Alphabets, backgammon, bacon, banjo, barbecue, bass, beer, books, camping, cheese, chess, cribbage, design, everything, flying, frisbee, gliding, grilling, hiking, linguistics, palindromes, photography, physics, pool, reading, signage, swimming, systems theory, typography, walking,writing about how to use the space bar correctly back at that last comma.
I'd like to meet:
People who get it. You know who you are.I have a finely tuned bullshit detector, so please keep it real. Keen sense of humor a must.If you have the innate ability to sound like a musical instrument using only the body god (whoever or whatever that is) gave you, then I'd love to hear from you!So far I've heard from one Pan Flute and a toothbrush wielding Wah Wah.Keep up the good work folks!
Music:
Laurie Anderson, Bad Livers, Joe Baiza, Beatles, Black Flag, Black Velvet Flag, Bob Log III, Dock Boggs, Bongwater, Jack Brewer Band, Richard Cheese, Les Claypool, Aaron Copland, Dead Kennedys, Deerhoof, Diplo, Dog Faced Hermans, Doo-Rag, Dos, Elfman, Eskimo, Fantomas, Fear, fIREHOSE, Fugazi, Hanson Brothers (Puck Rock!), Rolf Harris, mc chris, Meat Puppets, Me First and The Gimme Gimmes, Melt-Banana, Messer Chups, M.I.A., Charles Mingus, MINUTEMEN, Mr. Bungle, Conlon Nancarrow, Nomeansno, Jaco Pastorius, Mike Patton, Police, Primus, Residents, Saccharine Trust, Split Lip Rayfield, Steely Dan, They Might Be Giants, Universal Congress Of, Townes Van Zandt, Victim's Family, Tom Waits, Mike Watt, White Stripes, Who, Wire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yo La Tengo, Zappa, John Zorn... to name a few.
Movies:
A Clockwork Orange, After Hours, Amelie, American Beauty, An American Werewolf in London, Bill Hicks Live, Blade Runner, Buckaroo Banzai, Donnie Darko, Evil Dead (any Sam Raimi), Mindwalk, Repo Man, Shawshank Redemption, The Decline of Western Civilization, The Fisher King, Pan's Labyrinth, The Razor's Edge, The Shining, The Triplets of Belleville, The Wicker Man, The World According to Garp, Walkabout
Television:
More of a radio and internet guy when it comes to the electronic media. NPR/CBC: Car Talk. As it happens. AM radio! Infowars. Prisonplanet. boingboing. CDs. Cassettes. Vinyl. Musical instruments that my friends and I can entertain ourselves with for FREE!M*A*S*H*
Books:
Writers: Russell Banks, Clive Barker, Richard Brautigan, Charles Bukowski, James Lee Burke, Fritjof Capra, Raymond Carver, Harry Crews, Roald Dahl, Philip K. Dick, Paul Di Filippo, Katherine Dunn, Richard Feynman, R. Buckminster Fuller, Carl Hiaasen, John Irving, James Joyce, Stephen King, Ursula K. LeGuin, Armistead Maupin, John McPhee, Christopher Moore, E. Annie Proulx, David Quammen, Richard Stark, Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut, Donald E. Westlake... don't get me started; I'm an inveterate reader.
Heroes:
Dad (catch you on the flip side, pal.), Mom, Sis, Bill Hicks, Richard Feynman, Beryl Markham, Mike Watt, Ron Paul, Dick Proenneke.
