"In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them."
~Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk
punk and hardcore, old school stuff: NY and LA punk, DC and East coast hardcore, British punk and hardcore, richard hell, ramones, dead boys, blondie, clash, crass, conflict, weirdos, germs, adolescents, exploited, adicts, subhumans, blitz, toy dolls, misfits, bad brains, minor threat, black flag, reagan youth, millions of dead cops, wipers, bloodstains & killed by death compilations
dischord records: fugazi
sort of bad music but super-interesting theory: john cage, nam june paik
early garage, rock, early metal sound: troggs, rolling stones, steppenwolf, black sabbath, blue oyster cult, MC5, iggy & the stooges
60s experimental rock guys: zappa, beefheart
experimental noise and noise rock: japanese stuff, the boredoms, merzbow, melt banana, acid mothers temple, deerhoof,, sonic youth, anything on Skingraft Records
sound, lots of sound..filling a room..its thick.. like.you can grab it.
walls of metal, viking-core: neurosis
sound ideas and collage: negativland, people like us
gypsy music, irish folk, the pogues, gogol bordello
raw gritty singers and writers: tom waits, neil young
garagey surf and blues guitar work: dick dale, jon spencer blues explosion, man or astro-man?
what i should listen to more of: freeform jazz, dancehall, old raspy men singing the blues, d-beat
music that sucks: whiney pop-punk always sounds like some kid who is discovering his penis for the first time...actually most mainstream stuff sounds like that.
i use this as a second email to communicate with friends and acquaintances.
i am quite fond of listening to really awful music. actually it's one of my hobbies. i pick up a Toto record somewhere and i BLAST THAT SHIT!
you should check out my half-assed (currently but not for long) band: "ho cakes". first on my friend list.
directors: david lynch, martin scorcese, shinya tsukamoto, roger corman,
actors: jack nicholson, paul reubens,
movies: the warriors, the seven samurai, battle royale
genres: 1950's Red Scare propaganda films, old silent movies in high speed with tons of cops running around, futuristic dystopian movies, japanese horror
television treats me, as a viewer, like a statistic and a control group to be sold products and lifestyles to, so i treat television like it should be....for video games, har har.
AMOK distribution catalog, Apocalypse Culture by Adam Parfrey, hunter s thompson, the Redneck Manifesto by Jim Goad, interesting political stuff like chomsky, zinn, some Beat stuff like Lawrence Ferlenghetti, other stuff that i like is bukowski, robert crumb, hakim bey, Profane Existence, Maximum Rock and Roll, weird religious tracts that Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons give me in the street
some good websites are:
:: Yakattak.net ::with absolutely no work done on it, my website will not blow your mind yet. but hopefully soon.
:: Achewood ::cartoon animals that drink and keep blogs. everyone should read it
:: Wooster Collective ::showing work from international street/graffiti artists