EVILness (What is it? Who defines it? Where does it come from? When is it necessary? How is it justified? And why does it feel so good?), The Devil, Mythology, Theology, Religion, Secularism, Philosophy, Politics, History, Useless Trivia, Pop Culture, Pop Up Books, Comic Books, Cartoons, Looney Tunes, Muppets, Disney Musicals, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Aesop's Fables, Children's Stories, Superstitions, Wisdom, Balance, Stability, Resourcefulness, Versatility, Flexibility, Strength, Always Becoming Stronger Still, Exercise, Swimming, Skiing, Climbing, Parkour, Exploring, Hiking, Walking, Boxing, Sword Fighting, Weaponry, Debate, Conscientious Objections, Public Speaking, Sharp Quick Wittiness, Quotations, Questioning, Answering, More Questioning, Constant Continuous Learning, Knowledge, Intelligence, Intellect, Intellectualism, Complexity, Simplicity, Truth, Enlightenment, Progressivism, Paradigm Shifts, Scientific Skepticism, Reason, Randomness, Proper Etiquette, Civility, Absurdity, The Truly Disturbing, Desensitization, Provocation, Tempting Fate, Metaphors, Brain Teasers, Puzzles, Riddles, Murder Mysteries, Secrets, Gossip, Talking Shit, Talking Trash, Conversation, Socializing, Bonding, All Forms of Geekdom, Geeking Out, Theorizing, Tolerance, Permissiveness, Personal Histories of Damaged Personalities, Stories of Survival Through Fucked Up Experiences, Empathy, Vulnerability, Sensitivity, Offensiveness, Twisted Humor, Tasteless Jokes, Vulgarity, Profanity, Blasphemy, Sacrilege, Desecration, Debauchery, Wickedness, Villainy, Super Villainy, Corruption, Insurrection, Sedition, Subversion, Perversion, Pornography, Lasciviousness, Bondage Restraints, Implements of Torture, Sadistic Urges, Masochistic Tendencies, Pain, Screaming at the Skies, Dancing in the Rain, Singing in the Shower, Laughing Maniacally, Playing with Fire, Smiling Sinisterly, Theatre, Broadway, Performance Art, Stand Up Comedy, Satire, Role Playing, Idiosyncrasy, Taking Pride in One's Self Described Freakdom, Personal Style, Beauty, Romance, Fantasy, Reality, Alternate Realities, Originality, Invention, Creativity, Art, Collaging, Poetry, Tongue Twisters, Word Games, Mind Games, Card Games, Board Games, Chess, Strategy, Improvised Amusement, Mass Media Entertainment, Listening to the Wise and Elderly, Working With Children
The Fool comes to the foot of an enormous black mountain where reigns a creature half goat, half god. At his hooves, naked people linked to the god's throne by chains, engage in every indulgence imaginable: sex, drugs, food, gold, drink. The closer the Fool gets, the more he feels his own earthly desires rising in him. Lust, passion, obsession, greed. "I refuse to give into you!" he roars at the Goat god, resisting with all his might. The creature returns a curious look. "All I am doing is bringing out what is already in you," the beast responds. "Such feelings are nothing to fear, nothing to be ashamed of, or even to avoid." The Fool gestures angrily at the chained men and women, "You say that even though they live enslaved?" The Goat-god mimics the Fool's gesture. "Take another look."The Fool does so, and realizes that the chained collars the men and women wear are wide enough for them to easily slip off over their heads. "They can be free if they wish to be," the Goat-god says, "Though you are right. I am the god of your strongest desires. But you see here only those who have allowed their base, bestial desires to control them." At this the Goat-god gestures upward, toward the peak of the mountain. "You do not see those who have allowed their impulses and aspirations to take them up to the top of that mountain. Inhibitions can enslave as easily as excesses. They can keep you from following your passion to the highest heights." The Fool realizes the truth in this, and that he has mistaken the Goat-god. Here he understands now, it is not a creature of evil, but of great power, the lowest and the highest, both of beast and god. Like all power it is frightening, and dangerous...but it is also the key to freedom and transcendence if understood and well used.
Evoke emotions and make it memorable. Lacking that, play me something with soul. Lacking that, play me something with skill. Lacking that, just make her easy to look at in music video format. Examples: AC/DC, Alice in Chains, Amon Amarth, A Perfect Circle, Autumns, Bad Company, Beach Boys, Biz Markie, Björk, Black Crows, Black Flag, Blue Oyster Cult, James Brown, Jeff Buckley, Cars, Johnny Cash, Children of Bodom, Patsy Cline, Counting Crows, Cowboy Junkies, Cream, Credence Clearwater Revival, Cure, Danzig, Darkness, Dashboard Confessional, Dramarama, Eels, Electric Six, Eminem, Explosions in the Sky, Faith No More, Fall Out Boy, Genesis, Gorillaz, Great Big Sea, Guns N’ Roses, Guster, GWAR, Immortal Technique, Incubus, INXS, Jimmie's Chicken Shack, Billy Joel, King Missile, Korn, Lamb, Avril Lavigne, Linkin Park, Lynard Skynard, Don Mclean, Meatloaf, Misfits, Alanis Morissette, Moxy Früvous, My Chemical Romance, Nirvana, Oasis, Sinead O’Connor, Oingo Boingo, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Liz Phair, Pinback, Pixies, Louis Prima, Portishead, Prodigy, Public Enemy, Queen, Rage Against The Machine, Rascals, Reel Big Fish, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Semisonic, Beau Sia, Sigur Ros, Frank Sinatra, Smashing Pumpkins, Jill Sobule, Regina Spektor, Steve Miller Band, System of a Down, Tears for Fears, Temple of the Dog, They Might Be Giants, Third Eye Blind, Three Dog Night, Tool, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Saul Williams, Gretchen Wilson, Weird Al Yankovich, The Who, ZZTop
Anything that melds substance, style, and talent. Note: 2 out of 3 ain't bad. Examples: 12 Monkeys, 300, Adaptation, Airplane!, Amelie, The Aristocrats, Batman Begins, Battle Royale, Beauty and The Beast, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, The Believer, The Big Chill, The Big Sleep, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Blazing Saddles, Bound, The Breakfast Club, Bully, Casablanca, Cecil B DeMented, City of God, The City of Lost Children, Clue, The Crow, Cyrano de Bergerac, Damage, Dead Ringers, The Devil’s Rejects, District B13, Dogma, The Emperor’s New Groove, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fight Club, Frailty, Friday Night Lights, Galaxy Quest, Gattaca, Grandma's Boy, Grindhouse, Gummo, Hard Candy, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, The Host, Hostel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Iron Giant, Jarhead, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Kids, Kung Fu Hustle, Lilo and Stitch, Matchstick Men, May, Memento, Mysterious Skin, Newsies, Ordinary People, Pi, Primal Fear, The Princess Blade, The Princess Bride, The Professional, Pulp Fiction, The Ref, Roman Holiday, Saved!, Secretary, Sin City, Sleeping Beauty, The Sound of Music, South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut, The Spanish Prisoner, Spartan, The Stand, Tank Girl, Thank You For Smoking, The Third Man, Titus, Trois Couleurs, True Romance, The Truman Show, Twin Falls Idaho, Visitor Q, West Side Story, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, X2 X Men United, Yamasaki
Whatever's on and whatever's good, when i feel compelled to enslave myself to the one-eyed flashing idiot box. Examples: The Adventures of Sam and Max Freelance Police, Aeon Flux, Animaniacs, Batman The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, Best Week Ever, The Boondocks, The Colbert Report, The Critic, The Daily Show, Dexter, Ducktales, Eek! the Cat, The Fairly Odd-Parents, Firefly, Freakazoid!, Futurama, Gargoyles, Heroes, House, Invader Zim, Looney Tunes, LOST, The Maxx, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Nip/Tuck, The Oblongs, The Riches, The Simpsons, South Park, So You Think You Can Dance?, Spongebob Squarepants, MTV’s The State, Survivor, The Tick, Tiny Toons, To Catch A Predator, The West Wing (seasons 1-4)
It's not often I read books that don't require an artist, colorist, and letterer in addition to a writer. Comic books are just the superior narrative format. Examples: 100 Bullets, The Adventures of Barry Ween Boy Genius, Arsenic Lullaby, The Authority, Batman, Battle Pope, Bone, Calvin and Hobbes, Chosen, Fables, Global Frequency, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Hitman, How Loathsome, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Losers, The Maxx, Midnight Nation, Powers, Preacher, Punisher, Queen and Country, Rising Stars, Sandman, Scud The Disposable Assassin, Sinfest, Sleeper, Sparks An Urban Fairytale, Squee, Strangers in Paradise, Stray Bullets, Transmetropolitan, Wanted, Y The Last Man
My family, my friends, and the All-American blue-collared working stiff (immense respect to you, sirs and madams). Thomas Jefferson is the most brilliant writer of the English language (all due respect to that Shakespeare fellow, but it's true). Knights, Pirates, & Ninjas. Cyrano de Bergerac, Don Quixote, & Le Petit Prince. The Joker, Spider Jerusalem, & Tank Girl. Lilith, Maleficent, & The White Witch. Wile E Coyote, Eek! the cat, & Courage the Cowardly Dog. Aesop, the Brothers Grimm, & Dr. Suess. Buddah, Lao-Tzu, & Confucius. Lucifer, Jesus of Nazareth, & Martin Luther. Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, & William James Sidis. Michael Collins, Huey P Newton, & Mahatma Ghandi. Edward R Murrow, Bill Moyer, & Christiane Amanpour. Bill Hicks, Bill Maher, & Jon Stewart (along with Stephen Colbert and all Daily Show news correspondents). Eddie Izzard, David Cross, & Christopher Titus. Harry Houdini, Bruce Lee, & Muhammed Ali. Buster Keaton, Stephen Chow, & Andy Serkis. David Belle, Zoë Bell, & Tony Jaa. Humphrey Bogart, Gregory Peck, & Cary Grant. Yul Kwon, Beau Sia, & Ken Watanabe. Hiroo Onada, The 442nd Regimental Combat Team, & and though I don't know his name, the unknown rebel in Tiananmen Square will forever stand as the guiding light for the way I live my life. And I have recently fallen madly in love with Ayaan Hirsi Ali and all that she has done with her life.