Reading and planning adventures. Hunting and arguing with people who think manufacturing my own meat is a crime. Go read Cogs in the Great Machine and stay the hell away from my venison. I also love stand-up comedy. I've got gig experience from London to Seattle and if you're not careful I could well be coming soon to your neighborhood...
Condoleeza Rice. Evidently she's amazingly captivating and charming. And I like black chicks. Did you know there was an oil tanker named after her? I'd also like to meet the guy who invented speed bumps and the guy who stole Warner Howard's idea.And Chuck Barris.
Recently... can't get enough of Todd Snider. That guy is a legend. Also, Cody Chesnutt (even though he won't add me as a friend). If you've not heard the new KOL album - shame on you. My favorite song of all time is probably 'In the Meantime' by Spacehog. What a pretty piece of music! And let's not forget Mr. Daniel Johnston... another living legend.
Movies really piss me off. If you get roped into going to see a movie and you actually pay for the privelege that money goes right straight into the pockets of the movie makers and it is added to the Box Office revenue of said film and bumps it up in the ratings. But what if you watched the movie and somehow left thinking... "Man - that really blew... I should invoice these doucheheads for my time" or something along those lines? It's not like you can take it back. There should be a box outside the cinema called the "SUCK BOX" and if the movie sucked you can put your ticket stub in the SUCK BOX and it'll somehow not credit the movie with your presence. That way people will be forced to make quality films - like the Coen Bros. or Vincent Gallo.
I recently moved and I never bothered to buy a TV... that was in late October. So I've been without a TV for 5 whole months and I don't really miss it. I'll watch CSI if it's on. An ultra-hot ex-stripper MILF and a deaf guy that looks like he should be teaching Phys. Ed. rocking the foundations of the criminal world with sheer intuition and some gadgetry! YES PLEASE!Did you see Zinedine Zidane (French National Football [aka soccer] Star)headbutt that greasy Italian piece of shit in the solar plexus in overtime of the World Cup Final? I know it's my civic duty as an American to hate the French but I kind of like them. They're self-absorbed, have great food (trust me on this), hot women and the don't give a toss what anyone thinks of them - kind of like us.Anyway - he laid this dude out. Genius. Thank God for television!
Books kill me. I like a good biography about somebody who actually did something. Everyone's got a biography but if all you did was act in movies because your Dad and your brother did then you're not really entitled to a biography in my professional opinion. Even if all that privelege and dumb luck landed you in Viet Nam or some shit. I thoroughly enjoyed Larry Flynt's bio as well as Chuck Barris's. Those guys are true Americans and if I wasn't so Goddamn lazy and include them in my 'Heroes' entry as well. Also, there's a dude called DBC Pierre (don't worry - he's not French) and he's got two books out. Go buy both of them and then take a few days off works and sit on the beach with those two little gems... If you don't thoroughly enjoy yourself email me and I'll reimburse you the price of the books.
Ever heard of Douglas Bader? He was this fighter pilot and he had no legs. He was showing off and crashed the plane and had to have his legs amputated... SO of course he's devestated because all he wants to do is fly and the Royal Air Force (he was English) is like "sorry mate, you got no legs..." But he wasn't having any of it. Anyway, having no legs actually worked in his favor because he could really maneuver that plane and I guess when you do certain things in a plane your blood gets sucked out of your head and down into your torso and legs. But he didn't have any so he was more inclined to not pass out... Anyway, he gets himself in a Nazi prison and tries to escape on tin legs (I guess early prosthetics were made from tin). Imagine that - trying to escape on TIN LEGS!!! And so the Nazis - being the clever bastards that they seemed to think they were - take his legs away. And you know what he did?? He escaped again - with no legs. Imagine escaping from a Nazi prison with no legs?!?! Check him out... he's a Legend!