my band: RAPID ADAPTER , music, punk rock, music history, nouvelle vague, new german cinema, documentary film, civilized formal debate, sociology, psychology, economics, freakonomics, criticism, skepticism, debunkers of all stripe, public speaking, heckling, character assassination, morality, rhetoric, ethics, propaganda, influence peddling, the PR industry, image consultants, basement shows, insult comedy, stand up, sketch comedy, insomnia, porphyria, pro-wrestling(ROH), cheap beer, Mama Cozzy's frozen Pizza...the usual...
I'D LIKE TO MEET ENERGIZED, YOUNG, URBAN SINGLES WHO CAN HELP ME NETWORK MY WAY ALL THE WAY UP TO THE MIDDLE... But seriously though; I wanna meet interesting, well-read/well-researched people that I can learn something from. People that can state their views and actually back them up with a cogent argument ............................................................ ............................................................ .......... I wanna meet people that actually have some degree of self awareness and whom are actually TRYING to fight against their own shortcomings. Someone who's trying to "better" themselves and not just in a financial way. Someone "addicted to the fight". ............................................................ ............................................................ .......... Furthermore, I want to meet more harvesters; ya know, people that are always keeping an ear/eye open for some new material to "harvest" and turn into something creative. EXAMPLE:"Oh, you just said something quotable, I think I'll use that in a song." ............................................................ ............................................................ ..........Can I tell you who I DON'T wanna meet? People who never state their true opinions and just let their often times unfounded stances fester until they turn into a simmering hatred for another human being. I'll always go for the outright fight as opposed to the passive aggressive shit a lot of people engage in.
many, many bands.. To name a few: Sacchrine Trust, Sado Nation, Sagger, Sailors, Saint Vitus, Savage Lucy, Savage Republic, Savage Resurrection, Scat Rag Boosters, Schund, Scientific Americans, Scientists, Scream, Screamers, Screamin' Mee Mee's, Screaming Tribesmen, Screaming Urge, Screws, Second Wind, Secret Affair, Sector Four, Seeds, Seger Liberation Army, Sehr Schnell, Sema 4, Shattered Faith, Shirkers, Shitlickers, Shock, Shoes, Short Eyes, Shotgun Solution, Shrapel, Sick Pleasure, Sick Things, Sick Terror, Sightings, Silver, Simpletones, Simply Saucer, Sin 34, Singles, Sir Alec & The Phraser, Sir Henry Fiat & The Bastards, Skidmarks, Skygreen Leopards, Skunks, Slickee Boys, Sluggo, Sluglords, Small Faces, Sneaky Pinks, Snobs, SOA, Social Unrest, Sods, , Soft Boys, Solger, Son House, Sonic Chicken 4, Sons of Hercules, Sons of Ismael, Sores, Spaceshits, Special Duties, Spent Idols, Sperma, Spider, Spites, Spitfire Boys, Spits, Splash 4, Sporten Ar Dod, Sports, Squats, Squirrel Bait, SRC, SS, SSD, Stack O'Lees, Stains, Stakinov, Stalin, Stallions, Stand Bys, Star Club, Starjets, State, Static, Strawberry Alarmclock, Stickmen With Rayguns, Stiffs, Stimulators, Stipjes, Stitches, Stooges, Stranglehold, Stretchmarks, Strong Come Ons, Suburban Lawns, Suburban Studs, Subway, Subway Sect, Suicidal Tendancies, Suicide Commandos, Suicide Squad, Superhelicopter, Surf Punks, Sutherland Brothers & Quiver, Svart Framid, Swans, Sweeney Todd, Sweet JAP, Swell Maps, Swindled
I've morphed into a big documentary buff lately. Errol Morris, Bergman's "Scenes From A Marriage", "This Is Spinal Tap", Herzog, Fassbinder, Godard, Eric Rohmer, Tokyo Rockers, The Decline of Western Civilization:Part 1, Crumb, Before Sunrise/Before Sunset, Louie Malle, My Breakfast With Blassie.
Check out my favorites on Stage6: LINK . Beyond that, I've been watching a lot of British TV lately. Peep Show(Mitchell and Webb in general), Mighty Boosh, Brass Eye, Ricky Gervais, Armando Iannucci, Simon Pegg, Adam Curtis, Richard Dawkins, Alain de Botton, etc. Also, I love FRONTLINE , NOVA, BBC Horizon, Wonder Showzen, Duckman, Drawn Together, The Critic, This Just In, The Oblongs, The Venture Bros., Mission Hill, Futurama, Pilot Season, Mr. Show, KITH, SCTV, Monty Python, SNL during the Carvey/Conan/Smigel/Hartman era, Northern Exposure, Curb Your Enthusiam, Arrested Development, the late Trio Network... anything written by Judd Apatow, Mike Reiss, Robert Smigel, Conan O'Brien(or any old writers from Conan), Bob and Bill Odenkirk, David Cross, Sarah Silverman, etc...
Usally any books on music history/industry, speficially punk rock stuff.. Any heavy handed social criticism, especially stuff that deflates old(or current) counter-cultural movements... Indie comics, but no super hero stuff... Psychology Texts, media studies...Histories of unsuccessful businesses, wrestler "auto"-biographies... I dunno, I'm alwasy reading 20 things all at the same time and I'm horrible at remembering author's names...
Primarily underdogs & unsung heroes. More specifically: Conan O'Brien, James Jamerson, Carol Kaye, Andy Kaufman, Dee Dee Ramone, modern day-lecture prone Bill Cosby, quality TV shows that get cancelled too early... Gee, why did I like Trio(RIP)?