Chess, Music, Skateboarding, Conspiracy Theories, Nutty Belief Systems (ie Scientology, Astrology et al), Literary Theory, Shakespeare, Babies, Skepticism, Reality Television, TiVo, Manual Pads, Devolution, Deconstructionalisticisms, Music Trivia, Mozzarella Sticks, Gadgets, Futurism and Science Fiction
Music
Hog Lady, The Jesus Lizard, Jim O'Rourke, Palace Music, Magnolia Electric Company, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Beethoven, The Smiths, Love & Rockets, The Melvins, Black Sabbath, Earth, Steel Pole Bathtub, Cocteau Twins, Hendrix, Low, Funkadelic, Sonic Youth, Wilco, Glrnaap, Bauhaus, Monster Magnet (Spine of God!), Four Horse, Public Enemy, The Pharcyde, The Cure, PJ Harvey, Eric Dolphy, Philip Glass, The Vapors, Six Finger Satelitte, Trans Am, Devo, Tom Petty, Zappa/Beefheart (Bongo Fury!), Fugazi, Zeni Geva, Air, Dali's Car, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Flaming Lips. I could go on and on...
Movies
Blade Runner, Taxi Driver, Spinal Tap, Vernon Florida, The Graduate, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Maltese Falcon, Star Wars (all of 'em), Star Trek, The Search for Animal Chin, Logan's Run, Starship Troopers, CQ, Vanilla Sky, Barjo, All the Mamet pictures, Harold and Maude, Lost Skeleton of Cadavera, The Golem, American Psycho, any good poker/gambling movie.
Television
Degrassi Jr High and Degrassi High, Lost, The Office, Buck Rogers, The Daily Show, Bringing Home Baby, Star Trek TNG, House Hunters, Property Ladder, any really bad reality show, Jeopardy, The Soup, Threshold, Washington Week, The McLaughlin Group, The Newshour, WKRP in Cinncinati (why don't they show reruns of this!), NeXt, The Simpsons (of course).
Books
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Great Gatsby, Valis, Hamlet (ok, not a book), Flowers for Algernon, Frankenstein, The Sun Also Rises, The Waste Land (ok, also not a book), Norton Anthologies, If On A Winter's Night, A Traveler, Difficult Loves, I Am Alive and You Are Dead, almost anything by Philip K. Dick, especially A Scanner Darkly, Dr Bloodmoney, and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, Slaughterhouse Five, American Psycho, 1984.
Heroes
John Cardiel, Stanley Fish, Jacques Derrida, Freud, Darwin, Philip K. Dick, Natas.
San Francisco State University
San Francisco,California
Graduated: 2006
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Literature
Minor: Composition and Reading
2004 to 2005
San Francisco State University
San Francisco,California
Graduated: 2003
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Creative Writing
About me: Total Dick Head, robot guitar player, chess grand disaster, semi-retired skateboarder, I'm a professor-type without the suede elbow patches (yet), a pop-culture and music aficionado, a retired rock star from Chicago, I relocated to the Bay Area via Hawaii in '99. I'm a first-time husband and dad.
Who I'd like to meet: Dinner Party: Phil Dick, Freud, Darwin, Hendrix, Miles, and....
dude! check this shit out http://www. hulu. com/emergency first 2 seasons of emergency streaming for free.. its a small miracle.. dr. brackett is an asshole
Dave - thanx for the add & 4 turning me on to "5000 Fingers of Dr. T." & that Jimmy & Kristi MacNichol trak. Keep channeling musical messages from wormholes, and Happy Father's Day.
Hey! I just watched that video of the Hog Lady show at Metro! Awesome. Wasn't that when you opened for Mudhoney!? That ruled. Do you have your Hoglady songs on a digital format? I still have the cassette!
thanks for addin our experemntin sludgin dwellin faces blessed by the cohesive sun, inspired thru oblivion agonizing beats and mind shattering riffs exploring their ways to the bottom of the deserted valley.