DANIEL BRIERE SIGNS WITH THE PHILADELPHIA FLYERS - horrible song, and lots of Buffalo jerseys...but who cares, it's Danny Briere!" /
This Time - DJ Shadow
Black Sheep...There are 40 million sheep in New Zealand. ...And THEY'RE PISSED OFF (June 23rd)
PIMP VADER This was created by using the voice of Vader himself, the mighty JAMES EARL JONES. Dialogue is taken from Mr. Jones' OTHER movies, and dubbed over Darth's dialogue. FUNNY
My Bloody Valentine, "Only Shallow" Meat Beat Manifesto, "Strap Down" M.I.A. and Bucky Done Gun cky and PJ Harvey, "Broken Homes" LIVE Tri cky, "Overcome"
The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb (Parts 1-3)
A messed up cartoonG.I. JOE PSAs Howard Stern / "David Lee Roth" phony prank call
Stones of Summer (Dow Mossman), Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), Random Acts of Senseless Violence (or anything else by underrated Jack Womack, especially Elvissey - he's worth looking for), White Noise (Don DeLillo), Secret History (Donna Tartt), The Postman Always Rings Twice (James M. Cain), all the Frank Herbert Dune novels, Expiration Date (Tim Powers), It and Salem's Lot (best of the 5 or 6 Stephen King's I've read), Dance Dance Dance (Haruki Murakami), House of Leaves (Mark Danielzewski), The Fountainhead (terrific and thought-provoking) and Atlas Shrugged (thought-revoking - not really, it was fine as far as I read, both by Ayn Rand), The Fermata (so dirty, but justifiably so in its jawdropping creativity - Nicholson Baker), Geek Love (Katherine Dunn), Courtship Rite (Donald Kingsbury), The Stranger (Albert Camus), The Dork of Cork (Chet Raymo), Echoes in the Darkness (true story of murder and secret cults among the teaching faculty at Lower Merion High School here in PA that reads like the best fiction, by Joseph Wambaugh), The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrey Neffinegger), The Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole), Neuromancer (William Gibson), The Truth Machine (James L. Halperin), In Our Time (Ernest Hemingway), LOTR (Tolkien), Altered States (Paddy Chayefsky), The Dharma Bums (Jack Kerouac), London Fields or absolutely anything by Martin Amis, Ghost Story (Peter Straub), every Harry Potter epic by J.K. Rowling (& I'll be tossing little kids aside to buy # 7, the finale "Deathly Hallows" on July 28th), Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino), "Moby Dick" (Yes, Herman Melville, I made it through that one somehow, over several years...and I loved it!!), Jitterbug Perfume, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (anything by Tom Robbins), Blindness (Jose Saramango), Einstein's Dreams (Alan Lightman), most Kurt Vonnegut, Lightness (super cyberpunk by M. John Harrison), Ava (Caroline Meo), Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury), The Mahabharata (mesmerising script retelling of the famous Indian history of the world told w/ mythological overtones, based on the play), Titan, Wizard, Demon, Steel Beach (superlative sci-fi from John Varley), Shutter Island (Dennis Lehane), American Gods (Neil Gaiman), Flicker (superb, rare creepout thriller aimed at both diehard film and history buffs; it involves the film industry, Orson Welles, subliminal imagery, the Knights Templar...wow. Theodore Roszak), The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night Time (Mark Haddon), the short stories of both Harlan Ellison and T.C. Boyle, um, The Film Snob's Dictionary (David Kamp) - (what can I say, read it in one sitting 'cuz it was mostly review), and MILES (the autobiography of the great Miles Davis). This one is a real motherfucker - the jazz great's favorite word which he uses in at least every paragraph here. These are a few books that come to mind. Favorite playwrights : David Mamet, Samuel Beckett, Eugene O'Neill, Edward Albee, Tennessee Williams, Sophocles, and of course W. Shakespeare ... he should be at the top of the list, naturally. Favorite poets : Gregory Corso, Jack Micheline, Tom Waits, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Andy Gates Freeman, Robert Browning, Aesop Rock, Charles Bukowski, Charles Simic, the great Snoker, Kool Keith (obviously), d.a. levy, me, William Carlos William, B "American Style" Smith and especially lately, Wallace Stevens... I shouldn't forget the graphic novelists I read most frequently (but not exclusively) : Frank Miller (Sin City, Batman, Daredevil, etc...), Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan, Quimby the Mouse), Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta), Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan, Planetary, Hellblazer, Desolation Jones)and Dave Sim, creator of Cerebus, the comically savage earth-pig born. Admittedly I haven't given as much time to word-gazing since '07 started because of an ambitious novel-writing project of my own. I've always loved to write, but it's rare to have a fictional story and its outline fall into place in such a satisfying manner where the words and ideas keep flowing. There's nothing like it, to crack open that left side of one's noggin and the future comes rushing in. I've penned 60 pp. so far at the time of this typing. The scope of the story could lead to 500pp. or more, but let's wait and see. I'm not going to stop anytime soon, that's for certain. What's it about, um, a psychic, objects falling from the sky, time travel, a kid delivering papers on a neverending paper route...I'm just having a blast, that's all. Working title is The Square Root of Infinity; this will change to something less overwhelmingly pretentious but as a working title it will do.
BRUCE LEE vs. KAREEM ABDUL JABAR in "Game of Death"