Happiness=Nudity
To all of my LJ Friends:
I already think that all of you are awesome in your own individual ways. But I'm a creature filled with curiosity, and there's nothing on HBO tonight. So please do me the honor of responding to these questions (and, as an added bonus, I will answer them as well so's that you can get a peep into my maggot-infested brain ( Read more... )
The Beatles -look, this is not in that cheesey clichéd way. Their approach to melody and chord progressions during their "psychadelic years" totally changed the way I viewed music. I started seeing it as a soundscape instead of just a song.
The Cure - Nearly everything they wrote until Disintegration was beautiful and raw to me.
Oingo Boingo - My first album ever was Boingo Alive.
This Heat, Einsturzende Neubauten, Bauhaus, Pavement, Gastr Del Sol - woke me out of a deep musical sleep and reminded me about the necessity of experimentation mixed with old standards.
The Velvet Underground - for the self titled album with Murder Mystery and Jesus (and no other albums). This album is beyond brilliant. From its lyrics to its delivery and its instrumentation, it is subtle, minimalistic, dadaist, and completely out of its mind. I should have been there.
That one band with Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood - because Yorke uses his voice as an instrument and rarely if at all rhymes his lyrics. He does not use expected tempos. He sings half a word in one musical stanza and finishes it later. It's awesome. The music is experimental and Greenwood always falls on an unexpected note. Because this is Punk Floyd. There are so many reasons for this, and most of them are musical, but the problem is I simply cannot compliment them without sounding like every fucking 18 year old's profile on the internet, so I won't. I do happen to think they made the most important contribution to music in the past 10-15 years.
2) When you were just a kid, was there ever a toy that you really, REALLY wanted for your birthday, but your parents wouldn't allow it? If so, what was it... and what the fuck was their problem with it? I'd wanted to the Dungeons and Dragons role playing game, but my friend's mom had seen a televangelist calling it the work of Satan, so my mother disallowed the game in the house. Pure fucking tripe.
3) Have you ever had a fake I.D.? If so, did you procure it at a flea market?
No, I never have. I was not interested in clubs but was into drinking or smoking pot with my friends in private places. I'm still the same way. They always handled the supplies, because while I partook, I could live happily without them.
4) (this one is a repeat from a recent post, but I must know from EVERYBODY) If you were a Carebear, what would your name be? And, what would the picture on your belly be?
Non-sequitur bear, maybe. With a "?!" on his chest. No! Nihilism carebear. With either nothing, or a burning book on his chest. Because Intensive Carebear has been done.
5) What's something you don't like to admit that you enjoy?
Looking in people's windows when I walk past their houses, or staring at them in their apartment complexes using telescopes from miles away. It goes great with wine and cheese and company. Women jogging. Oh, and watching teenage girls play soccer. Sometimes I enjoy being the third wheel. Can't help it-grew up that way.
6) Have you ever worn a clown wig? How did that make you feel?
Yes, I have. Not to be fucked with.
7) If you had to mud-wrestle with any one celebrity, who would it be... AND WHY?
Laura Prepon. Because not only would she kick my ass, but I'd enjoy it. And maybe Mia Tyler for similar reasons.
8) Public nudity: Yay or Nay? Yay.
9) What are your top five favorite books/book series?
The Man Without Qualities, Dune (series), Robert Lynn Aspirin's hilarious "myth" series, starting with "Another Fine Myth", The Hitchhiker's Guide (series), 1984 (oops, 6)
10) Something(s) you wish you weren't afraid to try:
Living alone.
Moving out of state.
LSD (because nature is the best chemist, and I never trusted the disgruntled grad student working in his parent's basement).
Saying everything I was thinking all the time and behaving the way I am behaving inside for all to see. Not feigning ignorance.
Not being ignorant.
Reply
Leave a comment