Shawn

I'd like to meet:

Benjamin Schlegel, randomly, on a streetcorner in another part of the world. The ghost of Joe Strummer in a windswept alley. The werewolf's tailor. Interesting people with ideas of their own. Anarchists. Mutualists. Left-libertarians.

As a rule, I'm not so sure about meeting people. As an anarchist, I'm always breaking rules, including (and sometimes mostly) my own. People are, as the song says, people, and sometimes I am pleasantly surprised. So feel free to surprise me, or humor me as I surprise myself.

If I sent you a friend request and don't already know you, it's probably because you said something clever in your blog, or perhaps held it in reserve in the corner of a smile. Or I like your art. Generally speaking, I only stalk historical figures.

People I would have liked to have met:

William B. Greene

Benjamin Tucker

Voltairine de Cleyre

Luigi Russolo

Nestor Makhno

Thomas Paine

Pierre-Joseph

Charles Fourier

Music:

The Clash, Muslimgauze, Skinny, Woody Guthrie, Swimming Pool Q's, Delta 88, Scritti Politti, Son Volt, Windbreakers, Jay Farrar, Georgia Satellites, jason zeh, Roger Miller, Kingston Trio, ELO, Cast Iron Filter, Metaphysical Jones, Crazy Eddie, The Kafkamachine Series of Failed Experiments, The Sweet, Woody Guthrie, Utah Phillips, Counting Crows, Elvis Costello, Love Tractor, Robb Johnson, Chaotic Euphoria, Kim Cascone, Terre Thaemlitz, Akira Rabelais, 101ers, Dream Academy, Spandau Ballet, Men Without Hats, Kraftwerk, Trio, Landscape, B.E.F., The Ex, Chumbawamba, Tom Robinson Band, Gary Numan, Laibach, Einsturzende Neubauten, Yello, Bobby Sutliff, Lets Active, Marty Robbins, Gordon Lightfoot, Bee Gees, Sun Ra, Parliament-Funkadelic, Sledge, Game Theory, Loud Family, Tim Lee, Baader Meinhof, Auteurs, Black Box Recorder, Pylon, Bill Laswell, Iannis Xenakis, John Cage, Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects, DJ Soulslinger, Marti Jones, Lori Carson, REM, Big Country. Alan Lamb, Hugo Largo, Mimi Goese. I'm an electronic musician, phonographer, dulcimer player, sound tech and karaoke jockey.

Movies:

Battleship Potemkin, Gojira, Magnificent Seven, Rude Boy, Sid and Nancy, Duel, Seven Samurai, Metropolis, Westway to the World, V for Vendetta, In Tandem, the SLA "Tanya" film, civil defense films, educational filmstrips.

Television:

Now: Jeopardy, baseball, Lost, Jericho. Back when I actually watched TV: The Prisoner, UFO, Rockford Files, Six Million Dollar Man, A-Team, Thunderbirds, Speed Racer.

Books:

Leaves of Grass, Moby Dick, R is for Rocket, Richard III, The Baroque Cycle, The Doctrine of Life, A Sketch of Morality Independent of Obligation Or Sanction, Specters of Marx, Beyond Good and Evil, all the Thornton Burgess books, Alice in Wonderland, Max Stirner, F. T. Marinetti, The Revolution of Everyday Life, Lewis Carroll, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio, Edward Bellamy, Pierre Leroux, Beyond Good and Evil, Benjamin Tucker's Liberty, Basic Outline of Universology, Voltairine de Cleyre, Ted Mooney, Don Delillo, Giorgio Agamben's The Coming Community.

My "Cyberpunk Trilogy:"
Running Down the Meme
Cyberpunks to Synners
An Archeology of Cyberspaces

Heroes:

Walt Whitman, Golden Rule Jones, William Batchelder Greene, Jacques Derrida, Rick Metheny, P.-J. Proudhon, Jack Oliver, Mike Oriard, Kevin Carson, Raoul Vaneigem, The Question, Stephen Pearl Andrews, Ken Stabler, Alfred W. Lawson, Marc Guyau, Charles Fourier, Julie Wichman, Ken Vinyard, Calista Crane Harris, Bolton Hall, Carl Yastremski, Bartleby the Scrivener, William Blake, Abiezer Coppe, Lebbeus Woods, Joshua King Ingalls.