I'm going to be very specific with this category, please bear with
me:
Clouds: lenticular clouds are cool.
Movies: Pulp Fiction (first saw it in Prague before it came out in
the states, the film shut down right around when Travolta is about
to stab Uma with the adrenaline needle, everyone in the theater
just freaked out! It was great), The Big Lebowski (Coens rule),
Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Anchorman, The Hangover, The Matrix (I
actually like the whole trilogy, forgive me), Time Bandits (and the
Fisher King, 12 Monkeys, most Gilliam is soooooo baroque), most
David Lynch (Twin Peaks, Mullholland Drive, Wild At Heart, and
especially that moment in Lost Highway where Bill Pullman
transforms into the younger guy in jail, I think its the moment
Lynch abandoned traditional narrative and completely embraced the
unknown), the Empire Strikes Back, 2001, Fight Club (but I won't
talk about fight club), Terrance Malik's The New World, Akira, most
Oliver Stone films, most Speilberg -- most recently I thoroughly
dug the Fountain and Scott Pilgrim Vs the World. I love sci fi,
comic book movies, animation/anime, fantasy, documentaries,
anything with a well realized reality, a good script and a skewed
perspective. I actually really enjoy watching all the behind the
scenes/making of stuff that comes with movies these days. Movies
make me cry.
Books: Uh, I read lots of comics, to be honest. They say comics are
the original form of storytelling (along with actual storytelling,
I guess) and that you use both sides of your brain when reading
them. I'm down with anything Grant Morrison has written, especially
the Doom Patrol and the Filth (the weirder the better), Alan
Moore's Watchmen, Top Ten and especially Promethea (what with all
the amazing J.H. Williams art? fugetaboutit), Gaiman's Sandman,
Hard Boiled by Frank Miller and Geoff Darrow, The Dark Knight
Returns, The Tick, y'know, the classics. Lately I've enjoyed Akira
by Otomo, Ex Machina by Brian K Vaughn, RASL by Jeff Smith, Frank
Miller's art in Sin City is redonculous. As for regular books, I
was a big fan of the Hitchhikers Guide books back in the day, and
most recently my favorite book has been Lint by Steve Aylette, a
true work of entropic absurdism. I loved reading the Onion back
when I lived in NYC. I seem to read a lot online lately, I've done
most of my esoteric research that way, studying enlightenment,
mythology, ufos and exopolitics, ancient mysteries and wisdom
schools, symbolism, the unexplainable and the strange, and more or
less trying to uncover the secret history of the world,
really.
TV: While TV is evil, it also raised me. My faves : Monty Python,
Mr Show, Yacht Rock (not really tv, but...), Lost, BattleStar
Galactica (i was even digging Caprica before they sh!t-canned it),
Arrested Development, the Daily Show, a bunch of the Adult Swim
stuff, Joss Whedon's Firefly is the best show you've never seen, I
still watch SNL and sort of love/hate it, Chapelle's show is dope.
just saw some episodes of Community and was impressed with the
writing and the style, News Radio was a real cool show. I like
watching good stand up, sports, and can really get behind an
intelligent interview. I recently saw an amazing sports documentary
about the Columbian world cup soccer team of the 80s that will
really put your life in perspective.
Online: I listen to tons of interviews and really recommend this
site: redicecreations.com.
Art/theater: I'm a fan of the surrealist and futurist movements,
and I actually got to go into a private futurist library once in a
small town outside of Florence, Italy. I love all the murals here
in SF. Reza Abdoh made some unbelievable theater in the early
ninetees. I've seen and performed in enough downtown experimental
theater to last several lifetimes. My favorite theater experiences
as an actor where doing Red Noses by Peter Barnes, AC/DC by
Heathcoat Williams, and roaming the streets of Prague dressed as
Kaiser Wilhelm, the last Prussian emperor. I love all the
incredible and unexplainable temples and statues of the ancient
world (which is art, I assure you-- there is a lifetimes worth of
information in the ancient world), crop circles are pretty
impressive as works of art. Religious art and architecture are
fairly mind blowing. And then of course there's mother nature, the
greatest artist of all....
music: Wu Tang VS the Beatles, Jason Falkner/the Grays/TV Eyes,
Jellyfish, XTC/Dukes of Stratosphere, just saw Ween live for the
first time last month, they did a mean cover of Bowie's Let's
Dance, The Shins, The Raconteurs, Brendan Benson, Tenacious D, The
Stone Roses (and their lead singer Ian Brown's solo records are
great!), Radiohead, newer Oasis, Jane's Addiction, Fishbone!, The
Police, King Crimson, Zappa, ELO (and the soundtrack to Xanadu with
Olivia Newton John really gets to me), the Foo Fighters, Dada,
Beck, Outkast (including solo stuff), Tupac, Kanye, JayZ, Nas,
Talib, mid career Roots, Eminem & Dre, the Beasties, P.E.,
Tribe/Qtip, etc etc. I loved grunge in the 90s, love inspired
lyrical music like Neutral Milk Hotel and They Might Be Giants,
recently I've enjoyed Mathew Sweet and the Gorillaz first
album....stand up: George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Steve Martin, Marc
Maron, Proops, Comedy Bang Bang....I'd love for some cute girl to
turn me on to music with great new lady singers/musicians....sorry
this was so long, hey I like the ahts....