Learning to play bass, loud heavy music, going to shows, art (David D'Andrea, Stephen Kasner, Moses Saarni, Henry Lewis, Shawn Barber, Mark McCormick...), spring, summer, fall, dancing, watching other people experience true joy doing what they love the most, hanging out with said people, sunny days in the mission, BBQ's, my new house, fresh flowers, saucy txt msgs, fancy-ass chocolate, sushi, good food, bookstores, smutty books, adult comix, cartoons, mocking people in positions of power, driving around listening to music and screaming at people who think that left turns have the right of way, laughing at everything. I am down with the cult of nap. I hella love Oakland. Goals for this spring are to get more tattoos, ride my bicycle more, figure out how to stop working for other people, and finally get my motorcycle license. Oh, and maybe go on tour for a little while as a roadie/merch person? Attempting to learn how to date. And I'm looking for a band that needs a really crappy bass player.
I'd like to meet:
Nick Blinko. Tyler Durden. Leonard Cohen. Henry Miller. Diamanda Galas. You in your wildest years. Also: happy people, funny people, anybody with an interesting past who's living in an interesting present, anyone with a good story or a nasty joke to tell. People who build stuff, fix it or break it. People who give a shit. People who are way too passionate for their own good. Dreamers, lovers, fighters. Artists, writers, extra points for chefs. Sex workers, photographers, no-good musicians, travelers, trainhoppers, Minneapolis punks from around 1985-95, Mitchell Brothers girls 1992-1998, East Bay Rats, cabdrivers, bartenders, more people from Oakland and other unsavory types. Sharp-witted, kind, honest people who can handle their business and don't take themselves too seriously. Oh, yeah: If I NEVER again meet another "anarcho-feminist" who insists on telling me what I can and CANNOT do with my body, time, and resources, it'll be TOO SOON. Read a book or live a life or something. ............ ............ ............ ............. ........... ............. ........... ............... ........... ........... ............ .............. ............. ............ ............ ............. ............ .............. ............ ........... ........... ......... »-(¯..v..¯)-» Design your MySpace with MyLook «-(¯..v..¯)-«***Hey! Send me a message if I don't know you, if I might not recognize your tiny picture, or if you're just feeling polite. It's a dying art.
Music:
Photo: Jim Thompson * www.tastelikedirt.com *More low end, please, and turn it up. Doom, metal, doom metal, black metal, painfully pretty proggy metal, stoner rock, punk f*kkin rock, BIG dirty sludgey DOOMy heavy crustygrindynoisyloud music in general, Delta blues, all kinds of other stuff. Currently listening to YOB, Graves at Sea, Aldebaran, Coffins, OM, Moss, Middian, Rwake, Winter, Noothgrush, Asbestos Death, Skullflower, Nunslaughter, Dimmu Borgir, Electric Wizard, SunnO))), Samothrace, Corrupted, 324, Ocean, Earth, Minsk, Brainoil, Sleep, Deviated Instinct, 13, Doom, Bolt Thrower, Nausea, Oneinthechamber, Porn, I Am The Thorn, Zoroaster, Amon Amarth, One Hundred Suns, Wolves in the Throne Room, eldopa, Melechesh, Warhorse, Lesbian, Hammers of Misfortune, Made Out of Babies, Daisy Chainsaw, Sugarsmack, Jucifer, Pelican, Opeth, Agalloch, Neurosis (old and new), Ludicra, Rue, Isis, Eyehategod, Buzzov-en, Saturnus, Black Elk, Laudanum, Dystopia, Ghoul, Burzum, Reverend Bizarre, Mastodon, Asunder, Today Is The Day, Unsane, Jarboe, The Stooges, Naked Raygun, old Gary Numan, AC/DC, and Heart. Yes, I said Heart. And I'd be listening to Cropduster if they'd ever release that f'in recording. Favorite record is Graves at Sea's "Documents of Grief". Also love Crass and Rudimentary Peni. And Led Zeppelin. And that song "Tusk" by Fleetwood Mac.
Movies:
Fight Club, Trainspotting, Snatch, Gia, Dead Man Walking, Walk The Line, Boiler Room, The Usual Suspects, Permanent Midnight, A Scanner Darkly, Chopper, Office Space, The Jerk, Almost Famous, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Talented Mr. Ripley, American Beauty, Basquiat, Henry and June, Once Were Warriors, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle.
Television:
Hmmmm. When I stopped watching it two years ago, my life got really big and loud and fun. But if I ever go back, or, say, go to Lost Weekend, this is the kind of stuff I might watch... Oz, Homicide, The Wire, Rome, Dexter, The Riches, The Shield, Lost, Colbert Report, Huff, Weeds, Six Feet Under, Nip/Tuck, Big Love, West Wing, NYPD Blue, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Third Watch, Cook's Tour, [adult swim], Mr. Show, Invader Zim.
Books:
Oakenthrone. Wikipedia. Art books, reference books, anything by Jim Goad, Sexing the Cherry, The Passion (Jeanette Winterson), Rent Girl (Michelle Tea and Laurenn McCubbin), Macho Sluts (Pat Califia), Real Live Nude Girl (Carol Queen), Tony Millionaire's House at Maakie's, Edward Gorey, Dr. Seuss, The Penguin Companion to Food, The Ethical Slut.
Heroes:
Drinky Crow (not all who wander are lost). And: anyone who makes art or music, people who make stuff grow, Anthony Bourdain, Mark Alvarez, San Francisco strippers past and present, St James Infirmary, San Francisco Community Music Center, Teachers, My Aunt Judy and Uncle Chuck, Artie and Jim Mitchell (RIP).
