Social Theory. Politics. Sociology. Politicial Sociology. Political Science. Social Science. Philosophy. Social Philosophy. Hey, aren't these all the same thing!?
I'm recently interested in photography and some architecture. Education. Socialism. Experimentation with interesting substances. Punk Rock music. Protest music. My wife's insane CD mixes. Cultural Theory. Religion, especially the common ground and social justice portions of the five major religions. Islam. Reform Judaism. Liberation Theology. Mahayana and Zen Buddhism. Upanisad Hinduism.
Literature. Literary Theory. Social Psychology. Media Studies. And watching bad movies with a sociological imagination . . .
Nelson Mandela . . . Hugo Chavez, to ask him some tough questions. Fidel--please don't die on me. Old Noam and his side Nim Chimpsky. Howard Zinn. Arundhati Roy. I'd really like to resurrect Nikos Kazantzakis and meet him but thats out of the question. I guess since Jesus is resurrected and all that I could meet him too, right? Hmm . . .
Richard Linklater. Richard Rorty to shake some sense into him and let him see that his theories can be quite helpful if he would just let go of his prejudices against everything on the left post-1962.
Dominic Crossan. Steven Spielberg. The cast of Rent. Douglas Coupland.
Mario and Bowser. Not Luigi.
And last but not least, Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rice/Wolfowitz and the rest of them, along with the Clinton, Bush I, Reagan, Carter, Ford, and Nixon cabinents in order to arrest them for war crimes, crimes against the peace, and crimes against humanity.
Bad Religion. Fiona Apple. Anti-Flag. Ani DiFranco. Alanis Morrissette. Alkaline Trio. Metallica. Tool. A Perfect Circle. Death Cab. Postal Service. Johnny Cash. Green Day. More; with Katy's postmodern/democratic/plural tastes in music and what I'm exposed to, much, much, much more. Techno. Soundtracks.
Brokeback Mountain. Walk the Line. V for Vendetta. Paradise Now. The Descent. 25th Hour. American History X. A Scanner Darkly. Minority Report. Motorcycle Diaries. Before Sunrise. Before Sunset. The Jacket. Kinsey. Waking Life. The Life of David Gale. American Beauty. Gattaca. Eternal Sunshine. Batman Begins. Superman Returns. The Matrix Triology. Kill Bill 1 and 2. Snatch. Ocean's Eleven. O Brother Where Art Thou. Girl, Interrupted. Chicago. Angels in America.Schindler's List. Alien. Aliens. Alien 3. I Heart Huckabees. Moulin Rouge. Pulp Fiction. Roger and Me. The Manchurian Candidate (the old one and the new one). The Fog of War. The Interpreter. Donnie Darko. House of Sand and Fog. Good Night and Good Luck. Requiem For a Dream.
Desperate Housewives. I don't care what anybody says. FAMILY GUY. FAMILY GUY. FAMILY GUY. Law and Order SVU. House. Grey's Anatomy.
The Politics of Jesus. Lemert's Social Theory Anthology. Anything by Marx, especially the 1844 Manuscripts. Prison Notebooks. Hegemony or Survival. Failed States. Deterring Democracy. Hey Nostradamus! Life After God. The Last Temptation of Christ. Reefer Madness. Stuff by Kozol. Autobiography of Malcolm X. Night Draws Near. After Theory. Postmodernism, or the Logic of Late Capitalism. The Five Gospels, done by the Jesus Seminar.
The people of Iraq, the West Bank, Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Haiti, Nicaragua, Columbia, South Africa . . . the women of the world. The homosexuals of the world. Those of browner tint than the master aryans. Everyone who ever suffered at the hands of cruelty and manipulation.