Q: And funny hats?A: And funny hats.
Like I'm the Pope of Foodville.
Music (mostly punk), making edible works of art that get devoured shortly after, and armed proletarian revolution .
Travelling, swimming in every ocean and walking on every continent while i can, forgotten history, rusty junk, social outcasts/dropouts, apocolyptic rants, hablando mierda en espanol, cooking, drinking, misbehaving, food: (click the 3 links following) where it comes from , how it's produced , and how it reacts to temperature change , sharp steel and fire, being punk as fuck, Antarctica, the old BBS days of H/P, everything seemingly random or absurd, rambling bat-shit crazy bums who mutter to themselves, being old enough to know better, and doing it anyway, cheap booze, free good booze, free drugs, drinking beer in the shower, Pastardiena, mix casette tapes, free stuff, shiney objects-aka studs and spikes, existentialism, Wychwood Brewery, campfires and cans o' beans, situationism , more cooking, Dore, Duerer, Latvian & Lithuanian pre-christian folklore, the Northern crusades, Baltic tribes and regional history, The Battle of Saule 1236 AD, gardening and obscure heirloom seeds, being happy where i am today yet dreaming of far away places, going to those places, juggling being realistic, idealistic, and a grumpy bastard all at once. Sometimes i make food.
Oh...i dunno...Bork, Bork, Bork, motherfucker.
And metal dudes in wheelchairs that stagedive.
Kursi, Latgali, Seli and Zemgali to practice Latvian with.
And the fuckin' punx, everywhere!
Mostly hardcore or punk fucking rock, some metal, old obscurities, anything dark, fast and/or loud. Where to start? Amebix, Camera Silens, Lost World, Warcollapse, Disaffect, Inepsy, Wolf Brigade, Post Regiment, The Restarts, Rudimentary Peni, GISM, Motorhead, The Wipers, Contropotere, Bolt Thrower, Asta Kask, Rasta Knast, Nausea, whole buncha Tom Waits, The Black Hand, Zounds, No Hope For The Kids, Omega Tribe, The Accused, The Cure, Skitsystem, Criminal Damage, Regulations, Killing Joke, Cryptopsy, Skaven, Doom, Kylesa, Discharge, Upright Citizens, Black Sabbath, Brigada Flores Magon, Pilsners, Leatherface, Dystopia, The Pinkerton Thugs, Real Reggae, Hard Skin, Sotlimpa, Electro Hippies, Deviated Instinct, Born Dead Icons, Dona Maldad, Cocksparrer, X-Ray Spex, Crass, etc., Carl Perkins, Dissucks, New Model Army, E.Neubauten, Iron fucking Maiden, Disrupt, Imperial Leather, alot of minneapolis 90's hardcore (Misery/ Destroy/ Civil D etc.), Scatha, The Mob, Joy Division, Exploding Hearts, La Armada (Roja), Victims, Grimple, Poison Idea, Slime, Dead Boys, Kings of Nuthin', Vanilla Muffins, The Zero Boys, Venom, ENT, Dead Prez, hip hop that's either dark & gloomy or talks about real, non bling-bling bullshit, old industrial(shh), The Pouges, Jimmy Cliff, Desmond Dekker, Sun-era Cash, Wynonie Harris, Robert Johnson, and i really love cheesy 80's pop and the punk classics i grew up with. Fans of trendy "folk punk" banjo garbage need not apply.
I can't think of a "bad"(cheesy) 80's movie that i dont like. also: (the movie, not the choad actor!), "Land And Freedom" aka Tiera y Libertad, 23 (The German one about Hagbard and Pengo), Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance, alot of Jim Jarmusch, True Romance, Blade Runner, Holy Mountain, The Rivers Edge, Ghost Dog, The Outsiders, The Big Labowski, Brasil, Le Gran Buffet, The first 15 minutes or so of Monty Pythons the Meaning of Life, The Usual Suspects, The Princess Bride, (most) David Lynch stuff, alot of Hitchcock, Full Metal Jacket, Cabin Boy, Children of Men, Amilee, Pan's Labyrinth, Dark City,
anything with zombies or punks or zombie punks, ahh whatever.
Sucks. I watch too many movies, though.
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. On Food and Cooking by McGee. Kitchen Confidential and anything by Bourdain. Larousse Gastronomique. Pirate lore. Murdered By Capitalism (J.Ross). Neil Cassady, Kerouac and other Beat writers. William Gibson. The Illuminatus Trilogy. Gone To Croatan. Cash. Anything to do with cooking or food. Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Tons of history. Wierd occult shit. The Apprentice. George Orwell (Down And Out In Paris And London, & Homage To Catalonia esp.) Hemmingway. Cheesy fantasy. Of course your Berkmans, Bookchins, Bakunins...
My granddad, cyclist (third from left)
Him (left, lead) kicking ass in the 1928 Olympics.