A fire in the face. A hurricane in the ears. Oceans in the eyes. And dirt, mire and grime in the heart. Good friends with whom to share a drink and an existential conversation. Transcendent social moments. Freedom from the tyranny of time. A hearty shot of whisky and a cold beer back. Words. Music. Noises. Electricity.
Some of my other cheap internet sanctuaries include:
EfeXorXr
Brooklyn Solipsist Society
Solip/Schism
The AstroBastards
And sometimes I take photos, which you can find at Flickr Grimages
I'd like to meet:
Punks, freaks, art-damaged nutcases, nihilists and other non-hippies in San Francisco (or anywhere else).
Music:
Punk, no wave, industrial, noise, breakcore, experimental, psychobilly, indie-spazz, folknoir, bebop, whatever. A million freak nobodies, plus recognizable pillars such as: Foetus, Swans, Gogol Bordello, Pogues, Cop Shoot Cop, Coil, Einstuerzende Neubauten, The Birthday Party, The Ex, Black Flag, Minor Threat, Fugazi, The Germs, The Stooges, Dead Kennedys, Cramps, Lydia Lunch, Firewater, Diamanda Galas, Swingin' Utters, The Briefs, Tom Waits, John Coltrane, Geraldine Fibbers, Skinny Puppy, SPK, Nurse With Wound, 16 Horsepower, Woven Hand, Babyland, Chrome Cranks, Sweep the Leg Johnny, Throbbing Gristle, Joy Division, Miles Davis, Black Heart Procession, Phylr, Amon Tobin, Test Dept., Controlled Bleeding, Dog Faced Hermans, Front 242, Dead Voices on Air, Dead Can Dance, Scared of Chaka, The Reatards, Pussy Galore, Dead and Gone, Pleasure Forever, Dirty Three, Kill Me Tomorrow, Lustmord, Laibach, Killing Joke, Billie Holiday, Duane Peters, Speedy J, Groovie Ghoulies, Polysics, Glenn Branca, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Tribes of Neurot, Download, Lab Report, Moe! Staiano, Morphine, Come, Thalia Zedek, Red Expendables, Contortions, Rev. Horton Heat, Hot Snakes, The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower, James Plotkin, Pain Teens, Imminent Starvation, Iszoloscope, Nitzer Ebb, Crass, The Gits, The Weirdos, The Queers, Hank Williams (I and III), Zodiac Killers, Wolf Eyes, and so on and so on.**RECENT SPINS**: Endif - "Meta"; Monolith - "Labyrinth"; Two Ton Boa - "Parasiticide"; Boredoms - "Wow 2"; Mouthus; Foetus - "Damp"; This Moment In Black History - "It Takes a Nation of Assholes to Hold Us Back"; etc.
Movies:
**RECENT VIEWS**: "Nightwatch"..."Daywatch"..."Where the Sidewalk Ends" (no, it's not a Shel Silverstein movie)..."D.O.A."..."Goodbye, South, Goodbye"..."Wicked City"...Botch live DVD...
Television:
Nope. I finally broke down and bought a 15-year-old mini-TV from Salvation Army, but I only watch VHS and DVD stuff I find at the library, since I can't get TV reception in The Pisshole, a/k/a, my apartment at the bottom of a Tenderloin air well.
Books:
The usual cynical and beautiful bastards: Hank Bukowski, Hubert Selby Jr., John Fante, Dan Fante, Georges Bataille, Dashiell Hammett, Hunter S. Thompson, Feral House, Creation Books, Steve Aylett, Henry Miller, Kathy Acker, David Wojnarowicz, Steven Jesse Bernstein, Steve Abee, Angela Carter, H.P. Lovecraft, Jack Kerouac, L.F. Celine, etc.
**RECENT READS**: James Howard Kunstler - "The Geography of Nowhere"; etc.And hands down the best book title of the past 5 years has to be Nick Flynn's "Another Bullshit Night in Suck City."
Heroes:
The unbowed and the unbroken. The dedicated and the insane. The ones who hear voices and ignore the bullhorn of leaden authority. Stubborn psychos who write poetry. Drunks with their tongues in the volcano. Religious defectors. Dirty angels. Escapees.
And so on.
