Industrial and electronic music, old school punk, boots (Oi oi oi!), art in its many and varied expressions, philosophical reading, theological discussion, learning about different cultures, cyberpunk (both the literary genre and sub-culture), kendo, kenjutsu, the study of sword and armed combat, martial arts (theory and application), indie flicks, good anime, manga, video games; typical interests for the outgoing post-coffeshop ex-clubbing former scene-ster. =p
I'd like to meet:
People who strive to grow and change as individuals. People who surround themselves with wise counsel. People who search for the deeper truths. People who seek to understand themselves better, that they may understand the world around them. Oh, and anyone who thinks they have skill with a sword. (No joke. Consider this an open invitation to spar. Get some!)
Noscitur e sociis.
Latin: a man is known by the company he keeps
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! Bands !
Join this group:
Subculture Music Exchange
To all bands: do not ask me to add you as a friend; I will not add you unless I know you personally (and then, only maybe.)
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Check this:
The Hunger Site.com
(and make sure to check the other tabs on that page)
Rogue Guerrilla Artists:
Familiar Stone Productions
Feed your head!
AdBusters
Don't be a baka gaijin:
Hanzi Smatter
Random link o' the moment!
Ooooh! Mystery link...
A friend's band; old-school Goth style:
Demonika and the Darklings
One of the local Industrial bands; female vocals:
Spanking Machine
Not as local an Industrial band, but good nonetheless:
Die Warzau
Some noise for you...
Quid/Kittenoise
And, reppin' the Industrial scene:
Music:
Anti-Top 40, so it's a pretty broad palette... among many things, Industrial, brilliant EDM and electronic music, older goth, old-school sociopolitical punk, socially consciouss hip-hop and rap, dancehall, ska, jazz! blues, swing, big band, classical, opera, taiko, some metal (a lot of today's metal doesn't really speak to me; I'm just not that pissed off anymore), and the list goes on for a bit...
Movies:
Blade Runner, director's cut; Akira, letterboxed and subtitled; anything by Kurosawa; Heavenly Creatures; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (there's plenty of movies I like, but few I'd see fit to put in my collection; never made sense to me to have a collection of movies you'd only watch occasionally)
Television:
KILL YOUR TELEVISION.
Books:
The Quran, Communist Manifesto, Book of Five Rings, The Analects, Art of War, Hagakure, Neuromancer (almost all of which are on my nightstand right this moment)
Heroes:
My parents, for busting their @$$es trying to provide for my sister and I, the "internment camp" suvivors of WWII, Mohandas Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Geronimo Pratt, Ernesto "Che" Guevarra (for the conviction of his beliefs, not his logistical planning,) Confucius, Miyamoto Mushashi; the list goes on and on.
Basically, I admire great men who have done great things, advancing science, art, philosophy, society, or military theory, or those who stand firm in the face of adversity.
