Swing Dance Bands............ Rocka-Belly Tattoos............ Tango Roses...................... Gothic Anhks and Crosses.. Rebel-Grrrl Piercings.......... Muff-Diving (it's a sport!).... Ripped Fishnet Stockings.... Industrial Mosh Pits............. Brit Pop Hairstyles............... Depressing EBM Lyrics......... Motorcycle Jackets.............. Screenwriting Tragedies....... Angry Pissed-off Poets......... Cynical Stand-Up................. DEVIL DOLL and RADISKULL! DICKY and JACKIE!.............. Over-the-top Karoake........... Horseback Riding.................. Biplane Barnstorming............ Black and White Photography Mark Ryden Art (BLOOD!)..... Culinary Arts (mmm pastries) Long-ass Roadtrips............... CD/DVD Burners.................. SIN and SLICK Fetish Balls.... Beach Bonfire Sex................ Ancient History..................... Biochemical Warfare............. Counter-Espionage............... Tactics and Strategy............. Interrogation Techniques...... Mind Control/Covert Hypnosis Black Hawk Helicopters......... Telekinesis and Teleportation Area 51............................... The Goddess........................ The Kama Sutra................... and getting naked in preparation for Kama Sutra WITH a Goddess
People who are artists; People who are anarchists; People who are visionaries; People who are revolutionaries; People who are hedonists; People who throw off the philosophical shackles of ANY oppressive thought-system (whether in government, religion, politics, or dog shows); and People who aren't afraid to admit that their answer to the question, "What is, 'The Meaning of Life?'", may be "I don't have any idea." (The judges will also accept, "Hey! That's a kick-ass Monty Python flick my mother HURLED at!"). Oh! and I want to meet OTHER attorneys to help get me and my protesting-friends' asses out of jail when the occasions arise....................................
Frank Sinatra ("NY, NY")........ Bing Crosby("White Xmas")... Sammy Davis, Jr. *tap tap*.. Dean Martin (That's Amore!) Tony Bennett ("Heart in SF"). Diana Ross and Supremes.. 5thDimension-AgeOfAquarius Dionne Warwick .................. Johnny Cash / Reznor (Hurt) Herb Albert (TheDatingGame) Jimmy Hendrix (Purple Haze!) Mamas and The Papas.......... The Doors ("Light my fire!").. RollingStones(NoSatisfaction) David Bowie ("PRESSURE!").. Ozzy ("Crazy Train!")........... Led Zeppelin ("Stairway"...... Jethro Tull-Best Flute in Rock! Heart ("These Dreams")....... Dio ("Heaven and Hell")........ Karen Carpenter (Superstar!) Boston (More than a Feeling) Rush ("2112"-My 1st Album) Kansas ("Dust in the Wind").. STYX ("Come Sail Away")..... KISS ("RockNRoll all night!"). Judas Priest......................... Billy Squier ("STROKE IT!")... Van Halen (ERUPTION!)........ Don Henley (I love this ex-Eagle MORE with each passing year.... scarey........ Kate Bush (I love this woman MORE with each passing year.... even scarier)....... Sex Pistols, Berlin, Stray Cats, Brian Setzer Einsturzende Neubauten...... The Police ("Roxanne!")...... STING ("Fields of Gold")...... Def Leppard ("Photograph", cause I'm OLD school Def Leppard) ..................... Motley Crue ("SHOUT!")...... Scorpions, Dokken, Danzig.. Queensryche (Silent Lucidity) old school MADONNA, old school PRINCE, old school JANET JACKSON............ MINISTRY, SKINNY PUPPY.... Bauhaus, Peter Murphy ("I fall on your knife"), Love n' Rockets..................... METALLICA ("SAD BUT TRUE" - ALL TIME BEST Head-Banging Song EVER)..... Siouxsie and Depeche Mode and New Order and TalkTalk and When In Rome & The CURE (Going to a Retro-DJ Dance Night where these groups have their songs dominate is LITERALLY like going to a House of Worship for me)............................. Gary Numen ("Cars").......... The Smiths......................... Morrissey ("Int. Playboys")... Front 242 ("Headhunter")..... Nitzer Ebb, Schnitt Acht........ Run DMC, Tupac, Eminem.... Frontline Assembly and Delerium (an HONOR that LEEB is a friend of mine)....... Frontline Assembly and ConjureOne (an HONOR that RHYS FULBER is a friend too) Cocteau Twins and Massive Attack (Aural Seduction at its VERY BEST)............... Delerium w/Kristy Thirsk w/Sarah McLachlin w/Liz Frazier.............................. Conjure One w/Poe w/Sinead O'Conner............................. Kristy Thirsk and The Rose Chronicles (When we were standing next to Kristy on the stage at the Cat Club (small intimate SF venue), she snapped Matt's nose with her long hair braid as she spun around with her guitar - it was the funniest f*ckin thing to see!)............................... Lisa Loeb (she flicked my forehead with her finger when she thought it was I who was making a catcall from the audience - she rubbed my forehead and apologized profusely when she discovered immediately it WASN'T me - I haven't washed it since)................. Sarah MacLachlan and Enya and Loreena McKennitt and Lisa Gerard (I love these women more passionately than life itself)................ Dead Can Dance, Swithblade Symphony, Faith and The Muse, Nine Inch Nails and Trent Reznor ("Hurt" - Johnny Cash's cover of this song makes me love it's haunting lyricism all the more)........ Milli Vanilli (*Gotcha! Ha!).... Nirvana (a wasted death)..... AliceInChains (wasted death) Blind Melon (a wasted death). INXS (what a wasted death).. Korn, Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson (I spent an evening at Rodericks Chamber hanging out with Mr. Brian Warner - he's a kick), REM, Moby, DJ Inanna, DJ Eric J. Liquid, DJ Bryan Hawk, DJ Arnold Phillips, DJ Nako, DJ Damon, DJ Fernando, DJ Melting Girl, DJ Joe Radio, DJ Shindog, DJ Skip, DJ Matt Hite, Paul Oakenfield, DJ Dmitri, Praga Khan, DJ Tiesto, DJ Shaun Slaughter, DJ Shawn Myers, DJ Roger, DJ Cassandra, DJ Electra, DJ Marcus Aurelius, DJ Courtney, DJ Miss Kitty, new MADONNA, Artist-formerly-known-as-Prince, Reverend Horton Heat, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, LaVay Smith and the Skillet Lickers, Dixie Chicks, Shania Twain, VNV Nation (my favorite band of the moment), Eminem, 50Cent, Apoptygma Berzerk, Rammstein, Das Ich (these Germans are kick ass! They bought my pic of Stephan and used it for their 1999-2000 Tour), Schnitt Acht, Funker Vogt, Hate Dept., Project Pitchfork, Covenant (I never dance as hard as when "Dead Stars" is playing), And One, Ladytron, Wolfsheim ("Once In A Lifetime"), Assemblage 23 ("Disappoint"), Linkin Park ("Crawling"), Outcast, Miss Kitty, Kylie, Avril, Kelis ("My Milkshake is better than yours!"), Pink ("You make me ill!"), Christina, Mya, Ashanti, Evanescence (they give me hope there STILL is lyrical and songwriting talent in the next generation), Hanson (ha! okay okay, go ahead... laugh ... was just checking to see if you read this far!)
MOVIES: Atonement, Sicko, Thank You For Smoking!, Pan's Labrynth, Smokin' Aces, Letters from Iwo Jima, Sideways ("I'm not drinking Merlot!"), Return of the King "Extended DVD" ("This is MY HOUR!"), Sundance Film Festival, all Indie Film Festivals, Foreign Film Festivals, Spike & Mike's "Sick & Twisted Animation Film Festivals", all LORD OF THE RINGS films ("Fool of a Took!"), Lost in Translation ("Wip the stockings!"), Kill Bill V.1. (*PUSSY WAGON*), Pulp Fiction ("Burger Royale"), Seabiscuit, An Affair To Remember, Vertigo, The Birds (*Caw!* *Caw!*), North By Northwest, ANY ALFRED HITCHCOCK film, Breakfast at Tiffany's ("Moon River"), Roman Holiday, ANY AUDREY HEPBURN film, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ("Stella!"), Amadeus (*Obnoxious Laugh*), Beethoven, Impromptu ("I love steadfastly..."), The Duellists ("I have submitted to your notions of honor. You will now submit to mine!"), Les Miserables, Queen Margot, Camille Claudette, Laurence of Arabia ("No Prisoners!"), ANY PETER O'TOOLE film, Gladiator ("Hold the Line!"), Master & Commander (*Hold Fast*), Ben-Hur ("Today, you are their god!"), Spartacus ("I am Spartacus!"), Braveheart ("Freedom!"), Last of the Mohicans ("I will find you!"), Schindler's List, The Blue Max ("CONFIRM!"), Enemy at the Gates, Patton ("Ha! I read your book, Rommel!"), The Eagle Has Landed ("The Eagle has landed!"), Tora Tora Tora ("Tora Tora Tora!"), The Guns of Navarrone ("Oh, be a pal and kill her!?"), Apocalypse Now ("I love the smell of Napalm in the morning" "Charlie don't surf!"), Where Eagles Dare, Kelly's Heroes, Breaker Morant ("SHOOT STRAIGHT, you bloody bastards!"), Gallipoli, Brazil ("Ma'am, your husband is under arrest, please sign this... and this... and please press harder this time... and here's your receipt..."), The Battle of Britain ("If Berlin is bombed, you may call me 'Meyer!'"), Saving Private Ryan, Princess Bride ("Have fun storming the castle!"), Office Space ("That's m-m-my stapler"), Everybody Loves Mary, The Graduate ("You're trying to SEDUCE me, Mrs. Robinson"), Class, Risky Business ("Sometimes you just gotta say, 'What the fuck!'"), Sixteen Candles, Pretty In Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Summer Lovers, Disney's ANASTASIA ("Wowee Wow WOW!"), Ferris Bueller's Day Off ("Bueller? .... Bueller? ....... Bueller?"), The Cube, War of the Worlds, Empire Strikes Back ("I AM your father..."), Space Odyssey 2001 ("Open the door, Hal." "What are you doing, Dave?"), Buck Rogers ("Dee-bee-dee-bee-dee-bee-BUCK"), DUNE ("Father! The Sleeper has awakened!"), Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ("You Klingon bastard, you've killed my son"), Bram Stroker's Dracula, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein ("It's 'Frah-kin-steen'" "Well, it's 'Eye-Gore'"), The Lost Boys ("All these goddamn Vampires!"), The Crow, The Long Riders, Tombstone ("Then again, you just may be the Anti-Christ"), Local Hero ("I can't believe you cooked my rabbit."), Amelie, 5th Element, Dark City ("Sleep!"), Legend, Donnie Darko, Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, The Nightmare Before Christmas ("What's this, what's this?"), The Faculty, Stigmata, Dogma, UnderWorld ("I am a Death Dealer"), ANY KATE BEKINSDALE film, Once Upon A Time In Mexico, Blade Runner ("It's a pity she won't live. But then again, who does?"), The Manchurian Candidate, Three Days of the Condor, La Femme Nikita, Point of No Return, The Professional ("Please open the door?!"), The Borne Identity, XXX, For Your Eyes Only ("For your eyes only, darling"), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai ("Remember, no matter where you go, there you are."), Animal House ("Food fight!"), Blues Brothers ("We're on a mission from God!"), Groundhog Day ("...and then we made love like sea otters on the beach .... so why couldn't I live THAT day over ... and over .... and over again?"), The Wedding Singer ("Do you really wannnt to hurrrt me... do you really want to maaaake me cry?"), ANY DREW BARRYMORE film, Four Weddings and a Funeral, ANY HUGH GRANT film, Run Lola Run, Titus Adronicus, ANY ANTHONY HOPKINS film, and (of course) Monty Python and the Holy Grail ("Listen... strange women, lying around in ponds, distributing swords, is no basis for a system of government!")
John from Cincinnati, ROME, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, E-RING, CSI (All of them), MI-5 (this A&E spy-program blows me away), AEON FLUX (old MTV - Liquid Televison), NIP/TUCK (The B.O.D. - "BUTTON OF DEATH!"), Battlestar Galactica (SciFi), Chapelle's Show ("I KNOW BLACK PEOPLE!"), Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, LAW & ORDER (R.I.P. Jerry Orbach), LaFemme Nikita (USA TV), Hard Ball w/ Chris Matthews, Six Feet Under, Reno 911, Stargate: SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis, Alias (LaFemme Nikita-LITE), Babylon 5, Law & Order: SVU, Aeon Flux, Twin Peaks, Battlestar Gallactica (Old), DUNE, Roar, Insomniac, The Practice, Max Headroom, Sex in the City, SpongeBob Squarepants, Enterprise, Masada, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Nuremburg, I Claudius, War & Peace, Masterpeice Theatre, The Actor's Studio w/ George Lipton, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Benny Hill, Kids In The Hall, The Young Ones, BBC 1 TV, BBC 2 TV, BBC 4 TV (but not BBC 3 TV, it SUCKS...), SPIKE TV, Al-Jazeer News (especially when tapes of Osama Bin Laden are "found")
ANYTHING by (or about): Dr. Suess, J.R.R. Tolkien, Isaac Asimov, C.S.Lewis, Anne Rice, Homer, Aeschylus, Eurypides, Sophocles, Ptolemy, Confucious, Sun Tzu, Cicero, St. John, Josephus, Marcus Aurelius, Greco-Roman Myths, Atlantean Legends, Arthurian Folklore, Dante, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Marquis de Sade, Alexander Dumas, Carl von Clausewitz, Charles Dickens, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, The Grimm Brothers, Mark Twain, Maya Angelou, Tom Clancy, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran, and 19th Century French and Russian Female novelists posing under male pseudonyms (ex. George Sands)
Children and Small Furry Mammals