Grace and holiness, raising Noodle & Superstar into responsible citizens, libertarian thought; not libertarianism, brotherhood, the pursuit of happiness, transhumanism, imagination as the seed of innovation, art in all forms, minding my Ps and Qs, humor as the autoimmune system of the soul, "the best revenge," self-sufficiency and interdependence, perpetual education, spending the rest of my life with a woman who "gets it," you know - just the small stuff
I'd like to meet:
All the same people I wanted to meet when I was 15. You'll get that if you know the story and/or that aspect of my madness. It's sort of like stardom in reverse.
Music:
!!!, Aimee Mann, Arcade Fire, Bauhaus, The Beatles, Beck, Benny Goodman, Blonde Redhead, Bob Mould, The Brand New Heavies, BT, Cake, Camper Van Beethoven, The Chemical Brothers, The Clash, Clem Snide, Cocteau Twins, Coldplay, The Connells, Cranes, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Cure, Cypress Hill, Danny Elfman, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, David Bowie, David Gilmour, Dead Can Dance, The Dead Milkmen, Doves, Eddy Duchin Orchestra, Elastica, Elvis Costello, English Beat, Fiona Apple, The Flaming Lips, Fleetwood Mac, Flogging Molly, Garbage, The Golden Palominos, Gorillaz, Hot Club of Detroit, Herbie Hancock, Iggy Pop, The Insides, Jack Johnson, Jeff Buckley, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Jethro Tull, John Coltrane, Johnny Cash, Kevin Shields, The Killers, Ladytron, Lamb, Led Zepplin, The Libertines, Lori Carson, Love Jones, Madness, Marc Bolan, Massive Attack, Medicine, Men at Work, Michael Penn, Miles Davis, Mojave 3, Morphine, My Bloody Valentine, Neil Halstead, New Order, Nick Drake, Nick Lowe, Nirvana, Orbital, Patrick Warren, Pinback, Pink Floyd, The Police, Portishead, Public Enemy, Queen, Radiohead, The Ramones, Royskopp, Rufus Wainwright, Rush, The Shins, Sigur Ros, Simon & Garfunkel, The Sisters of Mercy, Slowdive, Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, Steely Dan, Sugar, The Sundays, Super Furry Animals, Talking Heads, Tears for Fears, This Mortal Coil, Tortoise, Underworld, Venus Hum, Veruca Salt, Violent Femmes, Warren Zevon, Wu-Tang Clan
Movies:
Lost in Translation, Real Genius, 28 Days Later, Rob Roy, In America, The Devil's Backbone, Brick, LA Confidential, Star Wars, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, I "Heart" Huckabees, Blade Runner, Fight Club, Blue Crush, Office Space, Benny & Joon, The Big Lebowski, Metropolis, Thumbsucker, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Beetlejuice, Slums of Beverly Hills, Todd Browning's Freaks, Big Trouble in Little China, Millions, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Kontroll, La Dolce Vida, The Host, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, High Fidelity, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Frida, The Frighteners, U-Turn, Life is Beautiful, 300, Last of the Mohicans, Fletch, Gangs of New York, Superman II, The Addiction, Ravenous, American History X, The Shawshank Redemption, Slither, Shaun of the Dead, The Avaitor, Goonies, Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, Mirrormask, and any other flick that takes me to a different place and time or teaches me something
Television:
Law & Order, Burn Notice, (the former has 8-weeks of top ratings on the USA Network Thursday nights and Bruce Campbell - so check it out), Venture Bros., House, COPS, Freaks and Geeks, Firefly, Twin Peaks, America's Funniest Home Videos of Your Mom
Books:
Alfred Bester: The Stars My Destination. George Orwell: 1984. Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451. Neil Gaiman: Sandman Season of Mists, Sandman Endless Nights, American Gods, The Books of Magic. Cormac McCarthy: The Blood Meridian. Michelle Stalla, Joshua Quittner: Masters of Deception. H P Lovecraft, ed Peter Straub: Library of America Lovecraft Tales. Sophocles: The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles. Viktor Frankl: Man's Search for Meaning. Stumpf: Socrates to Sartre. Scott McCloud: Understanding Comics. Clive Barker: The Damnation Game, Cabal. Amy Kiste Nyberg: Seal of Approval The History of the Comics Code. Nick Yapp: 1920s The Hulton Getty Picture Collection, 1930s The Hulton Getty Picture Collection, Richard Matheson; I am Legend, among others
Heroes:
Jesus, Lao Tzo, Jody Vickery, Otto von Bismarck, Steve Rude, Ben Stein, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Fred Thompson, Rubel Shelley, Steve Fossett, Sir Richard Branson, Guillermo del Toro, Abraham Maslow, Gustave Dor?, Dita Von Teese, Patrick Warren, my grandpa; Leigh Edward Raven, Peter Sellers, Salma Hayek, Sasha Baron Coen, Amanda Connor, Steve Ditko, Gavin Gossett, Grigory Perelman, Joel Hodgeson, Daniel Edwards, Cate Blanchett, the Dalai Lama, Lord Anthony Ashley-Cooper, J. Christoph Amberger, anybody who does their thing without apology or much caring about having an audience
