Look at the lists. And being outside in the fresh air.
And all things Japanese.
"The Dude abides. I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that."
I'd like to meet:
Look at my lists of music, film and books
I'd love to have a conversation with Loudon Wainwright III and Will Oldham.
I'd like to meet this man...
...and Blair, so I can jab him in the eye with a rusty, shit covered nail
Music:
Jesu, Godflesh, Eyehategod, Johnny Cash,
Miles Davis, Last Train Home, Clutch,
Ennio Morricone, Angelo Badalamenti,
Napalm Death, Aphex Twin,
The Angelic Process, Evoken,
Swans, New Model Army, Desmond Dekker,
Bonnie Prince Billy, Hank Williams, Sonic Youth,
Robert Johnson, Akron/Family, Michael Nyman,
The Cramps,King Tubby, Unfold, Bongzilla,
Joe Hisaishi, Emmylou Harris,
Loudon Wainwright III, The Meteors,
Godspeed You Black Emperor, Neurosis,
Future Sound of London, The Quakes
Life of Agony, Lungfish, DJ Shadow,
Death, Ozric Tentacles, Carter Family,
Bjork, Angels of Light, Pogues, Michael Gira,
Stan Getz, Warren Zevon, Saul Williams,
Fugazi, Mono ( The japanese band),
Skatalites, Leadbelly, Eels, Cathedral,
David Bowie, Loretta Lynn, Iron Maiden,
Hank Williams III, Ella Fitzgerald, Grandaddy,
Pink Floyd, Revolting Cocks
Sleep, Halo, Isis, 16 Horsepower
The Clash, Joe Strummer, Bruno Nicolai
Nick Cave, Joy Division, Unsane,
Pearl Jam, Billie Holiday, Burning Spear,
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Tom Waits, Dead Kennedys,
Sigur Ros, Gene Clark,Red Snapper
Reverend Bizarre, Dresden Dolls,
Portishead, Pelican, The Handsome Family
Bohren & Der Club of Gore, Willie Nelson,
Charles Mingus, John Prine, Stinking Lizaveta,
Townes Van Zandt, Hawkwind.
And way more...
"Ah, fuck it, Dude. Let's go bowling."
Movies:
'I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time,
like tears in rain.
Time to die.'
Sergio Leone,
Harmony Korine - Gummo
Julien Donkey-Boy,
Sonatine (Anything by Takeshi Kitano),
Bladerunner,
David Lynch,
Akira Kurosawa,
Wong Kar Wai,
Coen Brothers
Jim Jarmusch
Peter Greenaway,
Ken Loach
Abel Ferrara,
Most movies starring Clint Eastwood,
esp. Kelly's Heroes, Where Eagles Dare,
Dirty Harry and Any Which Way But Loose
Monty Python
Samurais, Humphrey Bogart, Takeshi Miike,Atanarjuat
Chan Wook Park, James Cagney, Sunset Boulevard,
most Hitchcock, Story of Ricky, La Haine,
Ghost in The Shell, Priscilla Queen of The Desert,
Rudeboy, Made in Britain, Battle of Algiers,
Nil by Mouth, Withnail & I, Straight to Hell,
Bubba Ho-Tep, The Breakfast Club
(oh, come on, who doesn't?), The Pledge, Badlands,
City of Lost Children, Dark City, Code 46
Weekend, Hard Boiled, Pi,
Wild Zero, GI Samurai,
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring
Zombies :)
"Jesus."
"You said it, man. Nobody fucks with the Jesus."
Television:
I haven't had TV for months, but either used to enjoy these or own them on DVD
Twin Peaks
MPD-Psycho
Monty Python
Samurai Jack
Births, Marriages and Deaths
(Three parter on BBC2,
i think, a while back)
The Young Ones
Bottom
The Thick of It
Alan Partridge
Saxondale
Time Trumpet
"C'mon, you're being very un-Dude..."
Books:
JG Ballard, Jeff Noon, Jack Kerouac,
William S Burroughs
Haruki Murakami, Michael Moorcock,
Patrick McCabe, Philip K. Dick,
James Ellroy, Kurt Vonnegut,
Hunter S Thompson, William Gibson,
Michael Marshall Smith, Hubert Selby Jr,
Raymond Chandler, Margaret Atwood,
Yukio Mishima
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, H.P. Lovercraft
Hagakure, Confederacy of Dunces,
Out by Natsuo Kirino,
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy,
The Tin Drum by Gunther Grass
The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W.E. Bowman
Under The Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Projections series
...and a series of novels written about
the Man With No Name from the Leone westerns,
as literature they are absolute gash
but they make for an ace pulp read
"Everything's a fucking travesty with you, man!"
Heroes:
The first person to send me
video evidence of themselves lamping
El Presidente Blair
Joe Strummer
Jello Biafra
Ken Loach
Ian Mackaye
Kurt Vonnegut
"Walter, I love you, but sooner or later, you're gonna have to face the fact that you're a goddamned moron."
