Overall:
To minimize pain and maximize pleasure for self and others.
In minutiae:
To get a good idea, see my profile: favorite movies, books and heros.
Kind, honest people with whom I can have fun while fully-clothed in a small room without electricity or other mod-cons.
Should enjoy and understand HOW TO COMMUNICATE and HOW TO LISTEN. Must love to laugh but not exclusively at the expense of others, know when to be serious and how to be silent.
For all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these,
"It Might Have Been..."
DTK-LAMF!
This list could go on FOREVER...my top picks:
EAP-Elvis Aaron Presley,
The Flamin' Groovies,
JOHNNY THUNDERS & THE HEARTBREAKERS, NEW YORK DOLLS, T. Rex, Bay City Rollers, Iggy & The Stooges, RAMONES, The Clash, Bad Brains, Polly Jean Harvey, CRASS, Snake River Conspiracy, The Factory, Hanoi Rocks, Sylvain Sylvain, The Shangri-Las, MOTORHEAD, THE WILDHEARTS, THE YO-YOS, Supershit 666, Bubble, REM, THE THE, Portishead, Skinny Puppy, Danko Jones, Rolling Stones prior to 'Steel Wheels', MARIANNE FAITHFUL, THE RUNAWAYS, The Gits, Mark Lanegan, Desert Sons, Masters of Reality, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE when NickO was in the band, MOndO Generator, Eagles of Death Metal, Scissorfight, Speeddealer , Duane Peters, The Distillers, Clutch, Truckfighters, Firestone, Artemius Piledriver, Melvins, Lard, MINISTRY, KMFDM, NIRVANA, Peter Murphy/Bauhaus, UK Subs, Sham 69, Dead Boys, Backyard Babies, Black Halos, James Hall, Mary My Hope, Ocean Colour Scene, Crucified Barbara, ZZ Top, The Supersuckers, Hank Williams- The 1st & 3rd, Ac/Dc especially the Bon Scott Years, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, OutKast, Missy Elliot, Public Enemy, Chuck D, Bootsy Collins, P-Funk, George Clinton and Tina Turner.
WAR IS MENSTRUAL ENVY
Snake River Conspiracy music video for "Vulcan"
Drain the Blood by The Distillers
Marianne Faithfull - "Working Class Hero" (live)
I GOTTA LAUNDER MY KARMA
Kill Bill Battleflag
GOT A REVOLUTION BEHIND MY EYES, WE GOTTA GET UP AND ORGANIZE...
SWEET BIRD OF TRUTH - THE THE
THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN CALLING,
WITH AN URGENT WARNING - WE'RE ABOVE THE GULF OF ARABIA,
OUR ALTITUDE IS FALLING.
the clash - the call up
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WHO KNOWS THE REASONS WHY YOU HAVE GROWN UP?
WHO GIVES YOU WORK AND WHY DO YOU DO IT?
IT'S 55 MINUTES PAST 11...
To Kill A Mockingbird,
Sooner,
True Grit,
Hannie Caulder,
Flight of the White Stallions - Fantasia,
Amélie,
Hud,
East of Eden,
American Grafitti,
High Plains Drifter - The Beguiled,
Judgement at Nuremberg,
BraZil,
When We Were Kings,
Network,
Roller Ball (1974 version w/ James Caan),
The Rocky Horror Picture Show,
The Wall,
Romeo is Bleeding,
Bad Lieutenant,
Closetland,
I Spit on Your Grave - Last House on the Left,
The Little Girl That Lived Down the Lane,
War Is Menstrual Envy,
Liquid Sky,
9 1/2 Weeks,
Scarface-1980's version,
Raising Arizona,
Pulp Fiction,
The Usual Suspects,
Snatch - Lock, Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels,
V For Vendetta,
Pi,
Requiem for a Dream,
The Velvet Goldmine,
Johnny Thunders in The Last Rock-n-Roll Movie,
The Filth & the Fury,
Mayor of the Sunset Strip,
Edgeplay-The True Story of The Runaways,
WHO CARES, The Duane Peters Story - “I’m a punk rocker and a skateboarder. Period.â€
American Hardcore,
Dig!
The Matrix
Deathproof
The Agronomist,
The Corporation,
American Blackout,
Iraq for Sale,
The Big Buy: Tom Delay's Stolen Congress,
Loose Change II Director's Cut,
Unconstitutional,
American Dictators,
Commander in Thief,
New Orleans: From Big Easy to Big Empty,
Hip Hop, Beyond the Beats & Rhymes
Cocaine Cowboys
Every Woman Has a Foot Fantasy,
DDF Hot Legs & Feet,
Suze Randall's 'Trash Talk',
The Best of Kelly,
Piss Fontaine by 666/John Thompson
Most of my favorite shows have been cancelled but at least some are available on DVD:
The Twilight Zone, Nightflight, The Classic SNL years, Isis, ScoobyDoo (before Scrappy came on and ruined it just like that asshat Cha-Chi did on Happy Days), After School Specials, Bionic Woman, Charlie Angels, One Day at a Time, Headbanger's Ball, 120 Minutes, American Gothic, My So-Called Life, Freaks & Geeks, Most of The 'E' True Hollywood stories, funny animal videos, America by Horseback, The Dog Whisperer (I HEART KITTY-LOVE!), Ovation TV, The L Word, A&E Biographies, Weeds, Footballers Wives, DER WONDERSHOWZEN! Harry Shearer, Real Time with Bill Maher, IFC, Bill Moyers Journal, Democracy Now, Link TV, PBS & BBC News, European Journal, The Daily Show, Colbert Report, Countdown w/ Keith Olberman, South Park, Sexy Cam (OH Canada!), Video Justice, ACLU Freedom Files, RFD TV, Ab Fab, Ultimate Fighter, Rob and Big, Breaking Bad, GOLTV, Serie A Italian Futbol and The English Premier League.
I've loved SO many great books in my life-time. I usually have several books going at once. Here's a short list of MUST-reads but if I had to pick just one, hands-down, without equal it's gotta be
PLEASE KILL ME!
then:
Runaway Pancake- A Wrinkle in Time- All Marguerite Henry- A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh Series- Are You There God? It's Me Margaret- The Velveteen Rabbit- To Kill a Mockingbird-Anything by Alice Walker, esp. Possessing the Secret of Joy and The Color Purple- Where The Red Fern Grows- Sounder- The Red Pony- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Catch 22...well ALL *Kurt Vonnegut* actually, Armed Madhouse, Bush's Brain, Worse Than Watergate, Our Endangered Moral Values, Help at Any Cost, An American Gulag, A Jury of Her Peers- Peachtree Road- Christiane F.- The True Story of the Rolling Stones- Johnny Thunders' Biography by Nina Antonia- - The MakeUp and BreakUp of the New York Dolls, and I'll finish this later 'cause it's 4:20...
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
Mom & Dad
The greatest accomplishment in life is for a child to know you love her, unconditionally, without fail, forgetfulness, cruelty or coercion beyond the end of all time.
Countless times, the one thing that gets me out of bed in the morning, the thing that motivates me to fight through another day, the thing that stops me from spilling blood, from inflicting pain or grave harm upon myself or others...is the knowledge that to do otherwise would dishonor my parents.
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Margaret Sanger, Ann Richards, Mia Hamm and Anita Roddick
Investigate their lives...in detail, then follow their examples.
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Alice Crowley, Bob & Ed, Mrs. Billings, Katherine Mackinnon, Jeanette Hall, Steve Matthews, Joe Bugg, Michael Sears, My Brave Friend, Cherie Currie, Pamela Des Barres, Paolo Maldini, Cesare Maldini, Fabio Cannavaro, Ian Williams Goddard, Greg Palast, Robert Greenwald, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Jack Herer, Keith Olbermann, Marianne Faithful, George Soros, John Podesta, Max Cleland, Senator Patrick Leahy, Travis County District Attorney Ronald Earle, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Helen Thomas, General Eric Shinseki, Bunnatine Greenhouse, Cynthia Cooper, Sherron Watkins, Robert Baer, Coleen Rowley, Ray McGovern, Cynthia Mckinney, Rep. Henry Waxman, Robert Fisk, Bill Moyers, Bill Maher, Howard Zinn, Patrick Fitzgerald, Molly Ivins and Harper Lee.
-I hope to add a few more before my time on this earth is over.
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Teddy Roosevelt
"Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years. "
- The Great Adventure, 1918
"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."
-"Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star", 149- May 7, 1918
"Viewed purely in the abstract, I think there can be no question that women should have equal rights with men."..."Especially as regards the laws relating to marriage there should be the most absolute equality between the two sexes. I do not think the woman should assume the man's name."
-"The Practicability of Equalizing Men and Women before the Law"
-Senior thesis at Harvard, 1880
"Much can be done by law towards putting women on a footing of complete and entire equal rights with man - including the right to vote, the right to hold and use property, and the right to enter any profession she desires on the same terms as the man."..."Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly."
-An Autobiography, 1913
"Working women have the same need to protection that working men have; the ballot is as necessary for one class as to the other; we do not believe that with the two sexes there is identity of function; but we do believe there should be equality of right."
-Speech-National Convention of the Progressive Party, Chicago,
-August 6,1911
"A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or small boys, or tortures animals."..."What we have a right to expect of the American boy is that he shall turn out to be a good American man."
-"The American Boy," St. Nicholas Magazine, May 1900
"There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man's heart and soul, the man's worth and actions, determine his standing."
-Letter, Oyster Bay, NY, September 1, 1903
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