Peace, Love, Empathy, Tolerance, Understanding, Altruism
Communicating - with anyone, anywhere, anytime. I love human behaviour - isn't it fascinating that we are all biologically so similar, yet our perceptions of life and the world around us are so different?!
Reading, music, raving, going to gigs, and kick boxing (soooo cathartic!).
I'll allow my cat to attack me for his enjoyment. Think that makes me a bit altruistic. Or crazy.
My pet hates include:
*McDonalds
*fast food
*eating meat (which I don't do...yeurgh!)
*processed food
*litter (no need!)
*the fur trade
*ignorant bigoted people (for example, fascists, racists, homophobes, chauvinists, misogynists)
*comedians who think it's okay to be offensive and any of the above subtypes (for example, fascists, racists, homophobes, chauvinists, misogynists) if they argue they are being IRONIC(?!?!?!)we don't live in a world where the majority have the sense to understand fucking irony! Better not to confuse or incite the masses, eh?
*apathy
*ignorance
*capitalism
*hypocrites
*the consequences of Thatcherism on my generation (we're fucked up man)
*Bush
*Blair
*Brown
*Murdoch and all his evil twisted media outlets (which includes myspace)
*the English parliament and political system.....
*restricted free will
(I know I moan on and on, but come on, what other avenues of change are there?!?!)
POLITICAL IGNORANCE FUCKS ME RIGHT OFF
(DON't try and argue/debate with me if you're getting your facts from tabloids or other small minded people because you will look stupid....)
Girls feeling the NEED to wear make up....ladies, you who I know to rely on make up have nothing to worry about - you all look fabulously beaut when your faces are naked :o)
Girls who would rather shaft then support their fellow grrrlfriends if a guy of interest was involved. There's no way we women have historically fought for our independence, just so we can fight for the attention of some stoopid smelly boy. Some Feminine solidarity purlease!
Websites of interest:
http://www.mcspotlight.org/
http://www.cnduk.org/
http://www.howyoucanchangetheworld.com/index.htm
I'd like to meet:
Other ginger peeps so we can form a Ginga Militia movement and put right the wrongs of the world, whilst restoring our reputation after Thatcher ruled GB. Just because us gingers have no souls...does not mean that we have to take it out on a whole country. Deal with it biarch!
Music:
In no particular order, coz they're all my favourites....(NB, I like a lot of different music..as eclectic and varied as 'music' itself)....
GRUNGE AND PUNK
Nirvana, Pixies, Melvins, The Breeders, Sonic Youth, Lemonheads, Tindersticks, Slint, Butthole Surfers, Slint, Devo, Primus, The Jesus Lizard, Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Throwing Muses, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, L7, Belly, Babes In Toyland, Hole, Voodoo Queens, Black Flag,The Residents, Hendrix, King Crimson, , Frank Zappa, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Clash, Joe Strummer and his other projects, Billy Bragg, the Slits, Raincoats, Undertones, Subhumans, Citizen Fish, Sheep on Drugs, Buzzcocks, Sex Pistols, Stranglers, Kinks, Small Faces, Iggy and the Stooges, P.A.I.N, The Cramps, Stiff Little Fingers, New York Dolls, Ramones, Crass, Atari Teenage Riot, Mischief Brew, The Orphans, Inner Terrestrials, Capdown, Rancid, The Birthday Party, Propaghandi, old skool Green Day, Gogol Bordello, Ian Dury, the Blockheads
OLD SKOOL
Roxy Music, Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd, The Smiths, Ziggy Stardust, Eno, Joy Division, Fela Kuti
LYRICISTS
Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Jill Scott, Nick Drake, Willy Mason, Gil Scott Heron, Michael Franti, Ani DiFranco
REGGAE AND SKA AND DUB
Burning Spear, Bob Marley, The Upsetters, The Wailers, Lee Perry, Prince Buster, The Specials, Selecter, Skatalites, Don Drummond, Desmond Dekker, Harry J and The All Stars, Damien Marley, Toots and the Maytals, King Tubby, Radikal Dub Kolektiv, Madness
METAL AND ROCK
Rage Against the Machine, At the Drive In, Mars Volta, EARLY Manic Street Preachers, Mr Bungle, Korn, Deftones, SOAD, QOTSA, Tairrie B, Tortoise, Pavement, Foo Fighters, Fun Loving Criminals
DANCE AND ALTERNATIVE
Beck, Mindless Self Indulgence, old skool Moloko, Asian Dub Foundation, US3, Stereo MCs, Faithless, Prodigy, Kelis, De La Soul, Chemical Brothers, Mr Scruff, Spearhead, Fine Young Cannibals, Daft Punk, Gorillaz, Arrested Development, MIA, some DnB (jazzy wiggly basslines like Ronni Size and old skool Peshay)...Jungle and Ragga with the wax lyrical of the dancehall days, Squarepusher, The Orb, Massive Attack, James Brown, Joey and Norman Jay, St Germain, Groove Armada
HIP AND TRIP HOP
Public Enemy, NWA, Tricky, Nicolette, Bjork, FingaThing, Jurassic 5, Orbital, Portishead, Buck 65, Outkast, Amon Tobin, Luke Vibert, DJ Food, Kid Koala, DJ Vadim, DJ Shadow, De La Soul, Filastine, Peaches, Miss Kitten, Lauryn Hill.
JAZZY STUFF
Davis, Holiday, Coltrane, Pine, Art Tatum, Ben Webster, Soweto Kinch, Abram Wilson
The slightly derranged right hemisphere of my brain craves APHEX TWIN, DJ Rupture, Prefuse 73, Boards of Canada, Senior Coconut, Autechre, Plaid, Perspects, and Kraftwerk-esque electro. My love of original vibes that invoke emotions is infinite!
Should also mention that if anyone gets to see Brian and his magnificent MODIFIED TOY ORCHESTRA play ANYWHERE, you'd be a fool to miss it!!!
Movies:
Last Night, Donnie Darko, Fargo, any of the Monty Python films, Empire Records, South West 9, Maria Full of Grace, The Ice Storm, The Piano, Higher Learning, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Do the Right Thing, American History X, Apocalypse Now, Trainspotting, Muriels Wedding, Enduring Love, The Nightmare before Christmas, SFW, A Life Less Ordinary, The Contenders, Thelma and Louise, Fight Club, Spun, I heart Huckabees, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Shaun of the Dead, The Virgin Suicides, Harold and Maude, Human Traffic, Battle Royale, STAR WARS IV, V and VI, Pulp Fiction, The Beatles Yellow Submarine, The Dark Crystal, Princess Mononoke, Akira, Howl's Moving Castle, My Neighbour Totoro, Tsotsi, Monster, The Doll House, Ghostworld, Requiem for a Dream, Lost in Translation, Full Metal Jacket, THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED, The Last Unicorn ....probably many more, though is hard to remember...
Television:
Southpark, Vic Reeves Big Night Out, The Young Ones, The Dangerous Brothers, Brass Eye, Louis Theroux, Mark Thomas, League of Gentlemen, Shameless
Television is mind numbing on the whole tho :o(
Books:
To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee, Bird Song - Sebastian Faulkes; A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth; Princess - Jean Sasson; Midnight's Children - Salmon Rushdie; Down and Out in Paris and London, Animal Farm - George Orwell;
!!!!!!!!!!!!!1984.....George Orwell!!!!!!!!!! Read it again and again and again!
TV Nation, Stupid White Men, Dude, Where's my Country? - Michael Moore; Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser; Why do People Hate America - Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies; Why Read Marx today? - Jonathan Wolff, The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Frederich Engels; Trainspotting, Glue, Ecstacy, The Acid House, Porno - Irvine Welsh; Requiem for a Dream, Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr; High Society - Ben Elton; His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman; Out of It - Stuart Wilson; Memories of my Melancholy Whores, Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez...
I fucking hate Elizabeth Wurtzel. I hope all her books get torched simultaneously so her rants are forgotten for meaningless self indulgence!
Heroes:
My mother has been the greatest 'in-the-flesh' example of altruism, optimism and assertion in my life.
Che Guevara - A man who put his ideas into action and single-handedly organised revolutions (where are the Ches of today - where is OUR revolution?!?).
Gandhi and Martin Luther King for revolting using peaceful means.
Karl Marx for having the brains to attempt explain our bitter discontent and to provide a pathway to achieve equality.
Rosa Parks for sitting on the bus.
Rev Jesse Jackson for keeping the civil rights movement at the forefront of our minds.
Fela Kuti, for believing that it is never too late to instigate changes in society, no matter how corrupt and oppressive the regime may be.
Bill Hicks and Mark Thomas - what other comedians have put their politic so eloquently?
Tony Benn, for believing that there are alternatives to a neo-liberal, fascist, paternal, americanized governments and for continually expressing his distaste at the illegal war in Iraq.
Can't forget to mention NOAM CHOMSKY here too...the man is a legend and I aspire to gain as much positive influence over people using essential knowledge just as he has (Not much of an aspiration eh?!?!?!)
Joe Strummer - personally sacrificing convention to get us to LISTEN UP!!!
John Peel is considered a guiding light through my formative years :o)
