Sunday, March 13, 2005

Music. Movies. Books. Yada yada.

After much gentle but firm prompting by my blogger friend Sir James, I decided to start posting here. but what to post? I have no idea. I can tell you this: these fuckers ask you to list your favorite shit in your profile, but then they limit it to 600 characters. What boring-ass dork over nine years old can fit all his or her fave shit in 600 characters? Maybe the President, but not me. So I'll start by doing here what they wouldn't let me do there. I mean, probably nobody cares, but then again, I'm probably just dreaming all this anyway. So here goes:

fave music:
the decemberists, modest mouse, the postal service, blonde redhead, death cab for cutie, kevin yost, oasis, the constantines, government mule, spacetime continuum, b tribe, sounds from the ground, stargarden, green day, basement jaxx, higher intelligence agency, baka beyond, baby mammoth, american analog set, tori amos, bola, the sea and cake, mica lee williams, cursive, built to spill, tom mcrae, ani difranco, maria mckee, janis joplin, hooverphonic, dzihan & kamien, low, alfie, titan, broken social scene, b ashra, paul van dyk, ian pooley, morcheeba, laika, momma gravy, delerium, beta band, frou frou, mark farina, mull historical society, bebel gilberto, sing-sing, portishead, alpha, john beltran, current, carbon based life forms, everything but the girl, massive attack, talking heads, lowgold, the wisdom of harry, taking back sunday, opus 3, paul simon, turin brakes, the beatles, soulstice, andy caldwell, beulah, king kooba, aphrodite, the delgados, hybrid, iggy pop, fila brazilia, madonna, galaxie 500, goldfrapp, john coltrane, elliott smith, carole king, garbage, funky porcini, chris isaak, peter gabriel, cat power, sigur ros, patsy cline, cocteau twins, yo la tengo, peggy lee, balligomingo, zero one, b-12, thievery corporation, tosca, kings of convenience, frank sinatra, miles davis, apples in stereo, howie day, david kitt, baxter dury, olivia tremor control, mountain goats, stereolab, gol, magic sound fabric, crustation, sebadoh, sleater-kinney, the yeah yeah yeahs, marvin gaye, giant sand, azure ray, entheogenic, the doors, lemonjelly, lemonheads, van morrison, amon tobin, royksopp, adham shaikh, richard ashcroft/the verve, bjork, adam ant, de la soul, white stripes, tanya donnelly, luna, alpha, the cult, sa fred, afro celt sound system, camera obscura, mazzy star, lamb, blue stingrays, blue states, banco de gaia, interpol, jets to brazil, boards of canada, arovane, a forest mighty black, ella fitzgerald, rilo kiley, louis armstrong, sandra collins, ferry corsten, edith frost, now it's overhead, the thrills, deb talan, jaywalkers, the hives, the sundays, i am kloot, the aqua velvets, arab strap, blue states, rickie lee jones, cibo matto, nightmares on wax, mandalay, floex, mark knopfler, tom waits, nirvana, the church, kraftwerk, the pretenders, pixies, billie holiday, velvet underground, brian eno, persephones bees, embrace, cousteau, dave brubeck, dee-lite, tangerine dream, xtc, the weakerthans, tricky, esthero, beck, sly stone, hels fornander, chet baker, johnny cash, st.germain, p.j.harvey, underworld, paul simon, gus gus, aretha franklin, paul oakenfold, john digweed, the cure, the zombies, the zephyrs, nick drake, wheat, richie havens, air, al green, esthero, rolling stones, radiohead, badly drawn boy, iron & wine, innocence mission, neutral milk hotel, wilco, red house painters, the starseeds...

fave movies:
the misfits, 21 grams, dancer in the dark, delicatessen, aguirre: the wrath of god, amelie, citizen kane, the third man, the princess bride, blood simple, brazil, gallipoli, down by law, stranger than paradise, children of heaven, the man who would be king, color of paradise, the doors, american beauty, irreversible, the piano, the ice storm, drugstore cowboy, baraka, xiu xiu the sent down girl, jean de florette, garden state, spun, swingers, cinema paradiso, el mariachi, sid & nancy, donnie darko, empire of the sun, exotica, the sweet hereafter, the princess and the warrior, the godfather series, the hudsucker proxy, jesus' son, la dolce vita, royal tenenbaums, born on the fourth of july, virgin suicides, the year of living dangerously, fear and loathing in las vegas, the meaning of life, apocalypse now, hearts of darkness, shadow of a doubt, videodrome, harold and maude, u turn, 12 angry men, spider, urbania, adam's rib, ace in the hole, the big lebowski, fargo, blue, white, chinatown, the bicycle thief, groundhog day, the pianist, raising arizona, au revoir les enfants, repo man, living in oblivion, oh brother where art thou?, welcome to the dollhouse, mr smith goes to washington, mister death, midnight cowboy, the best years of our lives, sling blade, 12 monkeys, raise the red lantern, life is beautiful, being john malkovich, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, bullets over broadway, 24 hour party people, purple rose of cairo, the last picture show, vertigo, north by northwest, rear window, the big red one, indochine, the deer hunter, the usual suspects, papillon, the manchurian candidate(the original), the man with the golden arm, gone with the wind, blade runner, city of lost children, on the waterfront, bad day at black rock, dreams, snow falling on cedars, casablanca, some like it hot, the lion in winter, the name of the rose, midnight clear, who framed roger rabbit, fearless, il postino, the man who wasn't there, blue velvet, the power of one, the caine mutiny, a very long engagement, breaker morant, motorcycle diaries, vera drake, almost famous...

fave books:
a brief history of everything by ken wilber, the turning point by fritjof capra, jitterbug perfume by tom robbins, a natural history of the senses by diane ackerman, catcher in the rye by jd salinger, the alchemist by paulo coelho, fear and loathing in las vegas by hunter thompson, snow crash by neal stephenson, the seat of the soul by gary zukov, guns germs & steel by jared diamond, tales of ordinary madness by charles bukowski, atonement by ian mcewan, voltaire's bastards by john ralston saul, why i am not a christian by bertrand russell, junky by william burroughs, another roadside attraction by tom robbins, river out of eden by richard dawkins, awakening the buddha within by lama surya das, still life with woodpecker by tom robbins, naked by david sedaris, running with scissors by augusten burroughs, you just don't understand by deborah tannen, the teachings of don juan by carlos castaneda, the soul of capitalism by william greider, the ghost in the machine by arthur koestler, the day the universe changed by james burke, the power of now by eckhart tolle, empire by gore vidal...

Well, that's a start, I guess. Now you can infer all sorts of things about me.