the apocalypse, video art, film, visual performance art, net.art, telepresence and telematic art, sound, silence, music, noise, meditation, libraries, the smell of books and cassette tapes, archives, good coffee (cafe' del doge, 'illy and key coffee) -not the shit you make like tang either, wine, cheese, meeting people that don't judge everything, ghosts & ufo's, all things paranormal, E.V.P., my multiple macs (G5 and two G4's), network.art, fluxus, viennese actionism, performance art, software art, anything avant garde or on the bleeding edge, happenings, mail art, world religions, found magazine, anything lo-fi, zines, droning sounds, musique concrete, reading, the spear of destiny, the occult, louis wain, william lawes, david sedaris, this american life, ira glass, terry gross, NPR, vegitarianism, wonderlust & dreaming, comix, robert crumb, spain rodriguez and robert williams, adrine tomine, optic nerve, love and rockets, anything "slice of life", pro-wrestling, the original ECW not the WWECW new breed shit and TNA & ROH, sub-culture, bettie page, collecting toys i wanted but never got as a child during the 70's & 80's, 1940's & 50 weird underground culture, my homiez collection, i could go on but you get the picture.
- my androgyne
- someone who isn't all about themself for a change
- HOLY HELL, I MET SAMOA JOE!!!
wire, editors, film school, the stills, crispy ambulance, genesis p-orridge, psychic tv, nico, velvet undergound, the microphones, black dice, the magnetic fields, a certain ratio, mission of burma, vidnaObmana, suicide, alan vega, pelican, stars, the radio dept., jesu, m83, rogue wave, mum, airiel, swallow, danse society, click click, scheer, shellyan orphan, my morning jacket, goldspot, the birthday party, nick cave, minimal compact, denali, young people, black rebel motorcycle club, death from above 1979, ambulance ltd, the arcade fire, clap your hands say yeah, the most serene republic, polaris, (old) tears for fears, brian eno, sigur ros, g.s.y.b.e., headphones, chapterhouse, neutral milk hotel, grandaddy, blue states, swallow, yello, the angelic upstairs, sex pistols, an emotional fish, ATV, owls, snow patrol, bright eyes, klaxons, van she, hot chip, union of knives, starflyer 59, (old) clan of xymox, colin newman, the legendary pink dots, curve, the names, stockholm monsters, ajax, violet indiana, futureheads (even though they want to be XTC really bad), lou reed (metal machine music), the postal service, adult., throwing muses, stina nordenstam, this mortal coil, the wolfgang press, mass, in camera, the smiths, moz, robyn hitchcock, leather nun, 4AD records, throbbing gristle, current 93, the kills, six organs of admittance, 23 skidoo, coil, pelican, miranda july, serena maneesh, six organs of admittance, stars, swallow, the national, tv on the radio, death cab for cutie, tapes-n-tapes, asobi seksu, band of horses, be your own pet, beirut, blue states, decoder ring, headlights, heartless bastards, joy division, ac/dc, autechre, swans, rilo kiley, the the, the cult, elliot smith, luna, pedro the lion, piano magic, chris and cosey, sol invictus, whitehouse, xtc, yeah, yeah, yeahs, sonic youth, galaxie 500, killling joke, the chameleons, kitchens of distinction, suzanne vega, magazine, luxuria, howard devoto, spacemen 3, pixies, ride, boo radleys, slowdive, cranes, sleater-kinney, quasi, yo la tengo, trans-am, aphex twin, boards of canada, chris & cosey, cat power, interpol, the cure, old depeche, kraftwerk, the cars, ric ocasek, amp, labradford, s.o.t.l., windy and carl, john cage, karlheinz stockhausen, pierre schaeffer, laurie anderson, saffron wood, section 25, durutti column, love and rockets, tones on tail, dali's car, PIL, flesh for lulu, the primitives, the sugarcubes, pop will eat itself, julian cope, karel fialka, balaam and the angel, mighty lemon drops, that petrol emotion, the replacements, blue clocks green, camouflage, the railway children, t.g.v.t., old, old chicago era wax trax (PTP, greater than one, REVCO, etc..) space and dark ambient (ala, robert rich, steve roach, alio die, etc...) noise (kk null, merzbow) Norwegian black metal from the mid 90's, balls out rock-n-roll (ac fuckin' dc, rush, zz top, older tom petty, etc...) i could seriously go on for quite a while, and if you've seen my cd and vinyl collection you know what i'm talking about, but i'll stop.
THE NEW KILLING JOKE VIDEO
Hosannas From The Basement Of Hell
this song is awesome!
favorite directors: mike leigh, werner herzog, woody allen, pasolini, kenneth anger, gregg araki, lars von treir, derek jarman, hal hartley & david lynch.
a few favorite films: naked, nowhere, the doom generation, mysterious skin, straw dogs, bad timing, sideways, aguirre: the wrath of god, strozek, grizzly man, downtown 81, clean shaven, henry fool, in my skin, baraka, scorpio rising, sling blade, 24 hour party people, the wicker man, donnie darko, american splendor, crumb, coffee & cigarettes, salo: 100 days of sodom, children of nature, three colours trilogy, gummo, julian donkey boy, killing zoe, trees lounge, amores perros, the celebration, videodrome, lost in translation, closer, mr. death, beyond the mat, grey gardens, 8 1/2, blue velvet, eraserhead buffalo 66, election, sideways, the last temptation of christ... i'll stop now.
okay, i loved SIX FEET UNDER, amazing writing. but other than that i don't watch much tv except for TNA Impact religiously and some Ring of Honor. yes, i'm a big pro wrestling fan. have been for 20 years now and it isn't going away. the original E-C-W, E-C-W!!! other than that i love the office (BBC series, not that pathetic, lame-ass american, poor excuse for attempting to be original version), the adventures of pete and pete (who remembers that one?), FREAKS AND GEEKS, ALL python & related (fawlty towers, ripping yarns, the ruttles, etc...) e.r., the ben stiller show, the sopranos, carnivál, the wire, oz, twin peaks, the original kids in the hall (not that censored shit) the young ones, the original bbc version of queer as folk, okay, i suppose i do watch some television, but most is on dvd since i can't justify paying for cable tv.
i love david sedaris and have read just about everthing he's written, the portable joseph campbell, beyond belief by emlyn williams, the story of the eye by georges bataille, the 33 1/3 series, summer blonde by adraine tomine, silence by john cage, beyond meat joy by carolee schneemann, blankets by craig thompson, the dematerialization of the art object by lucy lippard, contract with the skin by kathy o'dell, the wreckers of civililzation by simon ford... many, many more, love to read...
artie: the strongest man in the world (only in the first season, the second season his costume seemed to shrink for some reason. then there was more artie than i cared to see. lol.) other people i have a lot of respect for: joseph beuys, pier palo passolini, federico fellini, mike leigh, ricky gervais, christian boltanski, genesis p-orridge, brian eno, marcel duchamp, werner herzog, otto muel, herman nitsch, rudolf schwarzkogler, alan kaprow, george maciunas, chris burden, william lawes, ann hamilton, pipilotti rist, man ray, vaughn oliver, andre bréton, anton artaud, la monte young, john cage, anna mendieta, marina abramovic.