playing "rock" music, Riding my bicycle, travelling far away from my homeland of NYC with my buddy Nick, sock-monkey tea-parties and cutting myself
Music
N.C.V., Choking V., L.o.C., Star Fucking Hipsters, Jawbreaker, 2Pac, Beatles, real political punk (Crass, old Chumba, nausea, conflict, subhumans/citizen fish, original (real) Dead Kennedys & all that loud fast shit that promotes true & positive political change), lots of hip-hop and now I am becoming, como se dice? un indie-rock geek: Postal Service, Joanna Newsom, Pavement, Death Cab, Arcade Fire. They might be giants (up until the last several records), Prince, Michael Jackson,Cars,Cyndi Lauper and ALL 80's POP!! (really all of it...) and really, really sad songs that make me want to lay down on the floor unless I can find a nice isolated spot to watch glorious sunsets over large bodies of water to the west where I can stare at the colorful light reflecting off of the rippling water and close my eyes for the setting suns'glow on the insides of my eyelids. A feeling as close to sober peace as I can find anywhere in this cruel and lonely world...
Movies
Jacobs Ladder, most Coen Brothers films (Raising Arizona, Millers Crossing, Big Lebowski, O Brother where Art Thou, etc.), Terry Gilliam (Baron Munchausen, 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing, Monty Python, etc.), all the George Romero zombie movies (Night/Dawn/Day and Land of the Dead), anything by Wes Anderson (especially the Royal Tenembaums and the Life Aquatic), Magnolia (and most P.T. Anderson flicks), Sergio Leone cowboy movies, the Shaweshank Redemption and more recently: A Scanner Darkly
Television
No Fucking Commercials!!!
some HBO shit like Carnivale, Big Love, Six Feet Under & the Wire, Flight of the Conchords, Tenacious D, Kids in the Hall and Mr. Show (all originally HBO shows). Aqua-Teen Hunger Force and Metalacolypse. I try to steal cable, but I just get the food network and TBS which are both extremely boring and full of commercials. And U.K. shows like Spaced, Extras, Black Books & the league of gentlemen.
Books
99% of everything by John Steinbeck and Kurt Vonnegut, most recently Haruki Marikami ("The wind-up bird chronicles" and "Kafka on the Shore" especially, but many more), Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", the original A.A. Milne Winnie the Pooh books ("winnie the pooh" and "the house at pooh corner" with the pre-disney (art fuck-uppery) Sam Shepard illustrations and then an assortment of things I have read over the past 20 years including "Watership Down", several George Orwell books ("Homage to Catalonia", "1984","down and out in London and France"), "Farenheight 451" and "Dandelion Wine" by Ray Bradbury, Arandahti Roy's "the god of small things" and her political non-fiction essays, "you can't win" by Jack Black (the train-hoppin' thief and jail-breakin' reformed hop-fiend fugitive from the turn of the last century, not the tubby guy from the movies during the turn of this century), Alex Burgess's "a Clockwork Orange" and to some strange unsure extent a few Oscar Wild books that I just find written quite uniquely. Lots of political non-fiction like: Assata Shakur's auto-biography, Lockdown America:police and prisons in the age crisis by Christian Parenti (the son of Michael Parenti, the spoken word guy from "No Gods/No Managers") & "attention M.O.V.E.:this is America" which is a book about the history of the unjust harassment, murder & imprisonment of the Afrika family. And this winter('08) I read two really good historical Fiction books; "What is the What" (as well as the not as excellent but still good,"You shall know us by our velocity" both) by Dave Eggers and "Roots" by Alex Haley.I travel & read a lot and I don't think I can include all the fuckin' books I been done read. I gotta say thumbs down for "memoirs of a geisha", bourgeois, upper-class bull-shit, where the elite society whores (and I'm not referring to the geisha as whores here, it's all of the rich ass-holes) win!!! Under-dogs uber-alles!!! Tried a couple of Chuck Palanuak books, but they didn't move me too much, maybe I read the wrong ones, semi-entertaining stuff though. I'm n ot the type of person constantly plowing through anything that I can get my hands on, but I did (semi-embarrassingly) read the Gunslinger series by Stephen King, though a couple of those books did stand-out as fairly good and I did like the Stand when I was about 13 years old, though I doubt it would, uh..STAND the test of time for me now (I was also sucked into "the green-mile" series which I liked. And there is this great book called "the White Bone" about a "family" of African Elephants that I really loved, though I can't remember the authors name...I can't find new books that I want to read often, especially since Vonnegut died, so any suggestions would be appreciated...
Heroes
Assata Shakur, Dick Lucas, Brandon Chevalier-Kolling, the Zapatistas, the Tupac Ammaru, the folks that held off the Romans at Massada, Ramona Afrika (sole adult survivor of the 1985 Philadelphia M.O.V.E. bombing/incineration & firing squad executions), all the rock-throwers & cop-killa's around the world and of course anybody willing to put aside their differences to unite against the true evils of this world or those with the bravery to stand-up against the everyday injustices against humans and animals alike, though I have this theory that we must liberate and stop torturing and murdering humans before we can start to truly take care of our animal friends, but there is the otherside of that opinion that occupies me where I feel that human nature is essentially evil and although animals are brutal too, we have definitely strayed from our link in the food chain...
About me: I don't have computer access really, but when I travel to places like Mexico and Guatemala or sometimes other peoples houses, I get a chance to stare at the disturbing glare of the afore-mentioned device. It makes my back, neck & eyes hurt, but sometimes I get really fucking bored & that is the time that I will use a computer to kill the excruciatingly slow passage of time & I love the sunset.
O.K.?
O.K.
Who I'd like to meet: Nick Phillips, Brandon Possible, Boyd.
Assata Shakur, Jessie's girl, Arundahti Roy, the land o lakes girl (the one with the knee-breasts'), Ol'Dirty Bastard (again)
