skydiving was one of the most important things in my life for a long time . . . however I'm taking a hiatus from the wild blue yonder for awhile, shooting pool, good beer, going to movies, travel, learning new languages, the absurd side of life most people ignore.
. . . I think I'm okay now . . .
INDUSTRIAL: skinny puppy, das ich, nine inch nails, dope, kmfdm, wumpscut, pigface, acumen nation, rx/ritalin, ohgr, terminal sect, front 242, frontline assembly, ministry, revolting cocks, butthole surfers, download, coil, evil mothers, my life with the thrill kill kult, particle son, chemlab. GOTH: sisters of mercy (you're wrong andrew, you ARE goth!!), peter murphy, bauhaus, nick cave, the cult, christian death, the swans, the cure, dead can dance. MAYNARD: tool, a perfect circle. SYNTHPOP/DARKWAVE/WHATEVER: ego likeness, vnv nation, wolfsheim, neurotic fish, tear garden, assemblage 23, delerium, doubting thomas, dead voices on air, cevin key, icon of coil, x marks the pedwalk, apoptygma berzerk PUNK RAWK: social distortion, the cramps, nofx, rancid, operation ivy, sex pistols, minor threat, avail, misfits. METAL: entombed, white zombie, carcass, pantera, system of a down, danzig, korn. THE FAIR SEX: betty x, ani difranco, tori amos, liz phair, rasputina, babes in toyland, L7, sinead o'connor, kidneythieves, kate bush, lauryn hill, lords of acid, molly zenobia, patti smith, pj harvey, poe, sarah mclachlan, switchblade symphony, tatu. ROCK: bush, stone temple pilots, nirvana, soundgarden, dave navarro, jane's addiction, porno for pyros, monster magnet, mr bungle, faith no more, rage against the machine, smashing pumpkins, tom waits, u2, third eye blind. FOREIGNERS: ntm/supreme ntm, mc solaar, noir desir, akhenaton, suba.
Lucia y el Sexo, memento, darren aronofsky (the fountain, requiem for a dream, pi) tom tykwer (run lola run, winter sleepers, etc), atom egoyan (ararat, sweet hereafter, etc), mathieu kassiovitz (hate, crimson rivers, etc), alejandro gonzalez inarritu (babel, amores perros, 21 grams) magnolia, fight club, seven, before the rain, underground, lock stock and 2 smoking barrels, snatch, true romance, once were warriors, etc
Battlestar Galactica (the new series on Sci Fi now (2005), cold feet (a british show on bravo) - the sopranos, National Geographic Fantastic Animal Maulings specials (this woman ignored the fence and tried to take a close-up photo of Binky the polar bear . . . amazingly, all she suffered was a crushed sternum, 2 punctured lungs, and 27 broken bones throughout the left side of her body - lol)
thomas pynchon, hungers brides, tolstoy, dostoevsky, hemingway, jg ballard, house of leaves (danielewski), david foster wallace, jeff noon, william gibson, stephen king - esp Dark Tower Series, clive barker, A Million Little Pieces