Heat, sparks, and open flame. Puncture and incineration. The beach at night, maps, running, Tokyo, Mexico, foam core, the Aztecs, the Vikings, exacto blades, mangoes, a heavenly way to die, my temporal lobe, your hypnagogic myoclonus, super-colliding super colliders, spring break ninjas, Ultimate Cage Match: Joan of Arc vs. Godzilla, I Saw It On The Menu, vodka and tonic, never knows best, Los Angeles Liberation Front, sparking the revolution, fugue states triggered by color combinations, manifestly comparing apples and oranges, comics, zombies, and grace. Writing things, photo things, making things.
I'd like to meet:
There ought to be a law against you coming around, you should be made to wear headphones.
And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.
Music:
2Pac, A Tribe Called Quest, ABBA, Air, Amps, Andrea Parker, Arcase Fire, Badly Drawn Boy, the Beatles, Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Big Star, Bing Crosby, Bjork, Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star, the Blow, Blur, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, the Breeders, Cat Power, Chemical Brothers, Clinic, Clipse, Cornelius, the Coup, Daft Punk, David Bowie, David Byrne, Deee-Lite, Digable Planets, Dinosaur Jr., Diplo, DJ Cucumber Slice a.k.a. Bobbito, DJ Danger Mouse, DJ Premier, DJ Q-Bert, DJ Shadow, DJ Z-Trip, Dolly Parton, Doves, Dr. Alimantado, Dr. Dre, Dungen, Elastica, Fela Kuti, Fiona Apple, Foos, Frank Black, Franz Ferdinand, Ghostface Killah, Girl Talk, the Go! Team, Guns 'n' Roses, Gwen Stefani, GZA, Ice Cube, Interpol, Jackie Mittoo, Jackson 5, the Jam, Jay-Z, Joy Division, Jimmy Cliff, Juliana Hatfield, Justin Warfield, Lady Soverign, Ladytron, Le Tigre, Led Zeppelin, Lee Scratch Perry, Leonard Cohen, Liz Phair, Lou Reed, Lush, M.I.A., Marvin Gaye (and Tammi Terrell), Mobb Deep, Mos Def, Motown anything, N.W.A., Nas, Neil Young, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Pornographers, Nick Cave (and the Bad Seeds), No Doubt, Notorious B.I.G., Oasis, Ol' Dirty Bastard, OutKast, Pavement, the Pillowz, Phil Spector anything, Pharcyde, Pixies, Pizzicato Five, Prince, Public Enemy, Pulp, Radiohead, Raekwon, the Replacements, Rilo Kiley, the Rolling Stones, the Ronnettes, the Roots, Rufus Wainwright, the Shins, Smashing Pumpkins, the Smiths, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Spoon, Stevie Wonder, Stone Roses, Studio One anything, Suede, Supergrass, T. Rex, Talib Kweli, Talking Heads, Underworld, Velvet Underground, Wilco, Willie Williams, Wolf Parade, Wu-Tang Clan, Der Ring des Nibelungen, bluegrass, mariachi, norteno, my friends on karaoke
Movies:
Woody Allen, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Matthew Barney, Igmar Bergman, Brad Bird, Joel & Ethan Cohen, Francis Ford Coppola, Alfonso Cuarón, John Ford, Jean-Luc Goddard, Michele Gondry, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, John Huston, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Wong Kar-wai, Stanley Kubrik, David Lean, Sergio Leone, David Lynch, Hayao Miyazaki, Satyajit Ray, Éric Rohmer, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, François Truffaut, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Lars Von Trier, Orson Welles
Television:
Invitation to Love, FLCL, Aqua Teen, now watching the Wire, Justice League Unlimited, and Big Love.
Books:
The Autobiography of Malcom X, the Filth, Cat's Cradle, Love and Rockets, Rule of the Bone, the Dirt, Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind, Blood Meridian, Skibber Bee-Bye, VURT, Animal Farm, Unlikely, the Divine Invasion, the Bhagavad-Gita, Stuck Rubber Baby, Death Note, From Hell, the Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest, Skinny Legs and All, Love in the Time of Cholera, Good Bye Chunky Rice, All Star Superman, Frankenstien, It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken, The Great Divorce, Akira, the Moon is a Harsh Mistress, the Marraige of Cadimus and Harmony
Heroes:
MLK, Jr.
"In ancient days, men looked at the stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood. Others will follow, and surely find their way home. Man's search will not be denied. But these men were the first, and they will remain the foremost in our hearts. For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind."
Bugs
Françoise Mouly & Art Spiegelman
Bogart & Bacall
Daft Punk
Dad
