Reading. A few subjects that I enjoy reading about are, Progressive Politics, Feminism, Labor Issues, Marxism, Existentialism, Absurdism, Surrealism, Socialism, Communism, Radicalism, Environmentalism, Anarchism, Elitism, Anti-Consumerism, etc. (If I think of any more "ism's" I'll add them later) I enjoy reading and learning about; Poetry, Art, Literature, History, Philosophy, Design (Mid-Century being my favorite), Animal Rights, Music, Religion (I believe in Co-Existing, so all of you Christian Fundamentalists don't get excited that I mentioned religion). I enjoy watching movies, although I can be a bit of a snob when it comes to my tastes. I like Film Noir, Gangster (Gangster, NOT Gangsta), Foreign, Avant-Garde, Classic, Progressive, Comedy & Modern films, Documentaries about Music, Politics, or whatever else I find interesting at the moment. I like listening to music. Actually, I love listening to music! My music collection covers many different genres. I've also recently started collecting vinyl records. I only have between 100-200 LPs so far. ***See MUSIC section of my profile for insight into my tastes and the many different artists I dig! I enjoy traveling, eating good food, mixing cocktails, drinking good beer, wine, coffee, tea, coca-cola, laughing at stuff on YOUTUBE, shopping (ebay, thrift stores, Goodwill, etc.), sports (except NASCAR!), mountainbiking, site-seeing, sleeping, skiing, spending time with my family and friends, locking the door, putting the phone in the refrigerator, turning out the lights, etc. You know, normal stuff.
Music
Man, I'll be working on this for a while! So, I might as well start now. A few people I enjoy listening to are; The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Them featuring Van Morrison, Eric Burdon and the Animals (Download, "When I Was Young," "Poem by the Sea," "Gin House Blues," & "Winds of Change"), Eric Burdon and War, Syd Barrett, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Cream, Spencer Davis Group, Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, Muddy Waters, Lightnin' Hopkins, Dean Martin, Dion & The Belmonts, Big Star, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Iggy Pop & The Stooges, The Ventures, Bat for Lashes, Nico, Pearl Jam, Raincoats, Stereolab, Astrud Gilberto, The Dead Weather, Frank Sinatra, Old Skool Punk: Black Flag, The Sex Pistols, The Misfits, Flipper, Ramones, Buzzcocks, Minor Threat, The Minutemen, etc. Robert Johnson, The Who, Love and Rockets, Portishead, Dead Boys, The Jesus and Mary Chain, John Lee Hooker, Bobby Darin, Son House, Miles Davis, Sun Ra, Bob Marley, The Clash, Louis Prima, Burning Spear, James Brown, (Early) Funkadelic, Love, The White Stripes, The Feelies, Devo, The Beta Band, Small Faces, Faces, Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, The Violent Femmes, The Pixies, The 13th Floor Elevators, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Wire, The Yardbirds, The Verve, Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band, The Zombies, PJ Harvey, The Smiths, Interpol, Oasis, Television, Cat Power, The Talking Heads, Nick Drake, Radiohead, The Flaming Lips, Wilco, Ryan Adams, House of Pain, Beastie Boys, Sigur Ros, Yo La Tengo, Supergrass, Donovan, Elliott Smith, Les Baxter, The Velvet Underground, Jackie Davis, The Kinks, Yma Sumac, Phil Ochs, The Beach Boys, Doves, Lou Reed (Download, "Coney Island Baby"), Bob Dylan, Fats Domino, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Chocolate Watchband, Standells, Milt Buckner, Count Five, Brigitte Bardot, Martin Denny, Dave Brubeck, Chantal Goya, David Bowie, Crosby, Stills, Nash & (sometimes) Young, Grateful Dead, Hasil Adkins, Plastic Ono Band, Kings of Leon, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jimmy Cliff, Marvin Gaye, MC5, The Sonics, Moby, Beck, Raconteurs, Marc Bolan & T-Rex, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Link Wray & The WrayMen, Carl Perkins, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, Curtis Mayfield, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, REM, The Jam, Sleater Kinney, Fugazi, The Cure, Joy Divison, etc. Obviously, I could continue. I'll be adding more later... (I gotta get on with this!)
Movies
Che: Parts 1 & 2, Milk, Pineapple Express, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Tropic Thunder, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The 400 Blows, Shoot the Piano Player, The Stranger, Masculin Feminin, Breathless, Seven Samurai, On the Waterfront, The Last Tango in Paris, Chinatown, LA Confidential, Dr. Strangelove, Being There, Straw Dogs, 12 Angry Men, The Graduate, The Converstaion, Raging Bull, The Roaring Twenties, White Heat, Mean Streets, The Misfits, A Clockwork Orange, Angels with Dirty Faces, The Third Man, O' Brother Where Art Thou?, Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Knife In the Water, I Heart Huckabees, The Killing, Paths of Glory, Notorious, Vertigo, Starsky and Hutch, Wedding Crashers, Dodgeball, Superbad, Gangs of New York, The Departed, Malibus Most Wanted, Sicko, Mulholland Dr., Annie Hall, Manhattan, The Bicycle Thief, Belle de Jour, Blue Velvet, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence, The Virgin Spring, Elevator to the Gallows, The Departed, The Valley of the Dolls, No Country for Old Men, Control, Burn After Reading, There Will Be Blood, M, Scarlet Street, The Blue Dahlia, Body and Soul, Kiss of Death, Out of the Past, Force of Evil, He Walked By Night, The Lady From Shanghai, The Naked City, The Asphalt Jungle, D.O.A, Sunset Boulevard, He Ran All the Way, Strangers on a Train, Clash By Night, The Blue Gardenia, Borat, Pickup on South Street, Suddenly, The Big Combo, Killer's Kiss, Kiss Me Deadly, The Night of the Hunter, High Noon, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Cape Fear, Bullitt, Dirty Harry, The French Connection, Shaft, Rosemarys Baby, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Taxi Driver, Against All Odds, Reservoir Dogs, The Fugitive, The Last Seduction, Pulp Fiction, The Harder They Come, Heat, Casino, The Usual Suspects, Fargo, Jackie Brown, Ronin, The Man Who Wasn't There, A History of Violence, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Lost Highway, Fight Club, Memento, The Big Lebowski, Death to Smoochy, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Twelve Monkeys, Children of Men, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Stray Dog, Night and the City, The Wages of Fear, Rififi, Band of Outsiders, City of God, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Best in Show, Joe Dirt, Zoolander, Adaptation, Catch Me if You Can, Orange County, etc.
Television
HBO, Cinemax, National Geographic, Discovery, MSNBC, BBC, History Channel, Comedy Central, A&E Channel, Documentary Channel, VH1 Classic, Public Broadcasting Channels. CONAN OBRIEN!!!, Jay Leno, Seinfeld, My Name Is Earl, Locked Up Abroad, Reno 911, The Office, 30 Rock, Family Guy, Eastbound & Down, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Flight of the Conchords, etc. I'm not really into "Reality" style shows, a few can hold my interest for awhile but I tend to lose interest. Did you know that there are more tv sets than people in US homes?
Books
Right now I'm reading, "The Trial" by Franz Kafka and "Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller. Next in queue: "Notes From the Underground" by Fyodor Dostoevsky and "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury (I actually picked those up earlier tonight!). Most recently Read Books: "Existentialism for Beginners" by David Cogswell. "Ham on Rye" by Charles Bukowski. "The Fall" and "The Stranger" by Albert Camus. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. "The Great Political Theories Vol. 2: A Comprehensive Selection of the Crucial Ideas in Political Philosophy from the French Revolution to Modern Times" by Michael Curtis." "Hard Times" by Charles Dickens and "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison. "Jonah's Gourd Vine" by Zora Neal Hurston. "Passing" by Nella Larson and "Cane" by Jean Toomer. A few books I would recommend are: "The Short Stories of Breece DJ' Pancake" by Breece DJ' Pancake (funny name, great writer), "The Radical Reader" by Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John Campbell McMillian, "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath, "Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life" by Jon Lee Anderson, "Ask the Dust" by John Fante, anything by Charles Bukowski!!! Such as; 1. "Women," 2. "You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense," 3. "The Last Night of the Earth Poems," 4. "Tales of Ordinary Madness," and 5. "Love Is A Dog From Hell," etc. I'm in a hurry, I'll add more later.
Heroes
A few of them are listed in my "People I'd Like to Meet" section of this profile. Excluding Adolf Hitler of course, I'd like to meet him but I don't admire him! Oh yeah, and maybe these guy's (Max Fischer and The Greatest American Hero)...
Who I'd like to meet: I'll think of a few more later, but here's a few people off the top of my head, that I would most certainly like to meet... The Dali Llama, Martin Luther King Jr., Che Guevara, Siddhartha, Ghandi, Jesus of Nazareth, Ernest Hemingway, Angela Davis, Sylvia Plath (I'd like to go back in time and rescue her), Johnny Cash, Andy Warhol, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Francis Ford Coppola, Alfred Hitchcock, Breece 'DJ Pancake, Albert Einstein, Howard Hughes, My Great Grandmother, Lou Reed, Kurt Cobain, Ryan Adams, Adolf Hitler, Judas Iscariot, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Brian Jones, Nick Drake, Elliott Smith, Ian Curtis, Frank Sinatra, James Cagney, Robert DeNiro, Owen Wilson, Al Capone, Rita Hayworth, Meg White (Meg's my girl!), Jack White, Kate Winslet (no, wait a minute, Kate's my girl!), John Lee Hooker, Son House, Robert Johnson, David Lynch, Jimi Hendrix, Allister Crowley, Radiohead, Martin Scorcese, Jackson Pollock, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski (definitely!), Malcolm X, Woody Guthrie, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Syd Barrett (Possibly, #1 on my list.), I'll add some more later..
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London gig 19th sept 09 @ The Monto Water Rats. Email kenelis@mac.com for tickets:) Want you there and please spread the word :) Also email 'Give her the Gun' to kenelis@mac.com for a free track xx sorry for the generic comment back, just super busy! forgive me! message me if you wanna get more involved with Kenelis x
Tell me... that your facetious, alter ego left the gay comment for me on July 18 at 11:05 p.m. Humor me, at least, as I am all up in wizardry-ness at the moment-- wait, that doesn't read well-- I mean "gay" comment. Better?
wow..I could've written your lists..with the exception of the folks I don't know and judging by the rest I'd venture to guess that I would be impressed by their pursuits..cool..I like to research the things I don't know already or know I know already anyway..two seperate things.
wow..I could've written your lists..with the exception of the folks I don't know and judging by the rest I'd venture to guess that I would be impressed by their pursuits..cool..I like to research the things I don't know already or know I know already anyway..two seperate things.
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