(I've been told that my broad "I'm so open minded!" listings in
this section were too vague, so I'll try to get more specific for
you.)
MOVIES, TV:
I am very open minded to all media, but I don't watch as many shows
and movies as a normal human being should. Zombies and space and
monsters and robots and sci-fi and intelligent, thought-provoking
anything is always a yes. The Alien and Super Mario franchises
spent more time with me as a child and taught me more lessons than
my parents ever did. Prometheus is probably the best thing I've
ever seen in my life (for nostalgic and scientific reasons). I
full-body-convulsion/scream-cried for two hours after I saw "The
Road". Nothing made me feel more alive. Fuck fantasy and magic. Not
providing probable situations and incidents is an unimaginative
cop-out that shows you lack creativity.
VIDEO GAMES:
I am ashamed to admit that I don't play much of these any more. I
am too busy creating music and doing things I consider to be huge
advancements to becoming the me I always have been (and always will
be) dreaming of becoming. It's been over a year since I've really
obsessively played anything because I REALLY get into them. I am
obscenely good at video games. I used to play competitively before
I had an artistic life. I have amazing hand-eye coordination and
find it amazingly easy to become the best I know at any game I
invest time into. I can play any and all games. I am a huge fan of
hyper-stylized things like Parappa The Rapper, Um Jammer Lammy,
Katamari Damacy, Journey, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, etc. I like
first person shooters like MW2, Battlefield 3, all the Halos,
CounterStrike, BioShocks, Dead Island, Left 4 Dead, etc. Some of my
deepest loves will forever be survival horrors. Resident Evil 2 and
Dino Crisis shaped the fuck out of my tastes since way back in the
late 90's. I love multiplayer bedlams too like Smash Bros., or any
Mario Party, or split/LAN FPS. I also do all the classics. The NES
was the only role model I had as a kid. I will give you an example
of how hardcore I used to get with video games, and why I
essentially had to quit: There are videos on the internet of a
person destroying Super Mario Bros. 3 in 11 minutes. A few years
ago, I figured I could do better. I session'd three or four days
worth of dedication to this feat, mastering every move, level,
secret, double-bounce, pick-up, etc., until I became just as good
as the motherfucker on the internet. I realized that he and I tied
for times, because this was in fact the fast possible way to time
attack this game. It was leaked later he used a computer program
(or for the tech savvy ladies out there - "an emulator") to slow
the game down 100x and sped the recording of him beating the game
that way back to original speed - because it was supposed to be
humanly impossible to do this otherwise. But I did. I fucking
matched him. Hahaha. I am way too fucking good at video games and I
need to keep that distraction out of my life. But I fucking love
gamer girls.
FOOD:
Food? Heh. Again, I'm open minded. I'll eat anything, just as long
as it isn't dairy or pork (stomach is a prejudiced asshole). I was
vegan for the first half of my life, and have on-and-off stints of
veganism and vegetarianism here and there. For dietary and
financial reasons, not philosophical ones (I have a much more
realistic and feasible plan in place to end industrial farming than
the "just go vegan" route). I love food. So much so that it's a
vice I have to spend a tremendous spend effort on to keep in order.
I work out not out of insecurity, or because I'm trying to look a
certain way, but simply to counterbalance my extremely adventurous
lifestyle and eating habits. I'm a fan of cooking, being cooked
for, inventing new meals, and trying new things.
BOOKS:
When it comes to books, you'll find a lot of science texts, art
stuff, graphic novels. I'll openly admit I don't absorb as much
fiction as a functioning adult possibly should, but as an extremely
science-oriented individual I suppose I find the wonders and
mysteries of reality a lot more important to me. The universe is an
amazing place. Don't get me wrong, I love dipping into fantasy
worlds.
Robert M. Sapolsky, Gabor Mate, Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins,
Sam Harris, Chuck Palahniuk, Stephen Pressfield, Malcolm Gladwell,
John Perkins, Steven Pinker, Max Brooks, Douglas Coupland, Neil
DeGrasse Tyson, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley. This list will
grow.
Music I love beyond life itself. I love all genres of music, but
please do not confuse this with me being a "passive listener". I am
the most attentive listener to music, and when it is on, I have a
hard time focusing on anything else. I suffer from a musicians ear.
Even when I'm in a full-blown mosh pit, rest assured I am still
studying every note, movement, gesture and action of every
performer I see. I turn background music into foreground music. I
am the most active listener to music I have ever encountered. I
fully support and love any artist that aspires to inspire, incite
thought, feeling, or simply put on an amazing show. The more
honesty, sincerity and passion, the better. That being said, I feel
most at home when the intent of the music is impact. I love
hip-hop, and I love hardcore. The intensity and brutal honesty of
these genres (when looking in the right areas) elicit critical
thought and action for positive change. I was raised on punk rock
and reggae, so I'm well-known to skank and circle-pit at shows. I
wind down, relax and cuddle listening to a mix of post-rock and
serene, blissful music. I even dip into the very low-brow for
comedic, novel and satirical purposes. I listen to everything, but
not passively. Trust me, I know heart when I hear it, and I know
crap when it happens.
And here we go. I have to plague you with a list of things I listen
to, because people have mistaken my vagueness for a lack of
character and brought my attention to it. In absofuckinglutely zero
order:
Dangers, Ceremony, The Faceless, Doomtree, Cecil Otter, POS, Dessa,
Mike Mictlan, Sims, Paper Tiger, Lazerbeak, Crescent Moon Is In Big
Trouble, Astronautalis, Sage Francis, Scroobius Pip, Death Grips,
Dethklok, Atmosphere, Aesop Rock, El-P, Azealia Banks, Botch,
Cannibal Ox, Frederic Chopin, Deftones, Grimes, MF Doom, Kimya
Dawson, Kreayshawn, Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, Santigold, Santogold,
Muse, Propagandhi, Wax, Wax & EOM, Selda Bagcan, Sleigh Bells,
Spinnerette, The Distillers, Squirrel Nut Zippers, The XX, This
Will Destroy You, God Is An Astronaut, Tragedy, His Hero Is Gone,
The Bone Daddies, Ninjaspy, The Ivy League Brawlers, Waldeck,
Against All Authority, The Aggrolites, Big D & The Kids Table,
Bob Marley, Body Bag, Choking Victim, The Clash, Common Rider,
Dancehall Satan, Defiance Ohio, Doctor Steel, Dropkick Murphys,
Flogging Molly, F-Minus, Gogol Bordello, Hepcat, Horrorpops, Lars
Fredriksen & The Bastards, Long Beach Dub All-Stars, Long Beach
Short-Bus, Left Alone, Leftover Crack, Matisyahu, Mindless Self
Indulgence, Nekromantix, No Cash, Operation Ivy, Pepper, Primus,
Rage Against The Machine, Rancid, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The
Slackers, Slightly Stoopid, Societys Parasites, Streetlight
Manifesto, Sublime, Suicide Machines, The Brains, The Creepshow,
Los Furios, The King Blues, The Left Rights, The Rebel Spell, Tiger
Army, Tim Armstrong, Toxic Narcotic, The Transplants, NOFX, The
Black Dahlia Murder, Flobots, Immortal Technique, Mouth Sewn Shut,
The Matadors, Devil Makes Three, Bomb The Music Industry, Dan Le
Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip, Wu Tang Clan, The Cool Kids, Suicide Bid,
Sonic Boom Six, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Damian Marley, The
Nightwatchmen, Star Fucking Hipsters, Muse, Dimmu Borgir, Slayer,
Rich Kids on LSD, Ryan Harvey, Suicide Silence, Marijuana
Deathsquads, Brother Ali, Chris Murray, Guante, Big Cats, The Nods,
Oddfuture, The Stray Bullets, Hellmouth, Baptists, Depressed, Black
Breath, Devil Makes Three, The Old Firm Casuals, The Silencers,
Punch, Voodoo Glow Skulls, SNFU, The Beastie Boys, The Crystal
Method, Daft Punk, Skrillex, Sublime with Rome, William Elliot
Whitmore, Strapping Young Lad, Devon Townsend, One Day As A Lion,
Death From Above 1979, Black Rose Phantoms, Knockout, Raised Fist,
Emmure, Limp Bizkit (I was a teenager in 1999, so fuck off! And the
"Unquestionable Truth" shit is seriously great music regardless of
how lame Fred Durst is.), Black Light Burns, Eat The Day, Tool,
Nine Inch Nails, Big Dumb Face, Crosses, Team Sleep, Static-X,
Shane Koyczan, Lovage, Fever Ray, The Black Keys, Amanda Fucking
Palmer, Building Better Bombs, Eyedea & Abilities, Kristoff
Krane, Sadistik, D-sisive, Intro5spect, The Corporation, Mad
Conductor, The Have Nots, Weezer, Crystal Castles, Die Antwoord,
Childish Gambino, MC DJ, Ella Fitzgerald, Lana Del Rey, Kimbra,
Kanye West, Converge, Code Orange Kids, Company Flow, Retox,
Lightning Bolt, Woodkid, Brad Hamers, Danny Brown, Defeater,
Madchild, Dumbfoundead, Gastric Acid, Kublakai, Saul Williams,
Reggie Watts, Cee Lo Green, The Arrogant Sons of Bitches, Tyler The
Creator, Earl Sweatshirt, Anti-Flag, Aphex Twin, Austrian Death
Machine, Bad Brains, Blakroc, RZA, GZA, Cake, Cypress Hill, Dead
Kennedys, Despot, Josh Freese, Martin Atkins, The Fun Lovin'
Criminals, Gnarls Barkley, Knife City, Grimes, MC Chris, The
Offspring, Blackbreath, The Refused, Ryo Fukui, Punkerslut, The
Easy Brothers, The Saint Riels, The Wrecktals, GSTS, Dead Voices,
Rio Bent, Fall City Fall, Sapient, TohKay, Slumlord, ...
This list is about 90% incomplete.
