"If everyone else is thinking outside the box, I'm going back in.
I am generally interested in:
Music - prog, rio, chamber, classical, metal, punk, hardcore, grindcore, avant-tarde, idm, breakcore, glitch, noise, and a whole slew of useless categories; Art -visual, performance, guerrilla, film, you know... artsy shit; Outdoor activities - camping, tubing, bridge/cliff jumping, beaches etc; DIY CULTURE; Politics- I am a big proponent of election reform (instant run-off voting, abolition of independent campaign contributions, paper trails for feck’s sake!); I enjoy hating on Dems and Repubs almost equally and if there was a god, 90% of our house and senate would spend an eternity being stabbed by smelly 2 year olds with fist fulls of safety pins in hell, the whole neocon cabal would get way worse than that; Belgian/microbrew beer -I homebrew, but some favorites are van der steen, unibroue, abbeye des rocs, victory, ommegang, stoudts, dogfish head, avery, yards, too many; Recreational plants - The war on drugs is retarded Urban sledding and other cheap means of entertaining myself; going to chuck e. cheese's and getting back stage for some hot action with the animatronic chicken; reading the news until I explode; debating; Writing - mainly synthesis of the news that I consume; pretending that people care "what I did last night;" bitching about stuff; staring off into the distance and getting lost in thought; stuff and shit / shit and stuff...
The non-threatening variety of crazy folk. It helps to have a perverse/biting sense of humor. People who can handle their substances in excess. Lushes and lovers and maybe Danny Glover.
I LOVE Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
I play in Bear is Driving and Porktamer ,(alphabetical)1000, A C, a tribe called quest, agoraphobic nosebleed, ahleuchatistas, algebra of need, animal collective, arrested development, assuck, autechre, bach, battles, Bear is Driving, beatles, beethoven, behold.... the arctopus, birdsongs of the mesozoic, bitter end, black dice, bloodfelch, bloody wall of gore, bone, books, botch, bran flakes, burn the priest, butthole surfers, cancer conspiracy, candiria, cannibal corpse, capillary action, cap'n jazz, captain beefheart, cave in (before antennae), cephalic carnage, eddie/charlie murphy, chavez, cheer accident, child abuse, children of bodom, chris watson, chromelodeon, circle takes square, claudia quintet, coalesce, coil, converge, cornelius, creation is crucifixion, crotchduster, crowpath, cryptopsy, curlew, cynic, dalek, damon che, darkane, dat politics, daughters, deadguy, death in june, deerhoof, depeche mode, dev/null, dillinger escape plan, dilute, discordance axis, dislittlelightomine, dissucks, dj spooky, don caballero, donna summer (the new one, not the disco one), doormouse, dragonforce, duran duran duran, dying fetus, dystopia, dysrhythmia, el dopa, employer/employee, end, (the) end, ennio morracone, enon, ephel duath, esquivel, estradasphere, euphone, excruciating terror, facedowninshit, faith no more, fantomas, far corner, faraquet, flying luttenbachers, foetus, fredrik thordendal, friendly bears, fuck with the bull...get the horns, fucking champs, fugazi, george cartwright, genesis, goblin, godspeed you black emperor, gong, goreguts, grandchildren, great kat, grieg, grimple, guapo, guns'n'roses (old), happy the man, hatfield and the north, hella, henry cow, hi red center, holy molar, hokkaido concern, hrvatski, hulk smash, human remains, ion dissonance, ink & dagger, isis, jaga jazzist, jason forrest, jega, jesus lizard, john cage, john coltrane, john mclaughlin, john zorn, joy division, june of 44, kaada, kayo dot, kid 606, kid kilowatt, king crimson, krakatoa, led zepplin, legendary pink dots, lightning bolt, logical nonsense, macabre, magma, make a rising, (electric) masada, man is the bastard, mare, masada, matmos, meat puppets, meatjack, medeski martin & wood, melt banana, melvins, merzbow, miasma & the carousel of headless horses, mike keneally, miles davis, minibosses, ministry, mortal decay, mr. Bungle, muffins, necrophagist, negativland, neurosis, nile, nirvana, nitzer ebb, normal love, ojo rojo, origin, orthrelm, owls, parliament, phantomsmasher, piebald, pig destroyer, pink floyd, plow united, pole, pony pants, Pjorktamer, prefuse 73, primus, psyopus, q and not u, queen, radiohead, rasputina, raymond scott, red chord, red rocket, residents, riz ortolani, roots, ruins, rush, sawtooth grin, secret chiefs 3, shining, skinny puppy, slayer, sleepytime gorilla museum, snack truck, soilent green, soundgarden, spazz, spheres, spiral architect, squarepusher, starlight mints, stick men, stinking lizaveta, suffocation, sunny day real estate, sunra, terminal 11, the advantage, the bad plus, the fire theft, the locust, the misfits, the orphans, the oxes, the perfectionists, then ten, thinking plague, thoko loci, time is like a sword, time of orchids, tool, type O negative, tomahawk, trio convulsant, univers zero, unexpect, upsilon acrux, van halen, venetian snares, volapuk, volta do mar, voodoo economics, washington project, ween, winterkalte, xanopticon, yes, yob, zakir hussein, zappa, zombi
Hayao Miyazaki, Wes and P.T. Anderson, Tim Burton, Richard Linklater, Darren Aronofsky, Mark Achbar, Takashi Miike, Rob Zombie, Ryuhei Kitamura, Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham, I'll keep thinking. Horror is good, art films and video installations are good, porn is good (as long as it's more disturbing than sexually arousing - then it's just utilitarian). Thinking...
If consciousness is a disease, then I assure you, TV is the cure...
I watch cartoons on the intarwebs. My Simpsons /Family Guy /Futurama /Harvey Birdman /Metalocalypse /Tim & Eric references are endless. I wanna meet that dad!
Janette Turner Hospital - The Last Magician, Oyster; Italo Calvino - If on a Winter's Night A Traveler; Patrick Suskind - Perfume; Greg Palast - The Best Democracy that Money can Buy, Armed Madhouse; Disinfo - Everything you know is Wrong; VICE staff - the Vice Guide to Sex Drugs and Rock 'n'Roll; Alex Grey, Salvdor Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and other crazy artists - various books featuring their art; Paul Krugman - the Great Unraveling; no more than any 50 pages of any existentialist at a time; Julia Bouwsma - assorted works; The Bible - just kidding; Sesame St Gang - Ernie learns to use the bathroom...
heroes are for fans. gyros, however...