guys to hang with that can passionately discuss politics, literature, or philosophy over coffee, but can also have a good time at the clubs. Someone who drinks good beer, and not just hard liquor. Okay, a decent wine works, too. Too many people are apathetic.... about their lives, their interests, or just the world around them. I'm not into that scene.
Xiu Xiu, Broken Social Scene, Mazzy Star, Azure Ray, Morrissey, TTC, Yourcodenameis: milo, Death above 1979, Pinback, Team Sleep, Postal Service, Kings of Leon, Feist, John Frusciante, the Black Eyes, Belle & Sebastian, the Butchies, Le Tigre, Sleater-Kinney, Elliott Smith, Sonic Youth, Kings of Leon, And You Will Know us by the Trail of Dead, Electric 6, Bjork, and more. Not always in that order.
Autumn Sonata, Wild Strawberries, anything else Bergman, My Own Private Idaho, Blue Velvet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mysterious Skin, The Living End, Tarnation, Prospero's Books, Fire (I <3 Deepa Mehta), Donnie Darko, I <3 Huckabees, The Pillowbook, Edward II (Jarmann), Me and You and Everyone We Know, Happiness, The House of Yes, Fire, Blue, White, Red, Ma Vie en Rose, Muriel's Wedding, Secretary
All sorts, like Milton's Paradise Lost, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, William Blake, Dennis Cooper, JT LeRoy, Chris Kraus (Everyone should read "I Love Dick"), Nella Larson, Zora Neale Hurston, Chuck Pahluniak, Tom Spanbauer, Jean Genet, Mary Gaitskill, Haruki Murakami, Banana Yoshimoto, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Anne Carson, Colm Toibin, Jeanette Winterson, then in terms of theorists, I love Sedgwick, Deleuze, Butler, Baudrillard, Lacan, Foucault, Barthes, and more traditionally, Nabakov, Frye, etc. I'm pretty open, from classics to contemporary, so long as it's good. I also have a soft spot for Russian lit. - Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Gogol (especially Gogol!), Lermontov. Also like some Buddhist authors: Ayya Khema, Nyaponika Thera, Bhante Gunaratana, Dogen
Aung San Suu Kyi, Thich Nhat Hanh, Mother Jones, Harry Hay, Michelangelo Signorile, Urvashi Vaid, Kate Bornstein. Ingmar Bergman died recently (7/30/07), which is a tragedy.I miss Lawrence, Kansas.... this is a fire-breather on a streetcorner downtown, outside a remodeled movie theater. Before a fetish show. Yeah, small town Kansas.