percussion! and live or programmed percussion-propelled music of all kinds, and let's not forget the marimbas and clarinets; film, photography, and video art; nature; crumbling dystopian urban landscapes; intelligent, creative, talkative yet silly people; improving my terrible Spanish; a good book; moderate hedonism; Judaism; Zen; California; New Jersey. also as I slog my way through grad school I'm really enjoying playing in the very unconventional "rock" band I started with the Leisure Scruffin.
eccentrics of all stripes, people with odd senses of humor, musicians, artists, filmmakers, Jews who love Judaism but think for themselves in politics and in life, Zen Buddhists, people who love to dance and will tolerate my inability to dance well, long-lost friends, beautiful women, someone who can teach me how to use HTML correctly (see above)! ================================================y... ¡escribeme en español si tú quieres! en serio, puedo entenderlo y estaré alegre de escribirte también. es buen practicar para mÃ.
let's not even go there. picky sometimes, other times will dance to anything. if you meet me you will never want to hear about music ever again because I usually can't stop talking about it... Coltrane is my motherfuckin' heart but I like most kinds of jazz and lots of other stuff too, particularly African, Afro-Latino and Middle Eastern musics, hip-hop and dancehall, old blues and other Americana, dub, dark space-age-type shit, Cohen, Dylan, Talking Heads, etc. etc.
Directors: Michel Gondry, W.Anderson, D.Cronenberg, Spike Jonze, D.Lynch, Coen Bros., Scorcese, and on and on... and though I don't like all his movies, I thought R.Linklater's Philip K. Dick adaptation "Through a Scanner Darkly" was amazing. Basically, dark comedies existing at the intersection of Hollywood and indie aesthetics.
um, music videos and interesting static. don't own one, for better and for worse. sometimes feel that I'm missing out, especially now during the 2nd season of The Boondocks.
Somewhat obsessed with Isaac Bashevis Singer - it's all about Jews and demons. War and Peace was great. 100 Years of Solitude was even better. Didn't like Brothers Karamozov much, except for the hallucinogenic Satan bits. I love Steinbeck's East of Eden and Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion too - I must be more of a dyed-in-the-wool American than I thought. Richard Brautigan is ridiculous, and William S. Burroughs is borderline unreadable, yet both are somehow sublime. Vonnegut is the shit. Zen and Sufi poetry too. Even though neither of them can really write, I've got a soft spot for 80s William Gibson, and I love love love Philip K. Dick even if they do keep making cheesy movies out of his shit. But really, I'm all about magazines and non-fiction. I like facts, even if, like the song says, they don't always do what you want them to... and Michael Pollan is writing great non-fiction right now, read his amazing journalistic books "The Botany of Desire" and "The Omnivore's Dilemma" if you know what's good for you. Just don't turn into an annoying pretentious food snob on me afterwards.
don't believe the hype.