Currently:
trees with flowers on them, organic cookery, drinking to excess on sundays, and season 7 of american idol.
also...
the life aquatic with steve zissou.
getting all tore up and passing out in the hot sun.
firefly. "i don't care, i'm still free... you can't take the sky from me..."
proper grammar (when applicable).
role playing games that are not massive or online.
tentacle rape.
the sound that green onions make when you chop them.
tilting at windmills.
sexing.
having my picture taken.
ume-flavoured gum, and
consumer culture.
in general, anyone with anything of
relevance to say.
specifically, i’d like to meet douglas coupland, paula dean, victoria beckham (don't ask),
and lastly john carmack, because he made commander keen.
the arcade fire, beck,
black rebel motorcycle club, bright eyes, coco rosie,
david bowie, devo, the eels
the epoxies, the faint, gosling, guns n roses,
the hold steady, jeff buckley, john prine, joy division,
the killers,
leonard cohen,
the magnetic fields, manu chao, mars volta,
mc lars,
the mountain goats,
neko case, nightwish,
peaches, poison,
the postal service, the ravonettes,
scissor sisters, She Wants Revenge, the shins, sigur ros, sonic youth,
the winks, the yeah yeah yeahs, tom waits,
wintersleep, etc etc.
ANYTHING touched by wes anderson or john woo.
bill & ted’s (both),
black cat white cat,
boondock saints, but i'm a cheerleader,
cowboy bebop, labyrinth,
milo and otis,
nowhere, predator 1 & 2,
pi, pitch black, the Postman,
Ravenous, rhps, spellbound, (it's a documentary about spelling bees)
star wars: a new hope; the empire strikes back;
return of the jedi,
the doom generation,
the big lebowsky, the chronicles of riddick,
the life aquatic with steve zissou,
the muppets treasure island,
the princess bride.
Since I have been saying "I don't watch TV" and really meaning it long before it was cool, and since I believe that I have a duty to make the world safe for whiney little artfags like you to say that you do or do not watch American Idol (I do) without fear of reprisal, here it is: I (now) watch television.
So here are my favorite shows:
Battlefield Britain,
Firefly,
My Name is Earl,
The National,
NUMB3RS,
and Stargate SG-1.
For your consideration: Moses Znaimer's Ten Commandments of Television.
1. Television is the triumph of the image over the printed word.
2. Print created illiteracy. TV is democratic. Everybody gets it.
3. The true nature of television is flow, not show; process, not conclusion.
4. As worldwide television expands, the demand for local programming increases.
5. The best TV tells me what happended to me, today.
6. TV is as much about the people bringing you the story as the story itself.
7. In the past, TV's chief operating skill was political. In the future it will be, it will have to be, mastery of the craft itself.
8. TV creates immediate consensus, subject to immediate change.
9. There was never a mass audience, except by compulsion.
10. Televsion is not a problem to be managed, but an instrument to be played.
Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland (Ok, ANYTHING by Coupland),
kitchen by yoshimoto banana,
lady chatterly's lover by dh lawrence,
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
steppenwolf by herman hesse,
stranger in a strange land by heinlein,
the cure for death by lightning by
gail andersen-durgatz,
The Life of Pi by Yan Martel,
the picture of dorian grey by oscar wilde,
and the wind in the willows by kenneth grahame
My Mummy.
Ripley.
Samantha Jones.
Malthus.