"You can't fight city hall. Death and taxes.Don't talk about politics or religion. This is all the equivalent of enemy propaganda, rolling across the picket line. Lay down, GI! Lay down, GI!. We saw it all through the 20th Century. And now on the 21st Century, it's time to stand up and realize, that we should NOT allow ourselves to be crammed into this rat maze. We should not SUBMIT to dehumanization. I don't know about you, but I'm concerned with what's happening in this world. I'm concerned with the structure. I'm concerned with the systems of control. Those that control my life, and those that seek to control it EVEN MORE! I want FREEDOM! That's what I want, and that's what YOU should want! It's up to each and every one of us to turn loose of just some of the greed, the hatred, the envy, and yes, the insecurities, because that is the central mode of control, make us feel pathetic, small, so we'll willingly give up our sovereignty, our liberty, our destiny. We have GOT to realize we're being conditioned on a mass scale. Start challenging this corporate slave state! The 21st Century's gonna be a new century! Not the century of slavery, not the century of lies and issues of no significance, of classism and statism, and all the rest of the modes of control... it's gonna be the age of humankind, standing up for something PURE and something RIGHT! What a bunch of garbage, liberal, Democratic, conservative, Republican, it's all there to control you, two sides of the same coin! Two management teams, bidding for control of the CEO job of Slavery Incorporated! The TRUTH is out there in front of you, but they lay out this buffet of LIES! I'm SICK of it, and I'M NOT GONNA TAKE A BITE OUT OF IT! DO YA GOT ME? Resistance is NOT futile, we're gonna win this thing, humankind is too good, WE'RE NOT A BUNCH OF UNDERACHIEVERS, WE'RE GONNA STAND UP, AND WE'RE GONNA BE HUMAN BEINGS! WE'RE GONNA GET FIRED UP ABOUT THE REAL THINGS, THE THINGS THAT MATTER-- CREATIVITY, AND THE *DYNAMIC* *HUMAN* *SPIRIT* THAT REFUSES TO *SUBMIT*! WELL THAT'S IT, that's all I've got to say. It's in your court now. "- Waking Life
God and the prophets
Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins, Slint, Jesu, Chavez, The Shipping News, Rodan, June of 44, My Bloody Valentine, Dungen, Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes, Fugazi, Charles Mingus, Tal Farlow, Lenny Breau, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohan, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Dinosaur Jr., Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, Zappa, Glen Branca, A Northern Chorus, The Absent Sound, The Mars Volta, At The Drive In, Sparta, Mogwai, SRV, Nels Cline, Pink Floyd, Mastodon, Do Make Say Think, Tortoise, Broken Social Scene, The For Carnation, Aphex Twin, Square Pusher, Autechre, cLOUDEAD, Isis, Electric Wizard, A Silver Mount Zion, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Swans, Wintersleep, Ravi Shankar, John Mclaughlin, Eric's Trip, Boards of Canada, Massive Attack, Wagon Christ, Fly Pan Am, Set Fire To Flames, Jefferson Airplane, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Animal Collective, Oscar Lopez, Beck, Misery Signals, Suffocation, Cryptopsy, Botch, Don Cabellero, Converge, Neurosis, Isis, Boris, Roadside Monument, Ruins, Antioch Arrow, Minus the Bear, These Arms are Snakes, Glassjaw, The Fall of Troy, Quicksand and any music with talent or creativity.
Pulp Fiction, Resivoir Dogs, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers box set, Clockwork Orange, SLC Punk, 1991 The Year Punk Broke, Terminator I and II (not III), Waking Life , Narc, Donnie Brasco, Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas, Das Boot,a megaton more...
Discovery Channel, History Channel. I really don't watch much T.V at all.
I read, History, Philosophy and Sci-fi. A Brave New World, 1984, Oryx and Crake, The Handmaids Tail, The Prince, The Republic, On the Road, a lot of poetry by various writers and various others.
Thurston Moore, Billy Corgan, Jack Kerouac, Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Nick Drake, Efrim Menuck, Stanley Kubrick, Leo Fender, Mike Mathews, Steve Albini