I'd like to meet:
cool people with agendas. i'd like to connect with musicians, artists, writers- anyone creative or maybe scientists engaged in really interesting research... I'm not really down with the people who are just trying to get me to come view their freakin' webcams. oh, yeah- people who want to hang out in parks and read plays.
Video below is Spun Academy's new prototype machine... I think it's pretty cool- you should check it out :)
Music:
drum n' bass, most other electronica, punk rock, some alt rock, rock, old heavy metal, gamelan, indian, moroccan drumming, classical, almost anything but country. Check out the bots.net for a some 'Presidential' remixes (click below).
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Squarepusher, Photek, Bad Company UK, Roni Size (Breakbeat Era), Mu-Ziq, Dj SoulSlinger, Young American Primitve (Monolith), Pizzicato Five, Trans Am, Can, Grandmaster Flash,Psychic TV, Coil, Minor Threat, Funkadelic, Queen, Run DMC, Armand Van Helden, AC/DC, Operation Ivy, Mark Farina, Jane's Addiction, Jungle Brothers, John Denver, Motorhead, Beenie Man, English Beat, Iron Maiden, zwan, Young Zee, White Stripes, LTJ Bukem, Mudhoney, Ice-T, Government Issue, Sonic Youth, Shinehead, Method Man, Black Sabbath, Peaches, Narkotic, Paul Van Dyk, MDC, Musical Youth, Fugazi, Danzig, Marley, Breeders, Sly n' Robbie, Master Musicians of Jajouka, Autechre,the Kinks, and many, many more...
Movies:
they better they are, the more i like them. Lately I've seen a few... V for Vendetta was fun, Jesus is Magic! (Sara(h)Silverman) kicked ass... L'Enfant was troubling but a good movie none-the-less. Too many more to mention.
in case you missed the bulletin...
Television:
i'd prefer to not be on television.
Books:
In Dubious Battle (Steinbeck), What's the Matter with Kansas?, The Sword and the Dollar (Parenti), Road-Side Dog (Szeslaw Milosz), e.e.Cummings 100 selected poems, Dodgy (Corey Best), The Art of Chess Combination (Euegene Znosko-Borovsky), How to Be A Villain (I forget), Light on Yoga (B.K.S. Iyengar), Programming Data-Driven Web Applications with ASP.NET, Secrets of the Sicilian Dragon (Eduard Gufeld & Eric Shiller), The Cambrige Dictionary of Philosophy...
Heroes:
self-immolating buddhas, Batman, Bruce Lee, Bobby Fischer, Butters, Candide. Oh yeah, my role model: