Saving pop music from itself. (work in progress)
The almighty Top 10:
(In no order. Subject to change without justification.)
Tom Waits
Radiohead
David Bowie
Pixies
My Bloody Valentine
The Clash
Fugazi
The Flaming Lips
Johnny Cash
Talking Heads
Honorable Mentions:
Sufjan Stevens
Elvis Costello
Sonic Youth
Trans Am
Arcade Fire
Amon Tobin
Top 10 Live Shows: clicky.
Currently playing the crap out of:
My moon and me
Not as good as we've been
It's the dirtiest clean I know
Protect Ya Neck, my sword still remain imperial
Before I blast the mic, RZA scratch off the serial
Arsty fartsy indie flicks, old school kung-fu, and if it's Japanese and has either a) Samurai (especially of the Kurosawa variety), b) ultra-violence, or c) giant robots, then I'm in.
Heroes is back, and all is right with the world.
Jack Bauer and Stephen Colbert are both my baby daddies.
Newest addiction: 30 Rock.
(I love you Tracy Morgan.)
Ernest Hemingway "A Moveable Feast"
Jorge Luis Borges "The Aleph and Other Short Stories"
Marcel Proust "Swann In Love"
Gabriel Garcia-Marquez "100 Years of Solitude"
Isabel Allende "House of the Spirits"
Eiji Yoshikawa "Musashi"
and anything by Neruda, Rimbaud, Hughes, and Plath.
Currently reading:
Jorge Luis Borges "The Book of Imaginary Beings"
Jorge Luis Borges "Collected Fictions"
Milan Kundera "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
Tom Waits. David Bowie. Johnny Greenwood. Kevin Shields. Joe Strummer. Tom Dowd. Rick Rubin. Steve Albini. Miyamoto Musashi.
And Optimus Prime.
Oh, and Martin Blank.