cinema... photography... music... cooking... mountain yellin... bikes... festivals... literature... coasters ... banjos... ukes... sittin... travelin... rockin... physics (there is no speed of light, its a myth)... chillin... randomness... potatoes... sleepin... playin... loungin... vegetariansm... drinks... music... whine... malts
good nights that seem to last for days...
The World.
"Alabama"
The Future.
The End...
I hate more music than I like...its funny 'cause I love music.
Here's what I still like:
Black Eyes, Mars Volta, Spoon, The Lovin Spoonful,Baroness, FUCKIN Lightning Bolt, Led Zeppelin, Q and not U, Joanna Newsom, Sunny Day Real Estate, Bela Fleck, Old School Freight Train, The Dawg himself, The Dismemberment Plan, Travis Morrison, Van Morrison, Jellyfish, Oingo Boingo, Mr. Bungle, Ghost Mice, Defiance Ohio, anything in 7/8 time, Danny Elfman, OUTKAST, Ludacris, J5, Cat Stevens, This Bike is a Pipe Bomb, John Prine, Willie Nelson, Gillian Welch, Louie Prima, Chick Corea, Gogol Bordello, Faraquet, Madeline, Cee-lo, Yonder Mountain String Band, Boris, Nina Simone, Big Joe Williams, Bukka White, Odetta, random bluegrass, Paul Baribeau, Johnny Hobo, Violent Femmes, The Refused, Branch Manager, Ultra Dolphin, Digable Planets, Miles and shit, Slayer, Dylan, Bad Techno, Beastie (still), Emmy Lou Harris, The Avett Brothers, Torche, Medications, Jawbox, Burning Airlines, Beauty Pill, Brainworms, Sly and the Family Stone, VCR and Fugazi.
Guilty pleasures:
early Billy Joel, first 2 311 albums, early Micheal Jackson, Jamiraqui (that's what I said Bethany),
Symphonic stylings:
Stravinsky, Bartok, Debussy, Holst, Dvorak, Silvestre Revueltas....suck my balls Ludwig Van
Oh...and some damn drum and bugle corps.
TOP 10 MOST LISTENED TO ALBUMS/CDs AT THE MOMENT (in no kind of order)
1. Rainbow - Boris with Michio Kurihara
2. Carolina Jubilee (the old stuff) - The Avett Brothers
3. Red Album - Baroness
4. Rover - Drakkar Sauna
5. The Pizza EP - Horse the Band
6. Mr Liff - Emergency Rations
7. Will the Circle be Unbroken - Disc2 bluegrass comp(mostly for that version of soldiers joy)
8. Love Songs For A Nihilist - Redbear
9. Sea Songs For Landlocked Sailors - Tarkio
10. Where's Corey? - The Dead Man Street Orchestra
I LOVE:
all things Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Castle in the Sky, etc...), all things Kurosawa (Dreams, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Rashomon), Constant Gardener, City of God, Brick, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Fight Club, LOTR Trilogy, NMBC, Amile, Donnie Darco, Batman Begins, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Oldboy, L4yer Cake, Alice, Clay Pigeons, The Game, Gummo, Bully, Caligula, U-Turn, Rounders, Boondock Saints, Kevin Smith films, Pulp Fiction, Pi, Dark Crystal, Romeo + Juliet (don't care what you say...good movie), Zombie movies (good and bad...Bio-Zombie is my new fav), Igby Goes Down, The Secret Life of Altar Boys, Saved!, Swingers, Sin City, Hero, House of Flying Daggers(a.k.a. Lovers), A Very Long Engagement, Zatoichi, Sympathy for Mr Vengance, Happiness of the Katugari, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, Battle Royale, Dirty Pretty Things, Meet the Feebles, Ghost in the Shell2 (rules over the first), Dreamers, Musa the Warrior, Metropolis (both of them), Kung-fu movies, The Holy Mountain, Grave of the Fireflies (saddest movie ever), The Returner, Orsen Wells movies (in particular The Trial), Hitchcock films, Akira, stuff NOT in English, True Romance, Andrew Blake films ...I know there's more.
I'd say "television rots your brain"...but I'm finding that those of us that feel this way manage to find other ways of destroying our brains...w/o television's help.I'm not sure if we are any better than the others. Ignorance is bliss.
That's why people that have an education, you know, that's why they spend time in art museums, or reading good literature or listening to good music. Because it affects the body's chemistry in such a way that it produces a very mellow high that you can never reproduce with any kind of drugs.
-Tommy Chong
I think that the .. world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.
-Bill Murray
Brian Greene!
He has two books about physics.
They read so easily its not even funny.
Find them, buy them, steal them, borrow them...they will either bore you to death or change your world.
Typical I think I'm cool list...but its what I read:
Chuck Palahniuk (though I am becoming tired of his shenannigans), Jonathan Safran Foer, Kurt Vonnegut, Sylvia Plath, Charles Bukowski, Frank Miller, Sam Kieth, Hunter S. Thompson, William S. Burroughs, Kerouac, early Tom Wolfe, Ken Kesey, J.D. Salinger, J. G. Ballard, Irvine Welsh, Tom Robbins, Phillip Pulman (his dark materials trilogy), vegetarian cookbooks and other various randomness.
and those damned Harry Potter books...don't make fun of me dammit!
"All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else."
-Vladimir Lenin
I believe in that quote so much it hurts.