kittens, my stoop, music, film, hot tea on a cold and rainy day, candlepin bowling, theatre, aviation, SET, radio, missing people, withdrawal, latch-hooking, bill hicks, richard pryor, brian michael bendis graphic novels, calvin & hobbes, wait, wait...don't tell me!, over-thinking simple scenarios, refusing to let things drop, lesbian karaoke, awkward pauses, security blankets and defensive posturing, no longer living with a man who attempted to claim part of california for the confederacy, living with a the best stage-presence-having motherfucker in boston (according to a couple of old people), walking by the water on castle island, the blackest of coffee, npr, bloom county, lenny bruce, record collecting, singing in the rain, shouting at the devil and deciphering mark e. smith.
The dearly beloved, who are gathered somewhere to try and get through something called 'life'.
Whoever managed to convince these dudes that, frame by frame, this video was a good idea.
These guys.
husker du, the pogues, morphine, nick cave, the replacements/paul westerberg, swans/the angels of light, ad frank and the fast easy women, mission of burma, wild swans, the sound, francoise hardy, the mekons, big black/rapeman, kevin coyne, karen dalton, echo & the bunnymen, david bowie, pj harvey, new order, joy division, siouxsie and the banshees/the creatures, the dresden dolls, black lips, the emeralds, the cure, big star, the fall, the pipettes, wire, neil young, johnny cash, tom waits, the smiths, public enemy, devendra banhart, turbonegro, jesus lizard, serge gainsborg, some waterboys, liquid liquid, rev. horton heat, drive-by truckers, leonard cohen, the ramones, the clash, public image limited, X, the gun club, mirah, julian cope, portishead, jeff buckley, the ny dolls, calexico, the violent femmes, young heart attack, high on fire, neurosis, 1349, the johnny otis show, albert king, mogwai, celebration, gary numan, johnny thunders, elliott smith, t.rex, sam cooke, camper van beethoven, big bear, dirty three, otis redding, marving gaye, mazzy star, mastodon, calexico, spacemen 3, meat puppets, dead kennedys, ac/dc, richard hawley, scott walker, talk talk, rachels, ornette coleman, antony and the johnsons, faith no more, linton kwesi johnston, mahalia jackson, ex-girl, miles, eric dolphy, boris, the rolling stones (till 72), human sexual response, iron maiden, hank williams, neko case, elvis costello, the velvet underground, the zombies, jesus and mary chain, black mountain, the wipers, nin, frank zappa, neutral milk hotel, naked raygun, talking heads/david byrne, john zorn, slayer, mark lanegan, queens of the stone age, venom, the flaming lips, afghan whigs/twilight singers, pulp/jarvis, cocteau twins, dead can dance, motorhead, talking heads, cheap trick, brian eno, roxy music, ministry, the flamin' groovies, the saints and others...
repo man, being there, 400 blows, gremlins 2: the new batch, wet hot american summer, brazil, pan's labyrinth, some kind of monster, heavy metal parking lot, wings of desire, raising arizona, dark city, the big lebowski, being john malkovich, blade runner, the shining and others...
mr. show, twin peaks, fishing with john, six feet under, rugby on fox sports world, arrested development, black books, the daily show, father ted, south park, buffy the vampire slayer & matchgame '74. i named a hampster after richard dawson, once. she was the love of my life.
rosencrantz & guildenstern are dead - tom stoppard, fear and loathing in las vegas - hunter thompson, catch 22 - joseph heller, holidays in hell - p.j. o'rourke, crime and punishment- dostoevsky, the long goodbye - raymond chandler, 27 short plays - christopher durang, beneath the underdog - charles minguscash - johnny cash, killing the buddha - peter manseau & jeff sharlet, american scream - cynthia true, largo desolato - vaclav havel, fortune and glory - brian michael bendis, easter rising - michael patrick mcdonald.
bill hicks - the only worthwhile person to come out of texas other than that guy who climbed the bell-tower at UT.
bill the cat - who would've climbed that bell-tower if he wasn't, y'know, a cartoon.
Tom always tips his hat to the ladies before garroting them.
terry gross - the sexiest public radio host there ever was.
johnny cash - who set fire to a large portion of the californian countryside and got beaten up by an ostrich.
and this guy.