kombucha - drinking and brewing
biking and my bike (raleigh one way 2008)
photography
holga cameras
cats and all other animals
I'd like to meet:
"What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could be in the pouches of our overalls? When you skateboard down the street at night you could hear everyone's heartbeat, and they could hear yours, sort of like sonar. One weird thing is, I wonder if everyone's hearts would start to beat at the same time, like how women who live together have their menstrual periods at the same time, which I know about, but don't really want to know about. That would be so weird, except that the place in the hospital where babies are born would sound like a crystal chandelier in a houseboat, because the babies wouldn't have had time to match up their heartbeats yet. And at the finish line at the end of the New York City Marathon it would sound like war."
"Monsters are variations from the accepted normal to a greater or less degree. As a child may be born without an arm, so one may be born without kindness or the potential of conscience. A man who loses his arms in an accident has a great struggle to adjust himself to the lack, but one born without arms suffers only from people who find him strange. Having never had arms, he cannot miss them. Sometimes when we are little we imagine how it would be to have wings, but there is no reason to suppose it is the same feeling birds have. No, to a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself. To the inner monster it must be even more obscure, since he has no visible thing to compare to others. To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous."
Music:
makes me shake my rump.
rumpshaka.
Movies:
Anything by the Coen Brothers:
Blood Simple
O Brother Where Art Thou
Miller's Crossing
Hudsucker Proxy
Raising Arizona
No Country for Old Men
The Man Who Wasn't There
Intolerable Cruelty
Ladykillers
The Big Lebowski
Barton Fink
Burn After Reading
Anything by Woody Allen
Anything with Charlie Chaplin
Anything with Elvis Presley
I like a lot of movies really.
Television:
I don't have cable. Go ride your bike instead - or read a book.
Books:
give it to me and I shall read it.
I am a big fan of Hunter S Thompson, John Steinbeck and David Sedaris amongst many others...
Heroes:
AND
"No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt"
