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Frank Lloyd Wright
Am I the only one suspicious of this whole "getting to know" one another via a series of comparitive lists? Obviously, this is all very 21st century and such, but, I dunno. I remain unconvinced about the whole notion of electronic community. I mean, is it really a community if you can just block someone's profile and be done with it? I recognize this as an evolving forum, but, in my view, there is no replacement for the sound of a human voice, a smile and the warmth of two bodies pressed against one another in a brief, but honest embrace.As for music, I like a lot. More than some, likely less than a few others. I wish Johnny Cash would get up from his grave and record a double album of covers of Nirvana, Husker Du, Black Flag, The Smiths and Soundgarden/Audioslave tracks.Why? Because the pain of an old man will always be more honest than the pain of a younger one.
What's that quotation from "High Fidelity"? "It's not what you're like! It's what you like that matters." That seems to be the logic. Anyway, there'll be no list here. Not today, anyway.
To contradict the above: THE SHIELD, RESCUE ME and THE SOPRANOS. It took me almost 40 friggin' years to find men on television I can relate to...what does that say about the state of the modern media?
Yeah, I read books. What about it? PERMANENT MIDNIGHT by Jerry Stahl is good. MY DARK PLACES by James Ellroy is good. Haven't read a great book in ages, but perhaps I'm just jaded. I enjoy what's called "Hard Science-Fiction", a term that refers not to the difficulty of the material, but to the depth and attention paid to the science explored in the text. The two books above have nothing to do with science-fiction, though, so, you know, go figure.
In my book, the best heroes are either fictional or dead. Either way, it makes it much harder for them to disappoint you. Always wanted to be the last son of a doomed planet, though. And hell, the way things are going, I might just get my wish!