Meh. *shrug*

There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in YOUR philosophy, my sweet friend.

I'll let you know when I'm done.

That sort of thing.

I'm quiet.

(a) anything by Kurt Vonnegut and Pablo Neruda, especially Slaughterhouse-Five and Fully Empowered. The Winter of Our Discontent by Steinbeck. poetry Sam Hunt, James Wright. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Knut Hamsun: Growth of the Soil. Hunger. Nikos Kazantzakis: Last Temptation of Christ. Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes. and stuff like that.

(b) Coen Brothers films, esp. O Brother Where Art Thou? and The Man Who Wasn't There. Terry Gilliam films, esp. 12 Monkeys and Brazil. Monty Python's Life of Brian. Lawrence of Arabia, Das Boot, Snatch, A Fish Called Wanda, The Great Escape, Dr. Strangelove, 2001 A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Pianist, Fisher King, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Bubba Ho-tep, Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Breaker Morant, Jacob's Ladder, The Shawshank Redemption, Gettysburg, The Big Lebowski, Casablanca, Seventh Seal, Stanley Kubrick's, Wes Anderson's, Jim Jaramusch's, Dead Man, Wim Wender's, The Fog of War, Downfall, Bringing Out the Dead, and a love affair with Ingrid Bergman

(c) First of all, Bill Hicks and Eddie Izzard are comic gods. Anything that excites my emotions, I always have an ear for something new. Joseph Arthur Snow Patrol, Coldplay, Sarah Mclachlan, The Beatles, U2. Peter Gabriel. Sting. Van Morrison. David Gray, The Police, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, Traffic, Crowded House/Split Enz/Finn Brothers, Death Cab, The Killers, Elvis Costello, Buddy Holly, Saves the Day, Jimmy Eat World, Ike Reilly, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, James, The Cure, Matthew Good, Lucinda Williams, Cat Power, Badly Drawn Boy, Johnny Cash, the list grows and grows wanna add to it?

(d) Food, real food. I'm not very picky, but I like variety. I'd like to try everything there is at least once. I do have a fondness for Indian and for seafood.

(e) TeeVee= Red Dwarf, Black Adder, Father Ted, Young Ones, The League of Gentlemen, Spongebob, Family Guy, most of the stuff on the History Channel, The Kids in the Hall, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Mystery Science Theater 3000 or MST3K, Chappelle's Show, The Office (UK), The Simpsons, Black Books, I'm Alan Partridge, Knowing Me- Knowing You, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Dead Like Me, Six Feet Under, Penn & Teller's Bullshit, and baseball when my team is playing winning ball. Cricket if I could get it on TV here

1. sense of smell

2. open road.

3. lakeriverseaoceanopenskymountainpaddockslopecoldfiremidnighthighdesert- - wildflower

4. tears and laughter. preferably tearful laughter.

5. Stylus and papyrus.

6. The Mischke Broadcast- All hail affable insanity.

Everything. My mind contains a million useless facts and churns out a further million useless notions. More often than anything else, I think about words themselves-- the origin of common sayings, the curious combination in compound words, the relation between them and of course their many shades of meaning. I love words and I devour them.

For instance, the "TH" sounds in the words "thin" and "this" are different, yet they are spelt the same. One uses the vibration of vocal cords, while one is just air. At one point the distinction was made in spelling... yet today we just KNOW which is which. Weird.

How american cheese isn't really cheese.

Putting the man into manacles, or the caterwaul into the cat.

I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the Communist Party. But, I have been an illegal alien. Talk about a blacklist!

You are not taking life too seriously.

You are the one, only you beneath the moon and under the sun.

You are heartbreakers or moral garbage on legs. Of course I don't really mean that, it just seems that's the sort of people I'm most fascinated by.

You like language.

Um... you don't shave and you aren't afraid to show it?

You believe men go crazy in congregations, they only get better one by one.