Music. Wine. Cooking. Travel. Science. Education. Vegetable gardening. Books. Fast cars. Tiki Bars. Conversation. Film. Theory. Philosophy of science. Mechanical watches. Urban & industrial archeology. Photography. Joseph Cornell. Antennas. Art. Infrastructure. Shortwave. Swordsmanship. Physics. Exploration. Mountain climbing. Fugu. Kendo. Astronomy. Astrophysics. Silly things. Serious things. Breaking things. Burning things. Building things. Snorkeling. Diving. Beer. Mixed drinks. Neutrinos. Microphones.
I'd like to meet:
Interesting persons, known or unknown.
Richard Dawkins and have a long chat.
Thomas Pynchon and revel in the weirdness of the world, plus figure out if he's the goofy guy I keep running into whenever I'm in Powell's Bookstore.
Old friends and see that they're happy. (Ain't that goofy and charming?)
A million dollars in a dark alley. In unmarked bills. The US government shipped 363 tons of $100 bills to Iraq. And lost track of it. At 1 gram per bill...
A Quattroporte III without mechanical and electrical problems.
Coleridge and convince him to clean up and write more. Or at least write more.
A Platonic solid.
The Philosopher's Stone.
The Lost Continent of Mu.
And George Clinton! I keep inviting him to 4th of July parties, but he never does show up. Bill Clinton doesn't either... Heck, I'd take the Fully Functional Mothership or Air Force One as a substitute.
Speaking of the 4th of July party, you're all invited. RSVP is nice, but not absolutely required.
Music:
Bauhaus. Bartok. Throbbing Gristle. Early music. Sisters of Mercy. Dead Can Dance. Legendary Pink Dots. Current 93. Joy Division. Nick Cave. Haydn. Schoenberg. John Zorn. Siouxsie and the Banshees. The Clash. The Pogues. Telemann. Schubert. Miles Davis. Future Sound of London. Psychic TV. Atmosphere. Coltrane. Sibelius. Britten. Attrition. George Clinton. Mila Vocal Ensemble. Husker Du. James. Jesus and Mary Chain. Sonic Youth. Mekons. The Ex. Stockhausen. Shostakovich. Tery Riley. Theater of Eternal Music. Cocteau Twins. Merzbow. Los Amigos Invisibles. Martin Denny. X-Ray Spex. Crime and the City Solution. Pierre Henry. The Shaggs. Esquival. PWOG. Patti Smith. Wire. Captain Beefheart. Faust. Sekiri. Mahler. Amy Winehouse. Monk. Danielle Dax. SPK. The Jazz Butcher. CCCC. Algebra Suicide. Suicide. Huun-Huur-Tu. Negativland. Branca. Masada. Masonna. Neubaten. Psychick on Toast. Nitrogen Narcosis. Sol Invictus. Johnny Cash. Billy Bragg. Wilco. Trip Shakespeare (I do live in Minneapolis after all). DJ Spooky. Bootsy Collins. Wesley Willis. Cassandra Complex. The Bulgarian Mystery Ladies. Tom Lehrer. Sex Pistols. My Bloody Valentine. Yoko Ono. Meat Puppets. Death in June. Beck. Leonard Cohen. Steve Albini. Music criticism. 808 State. The Roches. Sun Ra. Outsider Music.
Movies:
Until the End of the World. Route 61. Fight Club. Army of Darkness. Wallace and Gromit. Casablanca (really!). C'etait un rendez-vous. Shichinin no samurai. 2001. Leon. North by Northwest. Barbarella. Paths of Glory. Third Man. Yojimbo. Kill Bill. Princess Bride. Okay, road movies in general. The Gumball Rally. Ronin. Maltese Falcon. Riki-Oh. Bad movies in general, I think Wild Women of Wango is an excellent example. Spaghetti westerns. Herzog. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Tampopo. John Woo. Jackie Chan. El Mariachi. My Neighbor Totoro. Serenity.
Television:
I don't own one. I do get a kick out of Doctor Who, classic and new series, though. Oh yeah, and the Prisoner, the Avengers, Torchwood, all that Brit-stuff. Firefly. Okay, that's quite a bit of TV that I like for someone who doesn't have one. Tiki Bar TV, does that count?
Books:
Too many to list. My house overflows...
Some fiction crossing my mindspace recently: Pynchon. The Man in the High Tower. Anna Kavan. Delillo. Ada or Ardor. Kerouac. Annie Dillard. Tom Stoppard. Monkey Wrench Gang. Murakami. Ulysses (nope, I really do enjoy it). Infinite Jest. Bowles. Burroughs. Douglas Adams. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Eco. John Barth. The Public Burning. Flight to Canada. Neal Stephenson. Gargantua. The Things They Carried. Illuminatus Trilogy. His Dark Materials.
Non-fiction: Daniel Dennett. Moon Guidebook to Baja. Brief History of Tomorrow. More soon...
Heroes:
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis
"We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river." - Hunter S. Thompson
"Our aim is wakefulness, our enemy is dreamless sleep." - ToPY
"When you read this I am alive. I am here on this page. I am here. I am HERE!" - Brion Gysin
"It's unheard of, an adventure like this in the midst of the 20th century..." - G. Debord (The sentiment remains, long after the Y2K turnover.)
"Every dream turns into something on a T-shirt." - Shriekback t-shirt
"Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!" - Arthur Gordon Pym, Edgar Allan Poe, & H. P. Lovecraft
"Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad." - Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
"Never argue with a man who is convinced the earth is flat. You have thought about why it is round for maybe five minutes. He spends every waking minute thinking up arguments that it is flat, and he believes if only he could convince everyone, then the problems of the world would be solved." - Bud Foote
"Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism--which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place. He looked so good on paper that you could almost vote for him sight unseen. He seemed so all-American, so much like Horatio Alger, that he was able to slip through the cracks of Objective Journalism. You had to get Subjective to see Nixon clearly, and the shock of recognition was often painful." - HST, Nixon Obit
"Already the foreboding sky grows dark and silent!" -Renzo Novatore Arcola
"...this time however I come as the victorious Dionysus, who will turn the world into a holiday...Not that I have much time..." - Nietzsche (from his last "insane" letter to Cosima Wagner)
"Sometimes, even killing yourself wouldn't be enough. Like when you realize that your entire life has been lived under a presumption of free will, but all you've been able to make of it is a sad parody of everything you used to hate. Slowly, without trying, everyone becomes what he despises most." - Steve Albini, champion pool player
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