Challenging the current social/economic/political/environmental norms.
Challenging my own world of bullshit.
I study and focus a lot of energy learning about these things: World Religions, Cultural Anthropology, Mycology, Environmentalism, Mysticism/The Occult/Esoterica, History, Labor Studies, Situationism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Psychology, Anarchism, My Own Personal Neurosis and Anxiety.
I'm also an expert at having Existential Crises.
Writing, reading, photography, art of all sorts, music.
Friends.
Talking to random people on the streets.
Beer.
Altered States of Consciousness (both chemically induced and physical/psychological methods).
Music
Currently:
Naked Raygun.
Reverend Glass-Eye and His Wooden Legs.
Pig Destroyer.
Ringworm.
Catharsis.
Movies
(Terry Gilliam)
Brazil.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Twelve Monkeys.
(David Cronenberg)
Naked Lunch.
VideoDrome.
The Brood.
Scanners.
Dead Ringers.
(Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Holy Mountain.
El Topo.
(Kenneth Anger)
Lucifer Rising.
Scorpio Rising.
Invocation of My Demon Brother.
Fireworks.
(Takeshi Miike)
Audition.
Fudoh: The Next Generation.
Gozu.
Ichi The Killer.
(Jim Jarmusch)
Dead Man.
Ghost Dog.
Down By Law.
(Quinten Tarintino)
Pulp Fiction.
Reservoir Dogs.
(Mario Bava)
Danger:Diabolik.
Blood and Black Lace.
(The Cohen Brothers)
Barton Fink.
Millers Crossing.
(Neil Jordan)
The Crying Game.
Breakfast on Pluto.
(Chan-wook Park)
Oldboy.
Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance.
Lady Vengeance.
(Sam Peckinpah)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia.
The Wild Bunch.
Straw Dogs.
(Akira Kurosawa)
Yojimbo.
Seven Samurai.
Hidden Fortress.
(Toby Hooper)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
(John Gulager)
Feast.
(Rémy Belvaux RIP)
Man Bites Dog.
(Rick Rowley)
Fourth World War.
I love Pinky Violence and girl gang (normal and biker) and women revenge films. Stuff like: Thriller a Cruel Picture, Sex & Fury, Female Yakuza Tale, Zero Woman, Lady Snowblood, She-Devil's on Wheels, Psycho A Go-Go, and so on.
I'm a huge Herschell Gordon Lewis fan, he's fucking amazing.
I Drink Your Blood. Werewolves on Wheels. Any movie from the 60's or 70's involving Bikers, Satanists, Werewolves, Witchcraft, or Copious Amounts of Drugs.
Television
Frontline.
MST3K.
Lost.
Metalocalypse.
Outer Limits.
Twilight Zone.
Kung Fu.
Simpsons.
Futurama.
Lately I've become obsessed with Public Access programing: The Lemmy'O Show, Eva and Jerrys Country Music Videos, DJ Coolie Show, Scrabble Show, Misc. Parade Footage, Black Economics, Old People Polka Dancing, and so on.
Books
I read my fucking face off. Seriously, I sleep in a Library. Here's a small list of authors I love:
Arthur Rimbaud.
Aldous Huxley.
Andre Breton.
Jack Black.
Franklin Rosemont.
Kurt Vonnegut.
Robert Anton Wilson.
Georges Bataille.
Jean Baudrillard.
Henry David Thoreau.
George Orwell.
Herman Hesse.
Flannery O'Conner.
Emma Goldman.
Albert Camus.
Henry Miller.
Ursula Le Guin.
William S. Burroughs.
Tristan Egolf.
Will Self.
Howard Zinn.
Simon Dwyer.
Adam Parfrey.
Donna Kossy.
Raoul Vangiem.
Guy Debord.
Katherine Dunn.
Grant Morrison.
Alan Moore.
Neil Gaiman.
Aleister Crowley.
Jules Verne.
Hunter S. Thompson.
Peter Kropotkin.
Hakim Bey/Peter Lamborn Wilson.
Terence McKenna.
I like most books published by, but not limited to, these publishing houses: Feral House, AK Press, Nabat Books, Disinformation, Charles H. Kerr Publishing, Autonomedia, The Non-Shitty New Falcon Press stuff, City Lights, Black Sparrow Press, CAL Press, 7 Stories, Soft Skull, Crimethinc Collective, and so on.
I like books written by criminals, losers, junkies, the sad and downtrodden, people who fail, outlaws, renegades, those who feel like foreigners in their own land, the beaten down, people who see the possibility of a different world.
Heroes
Donna Kossy! John Brown, Lenny Bruce. William S. Burroughs, Eugene Debs, Emma Goldman, Peter Kropotkin, Leonard Peltier, Kurt Vonnegut, Zapatistas, The SI, Black Mask.
About me: I write, a lot, it's what I do to maintain some semblance of sanity. I try to take photographs of interesting shit that I see. I skate on occasion. I am an Anarchist, and I really try not to circle the 'A' in Asshole. I read, a lot, and a diverse bunch of books. I live in Minneapolis. I study Religion and Cultural Anthropology with a focus on the marginalized religions and sub-cultures of the world; I am going back to school to study these (...eventually).
I'm a one time (or another): Pentecostal Born-Again Christian, Heroin Addict, Straight-Edge, Vegan, Miserable Fuck; now I'm just a Bastard.
I play bass in a band called War//Plague; We just got done recording our half of a split LP with Police Bastard and a 7" at Core Source Studio. It was amazing! The split will come out on LP through World Funeral and the cd through Toxic Waste Belfast; the 7" will come out through Active Rebellion. This should all happen within a few months.
I do the zine, "The Last Words of a Fucking Asshole." Four Issues are currently available. Fifth to be completed soon. Copies are $1-2. Ask me how to acquire them.
hope to see you at our show tonight! it's at eclipse records on 1922 University Ave W, St. Paul, Minnesota 55104. show starts @ 7pm, & we'll probably play around 9. it's only 5 bucks! love to see you there! come out & thrash! call me if u need any info 612.805.3272
hey sam, i'd love to see ya at the terminal bar tonight. my band GRYZOR is playing a show there. thrash metal!! come out, watch some faces melt off... TERMINAL BAR, FRIDAY 9/18, 10PM, $5
hi, buddy sorry such short notice, but i am in town for just a few days... i don't have yer number anymore as i lost my phone... so call me or hit me up on here!!! yay, i can't wait to see you!
Dude, I couldn't think what the tatt was from! For some reason I kept thinking of the Illuminatus! trilogy-Hagbard Celine's submarine and the Leviathan....But Leviathan is referenced as a Moby Dick-esque creature so I knew that was wrong. But shit, 20,000 Leagues-I'm kicking myself for not getting that one!
hey asshole, i ate some vegan slop at your work the other night with andrew but you weren't there. that place makes me want a cheeseburger. nice sleep terror shirt btw LOL. let's play some shows together LOLOL.
