Learning more about everything, dark bars, great music at loud volumes, used CD stores with listening stations, fireplaces, chinese food, high expectations, being done with school forever, sleeping, autumn, refusals, movies, drums, rainy nights, guitars, thrift stores, NPR in the morning, watching D.C. teams win, skinny bitches, Le Show, and, sad to say, sleep.
Music
The Angels of Light, Aphex Twin, The Arcade Fire, As The Sun Sets, Autolux, Bad Brains, Battles, Bauhaus, Big Black, The Birthday Party, Black Flag, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Black Sabbath, Botch, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Charles Bronson, Johnny Cash, CCR, Christian Death (w/ Rozz), Nels Cline, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Converge, Daughters, Miles Davis, Dimmu Borgir, Dinosaur Jr, Discordance Axis, Do Make Say Think, Don Caballero (old), Nick Drake, Drive Like Jehu, Bob Dylan, Einsturzende Neubauten, El-P, Eyehategod, Failure, Ella Fitzgerald, The Flaming Lips, Fourtet, Frodus, The Fucking Champs, Fugazi, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Goo Goo Dolls, Henryk Gorecki, PJ Harvey, Mitch Hedberg, Health, Hella, Hot Snakes, Idaho, Iron Maiden, The Jesus Lizard, Journey, Joy Division, June of 44, Kayo Dot, Kiss It Goodbye, Led Zeppelin, Liars, The Locust, Lords, Madvillain, Mazzy Star, Meshuggah, Misfits, Mogwai, The Nation of Ulysses, Neurosis, Oceansize, The Paper Chase, Pedro The Lion, pg 99, Propagandhi, Public Image Limited, QOTSA, Richard Pryor, Rachel's, Radiohead, Red House Painters, Reversal of Man, Rival Schools, Rorschach, Shudder to Think, Sigur Ros, Slayer, Slint, Slowdive, The Smiths, Sparklehorse, Strike Anywhere, Sufjan Stevens, sunn0))), Swans (early), Swervedriver, These Arms Are Snakes, This Song Is A Mess But So Am I, Tool, Tortoise, A Tribe Called Quest, Voivod, The Weakerthans, Shannon Wright, Wyckyd Sceptre, Xiu Xiu, and Young Widows.
Movies
Lost In Translation, The Eternal Sunshine, The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona, Dr. Strangelove, The Royal Tennebaums, Lost Highway, Hero, Mulholland Drive, Annie Hall, Zoolander, Caddyshack, Lolita (1997), Spinal Tap, Boogie Nights, Fight Club, Rosemary's Baby, Manhattan, 2001, Life Aquatic, Anchorman, Rushmore, Animal House, Sin City, Godfather (1 and 2), A Shot In The Dark, Dogville, City of Lost Children, Naked Gun (all three), Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Talladega Nights, Borat, Delicatessen.
Television
Arrested Development, Seinfeld, Lost, The Simpsons, The Colbert Report, Da Ali G Show, Family Guy, King Of The Hill, Frasier, Sealab 2021, Spaceghost, football (English Premier League and NFL), The Office (BBC, and now, the US version), Curb Your Enthusiasm, Chappelle's Show, Mr. Show, Extras
Books
The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie, Side Effects - Woody Allen, Swann's Way - Marcel Proust, Miles - Miles Davis, Cash - Johnny Cash, Season Of Migration To The North - Tayeb Salih, The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein, The Book of Embraces - Eduardo Galeano, The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie, Get In The Van - Henry Rollins, Our Dumb Century - The Onion, A People's History Of The United States - Howard Zinn, The End Of Faith - Sam Harris.
About me: I'm terrified of sharks and flying. I have panic attacks in pools and nightmares of crash landings in the desert.
I get motion sickness easily. The 5.4 earthquake that shook Los Angeles in July 2008, which lasted all of five seconds, made me nauseous for a good 20 minutes. Strike that, a miserable 20 minutes.
I'd rather walk a long distance than pay for parking. I guess I'm cheap.
I teach special education, which I'm told makes me a do-gooder-save-the-world-hippie. Speaking of kids, I don't want any. I get paid to be around kids.
I spend way too much time and money at Amoeba. I have plenty of time, but very little money. No fair.
I don't believe in god, Care Bears, unicorns, or anything else that's super-ridiculous. I believe religious people make the world a dangerous, ignorant, and hateful place and will continue to cause misery and suffering everywhere until they finally destroy everything. Ironically, I'm a reverend.
I've been doing a Master's program for the past five years and can't bring myself to finish the second-half of my thesis. Lazy, lazy, lazy.
My room is messy. But it's air conditioned, so hooray for that.
I go to the Drudge Report at least 5x/day. I'm a masochist, but I'm not into S&M at all.
Richard Pryor, Dan Savage, and Godspeed You Black Emperor have saved my life. Joy Division almost ended it.
I've watched Arrested Development, Annie Hall, and The Life Aquatic unhealthy amounts of times.
I have a hard time participating in conversations in loud places - particularly if it's in the context of a big group - because my hearing sucks. I have an easy time participating in conversations if I've had a few drinks.
My drink is vanilla vodka and diet coke. I think Smirnoff's vanilla vodka whoops up on Absolut, but I don't want to hurt Absolut's feelings, so be sure to check out Absolut Los Angeles while you still can.
I can't sleep without white noise. I travel with an electric fan.
I'm 31 and still listen to music full of screaming and feedback. Some of it is exclusively screaming and feedback. I don't want to grow up.
Yo - long time no see. Hope your doing well. Just wanted to say hey. I caught Cave In with Coalesce the other night and lost my mind. Cave In played an awesome set of new and old songs. Until Your Heart Stops is still one of my fav albums. Coalesce brought their A game too. Did you see the show in LA?
We are featuring one song a week. The song will be a song that totally destroys and needs to be heard. The first week the featured song is "Mega Anthem" by Mega Wand. Check it out:
