the commodification of desire, the inverse reality equation, moment zero, ironic decadence, slapstick excess, spatial dissonance, conservative hedonism, freedom through dictatorships, self negating concepts, probability reconstruction, the products of desperate hunger and social displacement, class war, collocation, contradiction, and professional wrestling
People who I used to know, people who I should know, and women who are so intelligent that they make me feel inferior in that regard because that's hot.
The 6ths, 8 Eyed Spy, Ace of Base, Air, Akron/Family, Angelfish, Angels of Light, Angie Reed, Anita Lane, April March, Arab Strap, Arcade Fire, Arto Lindsay, Barry Adamson, Bauhaus, Beach Boys, Beck, Bertrand Burgalat, Big Black, Bigg Jus, Birthday Party, Bis, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Blonde Redhead, Blondie, Bob Dylan, Body Lovers, Boys Next Door, Brian Eno, Brian Wilson, Brigitte Bardot, Cabaret Voltaire, Calla, Chemlab, Chicks on Speed, Christian Death, Ciccone Youth, Clock DVA, Cocteau Twins, Crass, Creatures, Crime & The City Solution, The Cure, The Damned, David Bowie, David Coulter, Dead Can Dance, Death in Vegas, Deity Guns, Depeche Mode, Derriere Le Mirroir, Devendra Banhart, Die Haut, Dirty Three, Dwarves, Eglantine Gouzy, Einsturzende Neubauten, El-P, Ennio Morricone, Erase Errata, The Ex, The Fiery Furnaces, Fischerspooner, Flux Information Sciences, Foetus, Future Bible Heroes, Garbage, Gary Numan, Glenn Brance, The Glove, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Goldfrapp, Gothic Archies, Iggy Pop, James, James Chance, The Jim Carroll Band, John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band, John Myers, John Zorn, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, Kevin Blechdom, Kim Gordon, Klaus Nomi, Kraftwerk, KUKL, Kylie Minogue, Labradford, Ladytron, Larsen, Lee Hazlewood, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Lydia Lunch, M. Gira, Magnetic Fields, Marc Almond, Marilyn Manson, Mars, Meg Lee Chin, Mick Harvey, Mickey Avalon, Miles Davis, Mogwai, Mojave 3, Mount Sims, Najwa, Nancy Sinatra, Negativland, Neurosis, New Model Army, New Order, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nico, Nina Hagen, Nine Inch Nails, Opal Foxx Quartet, Oxbow, Patti Smith, Pigface, Pineal Ventana, Pizzicato 5, Poni Hoax, Prick, Psychic TV, PIL, Queensryche, Radiohead, The Raincoats, Rowland S. Howard, Roxy Music, Sage Francis, Savage Republic, Scott Walker, Serge Gainsbourg, Sex Pistols, Silke Bischoff, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sir Alice, Skinny Puppy, Smoke, Soft Cell, Sole, Sonic Youth, Stephin Merritt, Stooges, Suicide, Swans, Switchblade Symphony, Syd Barrett, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, These Immortal Souls, This Mortal Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Thurston Moore, Tom Cora, Tom Waits,Tubeway Army, Vanishing, Velvet Underground, Warsaw, Wharton Tiers, Windsor for the Derby, Wire, World of Skin, X, X-mal Deutschland, X-Ray Spex, Yo La Tengo
Monster, Inland Empire, Thirteen, The Prime Gig, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, Permanent Midnight, New Love in Tokyo, Fetishes, Party Monster: the shockumentary, Visitor Q, Bonnie and Clyde, Broken Flowers, Ichi the Killer, The Sea Inside, Inside Deep Throat, Surviving Desire, Juice, Possible Films, The Girl From Monday, Wedding Crashers, Kill Your Idols, Boys N the Hood, Red Vertigo, Bukowski: Born Into This, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (original and remake), The Life Aquatic, Repo Man, Henry Fool, Fight Club, Adaptation, Man on the Moon, Dahmer, Deer Hunter, Godfather, Goodfellas, Scarface, A Woman is a Woman, 12 Monkeys, The Seventh Seal, Thesis, the Usual Suspects, The Book of Life, Hellraiser, The Unbelievable Truth, Abre Los Ojos, Mean Streets, Amateur, American Beauty, Apocalypse Now, Auto Focus, Blue Velvet, Casino, Dead Man, Delicatessen, Downtown 81, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Natural Born Killers, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Lost in Translation, Any Given Sunday, Basketball Diaries, Being John Malcovich, Bob Roberts, Clockwork Orange, Coffee and Cigarettes, F is for Fake, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Full Metal Jacket, Leaving Las Vegas, My Own Private Idaho, Mysterious Skin, Naked Lunch, Natural Born Killers, Nixon, No Such Thing, Abre Los Ojos, Raising Arizona, Dodgeball, Anchorman, Requiem For a Dream, Reservoir Dogs, Royal Tenenbaums, The Shining, Simple Men, Sid and Nancy, Straight to Hell, Death and the Compass, Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, Three Businessmen, Alphaville, American History X, Bad Liuetentant, Blood Simple, Blow, Bottle Rocket, Brazil, Donnie Brasco, Doom Generation, Splendor, Garden State, Good Night and Good Luck, Hollywood Ending, The Hunger, The Man Who Wasn't There, My First Mister, O' Brother Where Art Thou, Pecker, Pi, The Rules of Attraction, Spun, Summer of Sam, Virgin Suicides, The Wild Bunch, Wonderland, Jesus' Son, ETC
Currently: The Office, Rome, and House.
I'm currently reading The Twenty-Seventh City by Johnathan Franzen(I'm still somewhat on the fence in regards to his tiff with Oprah as I do resent pretentious elitism coming out of the mouths of ivory tower dwellers. On the other hand, the book club is hella corny. I suppose my inability to make up my mind on the matter is somewhat apropos due to the fact that I often have to stifle my desire to be smug and condescending. I do so because I really don't want to be some fool in a coffee shop comparing the difference between the textural self-referential allusions to the schism between semiotics and gonzo porn in the latest chapbook that I picked up at the liberal bookstore. On the other hand, I don't exactly want to be a guy sitting on a coach drinking budweiser and watching football. Yet, I'm both and neither. However, that's neither here nor there. Regardless of whether or not the author felt the compulsion to feed off of Oprah's teat for financial gain, it's a pretty good book. So far, just about everyone is rich. I am not incapable of relating to any of the classes because various portions of my upbringing involved food stamps, middle class drudgery, and lavish wealth. However, I typically find the latter category of people less interesting in print and film.* However, I suppose that every book that I read can't involve intoxicated degeneracy and perversion. On the other hand, despite being a technically inferior work, Motley Crue's auto bio was far more enjoyable. *(Furthermore, in regards to television, I find it incredibly annoying that everyone is well off. I mean, while I still liked the show and all, Six Feet Under became slightly less interesting after I moved to Los Angeles and realized that the family would pretty much have to be millionaires just to have a house that big near LA.))
Andy Kaufman, David Lynch, Robert Anton Wilson, William T. Vollmann, Vince McMahon and Richard Nixon