Writing music, being in the woods, going to shows, getting drunk and trying to figure out High On Fire and Mastodon riffs, getting really stoned, listening to music, hunting for vinyl at armageddon shop, watching hockey, camping, snowboarding, skiing, kenpo karate, mountain biking, civil disobedience, anarchy, native cultures, animal/human rights, political conspiracies and rants...etc.
I'd like to meet:
people who can think for themselves...
Music:
too many to name all, but here's a few...old Metallica, Sepultura, Mastodon, High On Fire, Fear Factory, Black Sabbath, Down, Corrosion Of Conformity, Machine Head, Electric Wizard, Tool, Clutch, Sleep, Opeth, Napalm Death, Kyuss, Entombed, Carcass, YOB, Slayer, Crowbar, Earthless, Ocean, Strapping Young Lad, Ministry, Black Cobra, Obituary, Isis, Cathedral, NIN, Faith No More, Neurosis, Scissorfight, Mouth Of The Architect, Bongzilla, Disappearer, Eyehategod, Tides, Mono, Unearthly Trance, Nebula, Venom, Weedeater, Earthride, Superjoint Ritual, Orange Goblin, Celtic Frost, St. Vitus, Throwing Shrapnel, Sea Of Bones, The Body, Sin Of Angels, L.O.A., Thin Lizzy, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Hendrix, Queen, old Pink Floyd, Bob Marley, Johnny Cash, Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, Cro- Mags, Misfits, etc...and any hip hop that doesn't suck.
Movies:
Pulp Fiction, American Beauty, The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou, Terminator, T2, Matrix, Easy Rider, Almost Famous, Walk The Line, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Snatch, Traffic, Unforgiven, Fight Club, Fear Of A Black Hat, Kill Bill, Jesus Camp, (more of a documentary really).
Television:
Family Guy, South Park, The Daily Show, The Simpsons, Robot Chicken, Chappelle's show, The Colbert Report, Harvey Birdman, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The X-Files, 24, the Documentary channel, the History Channel, Discovery channel, Monty Python's Flying Circus
Books:
1984, A People's History Of The United States, A Delusion Of Satan, Devil's Knot, and anything by Chomsky
Heroes:
see "music"...
"Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather."
"People come up to me and say, 'What's wrong?' Nothing. 'Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile.' Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?"
Fundamentalist Christianity. Fascinating. These people actually believe the world is 12 thousand years old. Swear to God! Based on what? I asked them. 'Well, we looked at all the people in the Bible, and we added them up all the way back to Adam and Eve, their ages 12 thousand years.' Well, how fucking scientific! Okay. I didn't know that you'd gone to so much trouble there. That's good.
You believe the world's 12 thousand years old? 'That's right.' Okay, I got one word to ask you. A one word question. Ready? 'Uh-uh.' Dinosaur.
You ever notice how people who believe in creationism look really unevolved?"
"A lot of Christians wear crosses around their necks. You think when Jesus comes back, he ever wants to see a fucking cross? Kind of like going up to Jackie Onassis with a rifle pendant on, you know."
"See, I think drugs have done some good things for us. I really do. And if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favour. Go home tonight. Take all your albums, all your tapes and all your CDs and burn them. 'Cause you know what, the musicians that made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years ... rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreal fucking high on drugs. The Beatles were so fucking high they let Ringo sing a few songs."
"The war on drugs to me is absolutely phoney; it's so obviously phoney, OK? It's a war against our civil rights, that's all it is. They're using it to make us afraid to go out at night, afraid of each other, so that we lock ourselves in our homes and they get to suspend our rights one by one."
"Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?"
"Go back to bed, America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again. Here. Here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is American Gladiators. Here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America! You are free to do what we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!"
"The world is like a ride at an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, 'Hey don't worry, don't be afraid ever, because this is just a ride ...' And we ... kill those people. Ha ha, 'Shut him up. We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real.' It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace."
-Bill Hicks
Seth MacFarlane's Class Day speech at Harvard
