What nobody else is really into. Just too lazy to call people and ask them if they want to check out _____.I sporadically volunteer around the city - Bindlestiff (ofcourse), SF Food Bank, Asian American Film Fest, SF Rescue Mission. Keeps me busy.I have an attraction to vampires, but would never get involved with one. But if a woman vampire wanted to bite me, we'd have to discuss the issues and the expectations that would inevitably pop up. I wouldn't like any surprises from her and vice versa. I mean... would she have to be out every night? What if I'm tired and don't want to go out. And if I've been drinking the whole night and she took a quick sip of my blood, would she be become intoxicated too? Who's going to drive?
Maggie Cheung at opening night of one of her films, F.X. Toole at an illegal boxing match, H.P. Lovecraft reading a first draft in a dark, damp room, my Lolo who visited me when I just a baby, Dondi at the Writers Bench, a prostitute turning her first trick, a serial killer just after taking his first victim, David picking a stone to sling at Goliath, Genghis Khan when he killed his half brother. Myself in 1946...
At the moment Yo La Tengo, releases from John Zorn, LCD Soundsystem, Amy Winehouse, Velvet Underground, J Church, releases off Ed Banger Records, Dinosaur Jr., ESG, Luke Vibert, MC5, River City Rebels, The Pixies, Social Distortion, Crime (SF), Olodum, Suzie Ibarra, Charles Mingus, Buddy Holly, Public Enemy, Muddy Waters, Quetzal, Fela Kuti, Bauhaus: Live in SF, Putreska, Golda Supanova, Journey, Edith Piaf, Dengue Fever and Current 93..
As Midnight Falls, a twenty minute short that changed my view of films. And yes, I am a fan of Wong Kar Wei. I get into hour long discussions b/w the films Chung King Express, Fallen Angels, In The Mood For Love, and 2046. The one movie I can watch over and over agin is Suzhou River. I can come home 3 in the morning and watch certain scenes. If you saw this flick you will be the third person I've met who's seen it. Send me a message if you have. We're rare people.
Television rots your brain. I hate American Idiot, every reality show, all the over dramatized crime series, and the "perfect setting" tv shows. The only thing that ever stuck in my head that was worth watching was a documentary on Martin Luther King. The I Have A Dream speech. And I was nine years old when I watched it.
At the moment Tales of H.P. Lovecraft, Total Chaos by Jeff Chang, The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker, Genghis Khan by Jack Weatherford, Screaming Monkeys (anthology, critiques of Asian American Images), The Ten Things You Can't Say In America by Larry Elder, Take Ten: New Ten Minute Plays (anthology), The Open Door: Thoughts on Acting & Theatre by Peter Brook, The Outlaw Bible on American Literature (anthology), The Art Of War by Sun-tzu, almost every book Raymond Feist & Andrew Vacchs, a bunch of Forgotten Realms books, the Book of Dzyan by Madame Blavatsky, books on Nazi Skins, and books on Opium.
If you were left for dead but dragged yourself to safety through the sole sheer purpose of anger, hatred and revenge. An emotional triumvirate that keeps you awake at night that which demons fear to lay next to your place of rest. (I'm hopelessly a cliched Scorpio and I embrace revenge and have many times done this myself. And it would make a good yet again cliched storyline.)