freedom, critical thinking, climate change, exposing the insipidity of yuppies, ethnic jokes, eating good food, finding obscure films/music/books, people-watching, human imperfections, reading, film, civil disobedience, languages, mimicry, metaphysics, instrumentals, Europe/Africa/West Asia, political economy, obscenity, being sarcastic, defeating cynicism and U.S. exceptionalism, the Truth, foosball, soccer, wildlife, not taking any bullshit, mythology, the Jazz Age, astrophysics, world affairs, sorbet/gelato/Italian ice, history + memory, surrealism, Scrabble, integrity, mystery, black and white
I'd like to meet:
people who don't make me sick--independent thinkers, mystics, romantics, anarchists, rogues, leftists, activists, subversives, libertines, old souls, idealists, adventurers, Bolsheviks (before they became fascists), pirates, brunettes, etc...and anyone who knows what this means: "A chained man need only shut his eyes to make the world explode"..
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Music:
Beatles, My Bloody Valentine, Brian Eno, Cocteau Twins, Arcade Fire, Bjork, Hüsker Dü, The Clean, Daft Punk, Pixies, Sonic Youth, Talking Heads, Belle + Sebastian, The Clash, Cabaret Voltaire, Beethoven, Spacemen 3, Go-Betweens, Yo La Tengo, Stereolab, Kinks, Johnny Cash, Broadcast, Camera Obscura, Patti Smith, Neil Young, Marvin Gaye, Young Marble Giants, Kate Bush, Clan of Xymox, X-Ray Spex, Pink Floyd, Boards of Canada, Doors, Stooges, Love, Fugazi, Roxy Music, J.S. Bach, Zbigniew Preisner, Ennio Morricone, Nina Simone, Brian Wilson, Flying Burrito Brothers, Pere Ubu, Os Mutantes, Faust, Feist, Portishead, Doves, Led Zeppelin, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Magnetic Fields, P-Funk, Arthur Russell, Laurie Anderson, Lucinda Williams, Gang of Four, Mozart, Morrissey, Pulp, Roy Orbison, Pavement, The Fall, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Interpol, Joy Division, Monkees, Kraftwerk, Stone Roses (1st album of course), Sigur Ros, New Order, Massive Attack, PJ Harvey, Billie Holiday, Can, PiL, Suicide, Velvet Underground, Big Star, Air, Radiohead, Prince (up to Sign O' the Times), Coltrane, Miles, Bowie, Cat Power, Wire, Television, Captain Beefheart, Devo, Buzzcocks, Ramones, Mekons, REM, Leonard Cohen, Public Enemy, X, Serge Gainsbourg, Edith Piaf, Battles, Ellen Allien, Caribou, System of a Down's "Toxicity," Dylan, Peter Gabriel, Blondie, all new wave, theremins
Movies:
(no particular order) Out 1, L'Amour fou, Céline et Julie vont en bateau, Ishtar, Safe, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, A Clockwork Orange, La Dolce Vita, La Règle du jeu, Masculin féminin, Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors, À bout de souffle, There Will Be Blood, Le Mépris, Fellini Satyricon, Roma, Hiroshima mon amour, L'Année dernière à Marienbad, Lola, Soy Cuba, Taxi Driver, M, Black Girl, La double vie de Véronique, The Heart of the World, Laura, Orphée, Madame de..., Ugetsu, I Compagni, Office Space, Au hasard Balthazar, Playtime, Trois couleurs: Rouge, 8 1/2, Il Gattopardo, Il Conformista, Sátántangó, The Long Goodbye, L'Avventura, L'Eclisse, Wavelength, Iklimler, 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle, Videodrome, Crumb, Rear Window, Election, Vivre sa vie, Alphaville, La Jetée, The Gay Divorcee, The Battle of Algiers, Two-Lane Blacktop, Love Me Tonight, Repulsion, The General (1927), Zabriskie Point, All the President's Men, Steel Helmet, La glace à trois faces, Out of the Past, FLOW, Cat People, Jackie Brown, Black Sunday, Story of Three Loves, Come and See, Chinatown, Les quatre cents coups, Barry Lyndon, Cet obscur objet du désir, Die Nibelungen, Do the Right Thing, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, 2001, Dr. Strangelove, The Last Temptation of Christ, Heaven's Gate, Sir! No Sir!, Paris, Texas; This Is Spinal Tap, Hulk, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Pandora's Box, Mulholland Dr., Goodfellas, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, L'argent, Modern Times, Eraserhead, Pierrot le fou, The Decalogue, La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, Vampyr, Godfather II, Ménilmontant, Glengarry Glen Ross, Ed Wood, Andrei Rublev, Stalker, The Silence, Persona, Cries and Whispers, Magnolia, Mean Streets, Before Sunrise/Sunset, La maman et la putain, Tokyo Story, A Woman Under the Influence, Manhattan, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, All About Eve, The Passenger, Waking Life, Lancelot du Lac, Excalibur, Apocalypse Now, Der Himmel über Berlin, Vinyl, O Sangue, Dead Man, Nosferatu (1979)
Television:
"God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed."
- Luis Buñuel
Books:
Tender is the Night, Das Kapital, Dostoevsky (all), The Sound and the Fury, The Divine Comedy, Shakespeare, James Joyce, George Orwell, Henry Miller, Howard Zinn, Immanuel Wallerstein, Antonio Gramsci, Michel Foucault, Friedrich Nietzsche, Persepolis
Heroes:
I don't believe in idolatry or hero worship. However, I admire Ralph Nader, Vincent Van Gogh, John Lennon, Jacques Rivette, Caravaggio, Malcolm X, Jean-Luc Godard, St. Francis of Assisi, Joe Strummer and Brian Eno...Don Rickles is a riot. Sacco and Vanzetti live...
