Interests:
Horror movies, "haunted" places, urban eploration, Chopin's Noctournes, People-watching, sushi, night, intense thunder and lightning storms, visiting other people's pets so I have all of the fun and none of the work, reading books, pretending to be more bitter and jaded than I actually am, existentialism, phenomenology, the meaninglessness of life, the illusion of free will, the absence of an omnipotent/omniscient higher power, death and dying, amorality, immorality, terror, fear, despair, hopelessness, helplessness, scars, a handful of hair, making out, glasses, pallor, non-stereotypical tattoos, travel, hockey, idealism, The Weather Underground, continuing with the conscious decision not to marry or have any kids, the "seven year plan", and possibly you.
Disinterests:
Humans, People that complain about being bored because they are unable to amuse themselves, Anyone who takes religion or politics too seriously, Anyone that tries to force their personal agenda on you, Whiners, football, baseball, basketball, musical theater, fans of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and probably you.
Alejandro Jodorowsky, Dario Argento, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Joe Coleman, Henry Rollins, Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, and possibly you.
NEARLY FLAWLESS CDs:
What follows are nearly flawless CDs...
Jawbreaker: 'Dear You'
The Breeders: 'Pod'
Liz Phair: 'Exile in Guyville'
drowningman: 'How They Light Cigarettes in Prison'
Leonard Cohen: 'The Essential...'
Mary Lou Lord: Self-titled or 'City Sounds' bootleg EP
Elliot Smith: Self-titled off of Cavity Search Records
Bob Mould: 'Live at McCabe's'
And spoken word...
Henry Rollins: 'Everything'
Chuck Palahniuk: 'Stranger than Fiction'
Charles Bukowski: 'At Terror Street and Agony Way'
George Carlin: 'You Are All Diseased'
David Cross: 'It's Not Funny'
Music I like:
Tom Waits, John Coltrane, Angelo Badalamenti, Goblin, Jawbreaker [Dear You], Liz Phair [Exile In Guyville], Mary Lou Lord, Elliot Smith, Massive Attack, Portishead, Bjork, Morphine, The Pixies, drowningman, Dillinger Escape Plan, Neurosis, Dethklok, Seven Seconds, Avail, Depeche Mode, Dead Can Dance, Frederic Chopin, Nick Cave, Black Flag, The Dead Kennedys, The Ramones, Surf Rock, Horror Rock, etc.
Bands I've seen:
The Pixies, NIN, The Ramones, The Queers, Neurosis, drowningman, Dillinger Escape Plan, Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Danzig, Social Distortion, Seven Seconds, Mary Lou Lord & Elliott Smith, Morphine, Reverend Horton Heat, Rollins Band, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Rasputina, The Dresden Dolls, Avail, Melt Banana, Thrall, The Melvins, Dropdead, The Pist, Mankind?, Thee Hydrogen Terrors, Radio to Saturn, Combustible Edison, The Itchies, The Amazing Royal Crowns, Showcase Showdown, and many more...
The Universal Monster movies: Dracula, Daughter of Dracula, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, The Mummmy, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Revenge of the Creature, The Creature Walks Among Us, White Zombie, Nadja, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Blood and Black Lace, Planet of the Vampires, Suspiria, Opera, David Cronenberg's Crash, Videodrome, Naked Lunch, History of Violence, Delamorte Dellamore, Nekromantik, Der Todesking, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Return of the Living Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Fulci's 'Zombie', Tombs of the Blind Dead, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser, Hellraiser 2: Hellbound, Rosemary's Baby, Polanski's 'Repulsion', Battle Royale, Ichi the Killer, Visitor Q, Tale of Two Sisters, Dans Ma Peau / In My Skin, Irreversible, I Stand Alone, The Vanishing, Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Secretary, Seven, Fight Club, Bad Lieutenant, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms, Ghost Dog, Seven Samurai, Battles Without Honor and Humanity, The Samurai Trilogy, The Indiana Jones Trilogy, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Buffalo '66, Brown Bunny, Chinatown, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Night of the Hunter, The Big Lebowski, A Scanner Darkly, Blade Runner, El Topo, The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Boiler Room, Top Gun, The "Sympathy" Trilogy, The Samurai Trilogy, Anything with "Beat" Takeshi in it.
Twin Peaks, MST3K, The Kids in the Hall, The Munsters, The Addams Family, The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Ray Bradbury Theater, Friday the 13th: The Series, Invader Zim, The Simpsons, Futurama, South Park, Star Blazers, Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends, G.I. Joe, Transformers, Home Movies, Metalocalypse, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Venture Brothers, Mr. Show, Arrested Development, Night Court, The Movie Loft, The Henry Rollins Show, Spaced [UK], Mythbusters, Ghost Hunters, Six Feet Under, etc.
I mostly like shows that were cancelled because they were ahead of their time and since they're cancelled nobody's going to fuck them up and make me embarassed for enjoying them in the first place.
Either that or documentaries about the paranormal, unexplained, or forensic pathology, or mindless shows about motorcycles or tattoos or how things are made or things exploding into big bright fiery balls of death accompanied by human misery and people dying.
P.S.:No. I don't like Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Hercules, Xena, and although I thought that Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn was a brilliant movie and I won't dive for the remote if a Star Trek episode comes on, I am NOT a Trekkie.
I tried to get into X-Files, but I just couldn't and I don't get what the big deal is about The Sopranos. I'd rather just watch Good Fellas a dozen times.
There are no shows that I watch religiously when they are broadcast because there are about a thousand other things I would rather be doing than sitting around waiting for a television show to come on.
Or rather by author:
Charles Bukowski
Bret Easton Ellis
Chuck Palahniuk
Douglas Coupland
Raymond Chandler
Ernest Hemingway
Henry Miller
Barry Gifford
Edward Gorey
Howard Philips Lovecraft
Richard Matheson
Helen Hoke
T. S. Eliot
Joseph Conrad
Walt Whitman
Kurt Vonnegut
Richard Brautigan
Tom Robbins
Albert Camus
Jean Paul Sartre
Charles Baudelaire
(...but only in French. I've never seen a good translation into English.)
Howard Philips Lovecraft
Charles Bukowski
Henry Miller
Douglas Coupland
Chuck Palahniuk
George Romero
Tom Savini
Mario Bava
Dario Argento
Frank Miller
Akira Kurosawa
Masamune Shirow
Takashi Kitano
Takashi Miike
Bob Flanagan
Edward Gorey
Wilfred Dubois
Kevin Smith
David Lynch
David Cronenberg
Henry Rollins
George Carlin
Denis Leary
Karate Werewolf