displaced: NYC via the ATL, via SC, via PA
I'd like to meet:
Steven Wright and Oscar Wilde
Someone with all the answers....Below, in no particular order, are some of my favorite people...
Music:
Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, Metric, Mission of Burma, Chromeo, Tokyo Police Club, Pennywise, Gang of Four, Swervedriver, Joy Division, New Order, Warsaw, Ladytron, NOFX, DJ Shadow, David Bowie, ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead, Le Tigre, Bloc Party, Kraftwerk, Elliot Smith, Curve, Suede, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Daft Punk, Buzzcocks, The Gloria Record, The Walkmen, The Decemberists, Built To Spill, Neutral Milk Hotel, Archers of Loaf, Calla, Bright Eyes, Postal Service, Iron and Wine (in small doses only--I find them a bit emasculating), The Shins, Les Savy Fav, Godspeed, Maserati, Mercury Program, American Analog Set, The Pixies, Fugazi, Sonic Youth, Outkast, Terrance Trent D'Arby, Earth Wind and Fire, Pavement, Weezer, Will Oldham, Songs:ohia, Sleater Kinney, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, U2, Bruce Springsteen--his Nebraska album especially! Grandaddy, Pedro the Lion, Tree People, Missy, Tribe Called Quest, RUN DMC, Grand Master Flash and the Furious 5, old LL Cool J, Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh, Public Enemy....etc..etc...ad nauseam ad infinitum.....
Movies:
Documentaries, Rockumentaries, Mokumentaries, Hip-Hop-U-mentaries (get the picture?). The Goonies, Pi, The Big Lebowski, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Usual Suspects, Gosford Park, Big Fish, Raising Arizona, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Shawshenk Redemption, Life Aquatic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The United States of Leland, Napolean Dynamite, Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Wicker Park, Blade Runner, Dune...etc...
Television:
Sometimes I find rotting my brain to be cathartic
Books:
PREP: A Novel,The World According to Garp, Vonnegut,Stephen Ambrose, Italo Calvino, Phillip K Dick, Sedaris, Bronte Sisters, Tony Horowitz, Lewis Carroll, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Theodore Geisel, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot
Heroes:
we don't need another one....
