Music, reading, the 1960s, philosophy, poetry, tattoos, Dylanology, G.I.S., film, WWII, northern mythology, DJing, city-life, and the b's (Brooklyn, boxing, baseball, bars, beer, bourbon, and blasphemy).
Music
I especially love sounds from the 1960s (folk, freakbeat, garage, psychedelic, r'n'b, soul, ska, and rocksteady), punk-rock, '50s rock'n'roll, deep blues, power-pop, bebop, Jamaican '70s (roots, dub, and dj), VU, TVPs, DIJ, Dylan, Can, Spacemen 3/Spiritualized, etc.
Movies
Film noir, French new wave, Woody Allen films, westerns, documentaries, Hitchcock films, British cinema... Don't Look Back, Casablanca, Apocalypse Now, Glengarry Glen Ross, Mister Roberts, Style Wars, Battle Of Algiers, Some Like It Hot, Blackboard Jungle, Citizen Kane, Taxi Driver, Army Of Shadows, Gimme Shelter, The Long Goodbye, Small Faces, Ivan's Childhood, Angels With Dirty Faces, Ace In The Hole, The Manchurian Candidate, The Warriors, Diner, City Of God, Harold And Maude, etc.
Television
These days: No Reservations, Sunday Morning, Gangland, and Family Guy... Old faves: The Wire, Extras, I Love Lucy, Homicide, The Office, Freaks And Geeks, The Prisoner, Oz, Naked City, All In The Family, The Honeymooners, Seinfeld, Johnny Staccato, M*A*S*H, Band Of Brothers, The Odd Couple, Twilight Zone.
Books
My Secret History, Letters To A Young Contrarian, Farenheit 451, The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier And Clay, Catcher In The Rye, Behind The Shades, The Stranger, Please Kill Me, The Great Gatsby, Perfume, Psychotic Reactions And Carburetor Dung, With Charity Toward None, Demian, Last Exit To Brooklyn, Deep Blues, The Ginger Man, Homage To Catalonia, Among The Thugs, The Prose Eddas, Chronicles, The Deuce, and work in general by Baudelaire, Will Self, Phillip Roth, Eliot, Bertrand Rusell, Amy Hempel, Babel, Rimbaud, James Ellroy, Hemmingway, Denis Johnson, Mary Gaitskill, Dylan Thomas, Richard Price, Martin Amis, Jim Thompson, Thom Jones, Nietzche, Russell Banks, Auden, Robert Stone, Arthur Miller, Cormac McCarthy, Garth Ennis, etc.
Heroes
Not so fond of calling 'em "heroes" -- more like inspiration. Of the living: my parents, Bob Dylan, and Christopher Hitchens... Of the not-with-us-anymore: Arthur Miller, Bertrand Russell, Jackie Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Albert Camus, George Orwell, Greg Shaw, and King Tubby.
"When I was very young, I admired hardened criminals locked behind prison doors; I visited inns and taverns they frequented; with their eyes, I saw the blue sky and the blossoming work of the fields; I tracked their scent through cities. They were more powerful than saints, more prudent than explorers -- and they, they alone, were witnesses to glory and reason!" -Arthur Rimbaud, from A Season In Hell
"I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest." -Beethoven
"You have no values... Your whole life, it's nihilism, it's cynicism, it's sarcasm, and orgasm." -from Deconstructing Harry
Old friends. People with something to say, and maybe a laugh to share... Do not just send me a friend request if i don't know you -- drop me a line first, otherwise I will not add you. I am not collecting virtual-friends here.
STEVE WYNN & the MIRACLE 3 perform MEDICINE SHOW! 25th Anniversary of the seminal Dream Syndicate album “Medicine Show”. New York and Los Angeles shows only!
SAT. JUNE 27 - NEW YORK @ The Bell House (Park Slope, Brooklyn) STEVE WYNN & the Miracle 3 @ 9:30 Paramount Styles (feat. Scott McCloud of Girls Against Boys) @ 8:30 Doug Gillard (of Guided by Voices and Death of Samantha) @ 7:30 http://www.thebellhouseny.com
SAT. JULY 9 - LOS ANGELES @ The Echo (Echo Park) STEVE WYNN & the Miracle 3 @ 9:30pm The Urinals @ 8:30pm http://www.attheecho.com
No Absolution for me after all. Got a Chanukah party followed by Christmas Caroling. Sounds like a lame joke but is unfortunately the truth. Man, being a multi-cultural parent really sucks some times. Do a wall of death for me and tell Gavin I finally figured out it was Andy Summers from The Police he's been ripping off all these years.
