when you write a poem
i know the words
i know the sounds
before you write it down
when you wear your clothes
i wear them too
i wear your shoes
(and your jacket, too)
i always knew you.
music, bad movies, causing general mayhem, writing, and the
ever-important original nintendo.
and there's this other thing.
I'm trying to start my own personal army. The United States army urges the youth
of America to become an "army of one." This, in theory, is a good strategy,
until one is faced with the realization that armies made up of one man are
typically defeated by larger armies easily. In fact, studies show that a single
bullet can take down an entire Army of One when used correctly.
Let's just say that the Chinese are very good at shooting bullets. At people.
So I'm suggesting the following: screw that.
If you want to join up as a part of the Army of Lots, let me know, but
understand that this isn't a superficial commitment. This isn't one of those
things where you say, "gee, chris, can I be in?" and I say, "yes, little joey
mcprescott, you can join up" and then we never speak of it again. Only apply if
you're ready to kill.
We're doing it for the children. They're our future.
Wheeler, from captain planet. Here's what the official website says about him:
Wheeler is an impulsive, street-wise teenager from Brooklyn, always ready with a flip remark. He loves to provide comic relief to his fellow Planeteers and to goad the villains.
Wheeler is the least knowledgeable Planeteer when it comes to ecology. Although he sometimes fails to understand the issues at hand, his heart is in the right place. He fancies himself the "ladies' man" and flirts incessantly with Linka, the Planeteer from Eastern Europe.
That's right, they take the cockiest, most hormonally-driven, and "least knowledgeable" Planeteer and give him the power to incinerate things on command. That way, when he's not too busy tossing fireballs at random objects to impress Linka, he can launch some flames at Sly Sludge (voiced by Martin Sheen) and his giant oil tankers, ceremoniously consuming half the Earth in chemical-induced burning.
Radiohead, Violent Femmes, Sufjan Stevens, Bright Eyes, The Pixies, Elliot Smith, Sigur Ros, Neil (effin') Young, Queens of the Stone Age, Pink Floyd, Blind Melon, The White Stripes, Flaming Lips, Ween, Old Skull, Minibosses, Meat Puppets, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, Postal Service, Stereolab, Tortoise, Blur, Electric Six, Zeppelin, Pavement, Primus, Ratatat, Supergrass, The Shins, Nick Drake, Miles Davis, Wilco, Massive Attack, Talking Heads, Alaska!, Uematsu, Jeff Buckley, Rush, Ryan Adams, Sly and the Family Stone.
Donnie Darko, Almost Famous, Fight Club, Trainspotting, Snatch, Office Space, Reservoir Dogs, everything Kurosawa, Clerks, The Big Lebowski, Requiem for a Dream, 3 Ninjas, Mayhem, and everything Steven Seagal's ever been in...wait, lies.
the truth of the matter is, I have no reason to take as much amusement from steven seagal as I do. I've never even really sat through a complete seagal movie - he's just too fearsome for me. I end up huddled up in a ball, crying in a puddle of my own urine, desperately wanting to turn off the movie out of sheer intimidation, but too shook up to move. eventually, steven's scrutinizing gaze says it's alright for me to go, and I crawl into my bedroom to pass out.
history channel, adult swim, the office, arrested development. anything with a gary coleman guest appearance.
your new reading list:
don delillo - white noise
tom wofle - the electric kool-aid acid test
kurt vonnegut - slaughterhouse five
chuck klosterman - killing yourself to live
cormac mccarthy - blood meridian
oscar wilde - the picture of dorian gray
jhumpa lahiri - interpreter of maladies
chuck palahniuk - choke
william gibson - neuromancer or pattern recognition
george saunders - pastoralia
david sedaris - naked
philip pullman - the golden compass
neal stephenson - snow crash
christopher moore - lamb
jonathan safran froer - everything's illuminated
angela carter - the bloody chamber
robert pirsig - zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
thomas pynchon - v
enjoy.
miyamoto musashi.