Good: the "me" in "team", making out, dry humping, small boobs, non-monogamy, sarcasm, post-binary gender choice, pro-sex feminism, brainy talk, dirty phone cam pics and the friends who send them, literal and metaphorical self-immolation, hagelslaag, American Apparel underwear, Ben Sherman shirts, Dickies pants, auto-cross on the Riverway, cyclo-cross in Franklin Park, and my bass.
Evil: cultural irony, trucker hats, PBR, dolled-up chicks paired off with sloppy dudes, jealousy, being unlovable, bike dorks, Che Guevara t-shirts and the bearded hipster hypocrites that wear them, feeling like a minority of one.
Strivers, sufferers, inspirators, and co-conspirators.
I also wouldn't mind meeting women my own age once in a while. Gosh.
I like the Misfits, not the Ramones. Kraftwerk, not Devo. Joe Jackson, not Billy Joel. The Dead Kennedys, not the Dead Milkmen. Jazz, not Classical. Rhythm, not melody. There is a culture war going on, and I'm not afraid to pick sides.
I like Prince, Bad Brains, The Smiths, Joy Division, The Cure, Youth of Today, Gorilla Biscuits, Bold, New Order, Bauhaus, Gang of Four, !!!, Slapshot, SS Decontrol, Misfits, Dizzee Rascal, Sebadoh, Echo and the Bunnymen, Agnostic Front, Token Entry, Kraftwerk, Galaxie 500, Rollins, Black Dice, Don Cabellero, The Melvins, The Need, Sleater-Kinney, Lightning Bolt, At The Drive-In, Think Tree, Rocky Votolato, High On Fire, Fantomas, Mr. Bungle, Tomahawk, Peeping Tom, John Zorn.
Purple Rain, The Warriors, Pretty In Pink, The Breakfast Club, Some Kind of Wonderful, Dune, Eraserhead, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Willy Wonka, A Clockwork Orange, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Taxi Driver, Nosferatu, Brokeback Mountain, Donnie Darko, Tron.
The Cannon of every good English major.
Lately: Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx; Drugs Are Nice by Lisa Crystal Carver; We Owe You Nothing; The Fool's Daughter and Other Stories by Sean Manseau; Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Choinard; Vows: The Story of a Priest, A Nun, and Their Son by Peter Manseau; Hip: The History; Can't Stop Won't Stop.