Music, Poetry, Books, Kalimotxo, Horseshoes, Movies, Barbecue, Girls, Fun - what else is there? ..
Everyone I listed in my favorite music category; Sri Ramakrishna; Thomas Merton; Fareed Zakaria; Scarlett Johanson; Christina Ricci; Rumi; Camille Paglia; Chris Hedges; Edna St. Vincent Millay and Sylvia Plath (simultaneously); Leonardo DaVinci; You; Jon Stewart; Edward Said; Howard Zinn; The four people I want to meet in heaven would be Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, and Walt Whitman for endless nights of spontaneous bop prosody and wine-cup antics.
Everyone says this, but I am into all kinds of music. Right now I seem to be stuck on MF DOOM and other undie rappers. However, if you really want to know how I would rank them, here they are:In order of importance in my life and in the development of my musical sensibilities (as of 10/05): Metallica - Kill 'Em All, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, ..And Justice For All; Iron Maiden - Killers and S/T; Black Sabbath - Paranoid and We Sold our Soul;AC/DC - Live, Highway to Hell, Back in Black, and Dirty Deeds; Led Zeppelin - 1 and 4; G and F'n R!Bad Religion - Suffer; Minor Threat - Complete Discography; Slayer - Reign in Blood; Radiohead - OK Computer; Elliott Smith - everything; Pink Floyd - Dark Side and Wish you Were Here; MxPx - Life In General and Teenage Politics; Blink 182 - Cheshire Cat and Dude Ranch; Zeke - Death Alley, Til the Living End, Dirty Sanchez, Flat Tracker, Super Sound Racing; Tom Waits; Extreme - Pornograffiti; Cream; Hendrix; Annie - Anniemal; Prefuse 73 - everything; Bizet - Carmen; MF DOOM; THE EXPLODING HEARTS; The Shins; Wolf Parade; Of Montreal; Kanye West has taken me by surprise; At the Gates. BELLE AND SEBASTIAN - especially Tigermilk Muthaphucking Titannica. Django Reinhardt rules. And of course, the world's greatest Slash Metal band, Slasher...
Amadeus, Eternal Sunshine, Sideways, Napoleon Dynamite, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (and everything else by Wes Anderson), The Big Lebowski. Me and You and Everyone We Know, Match Point. The Seventh Seal. Blade Runner.
The Daily Show. Deadwood. PBS.
J.D. Salinger - 9 Stories, Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, Raise High the Roofbeam Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction. J.M. Coetzee - Elizabeth Costello and Disgrace. Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves. Everything by James Joyce and Franz Kafka . Camus, Kerouac, William Blake. Walt Whitman. The comedies and trageidies of Shakespeare. Michael Parenti, William Blum, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky. Tolstoy - War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Illych.Camille Paglia - Sex, Art, and American Culture; Vamps and Tramps; Sexual Personae. If you are at all interested in the state of American Cities and the greater climate in which our civic life exists, read the book Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and The Decline of the American Dream. I can't recommend it enough, thanks Reuben. David Sedaris
Subcomandante Marcos - Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional ..