Sirius B
People Over Profits Grassroots Network
These are a few of my favorite things:
Love,
my sister and brother,
singing the classics,
harmony,
road trips,
Seattle,
languages other than English,
Reza singing Bee Gees in the car,
PBR on tap,
Etymology,
Greek mythology,
Prague,
building couch cushion-blanket forts,
Santa Barbara,
absinthe,
sign & billboard modification,
climbing trees,
Hot Spots (R.I.P.),
learning math long after I thought I couldn't,
cats,
Brooklyn,
when a bunch of people eat shit in a big heap at the roller-skating rink,
peanut butter,
Synchronicity,
bare feet,
skeet shooting,
Minneapolis,
playing in the mud,
cross-dressing,
Abba-Zaba,
sailing,
MOTOWN!,
Penny,
mechanical machines made of metal,
analog technology,
playing in the symphony,
anarchists' dorms,
Kid Icarus,
I'm learning how to dig SoCal,
meeting/hanging out with people in different parts of the world,
swing dancing,
Ithaca,
lists,
cooking Indian/Pakistani food,
Eastern Kentucky,
Middle Eastern and Vietnamese food,
having lots of friend/roommates,
"foreigners" (hahaha!),
heteroflexibility,
cut-offs with really high socks,
Russian,
Pilsner Urquell,
Queen,
freckles,
Wordplay!,
Tetris,
skiing,
1960's SOUL music!,
bass frequencies,
progress,
high concentrations of melanin,
reading,
androgeny,
greens (especially mustards & collards),
music is my life,
people are my life,
roller skating,
science fiction,
anarchy,
pumpkin ice cream,
justice (or, acting justly),
true friends,
real history,
philosophy...
Blob puddle bloopity blop blop?
i hate richard nixon
dung
who the hell wrote this
ahh.... that feels good
I'd like to meet:
"Dreams pass into the reality of action.
From the actions stem the dream again;
and this interdependence produces the highest form of living."
- Anais Nin
Nazis testing LSD during World War II
Experimentations done over German soldiers during World War II. Use of LSD to lead troops against the Allies.
Music:
Groups/Artists:
Allman Brothers,
The Association,
Atmosphere,
The Beach Boys,
The Beatles,
Big Cat,
Black Sabbath,
Bluegrass Student Union (barbershop-- mmmmm),
David Bowie,
James Brown,
Buckethead,
Neko Case,
Chicago,
Bootsy Collins,
Creedence Clearwater Revival,
Gustavo Cerati/Soda Stereo,
The Clash,
Leonard Cohen,
AntonÃn Dvorák,
Faithless,
Ella Fitzgerald,
Aretha Franklin
All hail the Queen:
Peter Gabriel,
Rev. Al Green,
The Guess Who,
Heart,
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass,
Billie Holiday,
Michael Jackson,
Etta James,
Jamiroquai,
The Jellyfish,
Elton John,
Scott Joplin,
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan,
The Kinks,
The Maggies,
The Mamas & the Papas,
Massive Attack,
Don McLean,
Megadeth,
The Moody Blues,
Modest Mussorgskii,
Neutral Milk Hotel,
Nirvana,
NWA,
Oingo Boingo,
Phil Simpkin Project,
Pink Floyd,
The Police,
Elvis Presley,
Prince,
QUEEN,
Radiohead,
Otis Redding,
Lou Reed,
Django Reinhardt,
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov,
Self (band from Tennessee?),
Artie Shaw,
Dmitri Shostakovich,
Simon & Garfunkel,
Nina Simone,
Sly & the Family Stone,
Steam Powered Airplane,
Cat Stevens,
Supertramp,
United States,
Vladimir Vysotsky,
Wham! : ),
The Who,
Brian Wilson,
Bill Withers,
Stevie Wonder,
Weird Al Yankovic,
The Zombies. (more later, as I think of more and more-- there's so much I didn't know where to start. I guess this is a start :)
Specifically awesome albums:
*Atom Heart Mother*, Queen II, A Night at the Opera, Sheer Heart Attack, Saturday Night Fever...
Genre:
Rock & Roll! Motown, bluegrass, Baroque, Classical, Romantic-- a bit (I like Baroque the best of the three), REAL rhythm & blues, Delta blues, ragtime, Dixieland jazz, Middle-Eastern & Middle-Eastern/French Pop/Rock/Dance, Jazz, Big Band Swing, Drums & bass, Soul, Roots, Salsa, Hard Rock, heavy dirty southern rock & roll, Nintendo music ;), British Invasion rock & roll! Tribal music, Afro-beat, Funk, Creepy dark rock & roll, some metal (not "fantasymetal")... a pretty good parameter for me liking any type of music (especially if I wouldn't normally) is if it has really good bass, or is particularly beautifully melodious/harmonious.
Movies:
Allegro Non Troppo,
Amadeus,
Angelheart,
Back to the Future,
The Big Lebowski,
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure,
Black Orpheus,
Blazing Saddles,
The Blues Brothers,
Boondock Saints,
Born in East L.A.,
Brazil,
Bubba Ho-tep,
Bullit,
C'est Arrivé Près de Chez Vous / Man Bites Dog: It Happened in Your Neighbourhood,
Cool Hand Luke,
Creepshow,
Deathtrap,
Le Dîner de Cons / The Dinner Game,
Dreams,
Drop Dead Fred,
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,
Edward Scissorhands,
Evil Dead/Evil Dead 2/Army of Darkness,
Falling Down,
Full Metal Jacket,
Ghostbusters,
The Great Escape,
Hair,
Harold & Maude,
Heathers,
House of Yes,
The Italian Job (1969),
Ladyhawk,
Man With the Screaming Brain,
Metropolis (1927),
Night of the Living Dead (1968),
The Omen (1976),
On the Waterfront,
The Princess Bride,
Raiders of the Lost Ark,
Repo Man,
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead,
Run Lola Run,
Rushmore,
The Seven Samurai,
Shaun of the Dead,
The Silver Chalice,
Sixteen Candles,
So I Married an Ax Murderer,
Superman: The Movie (1978),
Superman II,
The Tenant,
Time Bandits,
To Sir, With Love,
Les Triplettes de Belleville,
The Twilight Zone Movie,
The Usual Suspects,
War Games,
Wayne's World,
The Wizard of Oz...
Television:
The Twilight Zone
Quantum Leap is my favorite TV show of all time.
The Smurfs
Looney Toons
The Boondocks
Beavis and Butthead
Tales from the Crypt was pretty damn good too. Remember the one where that convict is trying to escape through the desert but the one cop is still on his ass, until he stupidly caps the cop after the cop cuffs him to himself? Then he has to drag the cop's corpse through the desert, and when he's almost to Mexico, he falls off of a rock and breaks his neck but doesn't die, so he can hear the sound of the vultures ripping in to his body, but can't feel it? I think that was my favorite one. Good shit.
Tom & Jerry. This is the best ever. No dialogue necessary, just facial expressions and music. : )
??, ??????! (Nu, pogodi!) The wolf chain smokes and is an asshole to everyone. Only 17 episodes were made between 1968 and 1993 due to lack of funds. : (
When I was about 13 or 14 I watched a 12 hour Batman marathon all the way through on FX because it was on instead of In Living Color. I got my lifetime dose of that theme song, for sure.
I think that's it.
Books:
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair. The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury. Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Metamorphoses, Ovid. The Life Before Us, Romain Gary (Emile Ajar). Speaker For The Dead, Orson Scott Card. The Odyssey, Homer. Jitterbug Perfume and Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, Tom Robbins. Siddharthe und Der Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse. Out Of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, C.S. Lewis. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov. The Time Machine, H.G. Wells. History of Nations encyclopedia set, 1905. Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners, CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective. Etc.
George Orwell, Maupassant, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, Grant Morrison, Anaïs Nin, Shel Silverstein, Tom Robbins, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Molière, David Sedaris, etc.
Cookbooks, History books, Sci-Fi, Philosophy books, Literature, Lets-Go! books, old old old historical books, miscellaneous college textbooks, atlases, science books, other people's old-ass yearbooks, etc.
Heroes:
Malalai Joya
Anaïs Nin
Matthew Henson
Nadezhda Krupskaja
Nina Simone
Bill Hicks
Jon Stewart
Freddie Mercury
Stephen Colbert
Eddie Izzard
