Drinking tea, eating good food, making music, making pictures, interacting with humans, conspiracies, Truths, theology, weird stuff, beautiful stuff, bestiality, answers, questions, The Meaning of Punk, Enlightenment, Analysis, folklore, universal myth
I'd like to meet:
Henry Rollins, Jimi Hendrix, Mark Lanegan, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Josh Homme, PJ Harvey, Glenn Danzig, Jesus Christ, Alan Moore, Stephen Fry, Matisyahu, Neil Fallon, Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd, Greg Dulli, real people, pretend people, real animals, pretend animals
Music:
Avenging Tracy, Skip Dinner & The Backyard Beckons, MoonBeatle, Hippies Chew Rockets, Sledge in the Glacier, Clouds Under Icarus, Telegram for Loretta, Taken Leave, Crazy Fire-Breathing Horse-Bastard. The Walking Duke, Hounds on a Fire Escape, Hazy Virtue, Real Blood Deliverance. All great bands. Check 'em out!
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....The Bronx, Afghan Whigs, Dinosaur Jr., Jane's addiction, Clutch, Mastodon, Matisyahu, The Secret Machines, Roots Manuva,Mogwai, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Jesu, Elbow, Distillers, The Smashing Pumpkins, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Antony & The Johnsons, Clutch, Neil Young, Murder City Devils,Led Zeppelin, Mercury Rev, Flaming Lips, Queens of the Stone Age, Pavement, Weird War, Danzig
Movies:
Carol Talks to a Cat, Lemons Grow Quicker, Shine Off the Moon, Through Cave & Combine, Forgotten Chimney, Never Say Feel. Those kind of films.
Television:
I don't have television as such, but I do like to sit on the sofa & watch DVDs of stuff that has been broadcast on television. I like House, Arrested Development, Mighty Boosh, My Name Is Earl, Twin Peaks, Spongebob Squarepants, Ren & Stimpy, Deadwood, Monty Python. If I am at a friend's house & Crimewatch is on, then that's a bonus. & if anybody could get me a year trial writing for Neighbours, that would be great.
Books:
I like drawings with my books, & any opportunity to draw parallels between trash culture & folklore/myth patterns makes me cosy & contented.
So, comics.
I reckon comics are pretty hard done by, & it's probably all to do with pictures.
An amazing artist is just as good as an amazing author, & in a great comic you'll get to enjoy the harmonising, dissonance, & solo-ing of both.
Comics don't have to be dumb (although that can be fun; eg. MILK & CHEESE);
SANDMAN is an epic exploration of Existence in it's entirity, & all that might imply. THE INVISIBLES is an epic exploration of Acid-Punk author, GRANT MORRISON's, existence, & all that THAT may imply. Both are pretty crazy.
FRANK MILLER's (SIN CITY, DARK KNIGHT ..., YEAR ONE, ELEKTRA LIVES etc.) print-stain, cheese-dream exaggerations pervert existing genres, characters, & situations into ugly, cynical, yet ultimately thrilling, new shapes.I started reading X MEN when I was about 11; & when it sticks to it's key themes of alienation, & how confusing it is to work out what is, & then do, The Right Thing, it is still good.
I also have a lot of time for Batman. Batman is an eccentric, privileged, criminal psychopath, who comes up with criminal masterplans to foil the criminal masterplans of other eccentric, criminal, psychopaths. He has less fun than the guys he fights, & Batman's thirst for a revenge he can never get surely escalates the Gotham crime situation. He is a rich man, who dresses up as a bat & beats "bad" people up to try & feel less angsty. This never really works out for him though. If he's realised this, it hasn't stopped him. He's nuts.
Wolverine is a moody old ball of feral confusion. He spends so much time regretting the little of his past he does remember, & trying to find out about "who he is", that he never realises how heroic or sweet he actually is. I love that mutant.
See? Great literary characters. In comics.Edgar Allen Poe kicks also.Other books:
Gumbles,
The Very Hungry Caterpillar,
& best of all,
The Readers' Digest Book of Freaky Stuff (Thankyou, Helen).Look, I SWEAR I CAN READ
Heroes:
"WALL O' HEROICS"
