in no particular order...design, writing, art, music, my wife, my dog...I dunno, stuff...lately I've been interested in growing a kick ass handle-bar moustache, but the wife isn't too hip to that jive...I vowed to read more, write more and do something healthy this year...so far, so good.
Music
I'm in a band called strawfoot... I listen to just about everything, save from anything with the words "emo", or "pop" in them...
what I'm listening to this week: (to name but a few)
William Elliott Whitmore Devotchka (check them out, then thank me fer it) Slim Cessna's Auto Club fugazi Shins Gomez Beta Band Rev. Glasseye Old Crow Medicine Show Flogging Molly Gogol Bordello 16 Hsp Pokey Lafarge Curtis Eller Hank Sr. (NOT jr.) Mr. Johnny Cash Hayden (he's a canadian treasure) Alabama Thunderpussy Uncle Tupelo Bad Folk the Monads Spearhead John Coltrane Miles Davis Mingus Monk Brubeck Francis Albert Mel Torme The Woven Hand and a ton more...
Movies
too many movies, so just a few...
first off Wonderboys and Stranger Than Fiction are just about my favorite movies on the face of the earth (right now)
Little Miss Sunshine
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Boondock Saints
the Royal Tenenbaums
Dazed and Confused
Blood & Concrete; a Love Story,(indie movie greatness with a nekkid jennifer Beals and James LeGros at his absolute finest)
Big Lebowski (the dude abides) Hudsucker Proxy fuck it...every Coen brothers movie to date
Fight Club (and I must say I'm Looking forward to Chuck's next movie, "Choke", which is a great book)
Tombstone (you called down the thunder well you got it; I'm yer huckleberry; yer a daisy if you do/yer no daisy, and of course, you tell them I'm coming, and hell's coming with me, ya here?! HELL'S COMING WITH ME)
Shaun of the Dead
Train Spotting
I just saw Donnie Darko for the first time (finally) and I gotta say...that was one fucked up, but strangely good movie...
Nightmare Before Christmas
Happy Gilmore (you can trouble me for a warm cup of shut the hell up. now you will go to sleep or I will put you to sleep. look at the name tag. yer in my world, now grandma)
Office Space (cause I've gotta say, I'm a michael bolton fan. I celebrate his entire catalogue, I see you've been missing work. I wouldn't say I've been missing it, bob)
Run Lola Run
Warriors (come out to play-ay) so many more I can't think of.
Television
television is slowly plotting my death...I did like the Wonder Years when it was on...But then, we all have our guilty pleasures...
Books
Bukowski Christopher Moore Kinky Friedman Douglas Coupland Chuck Palahniuk David Sedaris Kerouac my cousin Mark (Twain)...
My novel, Rorschach's Ribs, is now available, available from Vicious Books
About me: Rogue Scholar...writer, artist/designer, angry liberal, reverend...I'm in a band called Strawfoot...
I have another blog here. It's essentially the same stuff with more organization.
I only gamble with my life...I only run when chased...
I beat my head against the same brick wall everyday, wondering if it will ever crumble.
When I was young, I walked on fire...now I tend to tread upon eggshells... unless you give me bourbon...
I think you all should know that I am not a monster nor was I ever...
Pick Your Poison
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Who I'd like to meet: one st. louisan who can drive worth a damn...and who ever might have google-mapped directions to funky town.
Started reading Ribs this morning... Damn good writing mister!!! Page 24 "I don't set an alarm, my body is just programmed to rise, same bat time, same bat channel every day.I can't even sleep on weekends." So true and Macs rule!!!
