The last 10 recordings I acquired

  1. Brand X Masques
  2. Brand X Moroccan Roll
  3. Ben Folds Five Whatever and Ever Amen
  4. Mick Karn Titles
  5. Japan Gentlemen Take Polaroids
  6. How To Destroy Angels How To Destroy Angels
  7. Stick Men Soup
  8. Bigelf Cheating The Gallows
  9. Bigelf Hex
  10. Meshuggah Alive


The last 10 DVDs I acquired

  1. Watchmen (Snyder, 2009)
  2. Aliens (Cameron, 1986)
  3. Meshuggah Alive (2010)
  4. Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs (2008)
  5. Wanted (Bekmambetov, 2008)
  6. Sherlock Holmes (Ritchie, 2009)
  7. Star Trek (JJ Abram, 2009)
  8. King Kong (Jackson, 2005)
  9. Jurassic Park (Spielberg, 1993)
  10. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (Watanabe, 2001)


The last 10 books I read

  1. The Artful Dodger by Nick Bantock
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  2. Cerebus vol 16: The Last Day by Dave Sim and Gerhard
  3. Cerebus vol 15: Latter Days by Dave Sim and Gerhard
  4. Cerebus vol 14: Form And Void by Dave Sim and Gerhard
  5. Cerebus vol 13: Going Home by Dave Sim and Gerhard
  6. Cerebus vol 12: Rick's Story by Dave Sim and Gerhard
  7. Cerebus vol 11: Guys by Dave Sim and Gerhard
  8. Cerebus vol 10: Minds by Dave Sim and Gerhard
  9. Cerebus vol 9: Reads by Dave Sim and Gerhard
  10. Cerebus vol 8: Women by Dave Sim and Gerhard


10 facts about me

  1. I was born in Fairbanks Alaska.
  2. My favorite candy is orange slices.
  3. I shook President Gerald Ford's hand.
  4. I spent a summer at Oxford University studying John Milton.
  5. I hate washing silverware.
  6. Sarah Vaughan once invited me to hang out, drink beer and chat in her dressing room.
  7. Root beer is my favorite soft drink.
  8. I've met exactly one Victoria's Secret model and one former Miss America.
  9. I am inked.
  10. One of my childhood playmates was John Denver's sister-in-law.


10 things I didn't know about myself until I took some tests at Blogthings

  1. If I were a candy bar, I'd be a Snickers.
  2. If I were a mixed drink, I'd be a Mai Tai.
  3. Nicole Kidman has the same musical tastes as me.
  4. My power color is magenta.
  5. If I were a monster, I'd be called Iron Butcher.
  6. I'm 30% weird.
  7. My animal personality is an eagle.
  8. I am scary.
  9. In a former life, I was a happy go-lucky monk in North Africa who was buried alive.
  10. If I was a food, I would be pasta.


My 10 favorite movies

  1. Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1929)
  2. Vampyr (Carl Theordor Dryer, 1932)
  3. The Testament Of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang, 1933)
  4. La Jeteé (Chris Marker, 1962)
  5. 8 1/2 (Fredrico Fellini, 1963)
  6. Once Upon A Time In The West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
  7. Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg, 1991)
  8. Dark City (Alex Proyas, 1998)
  9. Fight Club (1999)
  10. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)


10 books I'm planning to finish someday (but will probably never get around to it....)

  1. Against The Day by Thomas Pynchon
  2. Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
  3. The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town by Amos Tutuola
  4. Difficulty Loves by Italo Calvino
  5. The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  6. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
  7. Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski
  8. The Megalithic European: The 21st Century Traveller in Prehistoric Europe by Julian Cope
  9. The Power Book by Jeanette Winterson
  10. Philosophy in a New Key by Suzanne Langer


My 10 favorite material possessions

  1. Baseball autographed by 1972 Pirates including three hall of famers: Bill Mazeroski, Willie Stargell and Roberto Clemente
  2. Decorative plate painted by Salvador Dali
  3. Original Ernie Bushmiller "Nancy" daily, June 21, 1949 comic strip
  4. Photograph of Robert Fripp, taken, painted on and signed by Tony Levin
  5. Oblique Strategies, a box set of artistic dilemmas I've owned since 1978.
  6. Signed copy of Eric Weber's photo of Richard Brautigan in Washington Square Park, March 1967 (the cover of Trout Fishing In America)
  7. Drawing of Ron Post and Savage Henry done for me by Matt Howarth.
  8. "The Studio" by Mary Hamilton, a linoleum block print.
  9. My watches, especially the Hampden Paul Revere double roller pocket watch (1917, 19 jewel movement, white gold, with art deco white gold chain) and my Grandfather's Hampden pocket watch (1915, 17 jewel movement) which he used his entire life and is worn to bare metal.
  10. Parking sign, gift from some former students


My 10 favorite works of art

  1. "Etant Donnes" by Marcel Duchamp
  2. "Gabrielle d'Estrees and one of her Sisters" by unknown Fontainebleu School artist
  3. "The Ambassadors" by Hans Holbein
  4. "The Seasons" by Guiseppe Arcimboldo
  5. "Twittering Machine" by Paul Klee
  6. "A Humument" by Tom Phillips
  7. "Larmes" by Man Ray
  8. "The Menaced Assassin" by Rene Magritte
  9. "La Femme 100 Tetes" by Max Ernst
  10. "The Soap-Bubble Box" by Joseph Cornell


My 10 favorite kung fu movies

  1. The Magnificent Butcher (Sammo Hung, Yuen Woo Ping, 1979)
  2. Police Story (Jackie Chan, 1985)
  3. Project A2 (Jackie Chan, 1987)
  4. Dragons Forever (Sammo Hung/Corey Yuen, 1988)
  5. In The Line Of Duty IV (Yuen Woo Ping, 1989)
  6. The Tai Chi Master (Yuen Woo Ping, 1993)
  7. Iron Monkey (Yuen Woo Ping, 1993)
  8. Drunken Master 2 (Lau Kar-leung, 1994)
  9. Fist of Legend (Gordon Chan Ka-seung, 1994)
  10. Hero (Zhang Yimou, 2002)


My 10 favorite punch lines

  1. They're both purple...except the elephant.
  2. MOO!!!
  3. Matt.
  4. So deaf people can appreciate them too.
  5. I forgot, your sister has the car.
  6. Ever since the cue ball, he measures first.
  7. Gern Blanston.
  8. Zero - They don't change.
  9. Fire truck.
  10. Orange you glad I didn't say banana again?


10 things I enjoy that people often find to be revolting, stupid or vaguely disturbing

  1. anchovies
  2. The Carpenters
  3. peanut butter and dill pickle sandwiches
  4. Oldboy
  5. the smell of gasoline
  6. The Young Ones
  7. turntablism
  8. Spongebob Squarepants
  9. Meshuggah
  10. progressive rock


My 10 favorite Beatles songs

  1. The Night Before
  2. Ticket To Ride
  3. Wait
  4. Strawberry Fields Forever
  5. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
  6. Hard Day's Night
  7. Hey Bulldog
  8. Taxman
  9. Got To Get You Into My Life
  10. Here Comes The Sun


Ten pop songs I should probably be embarrassed to love

  1. "Kiss On My List" by Hall and Oates
  2. "SOS" by Abba
  3. "Wichita Lineman" by Glen Campbell
  4. "I Saw The Light" by Todd Rundgren
  5. "Love Is Alive" by Gary Wright
  6. "The Year Of The Cat" by Al Stewart
  7. "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams
  8. "Life On Mars" by David Bowie
  9. "Strawberry Letter 23" by The Brothers Johnson
  10. "Make Me Smile" by Chicago



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