Underground economic analysis and black marketing. Also, robots, avian flu, and other trends.
Fashion: Calvin Klein (all the time), Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli, Franco Moschino, Karl Lagerfeld, John Varvatos, Jil Sander, Oaktown Stitchdown, Patrick Bay, and everyone who gives a damn. I love street trends and loathe fashion victims.
Architecture: Modernism, bitch! Fuck pomo. Chicago, Oakland, LA, and the Empire State building. I LOVE Calatrava and despise Gehry.
Art: Surrealism, Conceptual Art, Constructivism, and the young contemporary artists doing cool shit.
Hotties: Angelina Jolie, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Serena Williams, Pamela Anderson, the Gyllenhaals, Melissa Roach, Brian Faas, and Alexander Hamilton (you look at a $10 bill and tell me he's not hot).
Politics: I am an antisocialist liberal; I tend to agree with The Economist. Cultural and economic freedom go hand in hand, but social justice is very important, especially for us religious types.
Music
My VERY favorite artists are:
Electro: Kraftwerk, Adult., Client, Solvent, LeMansWest Coast Rap: Egyptian Lover, Dr. Dre (every iteration), Too $hort, Digital Underground, e-40, Missy Elliott, The Coup, RapatronCountry: David Allen Coe, Kinky Friedman, Supersuckers, Gillian Welch, Rhett Miller, PaulPop: Donna Summer, MICHAEL JACKSON, Paula Abdul, En Vogue, Aaliyah, Britney, Justin, Thicke, Hey WillpowerArt Music: Eric Satie, Philip Glass, Angie Reed, artsy audio performances
Ghettotech: DJ Godfather, Dopplereffekt, DJ AssaultPornocore: Kool Keith, Foxy Brown, Kelis, Peaches
Opera: Puccini, Chaikovski, Malcolm McLaren's Fans
Videos: Toxic, Superman, Gossip Folks, Givin' Him Something He Can Feel, Cold Hearted Snake
Rock: AC/DC and the most fun 80s Hair Metal, I guess. I love The Donnas. I'm not into rock anymore. It died of old age.
Other: Princess Superstar, Lady Sovereign, Amy Winehouse, Damon and the Heathens
Movies
Right now: Speed Racer
Bad endings: Cruel Intentions, American Psycho, Fight Club
Excellent outfits: Beetlejuice, Batman, Secretary
Comedies: The Brady Bunch, Clue, Not Another Teen Movie
Drama: Adaptation, Amadeus, Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchock)
Television
Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives, Rome, Best Week Ever, The Venture Brothers, Project Runway, North Korean parades
Books
Trendy Nonfiction: How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Dan Neil's car reviews for the LA Times, cookbooks for bizarre diets.
Other: Lolita, Leviticus, Moshino Window Displays, Film Posters of the Russian Avante-Garde and my other pretentious art books, How To Rent a Negro.
Heroes
Kenji Urada, the first person to be murdered by a robot (1981).
Nicolas Sarkozy, reformist French president.
Dieter Meier, millionaire Swiss industrialist turned avant-garde musician (of Yello).
Reed College
Portland, OREGON
Graduated: 2001
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Russian History
Minor: Economics
Clubs: Student Body Senator, Student Newspaper Editor, Eating Disorder Support Club
Greek:
Alpha Sigma Sigma
1997 to 2002
Pinole Valley High
Pinole, CALIFORNIA
Graduated: 1997
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: President, Debate Team
Prose Editor, Literary Magazine
Bad Kid, cut classes
About me: I am a young Renaissance man living it up in the DTO, working to make it more exciting by day and by night. This is my personal page; for my cutting-edge cultural contributions, please see my DJ team, The Bad Future. I also have a photoblog of sorts. I write weekly for Oakland's online magazine, NovoMetro.
I am an Oakland native and I know that Oakland is the most amazing city (I've been everywhere, too). I help property speculators convert offices to condos and then throw parties in them. I always represent our city's status as the best-dressed place in the world. I was raised in Rockridge when its denizens mostly spoke Italian, and now I live in the throbbing heart of downtown Oaktown (Old Oakland, specifically). I did go to high school in the 'burbs (West CoCoCo USD, nee Richmond), and college out of state, but I'm Oaktown through and through.
I enjoy bars (a bit too much), modern and contemporary art (I don't think that Impressionism is modern), in-depth (and well-lubricated) political and historical discussions, and the dark electronic music that is appropriate for our fucked-up future. My life's career goal is to be a villain on Scooby Doo, trying to scare teens away from an amusement park so I can build skyscrapers.
Brief & Odd: I've never had a driver's license, I don't like chocolate, I keep kosher, I don't drink coffee, and I have a famous roommate.
Who I'd like to meet: Old friends. And new ones, of course, although I pretty much stay in Cali. Oaklanders, electronuts, and people with really elaborate hair. Mostly, I want to meet people who know that the above should read "Whom I'd like to meet."
Funny how we should get together next week turned into 8 months!!! It's totally my fault. I have been gallivanting around the globe again!! How are you? I would still like to get together one day!!
