Reading, literature, history, film, art, political activism, revolutionary socialism (anarchism/Marxism), hating on non-vegetarians & Irish whiskey truffles.
I'd like to meet:
Illness, insanity and death are the black angels that kept watch over my cradle and accompanied me all my life. -- Edvard Munch..
Music:
Cisco Houston, Rage Against the Machine, Portishead, Bob Dylan, Paul Robeson, Hank Williams, Sr, The Doors, Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash, Last Men, Phil Ochs, Katie Jane Garside, Rachel Jacobs, The Mary Timony Band, Garbage, Helium, Smashing Pumpkins, Fiona Apple.
Movies:
The Passion of Joan of Arc, Red Psalm, Battle of Algiers, Burn!, The Dying Swan, Edvard Munch, Evening Land, Punishment Park, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, Part II, Hara Kiri, Mouchette, Rashomon, THX 1138, JFK, State of Siege, Airplane!, Who's That Knocking at My Door; Hearts and Minds, Harlan County, U.S.A, Inside the CIA: On Company Business.
Books:
Fiction: Sophocles, Shakespeare, Jorge Luis Borges, William Blake, John Keats, Euphorion of Athens, Henrik Ibsen, Euripides, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Michael Wilson, Shinobu Hashimoto, Philip Roth, Lawrence Durrell, Katharine Burdekin, Anton Chekhov, "The Descent of Inanna," Homer, "Journey's End" - R.C. Sherriff; Non-Fiction: "The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass" - Frederick Douglass, "The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution" - Shulamith Firestone, "The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World" - G.E.M. De Ste. Croix, "Art and Artist" - Otto Rank, "Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why" - Gerald D. McKnight, "European Fascism" - S.J. Woolf (editor), "Violence and the Sacred" - Rene Girard, "Studies and Further Studies in a Dying Culture" - Christopher Caudwell, "They Take Our Jobs!": and 20 Other Myths about Immigration" - Aviva Chomsky, "Civilization and Its Discontent" - Sigmund Freud, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" - Paulo Freire, "Sophocles and Oedipus" - Philip Vellacott; Friedrich Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, Karl Marx; Comic Books: THE MAXX - Sam Kieth, WATCHMEN - Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons.
Heroes:
Not heroes but worth taking a look at:The Gracchi Brothers, Jesus of Nazareth, Gerard Winstanley, Thomas Paine, Frederick Douglass, Karl Marx & Frederich Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, Eugene V. Debs, the IWW, the Spartacist League, Friends of Durruti, Paul Robeson, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Ralph Nader, Noam Chomsky, Malalai Joya... all the great artists.... the everyday rank and file behind the social movements that struggled and continue to struggle for equality and social justice.
