music, writing, music..... (we bowl on off days).. i dig jammin on any instrument, anything, anywhere, drawing on stuff, talking meta-physics, talking meta-pop-culture, baseball, darts, shots, shots while shooting darts, moshing unsuspecting foes, karaokee-ing till we're rock stars, haiku-ing till we see stars, lighting peoples' cigarettes, mixing drinks that so shouldn't be, and drinking good beer till everybody's funny..
doing is my meditation..
..the left-handed buddhavista.
kurt vonnegut, mitch hedburg, brad nowell, ..there are many, many writers, musicians and artists i would have questions and reverence for.
(if you don't yet love Rilo Kiley, watch these two videos. you should. then see them live. it's extraordinary really.)
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( Kurt Vonnegut's best quotes at AVclub.com )
[ ..a nice poem about fish holes . ]
( YOU HAVE BAD TASTE IN MUSIC ..dot com. ;-)
[ Vonnegut's Asshole is a blogspot? ]
[ *a killer article on life in Retail at the Missouri Review ]
* Free Hugs banned?? *
( FreeHugsCampaign.org .. FreeHelpCampaign.org )
311. Sublime.
violent femmes.
dandy warhols.
beach boys.
Rilo Kiley, the Doors,
Pink Floyd, incubus,
beck, Keller Williams,
beastie boys,
flaming lips, radiohead,
MC 900 foot Jesus,
John Coltrain, G. Love,
Lucky Boys Confusion,
Gorillaz, Spoon, Red hot Chili peppers, Hellogoodbye, yeah yeah Yeahs!, neil diamond, ben Kweller, arcade fire, against me!, Barry White, Mike Patton, Bela Fleck, victor Wooten, local H, goldfinger, weezer, yonder mountain string, TooL, WMMFamous, arctic monkeys, pearl jam, the Coral..
Stones and beatles,
Queen, Jimi, The WHo, black sabbath, Marley,
..cLuTch, the Strokes, nirvana, yello, green dAy, Richard Cheese..
but don't forget beethoven.. thelonious.. fogerty.. BLUES. like Thorogood and old school JOhn Lee Hooker,
Tribe called Quest, wu-tang, Digable planets, blackalicious, atmosphere, snoop, outKast, and Gnarles...
..Seed, REC Center, phish, and For Squirrels no longer exist. tripl3fastaction...
our ancient blues band AdJust.
donnie darko.
american beauty.
waking life.
PI, Brick,
What the bleep do we know?, triplets of belleville, High sTrung, SwIngErs, rules of attraction, magnolia, thuMbsucker, napolian dynamite, pollock, Four Rooms, pulp fiction, clerks,
and of course.. princess bride, because i AM, in fact, left-handed.
Chicago baseball, basketball, football.
* There is a Simpsons reference for every situation. *
Shows I Will Advocate to the Death: the Soup, the Office, Futurama, Sponge Bob, Parental Control, Saturday Night Live (Samburg era), Conan O'Brien and Carson Daley, Days of Our Lives?.. (sometimes)...
Kerouac, Vonnegut, Joyce, Salinger, Kafka, Wilde..
and of course all that classic dostoevsky-an, voltaire-ese madness .....
sylvia plath, toni morisson
Hunter S.T..
Dave Barry.
..also ayn rand and Huxley.
the biography of John Keats by Bates.
The Short Reign of Pippen by Steinbeck.
right now i admire the hell out of what steve almond does, frequently check out Tin House lit mag and TheOnion.com,
and look to the onion's AVclub.com for pop culture coverage.
Rolling Stone has great political coverage.
Dean Moriarty.
Lester Burnham.
Don Quixote.
John Keats.
Sweet Lou.