Finding clever ways to recycle the tritone. Finding not-so-clever ways to eat a burrito (hey, I just want the damn thing in my digestive tract.) Hoping that the original Black Sabbath will still manage to do something new and cool before they die. In a similar vein, hoping Jesus actually existed and will come back and give me the GI Joe aircraft carrier my Mom would never buy me. In an entirely dissimilar vein, breathing the smoke from scented candles and wondering why exactly this is supposed to be better than real air.
Music
Sirens of Titan (everyone loves their own brand, right?), Black Sabbath, Cathedral, Clutch, Living Colour, Mars Volta, Mr. Bungle, Bob Dylan, Springsteen, Midnight Oil, Fates Warning, Dexter Gordon, Sleep, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Neko Case, Ryan Adams, Loudon Wainwright (NOT his no-talent kids, though), Tom Waits, Dillinger Escape Plan, Dan Bern
Movies
Grosse Point Blank, First Blood, Pulp Fiction, American Beauty, Pi, Closer, Apocalypse Now, anything by the Coen Brothers, ditto for Stanley Kubrick, ALMOST anything by Kevin Smith (I'm lookin' at YOU, Mallrats!), Star Wars
Television
The Office (US, Brit), 30 Rock, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Aqua Teen, Nova, Austin City Limits
Books
Salman Rushdie, Don DeLillo, Jonathon Franzen, Umberto Eco, Philip Roth, Stephen Hawking, Brian Greene, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, C.S. Lewis, Norman Mailer, A.S. Byatt
About me:
“Samuel said, ‘The man I’m named for had his name called clear by the Lord God, and I’ve been listening all my life. And once or twice I’ve thought I heard my name called — but not clear, not clear.’
Adam said, ‘I’ve often wondered why a man of your knowledge would work a desert hill place.’
Said Samuel, ‘I could never quite take the responsibility. When the Lord God did not call my name, I might have called His — but I did not.’”
When not doom-pummeling, I do solo singer/songwriter folk stuff. Have also been known to perform with Gabriel James. Here's me onstage with the man at his "Fits To Pitch" CD Release show:
RED HOT ARTS FEST, JUNE 7 @ stevens sqaure park... 19th st and 2nd Ave S. Mpls. (just south of downtown) www.redhotart.org
VICIOUS VIOLET goes on at 4 pm (1/2 hr show) UPPER stage OUTDOOR event. Featuring former members of MORTICIA and U.K.I. !!! MATT may even do his fire act (weather permitting)!!
Hope to see YOU there!!!!!!!!!!
~VICIOUS VIOLET
p.s. over 100 local artists showing there ART !!!!!!!! (11am-5pm)
