I'd tell you, but then i'd have to kill you...
I'd like to meet:
investors, venture capitalists, david bowie, someone other than you
Music:
all things bowie
(though i still don't know what he was thinking in the late 80's, and i'm slowly forgiving him for tin machine)
70's glam
(see: t-rex, roxy music, jobriath)
progressive rock
(see: rush, dream theater, genesis, pink floyd, emerson lake & palmer)
most metal
(see: slayer, judas priest, iron maiden, pantera...and metallica in small doses)
90's brit-pop
(see: pulp, suede, blur)
most shoegazer
(see: slowdive, my bloody valentine, lush)
quite a bit of goth/industrial and things related (see: bauhaus, siouxsie & the banshees, skinny puppy, front 242...the list goes on)
progressive trance & breakbeat techno
(see: BT, Meat Beat Manifesto, Consolidated)
throwback bands
(see: jellyfish, imperial drag, jet)
hip-hop created between 1979-1993
(see: public enemy, run dmc, nwa)
punk rock
(see: crass, minor threat, conflict, sex pistols, ramones)
johnny cash is in a class all to himself
some emo/indie
(see: pretty girls make graves, mars volta, modest mouse, cursive, bright eyes)
jazz of all sorts
(see: john coltrane, chick corea, herbie hancock, miles davis)
classical music of most sorts
(sorry kids, vivaldi bores me)
guilty pleasures
(see: 80's hair bands, canadian pop/rock, wayne newton, neil diamond and john (fucking!) denver)
never to be included on this list:
modern industry concepts of what R&B is supposed to be
all country music
(with the exception of the above mentioned mr. cash and hank williams)
most traditional pop
(in the sense of celine dion, britney spears, jessica simpson and mariah carey)
Movies:
in no particular order....
the bourne trilogy
the entire die hard series (because i can't get enough of bruce willis saying "yippie-kye-ay motherfucker"
the hannibal trilogy
(see: manhunter/red dragon, silence of the lambs, hannibal)
wings of desire/faraway so close
rocky horror picture show
man who fell to earth
hedwig & the angry inch
any movie tim burton has done
any movie david lynch has done
Dancer In The Dark
Donnie Darko
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Labyrinth
Less than Zero
Say Anything
basically every John Hughes movie
every Kevin Smith movie
Almost Famous
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
A Clockwork Orange
Fight Club
Airplane!
any fellini film
Singles
Heathers
The Hunger
Stigmata
Nadja
Blue, White & Red
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Memento
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
(you get the idea i hope....)
Television:
kill your television.
no, really. kill it! it serves no real purpose other than to pollute your mind...read a book, get a hobby, go exercise...stop being a fat consumer!
Books:
haven't had much time to read lately...
when i read, i read the following sorts of books:
philosophy
true crime
programming or trade-related books (i have to or else)
biography
(only related to artists/filmmakers/musicians bands i like)
books by the following authors:
Poppy Z. Brite
Anthony Burgess
Marquis DeSade
...and many others
i've also been known to read:
the pokey little puppy
books on how to self-destruct
Heroes:
Tim Burton
David Bowie
Jim Morrison
Frank Sinatra
Jeff Buckley
Tim Buckley
Kevin Ogilvie
Dwayne R. Goettel
Martin L. Gore
Chris Thompson (better known as Frank Black/Black Francis)
Brian Eno
Bryan Ferry
Marc Bolan
Iggy Pop
John Bonham
Neil Peart
Mike Portnoy
Dave Lombardo
Les Claypool
and of course....the voices.
