As I breath my last I hope to be evolving, learning and laughing my proverbial ass off. My heart is a bumper car, my mind is a knight errant and my soul is a buffet with a brand new spit guard. Teach me, hold my hand, ask anything of me- just don't stay up too late waiting for me to come to bed.
I'd like to meet:
With the exception of deeply sociopathic people, everybody.
Music:
There is no true way to list it all but:
Air,
And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead,
Arcade Fire,
Architecture in Helsinki,
Ass Ponys,
Autour de Lucie,
Bat for Lashes,
the Bathers,
Beck,
Ben Folds,
The Bird and the Bee,
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club,
Blonde Redhead,
Brian Eno,
Broken Social Scene,
Brother,
The Blue Nile,
Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears,
Cary Brothers,
Butthole Surfers,
Cat Power,
Chicks on Speed,
The Clash,
Cortney Tildwell,
Cowboy Junkies,
Craig Armstrong,
The Cramps,
The Czars,
Damien Rice,
David Sylvian,
Dayna Kurtz,
The Delgados,
Devotchka,
Dread Zeppelin,
Dresden Dolls,
Drive by Truckers,
Echobelly,
Ed Harcourt,
Eels,
Ella Guru,
Elliot Smith,
Emmylou Harris,
Faultline,
Feist,
Flaming Lips,
Frank Black,
the Fratellis,
Fuck,
dEUS,
Golden Smog,
Goldfrapp,
Gordon Hanley,
Gravenhurst,
Iggy Pop,
Jacob Golden,
Jane's Addiction,
Jeff Buckely,
Jet,
Jim White,
Joanna Newsom,
Jolie Holland,
Joseph Arthur,
Josh Rouse,
Kate Bush,
Keane,
The Kills,
Lucinda Williams,
Lullaby for the Working Masses,
Massive Attack,
Martha Wainwright,
Mew,
Muddy Waters,
My Morning Jacket,
MyPollux,
The National,
Neil Diamond,
Neil Young,
NIN,
Noir Desir,
Nonesuch Records,
Les Nubians,
Okkervil River,
Patti Smith,
P.J. Harvey,
Pink Floyd,
The Pogues,
Primus,
Rage Against the Machine,
Ravi Shankar,
Red House Painters,
Rufus Wainwright,
Ryan Adams,
Sam Phillips,
Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion,
The Shins,
Sia,
Sigur Ros,
Sixteen Horsepower,
Snow Patrol,
Smog,
Spain,
Sufjan Stevens,
the Stooges,
Sun Kil Moon,
Talk Talk,
Tegan and Sara,
Teddy Thompson,
The Thrills,
Tom Waits,
Tori Amos,
The Unicorns,
Whiskeytown,
Willie Nelson,
Wolves,
Yeah Yeah Yeahs,
Yo la Tengo,
X
Movies:
No. Not really. Well, some."Empire of the Sun""Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead""Delicatessen"Yes. Those are movies."Buckaroo Bonsai""Amelie"Yes. I watch movies."Idiocracy""Gas, Food, Lodging"
Television:
If feverish or insomniac, the T.V. might be on. Otherwise, nope.Um... have enjoyed Black Books.And Family Guy.But, for the most part, television is like mental/spiritual Quaaludes.
Books:
I will be adding a billion more writers but as of this moment:
Absinthe:New European Writing,
Sherman Alexie,
Akashic Books,
Brian Azzarello,
John Baker,
J.G. Ballard,
Ray Banks,
Clive Barker,
Donald Barthelme,
Thomas Berger,
Mark Billingham,
Cara Black,
Bleak House Books,
David Bowker,
Anthony Bourdain,
Donari Braxton,
Ken Bruen,
Alafair Burke,
James Lee Burke,
Jan Burke,
Michael Chabon,
Craig Clevenger,
Sean Chercover,
George C. Chesbro,
Mark Coggins,
Reed Farrel Coleman,
Michael Collins,
Mark T. Conard,
John Connolly,
Colin Cotterill,
Bill Crider,
Crime Scene Scotland,
Blake Crouch,
Thomas Disch,
Sean Doolittle,
Barry Eisler,
David Ellis,
Warren Ellis,
Maggie Estep,
Neil Gaiman,
John Galligan,
Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza,
William Gibson,
Victor Gischler,
Elizabeth Hand,
Lian Hearn,
Libby Fischer Hellman,
Vicki Hendricks,
Laura Hird,
Gregg Hurwitz,
Charlie Huston,
Greg Iles,
Graham Joyce,
William Kent Krueger,
Hari Kunzru,
Jonathan Lethem,
Thomas Lynch,
Douglas Lindsey,
Kelly Link,
Laura Lippman,
Robert Littel,
Thomas Lynch,
Stuart MacBride,
Carlton Mellick III,
Walter Moers,
Alan Moore,
Christopher Moore,
Margaret Murphy,
Stewart O'Nan,
Scott Phillips,
Dav Pilkey,
Manuel Ramos,
Cornelia Read,
Kat Richardson,
John Rickards,
S.J. Rozan,
Marcus Sakey,
James Sallis,
Walter Satterthwait,
Will Self,
Nathan Singer,
Karin Slaughter,
Slow Toe Publications,
Keith Snyder,
Soft Skull Publishing,
Jerry Stahl,
Jason Starr,
Olen Steinhauer,
Will Storr,
Duane Swierczynski,
Jim Thompson,
Mark Timlin,
H.P. Tinker,
Steven Torres,
Nichelle Tramble,
Underground Voices Magazine,
Kurt Vonnegut,
Kevin Wignall,
Charlie Williams.
But all words I write are dedicated to Angela Carter and my father.
Heroes:
Anyone who has the glint of the survivor in their eyes yet retains the ability to laugh at the universe. And anyone who has the patience to deal with my Tourettic self on a continuing basis. Because, apparently, it's all about me.And Leonard Cohen.And the New Zoo Review.And Dave.
