I'm interested in doing anything, or going any place that I haven't already. I'm also interested in the things I already like to do.
I am Dr. Weird from Aqua Teen Hunger Force!!
I'd like to meet:
Anyone who plays in traffic, those fools crack me up. I'd also like to finally meet a weapons smuggler, and convince them to switch to plums. I'd like to meet somebody who just grocery shopped for an hour, and stood in the grocery line for 20 minutes only to discover that they had no cash and their debit card is at home. I'm not sure why, but I believe I would find their frustration uplifting and motivational. Lastly I would like to meet someone who eats every piece of gum they chew, so I can X-ray their stomach and prove once and for all that gum comes out in your poop like everything else. Gum does not lodge itself permanently in your bowels. Come on people, get with it.
Music:
Tom Waits, Warzone, anything from the early years of Dischord and SST-well not ANYTHING but a lot of it, FRANK-FUCKIN'-ZAPPA, Digital Underground, Bela Fleck, Geto Boys, Laurel Aitken, Public Enemy, Hank Williams(first second and third), The Drunken Munchkins, Bjork, Bloodlet, Paul Simon, The Business, Candiria, Captain Beefheart, James Brown, King Diamond, Lard, Sepultura, No Redeeming Social Value, Skatallites, Slayer, Combustible Edison, Beastie Boys, Toots and the Maytalls, A Tribe Called Quest, Lee Perry, any Mike Patton project, The Who, ZZ Top, Zamfir and that kick ass mother fuckin' pan flute of his(read this last entry with sarcasm added), Johnny Cash, Wu-Tang(and side projects), Talking Heads, Suicidal Tendancies, Descendants, Jethro Tull, Agnostic Front, The Police, Weird Al, Ray Charles, The Clash, The Pogues, Dr. John, Dying Fetus, Pink Floyd, Dayglo Abortions, Negative Approach, Spinal Tap, Murphy's Law, Bad Brains, MDC, Circle Jerks, Symarip, Specials, Primus, Desmond Dekker, Fishbone, Flying Frog Brigade, Carcass, Kreator, The Roots, Herbie Hancock, Neil Young, John Lee Hooker, Kyuss....fuck it, I'm done here. You get the picture.
Movies:
Holy Crap, so many good movies....Down By Law, Memento, Brazil(and anything Terry Gilliam directed including, but not limited to Time Bandits, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and 12 Monkeys), Altered States, The Manchurian Candidate(Sinatra), UHF, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, Any Monty Python, Children of the Corn, Candyman, Saw, Stop Snitching, True Stories, Old Chinese Jackie Chan Movies from the seventies and early eighties, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Star Trek(including the next generation movies. I'm a geek, and I'm not ashamed), Stanley Kubrik movies(not eyes wide shut, fuck that) Gangster flicks, Good Horror, Cheesy Horror, Dodgeball, Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind,...anything that doesn't completely fuckin' blow donkey nuts.
Television:
Television...hmmmm....There's problems with TV. Every year there are more minutes of advertising per hour and lately they even run commercials during the program along the bottom of the screen. To make it worse, lots of the advertisements are for products that are nothing more that a delivery vehicle for more advertisements. Shouldn't it be my right as an American to live pitch-free for at least twenty minutes at a time? I also take issue with the advertisement of prescription drugs on TV. Half the time the commercial doesn't even say what the drug is for, they just try to give the impression that if the nice folks in the ad remind you of yourself or your family, you should ask your doctor about their product. The vast majority of Americans don't have the education or background to make an informed decision about prescription drugs. That why we have doctors that went to medical school, and that's why medical school is so fucking difficult and expensive. Drug companies should market to doctors, period. And they won't allow beer to be ingested on camera during an ad. What the fuck. Then, there's the plain fact that most shows are nothing more than insipid and degrading acts of vouyerism into the lives of startlingly mediocre pseudo-celebrities. There is good television out there, but with 150 channels playing 24 hours a day there just not enough good material available to make even a dent in all that air time. Its mostly just filler and I believe its a ripoff. Same reason most of the Hollywood fare is crap. Back when there was one screen per theater, there wasn't as much pressure to keep all the screens filled. Now that every theater has 27 screens, its impossible to keep all the screens filled with genuinely good material. You need a good crap filter mechanism to enjoy modern media entertainment.
Books:
Fuck Dean Koontz, Michael Chrichton, and Ann Rice. I like books, but fuck them. Anything By Stephan Hawking or Carl Sagan is absolutely enthralling. I'd read my own books, if only I could motivate myself to write them.
Heroes:
Anyone who lives their life to defy convention.And Millwrights. Don't ever forget about Millwrights.
