rocking out. bending guitar strings. grand pianos. glockenspiels. collecting vinyl records. live shows. NPR. missing peet's coffee. sipping espresso. microbrews. being a vegetarian and getting crap from my friends for it. amnesty international. art of less war. stomping on pedals. tweaking knobs on pedals. diesel sweeties. questionable content. cat and girl comics. intense conversations. comfortable silence. geeky endeavors. anticon collective. mcsweeney's. rad books. arthouse and foreign films. found sounds. noisemakers. art museums. watching roller derby. sarcasm. girls with tattoos. bitching about work. silent treatment when pissed. disappearing on people. finishing "the studio". amusing the cat. falling in love. falling out of love. saving the world.
at their best, there is gentleness in Humanity.
some understanding and, at times, acts of
courage
but all in all it is a mass, a glob that doesn’t
have too much.
it is like a large animal deep in sleep and
almost nothing can awaken it.
when activated it’s best at brutality,
selfishness, unjust judgments, murder.
what can we do with it, this Humanity?
nothing.
avoid the thing as much as possible.
treat it as you would anything poisonous, vicious
and mindless.
but be careful. it has enacted laws to protect
itself from you.
it can kill you without cause.
and to escape it you must be subtle.
few escape.
it’s up to you to figure a plan.
I have met nobody who has escaped.
I have met some of the great and
famous but they have not escaped
for they are only great and famous within
Humanity.
I have not escaped
but I have not failed in trying again and
again.
before my death I hope to obtain my
life.
~ from Charles Bukowski's blank gun silencer – 1994 ~
Currently obsessing over...
...Trail of Dead.
65DaysOfStatic.
Andrew Bird.
Arcade Fire.
Autolux.
Band of Horses.
Battles.
Billy Bragg.
Blonde Redhead.
Califone.
Cat Power.
Citizens Here And Abroad.
cLOUDDEAD.
Dinosaur Jr.
Do Make Say Think.
Electrelane.
Explosions In The Sky.
The Field.
Fugazi.
Fujiya & Miyagi.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
Grizzly Bear.
Guided By Voices.
Heartless Bastards.
Jolie Holland.
The Knife.
Laura.
LCD Soundsystem.
Liars.
Low.
Magnetic Fields.
Man Man.
Massive Attack.
Mazzy Star.
Menomena.
Mission of Burma.
Modest Mouse.
Mono.
Mum.
My Bloody Valentine.
Pavement.
Pink Floyd.
Pixies.
Porcupine Tree.
Radiohead.
Red Sparowes.
She Wants Revenge.
Sigur Ros.
Silver Mt. Zion.
Silversun Pickups.
Slint.
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin.
Sonic Youth.
Steve Reich.
Sunset Rubdown.
Tapes 'n Tapes.
Thee More Shallows.
TV On The Radio.
The Velvet Underground.
The Walkmen.
Wolf Parade.
Why?
World's End Girlfriend.
The Lives Of Others
Run Lola Run
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Pan's Labyrinth
Little Miss Sunshine
Factotum
V for Vendetta
Harold and Kumar...
High Fidelity
Garden State
Goodbye Lenin
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
Great Expectations
My Summer of Love
Y tu Mama Tambien
Sex & Lucia
Blue Velvet
Almost Famous
The Big Lebowski
House of Sand and Fog
Super Troopers
Amelie
Good Will Hunting
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Girl on the Bridge
Waking Life
Requiem for a Dream
City of God
The Motorcycle Diaries
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Mulholland Dr
The Usual Suspects
Memento
The Battle of Algiers
I Heart Huckabees
Arrested Development
Freaks & Geeks
Colbert Report
Daily Show with Jon Stewart
IFC
Sundance Channel
LOST
Family Guy
Scrubs
Carnivale
PBS documentaries
George Saunders
Dave Eggers
Jonathan Lethem
Nick Hornby
Noam Chomsky
Thomas Pynchon
Charles Bukowski
Hunter S. Thompson
Kurt Vonnegut
Jack Kerouac
David Foster Wallace
Henry Miller
Chuck Palahniuk
J. D. Salinger
Vikram Seth
Hubert Selby Jr.
Franz Kafka
George Orwell
Arundhati Roy
Bill Bryson
Neal Stephenson
Richard Lowenstein
Tintin Comics
The Economist
The Nation
Rachel Corrie, Steve Albini, Pete Cornish, John Peel