I realized a while ago that I can keep myself entertained for hours untying complicated knots. Shortly thereafter I realized that I was the most boring person I had ever met.
I met him.I was walking to The Troubadour and this guy flys past me on rollerskates where each time he stepped down, the wheels lit up. This was done without an ounce of irony. We were both stopped at the same traffic intersection a short while later so I just turned and hugged him.True story.
Here is what I know:My favorite album of all time is Iggy Pop's The Idiot, followed by Lou Reed's Berlin, David Bowie's Low, Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea and The Modern Lovers' first (and only real) record. I pretty much love anything Tony Visconti ever touched.I also like:Animal Collective, Lightning Bolt, LCD Soundsystem, Sonic Youth, Deerhoof, Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, Stooges, Joanna Newsom, Brothers and Sisters, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Gang of Four, The Liars, Sunn O))), Altar, Bodies of Water, Suicide, Asobe Seksu, Sunset Rubdown, Illinois, Viva Voce, Grey Kid, Mission of Burma, Gogol Bordello, Bloc Party, This Bike is a Pipebomb, Ennio Marconne, Spaceman 3, Ikara Cult, The Walkmen, Spoon, Spinto Band, Mika Miko, Silver Daggers, Serge Gainsbourg, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Parade, Wolf Mother, Wolf and Cub, Black Dice, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Asteroid #4, The Fall, Wire, Stockhausen, Boulez, Penderecki, Henri Pousseur, Ligeti, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Murder City Devils, Modest Mouse, Melt Banana, PIL, Kid 606, Postal Service, My Bloody Valentine, Kanye West, Johnny Cash, Stellastarr, Beach Boys, At the Drive In, Joy Division, New Order, The Talking Heads, Television, The Ramones, MC5, Prefuse '73, The Clash, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Lavender Diamond, Triangle, Leona Naess, Lansing-Dreiden, and on and on and on.
Dark Days, Blow Up, Dead Man, Down By Law, Last Days, Elephant, My Own Private Idaho, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Brazil, Ali: Fear Eats Soul, Fitzcarraldo, Stroszec, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Woyzeck, Ikuru, Knife in the Water, Talk to Her, Carne Tremula (Live Flesh), Annie Hall, Sleeper, Heavenly Creatures, Magnolia, Happiness, Storytelling, The Big Lebowski, Spinal Tap, Young Frankenstein, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense, Friends Forever, Rock and Roll Highschool. Oh, and I'm kind of a geek for the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Yeah, Tom Verlaine was awesome!!!
Has anyone ever said Aquaman?Let me be the first.