Calling attention to the shortcomings of others, being betrayed by loved ones, existential malaise, perpetual maladjustment, literature by dead people, biting random strangers, producing brilliant experimental music that no one understands or likes, schadenfreude, morbidity, writing heartfelt poems about my endless struggle with anorexia, encouraging others to commit suicide, cockfights, punching inanimate objects repeatedly, sighing exasperatedly, busting caps in motherfuckers who front, and general skullduggery.
I'd like to meet:
Other insincere & reclusive elitists. Or really stupid people. I don't know. I certainly don't want to exclude anyone...
Music:
Aphex Twin, Nurse With Wound/Coil/Current 93, Fela Kuti, Kristin Hersh, the Smiths, Belle and Sebastian, Camera Obscura, Iron and Wine, Red House Painters/Sun Kil Moon, Birthday Party, Erik Satie, ealy Lucinda Williams, Joy Division, New Order, His Name is Alive/Saturday Looks Good to Me, Sonic Youth, Neutral Milk Hotel, early Promise Ring, John Coltrane/Miles Davis, Django Reinhardt, Nina Simone, Archers of Loaf, Merzbow, Joanna Newsom, Lisa Germano, Fleetwood Mac (inexplicably), and Arvo Part ("spiegel im spiegel" is off da motherfuckin' hook, yo! mad props to Estonian spiritual minimalists- holla!). and Leonard Cohen. I LOVE Leonard Cohen (except for the most recent 30 years of his work, of course.)
Movies:
Buffalo '66, the Brown Bunny, Wisconsin Death Trip, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Amores Perros, Crumb, the Idiots, All the Real Girls, Lost in Translation, In the Mood for Love, Royal Tennenbaums, Magnolia, Burden of Dreams, Realms of the Unreal, Dogville, City of God, 24 Hour Party People, Amelie, the Piano Teacher, Dig!, and Hell House (the documentary). I also dig anything involving Jeunet & Caro, Erroll Morris, David Lynch, Harmony Korine, Todd Solondsz, and Werner Herzog.
Television:
The Office (UK), I'm Alan Partridge (UK), Father Ted (UK), Extras (UK), Black Books (UK), Green Wing, Twin Peaks, and the Daily Show. I also had a lengthy morbid obsession with Beverly Hills 90210. And My So-Called Life, as i relate very strongly to Brian Krakow...
Books:
David Foster Wallace, Cometbus, Raymond Chandler, Charles Bukowski, Jon Krakauer, Jan Bondeson, Raymond Queneau, Nicholson Baker (Fermata, Mezzanine, & Vox), and Georges Perec. Also, Bill Bruford's Among the Thugs. (basically I like novels by disaffected misanthropes, books that are gimmicky in an elitist way, histories of morbid or absurd topics, and biographies of crazy, debauched, or fraudulent people). Oh, and existentialists. I love existentialists. I guess nihilists are okay too.
Heroes:
Werner Herzog, Lars von Trier, Miranda July, Diane Arbus, Masami Akita, Egon Schiele, Sophie Calle, Man Ray, Vincent Gallo, Shane fucking MacGowan, Charles Bukowski, Stephen Stapleton, Jandek, Richard D. James (Aphex Twin), Celine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, August Strindberg, Antonin Artaud, Fela Kuti, Aaron Cometbus, Arthur Schopenhauer, Baudelaire, and Arthur Rimbaud. ESPECIALLY Arthur Rimbaud (he wrote all of his immortal poetry before his twentieth birthday, then abruptly left Paris to become a gun-runner in Africa- that's pretty bad-ass.) Whoops! - I forgot a couple of really important ones - Dale Earnhardt and a certain very special local poet.
