Writing, Poetry, Film making, theatre, white water rafting, politics, history, currently fascinated by Parkour runners but am too old & broken to try it myself
You Are A Martini
You are the kind of drinker who appreciates a nice hard drink.
And for you, only quality alcohol. You don't waste your time on the cheap stuff.
Obviously, you're usually found with a martini in your hand. But sometimes you mix it up with a gin and tonic.
And you'd never, ever consider one of those flavored martinis. They're hardly a drink!
What Alcoholic Drink Are You?...
I'd like to meet:
Camille Paglia, Umberto Eco, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Asia Argento, (heh, look how I integrated the cheesecake in among the eggheads. Although, I'm guessing she's a pretty smart cookie in her own right)Other thirty-somethings who are still willing to freak the norms....
Music:
the Pogues, Morphine, Diamonda Galas, Lydia Lunch, Fear, Toy Dolls, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Dresden Dolls, Devotchka, Golgol Bordello, Henry Rollins, Social Distortion, Mark Lanegan, Neko Case, Alice Cooper, Black 47, Alejandro Escovedo, Television, the Ramones, AC/DC, Milla, Cat Power, Mojo Nixon, the Cramps, the Dead Kennedys, The Sonics, Lucinda Williams, Tom Waits, Supersuckers, Mary Gauthier, Drive-By Truckers, Kings of Leon, Ofra Haza, Iggy Pop, Split Lip Rayfield, Waco Brothers, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Ministry, Tori Amos, Scott H Biram, Dandy Warhols, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Gas Huffer, Carrie Akre, McGnarley's Rant, Jack O' Fire, Motorhead, Iron Maiden, PJ Harvey, the Hives, Franz Ferdinand, ... and You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, the Who, Lou Reed, Mike Johnson, Daniel Johnston, Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, the New Pornographers, Some Neil Young, some Metallica, Carl Orff, Wagner, Mahler, Nick Cave, Danzig, Black Flag, Clash, L7, the Gits, Juliette and the Licks, Patti Smith, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, The Charms, Mastodon, Queensryche, Judas Priest, Combustible Edison, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, a brokeheart pro,
Which fucked-up genius composer are you?
Shane MacGowan... unconsciously brilliant. You can intelligently debate any topic from theology, history, literature and philosphy... though only while you're out of your skull on booze.
Take this quiz !
*Juliette and The Licks*
Movies:
The Wild Bunch, Taxi Driver, Lawrence of Arabia, A Very Long Engagement, Amelie, the Films of Wong Kar Wai, Suspiria, Your Vice is a Locked Room and only I Have the Key, LotR, 3 Iron, Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, the Films of Hal Hartley, Deep Red, Zombie flicks, Classic Universal horror, 70's drive-in fare, David Lynch films, The Philadelphia Story, giallos, Goodfellas, The Audition, David Cronenburg's entire freakin' career, City of Lost Children, Spirited Away, The Secret of Roan Inish, Vanishing Point (you just gots to love a car movie that can serve as an introduction to exitentialism), The Lost Skeleton of Cadavera (I'm a Scientist I don't believe in anything), M, Scarlet Street, House of Bamboo, Born to Kill, Sunset Boulevard, LA Confidential, Memento, the Searchers, Once Upon a Time in the West, the Good the Bad and the Ugly, Companeros, A Bullet for the General, Django, Electra Glide in Blue, Deathtrap, Strange Brew, Tromeo and Juliet, the Triplets of Belleville, Brazil, Lagaan, Queen Margot, Children of Men, Dear Wendy, Pan's Labyrinth, Tideland,...
Television:
Deadwood, Lost, My Name is Earl, 24, X-Files, Rome, Battlestar Galactica, Heroes
Books:
I read voraciously so in no particular order: Cormac McCarthy (particularly Blood Meridian and the Road), Umberto Eco, most Shakespeare, Charles Bukowski, Spenser's Faerie Queen, Lord Byron, Kathe Koja, Kari Hulme's The Bone People, Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, HP Lovecraft, Charles Brockdon Brown, Matthew "Monk" Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, J Sheridan LeFanu, Maturin, Oscar Wilde, most Dickens, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Robert E Howard, Tolkien, Lord Dunsany, Mervyn Peake, Jim Thompson, Raymond Chandler, James M Cain, Andrew Vacchs, Michael Chabon, Plautus, Catullus, Theodore Roethke, Goethe, Dante, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Neal Stephenson (the Baroque cycle in particular), and ever so much more
Heroes:
Charles Bukowski, Harvey Pekar, Sgt Alvin York, Lucius Sergius Catilina
