Oh yeah - every genre has at least a few good tracks to offer, I figure. So : Radiohead : Nirvana : The Pixies : Blockhead (!) : old Metallica : some NIN : Frank Black (and Associates) : Johnny Cash : Queen : Blur : The Anticon Clan : Del Tha Funkee Homosapien : Gorillaz : Calexico : classical (piano or BIG strings) : The Handsome Family : U2 : The Beastie Boyz : The Chemical Bros. : old school real punk rock (not this fagio poser shite that is going around nowadays): The Clash : Daft Punk : Dizzee Rascal : Devotchka : Sage Francis : Depeche Mode : The Talking Heads : The Beatles : Portishead : Sigur Ros (but not the first album!) : Ennio Morricone : Duke Ellington : Charles Mingus : Miles Davis : Max Roach : Art Blakey : Chick Webb : The Rolling Stones : real country (Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, et al - not the bubblegum, redneck trash on the radio) : Flogging Molly : The Pogues : The Cardigans : Robert Earl Keen : Pearl Jam : STP : UNKLE : Modeselektor : DJ Shadow : DJ Krush : Louis Armstrong : Leadbelly and others from the early days : Underworld : Beatboxing : The Prodigy : MC Chris : David Bowie : Mos Def : The White Stripes : Grandaddy : Beck : Wu-Tang! : not really music - but Richard Pryor and Bill Hicks, as well as Dave Attel : Trainspotting STILL has the best end to end soundtrack around so far : Oh - so, so much more - couldn't live without music!!
Movies
I'll just state my holy celluloid trinity right now: Kurosawa, Kubrick, and Scorsese. And now some flicks : Blade Runner : Taxi Driver : Trainspotting : Rashomon : Fight Club : A Clockwork Orange : any Buster Keaton : Ran : Dersu Uzala : Oldboy : Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind : Ninja Scroll : Nightmare Before Christmas : Goodfellas : After Hours : Enter the Dragon : Akira : Videodrome (there's a special place in my heart for Cronenberg, too) : Anchorman (it's so f**king funny) : Any Coen Brothers film : Monty Python movies/dvd collections : 12 Monkeys : Seven Samurai : Milo and Otis : Fist of Legend : Drunken Master II : Ong Bak : good anime - like the Ghost in the Shell films : GODZILLA movies (or any kaiju flix) : The Life Aquatic : Ichi the Killer (talk about insane...) : One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest : The Thing (remake) : Sword of Doom : Harakiri : Kung-Fu flicks : The Corporation : A Fistful of Dollars (all those spaghetti westerns) : Day of the Dead : zombie movies : Horror movies in general - the list grows on...
Television
Don't watch much of this - but I loved Futurama and Homicide, and South Park is still fu**ing genius!! As are The Daily Show and Harvey Birdman : Law and Order: SVU is good, too : Also get sucked into those late night forensics and history shows, as well : And also watch soccer and tennis and the NBA sometimes - and pingpong (those guys and gals are nuts!!) : Oh yeah, how could I forget Aqua Teen Hunger Force? Chappelle's Show, Ha - and now The Colbert Report - of course we should all be afraid of bears : Wow, I guess I do watch a fair amount sometimes - but I'll go ahead and be cool and say something tired about it corrupting minds.
Books
The Catcher in the Rye (yep, almost EVERYONE loves this book, but it is a cut above) : Galapagos : Cat's Cradle (any Vonnegut, really) : Survivor : The Thought Gang : H.P. Lovecraft : Winning Chess Traps : Jesus' Son (Denis Johnson's masterpiece - read this book!!) : The Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler - about the how and why of creation of ART and HUMOR in the brain : most Bradbury : Catch-22 : FUP : Henderson the Rain King : Slow Walk in a Sad Rain (read this, too!) : some Nagel : some Lethem : Anything on ethics and morality (also read James Rachels' one-two punch that is philosophy's greatest treastises and a concise, modern interpretation of them - the GREEN book and the BLUE book) : The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time : Everything is Illuminated : Many more - a lot of history : Some graphic design stuff (Paul Rand, Ludwig Hohlwein, El Lissitzky, Bradbury Thompson, Max Bill, Armin Hofmann, Lester Beall, Roman Cieslewicz, Saul Bass, Japanese design, etc) : F.L Wright and Japanese/German/North European architecture : The works of Albertus Seba (and his artists) : I still read some comics, as well (Mignola, Geoff Darrow, Frank Miller, and the like) : Hmm, and The Farside, always...
Heroes
YOU KNOW IT:
I THOUGHT HE WAS DEAD, TOO:
OF COURSE:
ALL MAN:
THE GUY ON THE LEFT:
A MASTER:
ANOTHER MASTER:
YET ANOTHER:
AND, UHH, MAYBE:
Also: Mom and Pops, my grandparents (for making me parents so swell), The Animal Legal Defense Fund, ASPCA, Michael Jordan, Any of the dudes in Murderball, Mother Teresa and anyone that sacrifices as much for others, Greenpeace (most of the time), Kubrick, Socrates...oh - and Bruce, of course...
West Fork High School
West Fork,Arkansas
Graduated: 1954
Student status: Alumni
Clubs: MODEL UN, MODEL ARAB LEAGUE, FORENSICS, TAG, PIPE BOMBS FOR CHRIST, JELLO SCULPTURE, INTRO TO SARCASM
About me:
I'M...UMM, JUST ANOTHER SKINNY WHITE GUY THAT WANTS THE SAME ANSWERS AS EVERYONE ELSE...I HAVE A BLACK PUG - BARTLEBY - THAT'S A BIG PART OF MY LIFE AND THAT I LOVE LIKE MY OWN CHILD, SO ANIMAL HATERS MOVE ON...I AM AN INTROVERTED EXTROVERT...I FOLLOW MY GUT AND MY HEART NINE TIMES OUT OF TEN, EVEN THOUGH MY BRAIN WILL OFTEN RESIST...I AM IMMENSELY FORGIVING, BUT HAVE INSANELY HIGH STANDARDS...I AM OCCASIONALLY A BASTARD, BUT I BET I CAN MAKE YOU LAUGH - AND I KNOW I CAN TAKE A GOOD PICTURE OF YOU, IF YOU'LL GIVE ME THE CHANCE...I LOVE PEOPLE, EVEN THOUGH THE MAJORITY OF THEM PISS ME OFF SOMETIMES...I CAN START A FIRE AND TRY TO FIX YOUR PLUMBING, BUT I LIKE GOOD POETRY, TOO...I LIKE TO WRESTLE DOGS FOR FUN, TAKE CARE OF STRAYS, AND PROMOTE ANIMAL RIGHTS...I LOVE WOMEN, AND HAVE BEEN BLESSED TO HAVE A FEW BEAUTIES WANDER INTO MY LIFE SO FAR...I LIKE TO ANALYZE THE MARTIAL ARTS CHOREOGRAPHY OF GOOD KUNG-FU FILMS...MOM'S FRIED CHICKEN WITH RICE N' GRAVY IS STILL THE BEST MEAL IN TOWN...I BELIEVE A LIFE IS EMPTY WITHOUT ART (FILM, TRADITIONAL, LITERATURE, AND MUSIC)...I LOVE TO MAKE FUN OF MYSELF, I LOVE TO MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH...AND I THINK IT'S A SHAME THAT MOST PEOPLE PASS ON FROM THIS WORLD AND MISS A GOOD DEGREE OF THE FINER PARTS.....
HERITAGE:
AND
BUSTER:
GEOF (YES, THAT IS THE DONKEY TALKING):
BARTLEBY - ME DUG:
Who I'd like to meet:
EITHER ONE OF THE GUYS ABOVE, THOUGH ONE OF THEM ISN'T AVAILABLE ANY MORE...OTHER THAN THAT, PEOPLE THAN HAVE A FIRM GRASP ON WHAT IS IMPORTANT IN LIFE AND WHO WANT TO BE MORE THAN A GEAR IN THE MACHINE AND A SLAVE TO THE DOLLAR...PERHAPS BONO OR THOM YORKE, AS WELL...SCORSESE OR VONNEGUT WOULD BE COOL, TOO...AND MAYBE SCARLETT JOHANSSON OR SARAH POLLEY (IF ONLY TO REALIZE HOW MUCH HOTTER MY GIRLFRIEND IS THAN EITHER OF THEM)...
i know you will never read this, or the very last message i sent you, but after i re-read all the messages we had exchanged in the last week, I realize you really needed someone to talk to, and that you were trying to tell me that the whole time. i am so so sorry that i didn't take the time to talk everything over with you. i will be sorry forever. i should have made sure you were ok.
I THOUGHT HE WAS DEAD, TOO:
OF COURSE:
ALL MAN:
THE GUY ON THE LEFT:
A MASTER:
ANOTHER MASTER:
YET ANOTHER:
AND, UHH, MAYBE:
I'M...UMM, JUST ANOTHER SKINNY WHITE GUY THAT WANTS THE SAME ANSWERS AS EVERYONE ELSE...I HAVE A BLACK PUG - BARTLEBY - THAT'S A BIG PART OF MY LIFE AND THAT I LOVE LIKE MY OWN CHILD, SO ANIMAL HATERS MOVE ON...I AM AN INTROVERTED EXTROVERT...I FOLLOW MY GUT AND MY HEART NINE TIMES OUT OF TEN, EVEN THOUGH MY BRAIN WILL OFTEN RESIST...I AM IMMENSELY FORGIVING, BUT HAVE INSANELY HIGH STANDARDS...I AM OCCASIONALLY A BASTARD, BUT I BET I CAN MAKE YOU LAUGH - AND I KNOW I CAN TAKE A GOOD PICTURE OF YOU, IF YOU'LL GIVE ME THE CHANCE...I LOVE PEOPLE, EVEN THOUGH THE MAJORITY OF THEM PISS ME OFF SOMETIMES...I CAN START A FIRE AND TRY TO FIX YOUR PLUMBING, BUT I LIKE GOOD POETRY, TOO...I LIKE TO WRESTLE DOGS FOR FUN, TAKE CARE OF STRAYS, AND PROMOTE ANIMAL RIGHTS...I LOVE WOMEN, AND HAVE BEEN BLESSED TO HAVE A FEW BEAUTIES WANDER INTO MY LIFE SO FAR...I LIKE TO ANALYZE THE MARTIAL ARTS CHOREOGRAPHY OF GOOD KUNG-FU FILMS...MOM'S FRIED CHICKEN WITH RICE N' GRAVY IS STILL THE BEST MEAL IN TOWN...I BELIEVE A LIFE IS EMPTY WITHOUT ART (FILM, TRADITIONAL, LITERATURE, AND MUSIC)...I LOVE TO MAKE FUN OF MYSELF, I LOVE TO MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH...AND I THINK IT'S A SHAME THAT MOST PEOPLE PASS ON FROM THIS WORLD AND MISS A GOOD DEGREE OF THE FINER PARTS.....
BARTLEBY - ME DUG:
