Things I like: Friends. Painting. Drawing. People with whom I feel comfortable and can act like the dork I am. Portmanteaus. Stupid jokes. Obscure music. Dancing. Gallery openings. Photography. Thrift stores. Vintage clothes and furniture. Urban hiking. Nature hiking. Being outdoors. Conversing. Grammar. Conversing with proper grammar. People who don't say "conversating". Food. Urban cities, especially San Francisco, New York, Rome, and Vienna. Driving aimlessly. Kissing. Road trips. Plane trips. Sunny days. Foggy nights in SF. Starry nights in the coutryside. Not ending sentences in prepositions. Books on social issues. Etymology. Memoirs. Writing. Gently drifting to sleep while listening to records. Making new friends. Finding new things to do. Record collecting. Selling records. Kittens.
Music
Music interests: Post punk, minimal electronic, coldwave, deathrock, synthpop, indie, dreampop, goth, darkwave.
My 10 favorite bands at the moment: Car Crash Set Digital Leather Human Puppets Linear Movement Lost Sounds Pale Saints Pink Turns Blue Skywave/Ceremony/A Place to Bury Strangers Venus in Furs The Wake
Movies
Movies: City of God. Brazil. Cemetery Man. Battle Royale. Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail. Amelie. Office Space. Frankenhooker. Princess Bride. Secret of Nimh. Cheesy 80s movies (Rad, Better Off Dead, Sixteen Candles, Brain Damage, Revenge of the Nerds, Spaceballs, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, etc etc...).
Television
TV shows I enjoy: The Daily Show & The Colbert Report, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Doctor Who, MST3K, Freaks and Geeks, Arrested Development, Futurama, Antiques Roadshow.
Books
Some of my favorite books: Anything by Kurt Vonnegut Anything by David Sedaris Punk Diary, Post Punk Diary, Fucked Up and Photocopied, New York Noise, Rip It Up & Start Again, and other books about the history of punk & post punk Maus The Book of Absinthe: A Cultural History The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things What is the What Rescuing Da Vinci Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body Any Calvin and Hobbes collection. Also, artist bios & books - currently: Christian Marclay Daniel Spoerri - "From A to Z", Jan Voss - "Detour".
I'm working on my age advancing contraption.. you just wait. If that fails, I have my backup age reducing pills I'm working on... hehehe.. want a glass of wine, Phil?
BTW we're going to maggianos tomorrow evening (Sunday). That's one at Santana Row. Wanna go??
Hey Phil...Good to finally meet you outside of a user interface window. Hope the show was good, kind of sucks that I was only able to catch 1.1 songs. The main coldwave blog I know of is Systems of Romance and the Slytka one (aka the FLEXI POP blog) This was the one I was thinking of last night...the black and green one: http://the-soundhead. blogspot. com/
hello sneezy! just wanted to say how quiet is around the corner. just when we were getting all used to ya... hope you're doing well! don't be a stranger, stranger (-_o)
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