Music (live and recorded; see exhaustive list below); writing (poetry, essays, rants, artfully crafted gay erotic fiction--and fiction that doesn't involve sodomy, too); reading anything and everything I can get my hands on; the occult, magic, mysticism, divination, shamanism, Santeria, Palo Monte; bears (the animals and the men); sex; food (cooking it and eating it); collecting homoerotic cardinal art; tigers (just the animals this time, I think); construction boots; laughter; conspiracies; pranks; history; politics; facial hair; fine and not-so-fine cinema; parallel dimensions; happy coincidences; slack; freaks; hippies; punks; weirdos; altered states of consciousness; drinking, smoking, and being merry; Dada and surrealism; cryptozoology; parties; no parties; making out; gardening and plants (especially entheogens and orchids); hablar, leer y escribir en español; encontrar y conocer a personas hispanohablantes; meeting fascinating people; thunderstorms; hiking; camping; sunsets; reptiles; smiting the unworthy; revolution; basil.
I'd like to meet:
I'd love to encounter cool people of all races, creeds, colors, and genders. If you think, live, work, and emote outside of the box, that's great; if you have projected yourself out of three-dimensional reality, all the better. Surprise me and I'll do my best to return the favor.
To be more brief, if more roundabout, I would like to meet the sorts of people for whom I am the sort of thing they like.
Music:
Jimi Hendrix, Frederic Chopin, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Skullflower, Messer Chups, Negativland, The Cramps, ancient Genesis, King Crimson, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Who, Electric Wizard, Dead Meadow, Wyrm, Boris, Flat Atom, Screamin Cyn-Cyn and the Pons, Alice Cooper, The Roots, Free, Old Time Relijun, Mannequins on Welfare, Echo-Static, Gang of Four, Everything Is Fine, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Ghost, Citay, P.G. Six, Knuckel Drager, Heavy Lids, Brainerd, Passport, Hawkwind, Dead Kennedys, Jefferson Airplane, Van der Graaf Generator, Hawkwind, Nico, Stereolab, Bongwater, Neu!, Bjork, Talking Heads, Neutral Milk Hotel, Hravtski, Plaid, DMBQ, eX-Girl, Evil Beaver, The Residents, Holy Shit, Aphex Twin, Circle Jerks, Dungen, Serena-Maneesh, Witch, Evolution Control Committee, Black Mountain, It's a Beautiful Day, Turbonegro, Led Zeppelin, Six Organs of Admittance, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Beastie Boys, The Frogs, Acid Mothers Temple, Hatfield and the North, Eagles of Death Metal, Gong, U.S. Christmas, The Psychic Paramount, Simian, Psychic TV, Pink Floyd, This Mortal Coil, The Beta Band, Fred Lane, Jellyfish Kiss, Popol Vuh, Aphrodite's Child, Os Mutantes, Asylum Street Spankers, Donovan, Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa/Mothers of Invention, MC5, Jethro Tull, Ween, Moondog, Public Enemy, The Dirtbombs, The BellRays, Blue Cheer, cLOUDDEAD, Spirit, Queens of the Stone Age, Black Flag, Killdozer, Brian Eno, Outkast, Henry Cow, Big Black, Sword Volcano Complex, Animals with Machinery, 13th Floor Elevators, Coven, Shock Headed Peters, Do Make Say Think, The Billy Nayer Show, Ursula 1000, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Black Sabbath, Bran Flakes, Gustav Mahler, Mountain, Erik Satie, Miles Davis, John McLaughlin, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Vince Guaraldi, Eyes and Teeth, Ostrich von Nipple, Sun Ra, Eberhard Weber, Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Nick Drake, David Bowie, T. Rex, Iggy Pop/the Stooges, New York Dolls, Patti Smith, the Ramones...do you really want me to go on?
Movies:
Happiness, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, The Addiction, Bizarre, Gothic, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Devils, Performance, Message of Love: The Isle of Wight Festival, Nosferatu, Skidoo, The Trip, The American Astronaut, The Birds, Atame, Dark Habits, Desperate Living, Pecker, Jesus Is Magic, A Dirty Shame, The Cockettes, Satyricon, Juliet of the Spirits, Quo Vadis?, and so on. And on.
Television:
The Simpsons, Six Feet Under, South Park, Reno 911, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Strangers with Candy, The Addams Family, Night Gallery, The Twilight Zone, Iron Chef, Drawn Together, Space Ghost. I also like watching Democracy Now; my friends and I enjoy pretending that Amy Goodman gets it on with every guest on her show. It's fun to imagine the sordid, perverted acts they perform while deconstructing U.S. domestic and foreign policy. Try it at home!
Books:
Too numerous to enumerate, or even fit on all my shelves. For starters: W.B. Yeats, H.P. Lovecraft, Alasdair Gray, Flannery O'Connor, Oscar Wilde, David Sedaris, Vicente Huidobro, Thomas Chatterton, Annie Dillard, Michel Foucault, Miguel Unamuno, Aleister Crowley, Federico GarcÃa Lorca, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Charles Williams, Dylan Thomas, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pablo Neruda, Luis Cernuda, M.L.R. James, Julio Cortazar, Thomas Wyatt, Henry Vaughan, Roger Zelazny, Jean Genet, Charles Dickens, Andre Gide, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Geoffrey Chaucer, Robert Bloch, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Blake.
Heroes:
Prometheus, William Butler Yeats, Margaret Sanger, Emma Goldman, Peter Kropotkin, Magnus Hirschfeld, Oscar Wilde, Albert Hoffman, Abbie Hoffman, Joan of Arc, Ken Kesey, Hatshepsut, Rigoberto Rodriguez (Oshunyemi, ibae), Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi, Thomas Paine, Timothy Leary, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Darwin, Ron English, Stevie Smith, Mark Twain, Bruce Haack, The Cockettes, Patti Smith, Martin Luther King, Harvey Milk, Frank Zappa, Lenny Bruce, John Waters, Giordano Bruno, Galileo Galilei, Austin Osman Spare, Apollonius of Tyana, William Shakespeare, Emperor Julian, Russ Feingold, Keith Olbermann, "Bob"
