art, music, turntables, analog soundwaves, interesting folks, banter, books, dogs, sideburns, ecclectic ass shizzle, insects, serial killers, food, cooking, eating, drinking
george bush so i can smack him in his dumbass head; camille paglia 'cause she's nuts and fascinating at the same time; scott herendon 'cause prefuse is genius; sir david attenborough, 'cause he's a programming genius and his documentaries shaped my life as a kid and fed and stimulated my curiosity; jacques chirac just because; mahmoud abbas so i can get a better perspective on what is going on in the homeland.
.. ..> hip-hop, trip-hop, blip-hop, old time string bands, jazz, glam rock, shoegazer, house, garage, idm, opera, modern classical music, 80's metal, new wave, electro clash, old school country music, bossa nova, cubanismo, mexican disco, french hip-hop, cock rock .... this could go on and on.
one flew over the cookoos nest and the shining have to rank right up there at the top, but then anything by the cohen brothers and the brothers quay, city of god, beautiful creatures, totoro, and anything by hayayo miyazaki - princess mononoke, spirit world, the big lobowski, fight club, crash, closer, lost in translation, the royal tannenbaums, igby goes down, traffic, harold and maude, the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, high fidelity, the boondock saints, damage, the unbearable liteness of being, texas chainsaw massacre, run ronnie run, pecker...., all kinds of kung foo, also kung faux, basquiat, john waters' crazy ass shizz, the cremaster cycle [if anyone has copies of the cremaster cycle, i wanna know about it], kirosawa, control room, farenheit 911, sometimes i like the action, i generally prefer the indies, i almost always like obscure stuff ... i'll add more if i feel like it.
i grew up on the young ones and david attenborough's incredible nature documentaries, also all of those old jacques cousteau documentaries, lost my interest in tv news when i moved to the u.s., so i have to admit that i often get sucked into really stupid t.v., but won't admit to most of it. i like the simpsons and king of the hill, and that's enough about that - suffice it to say that there is not much really worth watching on network t.v., and it makes no sense to pay a ton of money for cable. and what the fuck is up with american idol - is this really supposed to make us have hope in our society, or demoralise us by revealing the truly mundane aspirations of our people?
graham green, kurt vonnegut, salman rushdie, tim robbins, lots of stuff - i like satirical stuff, historical stuff, social commentary, books about art and artists and social trends and .... stuff. i have more books than i have shelf space, and i keep coming across books i didn't even know i have - it's good. i can't afford enough books to satisfy me, my friends threaten to disown me if i move again, 'cause it's too much stuff to carry around. someday i hope to have a space which functions as my library - it will be like heaven.
denise hausen, jacques cousteau, penut butter, danger mouse, conan o'brien, john stuart, yo' mamma