I'm interested in compassionate, open and idealistic people, those who grasp the beauty, dignity and creativity inherent in our lives and who struggle against the tendency for those qualities to be undone by the walls planted between us and in us by the dominant organizing principles of the life we find ourselves in.
The Methadones, McRackins, The Damned, Talking Heads, The Clash, Magazine, Gang of Four, Joy Division, Wire, Ruts, The Saints, David Bowie, TV Smith, Buzzcocks, The Queers, The Barracudas, Detour Records, Dillinger Four, The Jam, TV21, The Stitches, The Epoxies, Swingin' Utters, Long Tall Shorty, The Dickies, The Ends, The Chords, Die Hunns, The Soviettes, Ian Page & the Affair, The Briefs, Nu-tra, Rinaldi Sings, Carbon/Silicon, The Prisoners, The Movements, Glen Matlock, Small World, etc.
Ikiru, Red Beard, Walkabout, Koyaanisqatsi, McCabe and Mrs Miller, 3 Women, Grey Gardens, Salesman, Election, Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, Quadrophenia, Through a Glass Darkly, Waking Life, Band of Outsiders
Arrested Development, Little Britain, The Office (UK and US), The Sopranos, The Prisoner, Twin Peaks
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, As I Lay Dying, All the King's Men, Hocus Pocus, A Confederacy of Dunces, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media, Paul Krugman's The Great Unraveling, Walter Karp's The Politics of War, Lapham's Imperial Masquerade, Tao Te Ching , Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, A Death in the Family
Friends of the human spirit