| General | Rock paper scissors (naturally,) Hong Kong cinema, wine, cooking, travel, Coast to Coast AM, | | Music | Curtis Mayfield, sunn0))), Goatsnake, Boris, Slo Burn, Merzbow, Throbbing Gristle, Wynonie Harris, Greyboy, High on Fire, Coil, Black Oak Arkansas, Bad Wizard, Pan Sonic, Masonna, Charlie Pride, Marty Robbins, T. Rex. 3.5 Megabytes, Crotchduster, Michael McDonald, Miles Davis, Comets on Fire, Bay Area Funk, honky tonk | | Movies | Rock Paper Scissors: the Movie (www.rpsfilm.com), Chungking Express, Lost Angels, In the Mood for Love, 2046 (basically anything Wong Kar-Wai,) Brick, Infernal Affairs, When We Were Kings, Battle Royale, A Better Tomorrow (1 & 2) | | Television | Arrested Development, Northern Exposure, Sopranos, TV Evangelists (esp. Rev. Gene Scott "God Don't Like it Too!") the NASA channel's live feeds, USA's "Night Flight" (RIP), the snow you get between channels. | | Books | Austin Spare - "From the Inferno to Zos"; William S. Burroughs - "The Job", "Exterminator", "Cities of the Red Night", "The Official Rock Paper Scissors Strategy Guide" (for which I wrote the foreword); | | Heroes | William S. Burroughs, Austin Spare, Brion Gysin, Emperor Joshua Norton.
Heroes that have inspired my sports career: Muhammad Ali, Phil Mickelson, the young Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov (post-retirement,) Michael Jordan, Tony Hawk, P. T. Barnum. |
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