Hiking,
dance clubs,
urban exploration,
random road trips,
art and culture,
treacle mining,
drawing (pen & ink, charcoal, scraperboard),
museums,
architecture,
sculpture,
Eschatology,
coffee,
booze,
science & skepticism,
social issues,
gender studies and equality,
environmentalism and greenishness,
fnordhunting,
civil rights,
androgyny,
world politics,
unusual intimacy,
underground subculture and alternative lifestyles
Music
Peter Gabriel, OMD, Annie Lennox, TMBG, Apoptygma Berzerk, Yazoo, Jonathan Coulton, This Mortal Coil, Death Cab for Cutie, The Police, Pet Shop Boys, Prick, Tears for Fears, The Psychedelic Furs, 3OH!3, Antony & The Johnsons, VNV Nation, Guster, Assemblage 23, Moby, Damien Rice, Sarah McLachlan, Depeche Mode, Dido, Brand New, DeVotchKa, Iris (but I am so much more, and so much less, than all that)
Pulp Fiction, Fargo, Edward Scissorhands, Blade Runner, Vertigo, Sunset Boulevard, Fight Club, Chinatown, Tremors, EasyRider, American Beauty, Little Miss Sunshine, The Professional, Almost Famous, SLC Punk, U-Turn, Sideways, Waking Ned Devine, Requiem for a Dream, Lady in the Water, Mars Attacks!, Willard, The Crying Game, The Princess Bride, Donnie Darko, Se7en, The Shawshank Redemption, Clockwork Orange, Being John Malkovich, The Fisher King, Taxi Driver
Television
generally speaking, television is a river of sewage. there are a few exceptions: MythBusters, Law and Order, Carnivale, Six Feet Under, The Office, Dexter, Lost.
Books
always reading something.
All time favorites:
Chuck Palahniuk, William Faulkner, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Rice, William S. Burroughs, Bill Bryson, Gary Jennings, John Irving, Dan Brown, Neal Stephenson, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury
Also, these are worth checking out: Le Train de Nulle Part,
Harry Potter and Leopard Walk Up to Dragon,
Gadsby
Heroes
Crispin Glover, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Diogenes the Cynic, Anaïs Nin, Liam Lynch, John Hodgman, Drew and Natalie, Andy Kaufman, Rebecca Watson, and my sister and brother.
So, i'm kevin, and i'm kind of obsessed with cluttered old bookstores, pre-1960s Los Angeles, science, linguistics, urban exploration, sick inappropriate humor, assertive women, social activism, indy music and films, NPR. These days I program websites for a living, spend time with good people, fantasize about running away and living in the wilderness, find unintended uses for things, read books voraciously, and take an unhealthy interest in being generally sarcastic. I celebrate diversity and the bizarre. Plus, I have a Dr. Seuss tattoo.
Pet Peeves:
The use of 'literally' when you mean 'figuratively' ("I was literally climbing the walls!")
Commercials with closeups of cats eating moist food
Racial pride/patriotism
Constant ellipse usage at the end of sentences. Are you trying to be breathy? Mysterious? Pondersome?
Women who park and then take 10 minutes to get out of their car
People who keep talking when they know I'm not listening
Pet costumes
A lack of keeping track of who else is in your physical proximity because you're texting/talking on your cellphone/really important/shopping/Asian
Sublime, the Beastie Boys, and Rage Against the Machine
Willful ignorance
Disclaimer:
The text above says I CAN EAT GLASS IT DOES NOT HURT ME in several different languages*. You have been warned.
* ...Just in case anybody "foreign" (i.e. terrorist, illegal alien, towelhead, etc.) is thinking of fucking with me. By the way, this is America, so start speaking American† or GET OUT. When you leave your shitty country and come to a better one, LEARN THE LANGUAGE. Other languages such as Mexican, Cherokee, Canadian, or Esperanto will not be tolerated. American is in fact the only language that should be spoken anywhere. If it was good enough for Jesus‡, then it's good enough for you, freedom-hater.
† American is not to be confused with its bastard offspring English, which is spoken in England, or Califnordian, which is spoken in California.
‡ Yes, of course Jesus spoke American. After all, which language is the new AMERICAN bible written in?
Who I'd like to meet:
I like open-minded people who know how to have an intelligent discussion. I can usually find something in common with everyone, but I don't get along well with pretentious conceited types.
Attention! if you know how any of the following can be reached, please let me know:
Even more fascinating a tale it would be, if all of his scientific fame and power had accumulated solely for to carry out the predestined statement of that one quote.
