of his folding lawn chair, offshore and slant drilling, sensible people lecturing pleasantly on NPR with crackling saliva, over-fascination with fonts, forced audience participation, people admiring other people who beat the shit out of them because "they're tougher", the sound of heavy traffic in the rain, waiters who tenaciously defend the restaurant they work for, the tyranny of the left hemisphere, people getting "jazzed" about math, trash always all over the place everywhere at all times for no reason forever on all freeways constantly nonstop where-ever you look no matter what, rich white guys calling each other "homie", piss-like dribbling shower heads issuing ice water or scalding torture on a frozen morning, tom clancy, people who think there is something called "drugs" and all of them are necessarily a "cause for concern", "latin jazz", rush limbaugh, variety shows, unjustified self-confidence, radio commercials on hiphop stations that literally continue for hours, fiddly computer issues, people who have to have a tv on within earshot 24/7, people who cringe or shrink back, people who shrink back and say "ooooohh-kaaaaayyy", that strange recurring parade of mysterious bank charges, proud alcoholics, gushing cellphone charges, massive hit blockbusters, trying to buy a used car where-ever, people who don't train their dogs because "dogs are dogs", modern kung-fu fight scenes slipping in and out of slo-mo, being forced onto hold, catching people in embarrassing lies, southern california bouncers that will not accept passports as ID and the television infected slakes they so proudly defend, officemates driving and cranking into keyboards, the new jag, drinking anywhere within 3 kilometers / 1.8 miles of work, sudden unimpressive evasive actions during bland jet boat rides, people who will not let you pass or merge as some essential matter of principle, tenacious genre or brand loyalty, jail, richard wagner, sandwiches overladen with cucumbers and/or sprouts, adamant WASPs, ordering seasonal vegetables and getting potatoes, the untouchable religious status of sports, ordinary people supporting hulking evil institutions i.e. haliburton, self-delusional audiophiles, planning complex interlocking bookings, general brinkmanship and/or oneupmanship, vexing overcorrectors, a slim slippery phone handset between ear and shoulder, interminable spelling bees, bingo, deafening overdriven distorted easy listening music in mono, anything jurassic park, nights without dreams, ann coulter

Music:

tenacious genre loyalty ................ muslimgauze, theoretical girls, terre thaemlitz, prefuse 73, go team!, times new viking, numbers, sunset rubdown, comanechi, stars as eyes, clark, heartless bastards, aam, a place to bury strangers, architecture in helsinki, arcade fire, trans am, of montreal, glenn branca, spank rock, xiu xiu, dirty projectors, don ellis, chrome (1970s), crash worship, boris policeband, battles, terminal 11, andrew wk, lesser, kid606, matmos, clap your hands say yeah, peace orchestra, eric lyon, christopher penrose, curd-duca, atari teenage riot, ec8or, shizuo, (some of the dhr stuff was amazing), ike yard, heartbreakers, spk, throbbing gristle, charles wright, james brown, oblivions, hafler trio, terry riley, ammoncontact, wire, screamers, the move, avalanches, sfotw / foetus, arthur lyman, stan getz, bill evans, chico hamilton, art pepper, michael nyman, warsaw, the boys next door, the plugz, chicks on speed, venetian snares, xanopticon, (very picky about breakcore), dj shadow, autechre, pete and ray, crime, gnarls barkley, johnny cash, coil, mark stewart and mafia, fad gadget / frank tovey, meat beat manifesto, jimi hendrix, missy elliot, agent orange, minor threat, led zeppelin, the soul brothers six, philip glass, download, brian eno, new york dolls, lake of dracula, pgr, squarepusher, fu manchu, cocteau twins, my bloody valentine, the jesus and mary chain, six finger satellite, psychic tv, boyd rice, funkstorung, the pixies, miss kittin and the hacker, the gories, mount sims, the beach boys, the feelies, barkmarket, suicide commandos, boss hog, terminal cheesecake, neu, faust, can, pole, SND, MC5, MIA, TSOL, bad brains, motorhead, neutral milk hotel, channel 3, non, germs, steve fisk, the crowd, burnt friedman, nonplace urban field, tanzmusik, tanzmusik mit bernd, velvet underground, the honeymoon killers, severed heads, flanger, negativland, elvis costello, electric wizard, pussy galore, the sonics, the misfits, black sabbath, toots and the maytals, jimmy cliff, justin hinds, charles manson, guitar wolf

Movies:

southland tales, southland tales, southland tales, thx 1138 (remake is ok), repo man, 2001, a scanner darkly, demonlover, the conversation, safe, inland empire, annie hall, take the money and run, diner, das leben der anderen (the lives of others), karov la bayit (close to home), noise (australia 2007), missing allen, finding allen, the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, zodiac, grizzly man, l.a. confidential, der untergang (downfall), gegen die wand (head-on), mulholland drive, american hardcore, heidi fleiss: hollywood madam, metropolis, jacob's ladder, igby goes down, the lords of flatbush, traffic, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, miller's crossing, der tunnel (the tunnel), bad lieutenant, royal tenenbaums, blue velvet, alien, the thing, lost highway, apocalypse now, hedwig the angry inch, boogie nights, videodrome, fargo, broken flowers, point blank (v.1967), pusher iii, thin red line, thin blue line, the purple rose of cairo, ein lied von liebe und tod (gloomy sunday), deathtrap, sleuth, the fifth element, who's afraid of virginia woolf?, being john malcovitch, bladerunner, jaws, the constant gardner, the french connection, the blues brothers, jackie brown, the insider, munich, syriana, after hours, king of comedy, the american movie, slacker, the life aquatic, midnight run, the big lebowski, good fellas, invasion of the body snatchers (v.1978), eyes wide shut, rocky horror picture show, my dinner with andre, lost in translation, rocky, rocky ii, sexy beast, casino, the odd couple, blame it on rio, kurt and courtney, chinatown, pulp fiction, holy mountain

Books:

bret easton ellis, jim thompson, alfred bester, daniel tartre, william s. burroughs, thomas pynchon, philip k. dick, jason starr, george cockcroft / luke rhinehart , o. henry, j. g. ballard, herbert asbury, walter lipmann, noam chomsky, paul eluard, henry miller, russell miller, mark twain, anais nin, mike davis, joe haldeman, gerard manley hopkins, allen ginsberg, richard brautigan, jack black (1920s), m. john harrison, yevgeny zumyatin, stanley ellin, benjamin cavell, charles willeford , ram dass / richard alpert, douglas adams, james joyce, joseph heller, stanislaw lem, david lindsay (not hal), martin amis, sri nisargadatta, dale pendell, alexander shulgin, valdimir nabokov, robert fisk, john whiteside parsons, kenneth fearing, oscar wilde, ira levin, john brunner, don delillo, b. f. skinner, kurt vonnegut, epictetus, heraclitus, epicurus, p. g. wodehouse ................ most books i take out to read in public i cover with an opaque jacket

Heroes: