Most of my time is spent immersed in music journalism, but I also like people watching, petting my cat, good movies, bad movies, laughing at GWB when he tries to form a complete sentence, skateboarding and hiking in the woods in Kentucky.
My interests lie primarily in experimental music. Drone music. Minimalism, that kind of stuff. But I was raised on punk rock, new wave and the golden era of hip-hop, so I dig a lot of stuff like that as well. Likewise, I really dig a lot of indie rock and older industrial music as well. Country music, too. Not that awful shit you see on the news stands at Publix, like on the cover of Country Music Weekly. I'm talking about Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Graham Parsons... I like Jazz, too. Especially the Jazz Messangers and most anything that came out on Blue Note up to the '60s. I like the Fall just as much as I like Philip Glass' early recordings. LaMonte Young as much as I like Skinny Puppy and Fugazi. Will Oldham, Dinosaur Jr., the Dead Kennedy's, DNA... Did I already cover this? I like Deerhoof, Maria Chavez, Sonic Youth, Jandek, Rapoon, the Who, Piere Henry, Aphex Twin, Gavin Bryars, DQE, Simon Joyner, Cat Power, Steve Reich. You want more?
Sunset Boulevard, Donnie Darko, Blade Runner, The Manchurian Candidate (the original, I haven't seen the remake), Alien, Repoman, Aliens, The Wrath of Khan, The Running Man, Dawn of the Dead (both versions), Ghost Busters, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Evil Dead 2, Highway 61, Fight Club, The Wizard of Oz, House, Dune, The Big Lebowsky, Mulholland Drive, Cemetary Man, They Live, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Empire Strikes Back, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With me, Office Space, Conan the Barbarian, Predater, Police Academy 2 (just becasue of the skateboarding sequence), Weird Science, Robocop, Down By Law, Jaws, Delicatessen, The Devil's Backbone, Blue Velvet, Videodrome, Russian Ark, Close Encounters and so on.
Most TV shows are garbage, but I do like The Chapelle Show, The Sopranos, The Daily show and Court TV shows, like Forensic Files and Body of Evidence. I really liked Dead Like Me. I wish it would come back.
Down & Out in Paris & London, Hell's Angels, The Road, The Beans of Egypt Maine, Childhood's End, Ranters & Crowd Pleasers, We Owe You Nothing, Psychotic Reactions and Carburrator Dung, If Chins Could Kill, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Blood on the Forge, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Moby Dick, New york Trilogy.
George Orwell, Bill Taft, Mad Max, Bill Murray, Tyler Durden, Cormac McCarthy and Erica Hill on CNN Headline News -- she's just so dreamy.