Reading, writing, music. Drinkin' and thinkin', smokin' and jokin'. Hitting clubs to see a great band...and, of course, my buddy Boris:
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adopt your own virtual pet!
Well, I spent over a decade going out at least four nights a week to various hotspots and am quite frankly somewhat burnt out on the nightlife scene. Don't get me wrong, I'll still hit a club to support cool bands, such as these guys...
...and leave most folks under the table (Thursday nights at the Cat Club are also a guaranteed good time), but for the most part I prefer to indulge in mellower moments now: watching a movie on the 36-inch TV in the living room, hitting the jacuzzi for a drink with friends, occasionally hiking in Griffith Park...you get the picture. I won't lie, I'm as much into looks as the next guy...but a keen intellect and mischievous mind are definite prerequisites, no matter how gorgeous ya may look. Beauty fades, but a good brain will last forever (unless ya murder it with methamphetamine...but that's a tale for another time...).
A li'l bit o' everything, from Miles Davis and John Coltrane to Franz Ferdinand and The Rapture. Particular faves, in no particular order (well, outside the top three): Jimi Hendrix, Gang Of Four, Bowie, The Doors, The The, VAST, early Genesis/Peter Gabriel solo, My Morning Jacket, Elton John, Joseph Arthur, NIN, Mother Love Bone, Temple Of The Dog, Jane's Addiction, Led Zeppelin, Sweet, U2, SOUL (early '90s Hollywood rockers), The Spores, The Lamented, Praying Hands, Slack Babbath, Bob Marley and The Wailers, Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, The Who, the Stones, Kinks, Allman Bros. Band, Traffic, GnR, The Cure, The Cult, The Smiths, Cracker, Gomez, Living Things, Frank Zappa, Remy Zero, Pink Floyd, BRMC, ProCon, Velvet Underground, Mayfield Four, Sam Mann and RAM, Lunatics On Parole and, of course, all the bands on my friends list...my tastes are all over the board....
A Clockwork Orange, Blade Runner, spaghetti westerns (esp. The Good The Bad And The Ugly), Hitchcock, Freaks, Night Of The Hunter, Touch Of Evil, Double Indemnity, Monty Python And The Holy Grail, Slap Shot, Mother Jugs and Speed, Phantom Of The Paradise, Tommy, Apocalypse Now, Natural Born Killers, L.A. Confidential, Pulp Fiction, The Quiet Man (me Irish side comin' out), The Big Lebowski, Death Race 2000, Farewell My Lovely (Mitchum version), Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, among others....
The Simpsons, Family Guy, old Bugs Bunny 'toons, Twilight Zone, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers
Not so much books, but authors...I'll read anything by Tom Robbins, Neal Stephenson, James Ellroy, Robert Heinlein, Hunter S. Thompson, Robert Jordan's ridiculously addictive "Wheel Of Time" series, Harry Turtledove, Michael Connelly, James Lee Burke and Stephen Hunter, among many others...I'm a voracious reader! For poetry, my faves are William Blake and Edgar Allan Poe ("Annabel Lee" is, quite possibly, the best lyric poem EVER!). When it comes to philosophy, Nietzsche is alway provocative...though I find myself more and more adopting the solipsist point of view....
Those who dare to be individuals in an increasingly conformist society