Alex M. Thompson is a freelance journalist living in Brooklyn, New York.
| Member Since: |
December 16, 2006 |
| Activities: | Being a general badass. |
| Interests: | anarchism, architecture, art, atheism, bill hicks, bOING bOING, bukowski, carnival sideshows, comix, conspiracy, culture, cyberpunk, cynicism, david mamet, discordianism, drugs, ecology, economics, elitism, environmentalism, eroticism, evolution, extropianism, fashion, fetishism, film, food, george carlin, gothic culture, hacking, hate, highbrow culture, h.l. mencken, humanism, interior design, japaniana, journalism, kooks, lowbrow culture, libertarianism, literature, love, misanthropic ranting, Mondo 2000, music, novelty, nerds, nietzsche, philosophy, poetry, politics, punk, quirkyalone, ray harryhausen, robert anton wilson, robert heinlein, r.u. sirius, satire, science, sensuality, stanislav szukalski, subgenius, the onion, three stooges, timothy leary, tv, weirdness, Whole Earth catalogs and their aesthetics, zines |
| Favourite Music: | Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Grateful Dead, King Crimson, Kate Bush, Princess Superstar, Ben Harper, The Why Store, Janis Ian, Stone Temple Pilots, Greg Brown, Cocteau Twins, Enigma, Jeb Loy Nichols, Fear Factory, Joni Mitchell, Tracy Chapman, Roxy Music, Garbage, Patti Smith, Stinking Lizaveta, Burlap to Cashmere, The Smiths, The Soviettes, Steve Earle, David Wilcox, Todd Rundgren, Living Colour, the Rat Pack, The Chieftains, Jennie Devoe, Shannon Curfman, Leo Kottke, Norah Jones, Fugazi, Len, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Lady Sovereign, Negativland, The Velvet Underground and Nico, Frank Zappa, Annie Lennox, Phoebe Snow, Dar Williams, Tom Lehrer, Susan Tedeschi, Beachwood Sparks, Dave Frishberg, Angie Aparo, Rusted Root, Blue Oyster Cult, Dee-Lite, Michael Franti, String Cheese Incident, Skinny Puppy, Ministry, Gwar, Rush, Lisa Loeb, Ani DiFranco, Bob Schneider, exotica, Ladytron, Of Montreal, Bad Religion, Bouncing Souls, Divit, Todd Snider, Crash Test Dummies, Martin Sexton, Descendants, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, Rancid, NOFX, Tori Amos, Jim Croce, Carrie Newcomer, Scissor Sisters, Dishwalla, Los Lobos, Lou Reed, anti-music and noise, assorted pop detritus, Venus Hum, Shakira, Merrill Bainbridge, Ween, Tom Waits, They Might Be Giants, Eels, George Clinton, Miles Davis, classical, Nelly Furtado, Brian Eno, bluegrass, Jonatha Brooke, rap and hip-hop |
| Favourite Tv Shows: | The Prisoner, The Critic, The Simpsons, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, The Daily Show, Reno 911!, Insomniac, Upright Citizens Brigade, Strangers With Candy, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Sanford and Son, Weeds, The L Word, Laguna Beach, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends |
| Favourite Movies: | The films of Stanley Kubrick, the Coen brothers, Quentin Tarantino, Oliver Stone, Orson Welles, Alexander Payne, P.T. Anderson |
| Favourite Books: | All Holy SubGenius texts, Mondo 2000, The Happy Mutant Handbook, The Teenage Liberation Handbook, Everything Is Under Control, Whole Earth Catalogs, The Big Book of Conspiracies, dumpster diving books by John Hoffman, anything by Hunter S. Thompson and Abbie Hoffman. |
| Quotes: | "De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum."
"Pull the wool over your OWN EYES." - J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
"Really, I'm not opinionated - I'm just always right."
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - H.L. Mencken
"LLLEEEERRRROOOYYYY JJJEEEENNNNKKINNSS!!!!" |
| Like To Meet: | intelligent people, extropians, SubGenii, creative types, gourmands, cynics and misanthropes, and weird girls. |
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