reading but not always finishing, cynicism, skepticism, nihilism, me mates, half Jews, bikes, Hard Riders B.C., vinyl records, real Beer, Irish whiskey, Irish breakfast tea, Dutch coffee, greasy breakfasts, sushi, Indian, Ethiopian, Indonesian, Thai, Mediterranean, Surinamese, a good burger, frites with mayo and curry, tobacco, cooking, sweating to the oldies, polaroids, sweater vests, the metric system, chick peas, State Capitals, Levinasian Infinitude, autumn, spring (when it feels like autumn), Perfect Wieners and Butts, dust bunnies, 70's Sears and K-Mart menswear, army boots, Futurism, Constructivism, Suprematism, Vorticism, Dada, Situationism, Actionists, basement shows, margins, maps, mass transportation, manual transmissions, learning to do a proper cartwheel, recreational lion taming, the colors blue and brown, the "fabulous" ruins of Detroit, proletarian struggles, a post corporate society
Klaus Kinski, Harry Smith, Soren Kierkegaard, Paul Robeson, Eugene V. Debs, Susan B. Anthony, Rosa Luxemburg, Bruno S., Stepehn Colbert, Synthesizer Patel, you?
Nonesuch Records Explorer Series, Everest Records Olympic Series, Lyrichord Records, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Ethiopiques, Sublime Frequencies, ESP Disk, BYG-Actuel, no wave, don't wave, Italo disco, Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Wolf Eyes, The Smiths, Sun Ra, "disco rap", ESG, Stockholm Monsters, Crawling Chaos, A Certain Ratio, Perfect Hooded Nun, Prom Machine, ether, god and devil, Mntn Mdws Msscr, Wiscun, Jamaican Dub ca. 72-76, Musique-Concrete, Mission of Burma, Hall and Oates, Flux of Pink Indians, Pharoah Sanders, Cabaret Voltaire, Patrick Adams, Arthur Russell, Sparks, Eno, Roxy Music, the Fall, neue Deutsche welle, Velvet Underground, Jandek, Albert Ayler, "weird" disco, minimal synth, Ersatz Audio, American Tapes, Hanson Records, Chondritic Sound, Animal Disguise Recordings, Viki, Time G8/UVU, John and Alice Coltrane, Morricone, Moroder, Can, Faust, Amon Duul (I/II), Harry Pussy, the Shadow Ring, theme from "Gimme Gimme Octopus", the Gories, Wire, Prick Decay/Decear Pinga, ABBA, the Screamers, 45 Grave, the Homosexuals, Detroit "Booty" ca. 98-01, New Orleans "Bounce", New Zealand underground/d.i.y., Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Os Mutantes, Liaisons Dangereuses, Hard Place, Kevin Drumm, Prince, Northern Soul, Funkadelic, early Acid (Chicago)...
Fearless Vampire Killers, The Tenant, Even Dwarves Started Small, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Breaking the Waves, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, How to Draw a Bunny, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Gummo, The Conformist, Alien Prey, Purple Rain, I Am Cuba, Mama Roma, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Happiness, Polyester, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Young Frankenstein, Over the Edge, The Conversation, Holy Mountain, Wild Style, Rockers, the Warriors, Killer's Kiss, Night of the Hunter, Lessons in Darkness, Wages of Fear, Lucifer Rising, Me and You and Everyone We Know
Strangers with Candy, Freaks and Geeks, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Ali G, Kids in the Hall, SCTV, Heat Vision and Jack, The Scene/The New Dance Show, Alice, Maude, Hot Fudge, Degrassi Jr./Sr. High, Kidbits, Big Blue Marble, Sir Graves Ghastly, Bill Kennedy, Mr. Show, the Young Ones, Brass Eye, Trailer Park Boys, Stella ...most are fond memories or borrowed tapes and dvds, I really don't watch that much TV.
Howard Zinn "A People's History of the United States" (read this book!!!), Barbara Ehrenreich "Nickel and Dimed" (ditto!!), Denton Welch "In Youth is Pleasure", Emmanuel Levinas "Totality and Infinity", David Sedaris "Naked", Fyodor Dostoyevsky "Notes from the Underground", Guy Debord "Society of the Spectacle", W. G. Siebald "The Rings of Saturn", Paul Bowles, Slavoj Zizek, Dr. Seuss, Permanent Food, Wyndham Lewis "BLAST", Claude Levi-Strauss "Tristes Tropiques", Jorge Luis Borges, E.M. Cioran "The Trouble With Being Born", Bananafish (R.I.P.), Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 11th Edition, "Our Band Could Be Your Life" and "Please Kill Me", James Joyce "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", Joseph Conrad "The Nigger of the Narcissus" and "Hearts of Darkness", Haruki Murakami "The Elephant Vanishes", Tom Robbins "Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates", J.D. Salinger "Franny and Zooey"
We are all mortals who at one time shit ourselves and/or otherwise display weakness of character. We should respect others, not worship them.