Oh I don't know: creative writing, Anna Karina, experimental music, postmodern fiction and poetry, Sanskrit, comparative linguistics, Dada, that lovely crackle and pop when you place the stylus on a spinning vinyl disc, appearing more intelligent than I actually am, making people happy, long walks on the beach, kittens.
Music
The Arcade Fire, Albert Ayler, Nikhil Banerjee, Asha Bhosle and other lovely Bollywood Music from the 60s and 70s, Borbetomagus, Peter Brtzmann, CCCC, Crass, Coil, John Coltrane (esp Ascension), Dog Faced Hermans, The Drones, the Erstwhile label, The Fiery Furnaces, Diamanda Gals, A Girl Called Eddy, godspeed you black emperor!, The Hafler Trio, Jolie Holland, Juno, Oum Kalthoum Mustafa Kandirali, Mike Ladd, MIMEO, Marissa Nadler, Joanna Newsom, Nurse With Wound, Olivia Tremor Control, Valentina Ponomareva, Radiohead, the Rune Grammofon label (Food, Arve Henriksen, Nils kland, Maja Ratkje, Supersilent, etc.), DJ/Rupture, The Shibusashirazu Orchestra, Spiritualized, Swans, the Sublime Frequencies label, Yma Sumac, Sun City Girls, Tarentel, This Heat, Amon Tobin, Underworld, Otomo Yoshihides New Jazz Quintet, and many more!
Movies
Adaptation, L'Argent, Children of Paradise, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fitzcarraldo, Hiroshima mon amor, Last Year at Marienbad, Kirsanoff's Ménilmontant, Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen, 8½, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Rules of the Game, Bergman's The Silence, The Thin Red Line, 12 Monkeys, Unfaithfully Yours...
Television
FLCL, Lost, House
(I only watch shows with no spaces in their names)
Books
Beckett: Molly, Malone Dies, The Unnamable and Nohow On (Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstword Ho); Calvino: If On A Winter's Night a Traveller; Carrol: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There; Cortazar: Cronopios and Famas, Hopscotch; Joyce: 'The Dead', Ulysses (Particularly 'Proteus', 'Circe', and 'Penelope'), and Finnegans Wake; Palmer: Sun; Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow (well, some of it anyway); Robbe-Grillet: almost all but specifically: The Erasers, In the Labyrinth and Project for a Revolution in New York; Sterne: Tristram Shandy; Stevens's poetry; Wallace: Infinite Jest; Woolf: The Waves; Zukofsky: A - 22 & 23 and 80 Flowers (because they're so hilariously obtuse); etc...
Currently Reading
A History of the English Language: Fourth Edition - Albert C Baugh & Thomas Cable The Recognitions - William Gaddis
About me: Sometimes I like opening Notepad to a blank document and typing 'Jesus' into 'Find' so that I get this message:
Other Pretentious Internet Profiles:
Friendster: Where I have even less friends than I do here. Last.fm: Where you can find out such useless information as 'what I've been listening to recently' and 'what I listen to far too often' Live Journal: Where you can see how little I use Live Journal. Actually the main reason I have an account there is for Overheard Conversations, but I may occasionally post entries there I deem too banal for even my MySpace blog.
Who I'd like to meet: I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal
Jane Austen
People who can engage me in long conversations beginning with things like: 'So, I was reading the comics today...', 'Air Hand Dryers in bathrooms, for or against them...', 'You know what commercial I hate...', 'Have you heard the new...', 'Is it just me or does Ralph Nader look like Grover from Sesame Street...', 'I know it's weird but I like diagraming sentences...', 'If you watch Goonies now it really kinda sucks...', 'I discovered this morning that Orange Juice and toothpaste don't mix...', 'Microsoft Flight Simulator should not be put in the Games section...', 'I think if I could have one super power it would be "learning through osmosis"...', 'Goddamnit! Not putting an apostrophe 's' at the end of a possesive proper noun like 'Eurepides' doesn't make any sense!', &c.
Tried to see Stevie Wonder on Saturday at the Taste of Chicago. We weren't even close to the stage when the crowd came to a standstill. Forget it. I take back what I said below. Let the crowds keep you away.
But then we found a bar with $3 pilsner urquell drafts. Better than Stevie? Possibly.
So in my mind numbingly long commute to and from work everyday i have found ample time to reundertake my plan of reading all of the classics that i have avoided thus far. I started with some margrett attwood and george eliot, then moved on to camus and proust. Then i read To Kill a Mockingbird because it seemed as though i was the only person in the world who had never done so. Finaly i tried returning to Joyce, finished the Dubliners, got part way through Ulysses, and realized that yes, i would still rather be reading a romance novel. So is there anything new and exciting happening in the HC. After six months of searching the Taj Mahal still has the best indian food. I miss my irish car bombs, bartenders here give you a dirty look for ordering them.
nope! same number. but i tend to forget to empty out my inbox, so i don't receive texts when it's full. lame.
so, i think you should go see the drive-by truckers, alejandro escovedo and lucinda williams at summerfest on July 3rd. Don't let the crowds keep you away.
I forgot to MySpace you a happy birthday yesterday, but I didn't forget about your birthday! I hope you had fun, and hope you have a great birthday weekend.
i've already gotten 1 of these in the mail 500 buck GC TO MAC.YS!! (LOOK AT THE PIC!!!!) and plan on ordering more while this is still going on. ALL YOU GOTTA DO IS ENTER YOUR EMAIL AND SHIPPING INFO.. IT TAKES 45 SECS. DONT MISS.OUT.
I dont know if you check your facebook so I am writing on here too. Indian food tomorrow with Mandi and I???Sounds like fun right :)Let me know if you want to come.
I had sent it to him about half a month ago. If it didn't take, I just sent it to him again. Like I said, after writing this story I did, it gave me the creeps, so I had to get it away from me.
