music, conversation, coffee, body modification and suspension. Other interests of varying degrees and time periods. If you want to know, feel free to ask.
I'd like to meet:
People: Anyone to whom music causes the same reaction as it does me. Ideally someone who has similar reactions to any music I like. I know you're out there somewhere. Please let me know you exist.
Famous People: Bill Hicks, Eddie Izzard, Marquis de Sade, Bjork, Oscar Wilde, Tim Burton, John Malkovich, Beth Orton, Ellen Page, Audrey Tautou, Angelina Jolie, Fairuza Balk, Edward Norton, Michael Stipe, Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Kate Beckinsale, Marisa Tomei
Famous People I've Had the Pleasure of Meeting: Jim Carroll (author of The Basketball Diaries), Doug Bradley (Pinhead), Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Jello Biafra, Corey Feldman, Suzanne Vega, Wesley Willis, George Clinton, Adam Goren (Atom & His Package), Mike McColgan (original Dropkick Murphys vocalist), Perry Farrell, John Frusciante (during his solo career), Weapon of Choice (specifically MegaNut (lead vocalist) and Norwood, from Fishbone, who was a guest at the show)
Music:
R.E.M.
The God Projekt
Assemblage 23
Covenant
Social Distortion
Mike Ness
Bjork
Grant Lee Phillips
Radiohead
Jane's Addiction
L7
Reverend Horton Heat
Ministry
VNV Nation
Apoptygma Berzerk
Switchblade Symphony
The Cure
Depeche Mode
Joy Division
Bauhaus
Helmet
Labwrk
The Western Paradise
Weapon of Choice
Fishbone
Beck
Leonard Cohen
Grant Lee Buffalo
Asy9
Pop Will Eat Itself
Ben Folds (and BF5)
Cake
Weezer
Mazzy Star
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions
Frente
Beth Orton
Juliana Hatfield
Inclined
Suzanne Vega
Dropkick Murphys (pre-The Gang's All Here)
Nine Inch Nails (pre-Closer)
Belle and Sebastian
The Verve
Wesley Willis
Atom and His Package
Johnny Cash
John Denver
Kenny Rogers
Willie Nelson
Simon & Garfunkel
AFI (before they went emo)
Good Riddance
NOFX
Guttermouth
Agnostic Front
Subhumans
Big Black
Operation Ivy
Rancid
KMFDM
Coldplay
Portishead
Jill Sobule
Camera Obscura
B-52s
Flogging Molly
Jim Croce
Cat Stevens
Soundgarden
Audioslave
Rob Zombie
Deltron 3030
Busta Rhymes
Q-Tip
Beastie Boys
Kristen Hersh
Siouxsie & the Banshees
Funker Vogt
Men Without Hats
Talking Heads
Devo
INXS (pre-suicide Michael Hutchence)
Parliament Funkadelic
Frail
Marilyn Manson (pre-Antichrist Superstar)
Echo & The Bunnymen
The Pixies
Elvis Costello
James
Tool
Propagandhi
Dead Kennedys
Dead Milkmen
Elastica
Blur
Gorillaz
Violent Femmes
Patti Smith
Elliot Smith
Peter Gabriel
Sinad O'Connor (Universal Mother)
Tripping Daisy
They Might Be Giants
The Polyphonic Spree
Jeff Buckley
Thievery Corporation
Underworld
Sigur Ros
Danny Elfman (and Oingo Boingo)
The Cars
The Thompson Twins
Psychedelic Furs
Tears for Fears
Duran Duran
The Church
Henry Mancini
Miles Davis
Anvil Chorus
Combichrist
Skinny Puppy
Kidney Thieves...
Movies:
In no particular order:
Hard Candy
Perfume
Thank You for Smoking
Idiocracy
The Illusionist
Down in the Valley
Tapeheads
Color of a Brisk & Leaping Day
Goodbye Lenin
Never Been Thawed
Thumbsucker
Mirrormask
Any Monty Python films
any film with a member of Monty Python in it
any film directed by Terry Gilliam
The Aristocrats
any Tim Burton or Spike Jonze film
American Beauty
The Dark Crystal
All the Muppet movies
Donnie Darko
Secretary
Shadow of the Vampire (look for Eddie)
all the recent films based on Oscar Wilde plays
Amélie
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
Dirty Pretty Things
Happenstance
Heathers
Kuffs
Pump up The Volume
Requiem for a Dream
Pi
American History X
Dancer in the Dark
Trainspotting
Velvet Goldmine (Eddie again)
Bubba Hotep
any Sam Raimi film
The Usual Suspects
Kissing Jessica Stein
Dream for an Insomniac
Condorman
Watcher in the Woods
Oliver
The Music Man
The King & I
Hedwig & the Angry Inch
Mystery Men (Eddie plays Tony P.)
Oceans Twelve (only because Eddie's in it)...
Television:
Television is like radio to me: Most of the stuff you can pick up without enhancements (like satellites) is useless. If I watch TV, it's almost always movies. Exceptions to this rule are: MST3K (even though it's not on anymore), The Daily Show & The Colbert Report, Dead Like Me, Robot Chicken, Harvey Birdman: Attorney-at-Law, Family Guy, Space Ghost C2C, The Brak Show, ATHF, Sealab 2021.
Old TV was amazing! Saturday morning cartoons RIP: Dungeons & Dragons, Inspector Gadget, Kidd Video, The Littles, M.A.S.K., Blackstar, Dangermouse, Pac-Man, Zorro, Lazer Tag, Transformers, Rubix, Q-bert, He-Man, Thundercats, GI Joe, Smurfs, Snorks, Thundarr the Barbarian, Fat Albert & The Cosby Kids, Asterix & Obelix, SuperFriends, etc.
Series: Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp, Sledge Hammer, Greatest American Hero, Knight Rider, Airwolf, A-Team, Fantasy Island, Max Headroom, Out of This World, Something is Out There, V, War of the Worlds, Tales of the Gold Monkey, Robin of Sherwood, BJ and the Bear, Probe, The Wizard, The Edison Twins, Quantum Leap, Manimal, Mork & Mindy, Misfits of Science, etc.
Kid's Shows: Slim Goodbody, 3-2-1 Contact!, The Electric Company, Bozo the Clown, Double Dare, You Can't Do That on Television, Picture Pages, Fraggle Rock, The Muppet Show, Mr. Wizard's World... They don't make TV like they used to.
Books:
The Cheese Monkeys - Chip Kidd
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories - Tim Burton
Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom & Other Writings - Marquis de Sade
Happiness - Will Ferguson
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
The Avalon Series - Marion Zimmer Bradley
Any of the D'Amour series by Anne Marie Villefranche
Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille
L'etranger - Albert Camus
A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
Still Life With Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of A B-Movie Actor - Bruce Campbell
Anything by Kurt Vonnegut
Anything by Voltaire
The Fairy Tales Series - Gregory Maguire
Holy Blood, Holy Grail - Micheal Baigent, et. al.
Heroes:
In no particular order: my grandfather - Ralph Gordon Carter, my brother - Isaac, my son - Donavan Paul, Dorothy Day, Jesus Christ, Bill Hicks, Eddie Izzard, Lewis Black, Myself, My father - Daniel, my mother - Holly, Oscar Wilde, Michael Stipe
