Southern Empire Crew, Southern Empire Records , watching films, reading, Full Tilt Poker , anarchism, Henry George , etc.
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"Anarchists are the radical of the radical -- the black cats, the terrors of many, of all the bigots, exploiters, charlatans, fakers and oppressors. Consequently we are also the more slandered, misrepresented, misunderstood and persecuted of all." - Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Music:
What I'm listening to right now:
Agalloch: Ashes Against the Grain
Suicide Silence: The Cleansing
The Chieftains: Greatest Hits
Young Jeezy: Thug Motivation 101
Nas: Hip Hop Is Dead
The Game: The Documentary
Big Business: Here Come the Waterworks
Eminem: Everything
A Life Once Lost: A Great Artist
Lil' Wayne: The Carter II
Old Man Gloom: Christmas
T.I.: T.I. Vs. T.I.P.
Bands I'm ALWAYS listening to:Earth Crisis, Tragedy, Catharsis, Candiria, Damnation AD, Trial, Suffocation, Simon and Garfunkel, Ulver, From Ashes Rise, Harvest, Minor Threat, Merauder, Madball, Julee Cruise, Lamb of God, Dead Can Dance, The Wolfe Tones, Path of Resistance, White Zombie, and Arcturus.
Movies:
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I saw 154 new films (as in films I'd never seen before, not new releases) in 2006. I'd like to see 200+ in 2007.
The last five films I've seen:
Sex With Strangers
Demoiselles de Rochfort, Les (The Young Girls of Rochefort)
Chronicle of a Disappearance
Parapluies de Cherbourg, Les (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
My top ten favorite films of all time (today):
Bad Timing (Nicholas Roeg)
Eraserhead (David Lynch)
La Battaglia di Algeri (The Battle of Algiers) (Gillo Pontecorvo)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
Viridiana (Luis Buñuel)
La Chagrin et la Pitié (The Sorrow and the Pity) (Marcel Ophüls)
Elephant (Alan Clarke - no, not the Gus van Sant film)
Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
Offret (The Sacrifice) (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Other films/directors that I've enjoyed: Michael Haneke is certainly my favorite contemporary director (
The Seventh Continent,
Funny Games,
Benny's Video,
The Piano Teacher,
Code Unknown,
Time of the Wolf,
Caché,
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance)
The Searchers,
Don't Look Now, The Godfather Trilogy, Altman's films (
Nashville,
McCabe and Mrs. Miller,
M.A.S.H.,
Short Cuts) the films of Wong Kar Wai (especially
In the Mood for Love,
Chungking Express),
Citizen Kane, the films of Travis Wilkerson (
Who Killed Cock Robin?,
An Injury to One), the documentaries of Arthur Mac Caig (
Patriot Game,
The Jackets Green,
Irish Voices), the propaganda films of Santiago Alvarez, the films of Alan Clarke (
The Firm,
Scum,
Made in Britain), the films of Lindsay Anderson (
O Lucky Man,
If...,
Britannia Hospital,
This Sporting Life), pretty much Ingmar Bergman's entire oeuvre, Godard (
Week-end,
Pierrot le fou,
Breathless,
Masculin, Feminine,
Tout va bien), Eric Rohmer's Six Morality Tales (oh, and
Chloe in the Afternoon),
A Clockwork Orange,
L'Atalante,
Zéro de Conduite, Hitchcock, of course, (
Rear Window,
Psycho,
The Wrong Man Vertigo), the films of Peter Watkins, specifically
The War Game,
Edvard Munch,
Punishment Park and
Privilege, Robert Bresson's
Diary of a Country Priest,
A Man Escaped,
Lancelot of the Lake, etc.
Born into Brothels, Lina Wertmuller's
Swept Away (no, not the deplorable remake starring Madonna), David Lynch (
Lost Highway,
Mulholland Drive,
Wild at Heart,
Twin Peaks), Derek Jarman's
The Last of England and
Sebastiane, the films of Michael Powell (especially
The Red Shoes,
Black Narcissus, and
Peeping Tom, it's fair to say that Ken Loach and Mike Leigh have rarely made a bad film, I like de Palma in the 70s/early 80s with
Sisters,
Carrie, and
Dressed To Kill, Samuel Fuller is a huge inspiration both as a director (
Pickup On South Street,
Shock Corridor, the
Naked Kiss, and
The Big Red One and as a human being, Scorsese of course with
Raging Bull,
Who's That Knocking At My Door,
Mean Streets,
to be continued...
Television:
The Wire, The L Word, NFL Football, Arrested Development, Family Guy
Books:
Here is my living room. This is how I feel about books.
Currently Reading:
Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives by Edwin Black
Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia 1860-1900 by Roger Lane
The Science of Political Economy by Henry George
The Birds by Camille Paglia
The Psychology of Political Violence by Emma Goldman
Reinventing Anarchy, Again edited by Howard J. Ehrlich
Authors/Books:Fiction: The Hours by Michael Cunningham, Sophie's Choice by William Styron, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, the poetry of e.e. cummings, The End of the Affair by Graham Greene, Ulysses by James Joyce, the novels of Hubert Selby Jr., Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Tolstoy, etc.
Non-fiction: Patriot Graves: Resistance In Ireland by P. Michael O'Sullivan, Pacifism as Pathology by Ward Churchill, A Secret History of the IRA by Ed Moloney, The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen, Animal Liberation by Peter Singer, Fugitive Days: A Memoir by Bill Ayers, Our Word Is Our Weapon by Subcomandante Marcos, The Flight from Woman by Karl Stern, A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon, Among the Thugs by Bill Buford, The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord, Culture Jam by Kalle Lasn, No Logo by Naomi Klein, Emma Goldman, Mikhail Bakunin, Tim Pat Coogan, Nietzche, Kierkegaard, etc.
