poetry, moderism, mod culture, punk, glam & indie rock (but not indie boys except to look at), The Frankfurt School, Theodore Adorno, Walter Benjamin, German modernism, German philosophy, feminism, Lisa Carver, Rollerderby, academia, mass psychology, anarchism, situationalism, post-modernism, new sincerity, caberet voltaire, the division between work and pleasure, leisure, popular music, popular culture, psychoanalysis, Judaism, fin de siecle, la belle epoque, rise of the bourgousie, the proliferation of objects, radio, drug culture, addiction, queer theory, anime, gender studies, race studies, The Red Army Faction, student protest, protest in general, revolt, negation, nihilism, post-colonialism, riots, fashion, fanaticism, fascism, the third reich, socialism, marx, communism, sub-cultures in the UK, gang culture in the US, pornography, Pete Doherty, Kate Moss, heroine chic, May '68, Communes, Barricades, Haussman, dolls, penny arcades, arcades, prostitution, de Sade, iron works, New York City, Berlin, Paris, carnivals, side shows, genetic abnormalities, rare diseases, the body in pain.
I'd like to meet:
I assume this means people who're still alive and kicking. That said...Joan Didion, John Lydon, Louise Gluck, Lucian Freud, Lisa Carver, Kay Redfield Jamison, Vivianne Westwood, Pheboe Gluckner, Jacqueline Rose, Jurgan Habermas, Gerard Richter, Julian Temple, Wes Anderson, P.T. Anderson, Courtney Love, Karen O, Pete Doherty, Richie Edwards, The Manic Street Preachers, Thom York, Sharon Olds, Margeret Atwood, Tillie Olsen, Kate Moss, Twiggy, J.G. Ballard, David Cronenburg, Todd Hayes, Johnathon Rhys Meyers, David Bowie, Ian McEwan, Supergrass, Iggy Pop, Lauren Bacall, Roman Polanski, Nicole Kidman, Thurston Moore, Kim Gordan, John Cassavetes, Gina Roland, Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware, Jenna Jamison, Jarvis Cocker.
Speedy and Barb enjoy a bath
from Larry Clark's masterpiece "Teenage Lust"
Music:
Hail to popular music: Plush, Supergrass, T-Rex, Will Oldham, Nick Drake, Pavement, Plup, The Dandy Warhols, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, The Streets, The Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, The Cure, NIN, David Bowie, Sex Pistols, The Ramones, The Clash, Blondie, Courtney Love, Hole, Blur, Modest Mouse, Built to Spill, The Pixies, The Libertines, Spiritualized, Spaceman 3, Simon Joyner, Roy Harper, Nirvana, The Manic Street Preachers, The Fall, Rufus Wainwrite, Sun City Girls, Bright Eyes, Future Bible Heros, Radiohead, Eliott Smith, Jon Spencer Blues Expolosion, Iggy Pop, Eminem, Guns n Roses, Marilyn Manson, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Madonna, P.J. Harvey, Beck, Joy Division, Bauhaus, Love and Rockets.
Movies:
Naked, Velvet Goldmine, Replusion, The Tenet, Ciao Manhatten, La Petite Soldat, Requiem for a Dream, Bad Timing, Persona, Cries and Whispers, Betty, Boogie Nights, Mysterious Skin, Safe, Capturing the Friedmans, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Tarnation, Birth, Portrait of a Lady, Sylvia, Opening Night, Sid and Nancy, Tokyo Drifter, The Chung King Express, Dead Ringers, Crash, Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Nights of Cabiria, La Dolce Vita, Annie Hall, Crimes and Misdemeaners, Notorious, Shadow of a Doubt, Scarface, Goodfellas, Casino, Dressed to Kill, Performance, Grey Gardens, Withnail and I, Heavenly Creatures, The Filth and the Fury, American Psycho, I Shot Andy Warhol, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story.
Television:
Fuck Televison, the true opiate of the masses.
Books:
--Robert Musil. Five Women --Thomas Mann. Death in Venice, The Collected Short Stories. --Virginia Woolf. The Waves, To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, A Room of One's Own. --Theodore Adorno. Minima Moralia --Walter Benjamin. The Aracades Project, Illuminations, Reflections. --Freud's collected works --Jean Rhys. Goodmorning Midnight, After Leaving Mr. McKenzie, The Wide Sargasso Sea, Voyage in the Dark, Tigers are Better Looking, Sleep it Off Lady, Smile Please --Jean Stein. Edie: An American Biography. --Rilke The Notebooks of Lord Malte Briggs --James Joyce Portrait of an Artist, Ulysses, Dubliners. --Kafka, The Trial, Metamophasis, Collected Short Stories, Letters, Journals. --William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying. --Hannah Greene. I Never Promised You A Rose Garden. --Hubert Selby Jr. Last Exit to Brooklyn, Requiem for a Dream.
--Sylvia Plath. The Bell Jar, Collected Poetry, The Journals. --Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, Collected Short Stories. --Paul Celan. Selected Poems and Prose of. --Marcel Proust. Swann's Way, Within the Budding Grove. --Ian McEwan. Atonement, Black Dogs, First Love Last Rights, The Cement Garden. --Iain Banks. The Wasp Factory. --Young Adam. --Philip Roth. Portnoy's Complaint. --Saffire, Push. --Lisa Carver, Drugs Are Nice.
--e.e. cummings. Collected Works. --T.S. Eliot. Collected Works. --Ted Hughs. Collected Works. --Greil Marcus. Lipstick Traces. --Raymond Carver. Collected Short Stories. --Daniel Clowes. David Boring, Ghost World, Eight Ball. --Pheboe Gluckner. A Child's Life, Diary of a Teenage Girl. What I Saw. --Kay Redfield Jamison. Touched By Fire, Night Falls Fast, --Baudelaire. Flowers of Evil. --Joan Didion. Slouching Towards Bethlaham, Play It As It Lays.
Heroes:
SEX PISTOLS SEX PISTOLS SEX PISTOLS..... SEXY JUNG KILLERS, MY OWN ARTFUL DODGERS. THE QUEEN IS DEAD. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. CAN'T WAIT FOR MY OWN COUNCIL TENEMENCY. IF I CAN'T DIE OF STARVATION PLEASE LET ME DIE OF BOREDOM... width="425" height="350" ....Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, Simone de Bouvoir, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Anne Sexton, Jean Rhys, Jane Austen, Becky Sharp, Saint Theresa of Avila, Saint Theresa of Liseux, Dora, Anna O, Alice James, Polly Styrene, Lisa Carver, Joan Didion, J. Alfred Prufrock, Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, Swann, Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Karen O, Courtney Love, Kay Redfield Jamison, Henry James, John Lydon, Vivianne Westwood, Theodore Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Kafka, RHK, Thomas de Quincy, Paul Celan, Anne Frank, Richie Edwards, The Manic Street Preachers, Frank O'Hara, Gina Rolands, John Cassavetes, Twiggy, Kate Moss, Edie Sedgwick, Gia, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Delmore Swartz, Lou Reed, Moe Tucker, Nico, Betsy Johnson, Anna Sui, Marc Jacobs, Tom Ford, John Galliano, Cate Blancette, Tilda Swinton, Mary Quant, Greta Garbo, Mae West, Marlene Dietrick, Betty Page, Axl Rose, Ian Curtis, Joan Crawford, Betty Davis, e.e. cummings, Jarvis Cocker, Oscar Wilde, Jacqueline Rose, John Singer Sargent, Hubert Selby Jr.
