"I have too many stories - keeping it serious."
"Art today is scarely conceivable except as a form of reaction that anticipates the apocalypse."
- Theodor Adorno in Aesthetic Theory
20th century critical theory, playing guitar, chinese buffets, sexual representation, music as an instrument of freedom, organized athletics, popular culture, fatherhood, sports video games, aesthetics, audio production, the American civil war, the historical avant garde, obscure actresses, and a good night's sleep.
Creative musicians who believe art is dead.
Nihilists with strong political beliefs.
Snobs who read pretentious books.
People to start a Prince cover band called "The Irresistable Bitches."
Assertive women.
Individuals who can name every member of Poison.
Feminists who prefer Xtina to Amy Lee.
Proclaimers who pronouce god "gaw-DA."
Tasha-Ray Evin.
Some favorites include: Velvet Underground, The Smashing Pumpkins, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, pre-75 Grateful Dead, The Stooges, Zach Curd/The Pop Project, (t)INC, Bob Dylan, Sex Pistols, Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, Violent Femmes, Mars Volta, Prince, The Long Winters, The Byrds, Harvey Danger, Dead Kennedys, The Blood Brothers, Thunderbirds Are Now!, and AFI. There is some of every version of "rock" music in my collection, from Avril Lavigne to Atari Teenage Riot.
Favs: Kubrick's Lolita, Ghost World, The Big Lebowski, the Stars Wars series, Play It Again Sam, The Doom Generation, Wonder Boys, Lost In Translation, Buffalo 66, Malcolm X, and I Shot Andy Warhol.
This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X-Files, Veronica Mars, SportsCenter, Mythbusters, and anything with digital dinosaurs.
Mostly non-fiction, plus The Stranger, Lolita, Fathers and Sons, Rats Saw God, and The Picture of Dorian Gray.
My father, Theodor Adorno, Mona Dahl, Sean Nelson, Bill Clinton, Clare Quilty, Laura Kipnis, Oscar Wilde, and Jabba the Hutt.