Goals:
-write a novel
-be paid for my music rants
-start a band
-improve my art
-look fucking fantastic
-maintain a constant state of alert intoxication
Try and have a sense of humor about all this, alright?
All the usual self-depricating collegiate art-fag bullshit.
Adult., Antony and the Johnsons, Aphex Twin, Associates, Beat Happening, the Birthday Party, Black Dice, the Black Heart Procession, Black Tape For A Blue Girl, the Blood Brothers, Blur, Boredoms, David Bowie, Brainiac, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Broadcast, the Chameleons, Clinic, Coachwhips, the Cure, Dir en Grey, the Doors, Echo and the Bunnymen, the Fall, Frog Eyes, Galaxie 500, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Tim Hecker, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Interpol, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Joy Division, Liars, Low, Magnetic Fields, Malice Mizer, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, My Bloody Valentine, Old Time Relijun, Pale Saints, the Pixies, (early) Public Image Ltd., Pulp, Slowdive, the Smashing Pumpkins, the Smiths, Sonic Youth, Stereolab, Talking Heads, Tom Waits, the Walkmen, the Wu-Tang Clan, Xiu Xiu, ...and a cast of fucking hundreds subject to change hourly...think shoegaze, think no-wave, think post-punk, think efficient German electronics, think sexless white people making miserable music, think of your life
All About Lily Chou-Chou, Batman, Batman Returns, Battle Royale, The Big Lebowski, Blade Runner, Brick, Clerks, Dune, Eraserhead, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas, Fellini's Casanova, Harold And Maude, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Labyrinth, The Life Aquatic, Lost Highway, Lost In Translation, Mysterious Skin, Old Boy, Party Monster, Pulp Fiction, Purple Rain, The Royal Tennenbaums, Se7en, Tetsuo, Titus, Trainspotting, Waking Life, some others...
Absolutely Fabulous, Boston Legal, The Colbert Report, Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law, House, Iron Chef, Nip/Tuck, Project Runway, Sealab 2021, [when I'm home]
Oh alright...eh, some authors....: William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Bukowski, Rimbaud, Warren Ellis, Robert Heinlein, Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, Grant Morrison, Nathaniel West, Georg Büchner, H.P. Lovecraft, Henry Miller, Philip K. Dick., J. G. Ballard, Nietzsche, Frank Herbert, Oscar Wilde
When I was a young lad I wanted to grow-up and be just like James Iha from the Smashing Pumpkins...shit that still would be pretty fantastic.