Since when is thinking not ENTERTAINING? -- Bill Hicks
you? humans that act like the opposite of pack animals and frenzied, rabid, witch-hunting children (but I guess that means all of us?)
on record: Morphine, the Police, Black Sabbath, Jane's Addiction, Living Colour, Anthrax, Joe Walsh, Tears For Fears, Orbital, Howard Tate, Wilco, Steely Dan, Cheap Trick, Thelonious Monk, Sepultura, Voivod, Death Angel, Celtic Frost, The Beyond, Primus, Tool, Helmet, Barkmarket, Failure, Devo, the B-52's, the Meters, Van Halen, AC/DC, Alice Cooper, Blue Oyster Cult, the Funk Brothers, the Beatles, Napalm Death, Carcass, Joao Gilberto/Stan Getz w/ Antonio Carlos Jobim & Astrud Gilberto, Caetano Veloso, 3rd Bass, Soundgarden, Babybird, Slowride, etc, etc.in concert: Jane's Addiction, Rollins Band, Fishbone, Beastie Boys, JAMES BROWN!, Melt Banana, Gaylord, Drums N Tuba, Pantera, Cuong Vu, Respect Sextet, Primus, Nuclear Assault, De La Soul, Snaggletooth, Sulaco, the Dillinger Escape Plan, Monotonix, Taylor Ho Bynum/Nate Wooley/Ken Filiano/Tomas Fujiwara, the Fay Victor Ensemble, the John Scofield Trio, the Roots.
The Fisher King, Alien, Lone Star, Ghost in the Shell, Apocalypse Now, Big Night, Midnight Run, Goodfellas, Happy Together, Uzak (Distant), Crane World, the Band's Visit, Persepolis, Coup de Grace, Born into Brothels, Manufactured Landscapes, Blood Tea and Red String, Kontrol, the Vertical Rays of the Sun, Spring Summer Fall Winter & Spring, Whale Rider, He Who Must Die, Down By Law, Donnie Darko, In the Bedroom, The Fugitive, Crimson Tide, Hannah and Her Sisters, I am Trying to Break Your Heart, etc, etc.
almost none, w/ some exceptions... NOVA's Evolution series from... '02? Narrated by Liam Neeson. Bill Moyers' interview series w/ Huston Smith. Cowboy Bebop, Texhnolyze. the entire month of baseball playoffs. just got introduced to Arrested Development. Sports Night's first 8 episodes. just been starting to appreciate the art involved in the sitcom format. fuck commercials and inhuman plastic smiling anchors. reality tv = brain death.
Shame -- Salman Rushdie, The God of Small Things, The Cost of Living, and An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire -- Arundhati Roy, The Long Emergency -- James Howard Kunstler, Italian Neighbors and Home Thoughts While You're Away -- Tim Parks, The Woman Warrior -- Maxine Hong Kingston, A Leg to Stand On -- Oiver Sachs, The Cosmic Serpent -- Jeremy Narby, Zen Guitar -- Philip Toshio Sudo, Guns Germs & Steel -- Jarrod Diamond, Hit Men -- Frederic Dennen, Broken Summers -- Henry Rollins, The Autobiography of Malcolm X -- Alex Haley, Dreaming War -- Gore Vidal, To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee, etc, etc. gotta check out some Toni Morrison and about a million other books. Tim Parks is the first author I ever felt like "wow, gotta go out and read all his books" and everytime I do, I feel like I'm in the company of an old friend, which is of course wonderful but also strange as I don't even particularly relate to what he's writing about, but something about his style... and, though she hasn't written a book yet, Masumi Elrod is THE writer of the 21st century, bar none. she (and others) will think I'm just saying that b/c she is a friend. rubbish! credit is simply due where it's due. and here, it is most certainly DUE. and then some.
people with the destructive energy to change things. I like people whose jaws drip with a taste to chomp the status quo in two. impatience and maniacal grins coupled with a fearlessness at showing their soft side. anybody with the rabid burn to resist having others think for them. I like people who are so mentally strong willed that they seem almost broken, incapable of being spoken for or thought for. um-hum. (and my cat familiar, who does the latter when she sits on my lap as if to say "CHILL, you're getting carried AWAY!")