summary: an unlikely combination of clean living, dirty thinking, and bad habits.
life and leisure: my friends, community, everyday people, doing/having done everything at least once, stalking the neighbors' cats, all things indie culture (publishing, business, aesthetics, film, music, etc.) but I hate conformist indie kids, travel, language, people (at least the few interesting ones), music (live or otherwise), getting in touch with my masculine side or at least not putting up with obligatory girly bullshit any more than I want to, sarcasm, clever bars, travel, reading, secret homebody escapades, sleeping is one of the best things to do, design, color, photography, contemporary art (and galleries) esp. graphic design and printmaking, the fucking east coast, the fucking west coast, avoiding the fucking midwest, forests, mountains, large bodies of water, spicy vegan sushi, cooking, tasty meats (I'm now allergic to most vegetarian food), desserts.
work: book publishing, my research, the sociology of materialism/consumerism/consumer culture/work, theory, philosophy, but also learning from people/experience/popular media (esp. print), sustainability, progressive economic policy, business ethics, ethics, getting your life story, interviewing (but not transcribing!), psychology and the genesis of insanity, regular conference attendance (read: intellectual drinking), agonizing over the false dichotomy of theory and practice (theory's just one practice), analyzing and problematizing everyday life until it drives me nuts ;)
things I dislike intensely: Mr. Bush, allergens, suburbanization, crass commercialism, organized religion, mass apathy, the homogenization of society, drama (yours is ok and even amusing, though), waking up in the morning.
more resisters and dodgers of corporate culture.
oh, and someone to give me an interpretive lapdance.
Instead of listing specific bands, I think I'll just describe my tates in general.
I like far more music than I can afford. This is a constant source of discontent. Every retail price album I buy has to be a negotiation against the other 18 I've been waiting for.
live shows, so long as the band is engaging enough that I can enjoy it. sometimes, I know a band well and I hate their show. Sometimes I don't know anything about a band and I enjoy their show
indie music.
international music.
clever singer-songwriters, of whom there are far too many to list
bands that aren't hollow and meaningless, including bands with good politics, and excluding bands that are too ironic for their own good
WXYC and WKNC, the UNC and NCSU stations, broadcast live on the internet. They're fucking awesome, and I won't apologize for preferring them over KCOU
also:
the sound of something cooking in olive oil
the voice of anyone I love
silence that's quieter than silence
an anticipated squeak of a door
and high heels on hardwood floors
random music playlist... reveals just how sadly indie my tastes are. and the fact that I'm getting old.
here are more or less all of the karaoke songs i've done (or ingratiated my way onto), in very vague chronological order:
all placebo... basically for my own use. but you should listen to them to. it's the only band i know of with one bi, one straight, and one gay member, and this is reflected in the music.
This next playlist is all 90s rock alterna schlock. you can pretend you never listened to any of this, and if you're older than me, maybe you didn't, but for many this will be like a horrible blast from the past. the songs are ordered vaguely in terms of social acceptability... the ones at the top you might admit you like. the farther down you get, though, the more likely it is that you will only play the song while you're on the can for fear of tomato-chucking youngsters and hipsters .
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independent, foreign, documentary, experimental, and lost/reincarnated.
I'm not going to be any more helpful to the marketers surfing this website than that.
I don't watch TV, but if I did, the daily show, six feet under (before it started to suck), austin city limits, and... I don't know what else is on TV anymore.
for old times' sake, this is radiohead's "just" video:
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NONFICTION. and now some fiction, esp. contemporary fiction. east asian and eastern european fiction. historical (non) fiction. 20th century poetry. tanka.
my fellow grammar activists; you, if you can spell; thorstein veblen