My French bulldog, Norman, and my black pug, Stella. Tommy, local music, politics, digital video, photography, Internet, MySpace and Facebook, TV, movies, floating in the pool, drums, tattoos, and modern interior design.
I'd like to meet:
George W Bush, so I could kick him in the balls...and Dick Cheney, so I could hit him in the head with a hammer.
But, for real, I'd like to meet Barack Obama and my favorite Senator, Russ Feingold
Music:
The Hard Left, The Red Flags, Ten Ton Bridge, Tim Casey & the Martyrs, X Ray Hip, Skeleton Ed, Radiodrummer, The Snaps, The Flamin Oh's, The Revamps, 'Ol Yeller, The Sam Planet Group, Robotboy, Superman Curl, Action vs Action, 10w40, The Mighty Mofos, The Floorshakers, The Crown Vics, The Magnolias, The Hopefuls, Rank Strangers, Michael Quinn, The Replacements, Soul Asylum, Milhaus, The Leatherwoods, Breaking Circus, Husker Du, The Suburbs
The Beatles, John Lennon, Elvis Costello, Neil Young, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, The Ramones
Abba, ACDC, Aerosmith, Badfinger, The Beastie Boys, Beck, Big Star, The Black Crowes, Buffalo Springfield, CAKE, The Cars (first 2 albums), Johnny Cash, Cheap Trick, The Clash, Coldplay, The Cult, The dbs, Depeche Mode, The Descendents, Neil Diamond, The Doors, Duran Duran, ELO, Eminem, Everclear, Bryan Ferry, Foo Fighters, Al Green, Green Day, The Guess Who, Guns n Roses, Jimi Hendrix, The Jam, Jet, Keane, The Killers, KISS, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bob Marley, New Order, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Oasis, The Only Ones, Roy Orbison, Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, The Police, Prince, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, REM, Roxy Music, Todd Rundgren, Sex Pistols, Smashing Pumpkins, Patti Smith, The Smithereens, Bruce Springsteen, Squeeze, Cat Stevens, Sublime, Thin Lizzy, The Time, U2, Van Halen, Vanilla Fudge, The Waterboys, Weezer, KanYe West, Barry White, The Who, Amy Winehouse, X, XTC, movie soundtracks, 70's disco
Movies:
Taxi Driver, all Michael Moore documentaries, All Coen brothers films, And the Band Played On, Boogie Nights, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Catch 22, Citizen X, Clerks, Coal Miners Daughter, Crumb, Dead Man Walking, The Deer Hunter, Drugstore Cowboy, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fargo, Freaks, From Dusk till Dawn, Galaxy Quest, The Graduate, Good Night and Good Luck, Hair, Happiness, Harold and Maude, Jacob's Ladder, The Manchurian Candidate (original and remake), The Matrix (1st one only), Meet the Feebles, Napolean Dynamite, Natural Born Killers, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Once Upon a Time in America, Ordinary People, Paradise Lost 1 and 2, The Player, Psycho (original), Pulp Fiction, Red Dragon, Reservoir Dogs, The Royal Tenenbaums, Se7en, Sid and Nancy, Silence of the Lambs, Talk Radio, This is Spinal Tap, Three Kings, Ticket to Heaven, Adaptation, Alien (all 4), All That Jazz, America: Freedom to Fascism, An American Werewolf in London, Another Day in Paradise, Angel Heart, Anchorman, Apocalypse Now, Beetlejuice, Beyond the Door, Bob Roberts, Boys On the Side, Blue Velvet, Blow, Born on the Fourth of July, Cape Fear, Casino, The Cell, A Clockwork Orange, Coming Home, Delicatessen, The Devil's Rejects, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Fifth Element, Fight Club, Finding Nemo, Full Metal Jacket, The Game, Goodfellas, Helter Skelter, A History of Violence, House of 1000 Corpses, The Howling, Idiocracy, Independence Day, Jaws, The Jerk, Jesus Camp, Jesus Christ Superstar, The King of Comedy, The King of Kong, Knocked Up, Little Children, Loose Change, Made in Heaven, The Man With the Golden Arm, MC5: A True Testimonial, Men In Black, Monster's Inc, Music and Lyrics, Near Dark, The Number 23, Office Space, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, The Omen 1 and 2, The Others, Parenthood, Peggy Sue Got Married, Pink Floyd's The Wall, Platoon, Raging Bull, Raising Arizona, Rosemary's Baby, Satan's Triangle, The Shining, The Sixth Sense, Slaughterhouse 5, Superbad, Talladega Nights, Terminator (all 3), Terms of Endearment, Thank You for Smoking, A Time to Kill, To Die For, The Truman Show, Unbreakable, The Village, Walk the Line, The War of the Roses, The World According to Garp, You're Gonna Miss Me, Zodiac
Television:
Countdown w/Keith Olbermann, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Daily Show, Colbert Report, CNN's The Situation Room, Hardball, Verdict w/Dan Abrams, SNL, CSI, Law and Order SVU, House, Monk, Big Love, Boston Legal, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Letterman, The First 48, Most Evil, Amazing Race, 30 Days, Intervention, Project Runway, Big Brother, Survivor, Top Chef, House Hunters, Divine Design, Find Your Style, Movin' Up, Design Star
Books:
Dwell magazine, Elle Decor magazine, TV Guide, Dog Fancy
(not much of a book reader lately)
Heroes:
My Mom and Dad, Sister Laura and Brother Paul
John Lennon, Paul Wellstone, JFK, RFK, MLK, Neil Young, Sen. Russ Feingold, Keith Olbermann, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Sen. Barack Obama, MN's next Senator - Al Franken
Al Gore, Sen. Barbara Boxer, Rep. Keith Ellison, Sen. Edward Kennedy, Former Sen. John Edwards, Caroline Kennedy
Richard Dawkins, RFK Jr, Mike Papantonio, Randi Rhodes, Sam Seder, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert, Ed Schultz, Thom Hartmann, Rachel Maddow, Arianna Huffington, CNN's Jack Cafferty and Bill Schneider
Cindy Sheehan, George Galloway MP
William Shatner, George Carlin, Sean Penn, Tim Gunn, Candace Olson, Kenneth Brown, Karen McAloon
Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, J.C.R. Licklider, Leonard Kleinrock, Lawrence Roberts, Tim Berners-Lee, Vincent Cerf, Marc Andreessen, Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Rupert, Ozzy, and Yau-Man from Survivor, Evel Dick from BB8
Martin Scorsese, Robert Rodriguez, Michael Moore, Alex Jones, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Altman, George Clooney, Mel Brooks, Tim Burton, Marc Caro, Joel and Ethan Coen, Jonathan Demme, Brian De Palma, Clint Eastwood, Terry Gilliam, Ron Howard, Peter Jackson, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Spike Lee, George Lucas, David Lynch, Sidney Lumet, Mike Nichols, Roman Polanski, Sydney Pollack, Sam Raimi, Ken Russell, John Schlesinger, Ridley Scott, M. Night Shyamalan, Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Peter Weir, Robert Zemeckis, Peter Bogdanovich, Wes Craven, Cameron Crowe, David Cronenberg, Federico Fellini, The Farrelly Bros, Mike Figgis, David Fincher, Milos Forman, John Frankenheimer, Bob Fosse, Robert Greenwald, Curtis Hanson, Amy Heckerling, George Roy Hill, Dennis Hopper, Ron Howard, John Hughes, Norman Jewison, Neil Jordan, Spike Jonze, Lawrence Kasdan, Mike Leigh, Barry Levinson, Adrian Lyne, Penny Marshall, Errol Morris, Alan Parker, Carl Reiner, Rob Reiner, John Sayles, Paul Schrader, Kevin Smith, Steven Soderbergh, Roland Emmerich, Morgan Spurlock, Terry Zwigoff, Paul Thomas Anderson, Tim Robbins, Gus Van Sant, The Wachowski Bros, Rob Zombie