Interesting, innovative, rock 'n' roll of all eras, visual art that conveys powerful emotion (stand three feet from a Rothko in a museum and you can feel the chill radiating from it - that kind of shit), subversive political and social theory, anything with an interest in annhiliating fascism in any of its manifestations, good books, good, unusual films that experiment with genre convention, comic books (really), playing music
Music
American punk rock 1976 - 1991, most post-punk, post-punk revival, bakersfield country, outlaw country, appalachian string bands, string blues - Black Flag, Avengers, Dinosaur Jr. (w/Lou Barlow in the band), Fugazi, Butthole Surfers, Scratch Acid, The Dicks, Gang of Four, The Cure, Joy Division, early Echo & The Bunnymen, Wire, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Gram Parsons, Bill Monroe, Robert Johnson, Leadbelly, Son House, Lightnin' Hopkins, Johnny Cash
Movies
Repo Man, Donnie Darko, The Decline of Western Civilisation, Blade Runner, Evil Dead (all of 'em), Bubba Ho-tep, Straight to Hell, High Plains Drifter, The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Searchers
Television
Not much - The Wire, The Shield
Books
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the The Bicameral Mind, The Most Radical Gesture, Commentary on the Society of the Spectacle, The Revolution of Everyday Life, Little Boy Blue, White Jazz, The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcoln, A Farewell to Arms, Revelation Space (whole trilogy), anything by Iain Banks except "The Bridge", Ten Thousand Working Days, Jack Womack, Cormac McCarthy, Philip K. Dick
Heroes
Hugo Chavez, Che Guevara, Eldridge Cleaver, John Sinclair, Pablo Picasso, Father Uffizi
About me: Western Culture is dying a slow, ugly death. If you give a shit about such things then go check out www.culturalsenescence.blogspot.com. I mostly do record reviews, but also ruminate, pontificate, and spew bile ridden sanctimonious opinions on various positive and negative, mostly negative, aspects of what passes for culture in The West, primarily the United States, since I live here, but I can work with Europe as well. If you want your CD reviewed on the blog send a copy ALONG WITH A ONE SHEET (If I don't know anything about you, it makes it hard to review your music. If you don't know what a one sheet is you need to learn ASAP) to Cultural Senescence, 5508 Coventry Ln., Austin, TX 78723 - can't promise I'll review it but you'll never know if you don't try.
Who I'd like to meet: Pablo Picasso, Joe Strummer, Tom Waits, Mark Rothko, Nick Cave, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Humphrey Bogart, Dashell Hammett, Sid Vicious, Richard Kelly, Guillermo Del Toro, Father Uffizi
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Heeey there!!! Thank you very much... very much! You have a great taste in music for the bands I see in your space, so it's great to get that from people that have listened to so much :) And I have learned a new word in English... badass!! jee Saludos desde Argentina :)
