Rabblerousing, tomfoolery, jackassery, defiance, mockery, gourmandizing, lounging, carousing, imbibing, warbling, crooning, belting it out, working it, breaking it down, owning it, gadding about, traipsing, witnessing and testifying.
Music
Nina Simone, Beck, Beastie Boys, Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel-era Genesis, Bessie Smith, Soundgarden, Chris Cornell, Ella Fitzgerald, Rage Against the Machine, Miriam Makeba, David Bowie, TTD (Introducing the Hardline only), Public Enemy, Emilie Simon, IAM, Akhenaton, Shurikn, Skunk Anansie, Yo La Tengo, Radiohead, Bjork, Ben Harper, Tricky, The White Stripes, Massive Attack, REM, Talking Heads, Remy Zero, Roxy Music, Philip Glass, The Style Council, Shriekback, Amy Winehouse, Ray Charles, Garbage, General Public, Gnarls Barkley, Burt Bacharach, Scritti Politti, Dinah Washington, Sade, The Flaming Lips, Queen, James Brown, Modest Mouse, Missy Elliot, Duke Ellington, Zap Mama, Charles Mingus, The Indigo Girls, Hubert Laws, Bill Withers, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Air and Cameron, The Specials, The Mighty Sparrow, Charlie Parker, Toshi Reagon, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Sarah Vaughn, White Zombie, Fiona Apple, Sarah McLachlan, The Jackson Five, Prodigy, Stevie Wonder, The Wild Tchoupitoulas, Desmond Dekker, Khaled, Alice Smith...but that's just off the top of my head.
The first record I ever bought with my own money was the 45 of the theme from Car Wash.
Movies
Breaking Away, ZARDOZ ("The voice of the turtle is heard in the land." Motherfucking WORD.), Fight Club, Black Orpheus, Mad Hot Ballroom, Strictly Ballroom, Moulin Rouge, The Price of Milk, Romeo+Juliet, The Naked Civil Servant, Ma Vie en Rose, Crooklyn, Mississippi Masala, Punch Drunk Love, Gosford Park, Croupier, La Haine, Beautiful Thing, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Big Night, The Matrix, Batman, V for Vendetta, Philadelphia Story, Philadelphia, Murder by Death, Inside Man, Monsoon Wedding, Funny Face, Sense and Sensibility, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Usual Suspects, Joe Dirt (don't ask), The 40-Year Old Virgin, Etre et Avoir, Diva, Star Wars, The 25th Hour, 28 Days Later, Trainspotting, Dirty Pretty Things, Kinky Boots, Midnight Lace, Bugsy Malone, Hairspray (the original), Cry Baby, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (anything set in a chocolate factory is good)....
Television
Shows with a plot, not a prize.
Books
Lolita, Brideshead Revisted, White Teeth, Watership Down, Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir, In Me Own Words, twee fairy stories by Patricia McKillip and Robin McKinley, Giovanni's Room, The Mismeasure of Man, Palestine's Children, Story of a City, Women of Algiers in Their Apartments, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, anything by David Sedaris, anything by VS Naipaul, anything by James Baldwin, anything by Jane Austen, The Color Purple, the Griffin and Sabine books, Little Big, American Gods, Good Omens, A Son of the Circus, Anil's Ghost, Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, The Lovely Bones, A Dying Colonialism, In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio, Random Family, The Color of Liberty, Seducing the French, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, The Sandman series, The Preacher series, The Books of Magic series, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, the Adrian Mole diaries, The Loved One, Vile Bodies....
About me: Faintly oracular, too full of social science, hard-headed, surprisingly soft-hearted, strong-willed, resolutely irreverent, scarily intelligent, regrettably lazy, prone to mad crushes, whisky-loving, megalomaniacal, with poor impulse control.
Who I'd like to meet: People whose revolutionary spirit is matched by their desire to watch Law and Order reruns. People who like good music and phenomenally bad movies. Jackanapes, rapscallions, flaneurs, jemenfoutistes, and dilettantes. People who can find the magnificent in the mundane. People who read and write and create. People who are doing the best they can, with the little they have, to make a mark in the world, even if the world is virtual.
hey there yourself....message me your phone number, so we can catch up....i wanna hear all the wonderfully exciting things you been up to, and i can bore you with my same ol', same ol'.
I understand what you're saying, and yes, no one wants to be around any negative energy. At the same time, how can I have a healthy and fulfilling sex life when I can't seem to find anyone to engage in that sort of thing with? (and believe me, I tried) That's the problem.
Boring. Thank goodness for great music though. That's been getting me through some rough times. But I think spending times with my friends has been very cherishing and valuable to me.
I've been on vaca from the computer, but i'm getting back into the swing of things. are you back on two feet, yet? i'm sorry i missed your birthday....i hope it was awesome.
all's well on my side of the country, do you have NY under control?
I miss you too. I will be back before long- next year for sure. I had such a brilliant time last summer. Also I will need my fix of co-lard greens as my super-powers are fading x
i saw this today, on one of my fave blogs, and thought you and maybe some of your peeps would interested....
Extras Needed for Ang Lee film about Gay Woodstock Figure.
If you're anywhere in the Albany, NY area this weekend and you're interested in being in Ang Lee's film about gay Woodstock figure Elliot Tiber...there's an open casting call.
"An ad in today's paper says the production partners, Focus Films and Tuxedo Terrace, are seeking 'all types (college kids, hippies, townspeople, police, etc)" for various filming dates beginning in mid-August and running through mid-October in Columbia County. The casting calls take place from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday in Hudson at the Smith Middle School, 215 Harry Howard Ave.; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday in Albany at the College of Saint Rose Event & Athletic Center, 420 Western Ave.; and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday in New Lebanon at the Church of the Immaculate Conception at 732 Route 20. Applicants should bring a non-returnable photo and must be a legal U.S. resident. The production is also looking for vintage vehicles from the era; if you have one, bring a non-returnable photo and a description of its make, model and condition."
