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Some of my friends

  • The Yak's Lair - Owned and operated by the amazing mysterious S.T.R.I.C.K.
  • My Mom's eBay site - she sells rare things and apparently has excellent customer ratings. Check it out here.
  • Al Dault - My brother Allyn's bio page from his college a capella group "After Dark"
  • Theron Welch - My friend Theron, who taught me to play guitar, runs a site of music and mountaineering here
  • Robert Wellington Pound - Maestro and composer, wild-goosechase organizer, mad genius. He inspires me to this day.
  • Robert on NPR - An interview about one of his compositions, "Irrational Exuberance"
  • Alec Badenoch - Expert on German radio, herring migration, and the washtub bass. He's an innocent farmgirl, raised by the aliens.
  • Anson Mount - A comprehensive bio of my pal Anson's career-to-date (off Roger Ebert's filmfest site)
  • Rochus Wolff - Redhead. Feminist. Man-skirt aficianado. A friend of mine from Berlin, the city of my dreams
  • Joe Freedman - A pal of my brother's (and mine) from Wash U. Physics and Barbershop Quartet singing a specialty.
  • Orange Cat Art - A photography and arts collective run by the magnificent Jill Davis
  • Dave Dunn - one of my Orthodox Christian friends, and his views on the world from the 'East Side'
  • Terri Onstad - Amazing woman, musician extraordinaire, zombie movie expert. She rocks.
  • Bob McWhirter - Writer, thinker, coffee drinker (and the reason I have such a striking appreciation for Donovan. Hail Atlantis! )

    Theology and Judaica

  • Reformed documents and confessions - Just in case you ever wanted to read, say, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"...
  • Bavli Talmud - a public-domain website with English translations of two complete Seders: 'Festivals' and 'Jurisprudence'
  • Catechism of the Catholic Church - An online resource for protestants and non-protestants alike
  • Dabru Emet - A Jewish statement on Christians and Christianity
  • Franz Rosenzweig Center - I wrote my masters thesis at Columbia Seminary on this amazing 20th century Jewish philosopher
  • Franz Rosenzweig Exhibit - An online exhibit maintained by the Vanderbilt Divinity School Library
  • Karl Barth - Site maintained by the Center for Barth Studies at Princeton
  • Textual Reasoning - Rereading Judaism after Modernity, yo.
  • Scriptural Reasoning - Rereading Everything after Modernity.
  • William of Ockham - My weapon of choice? Ockham's Razor, of course
  • Book of Common Prayer - online versions of the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer
  • Tao Te Ching - An online version of D.C. Lau's translation (the one I prefer)

  • Golgotha Fun Park - Just up the road from where I live: America's #1 shaded biblical mini-golf. Sadly now defunct.
  • The Lego Bible - From the folks who brought you Golgotha Fun Park, probably. A must-see.

  • Need an exceptionally good online German-English dictionary? Here's one.

    Music

  • Pere Ubu - Pere Ubu is the best band ever. Period. Find out why here.
  • Colin Newman and Wire - The Loudest Minimalists in the World. Meet the reason the Eighties happened.
  • Mike Watt - Musical and life inspiration for me and many others. This site maintained by my old bandmate Sir Demon Brown
  • Blixa Bargeld - The "Berlin dandy of the Apocalypse." He eats Trent Reznors for breakfast.
  • Einsteuzende Neubauten - Blixa's band. A possible motto: "If Noise is Beautiful, then Silence is Sexy"
  • Negativland - While on the subject of noise, here's the ultimate fearless detournment art ensemble. Recycle your media!
  • Glenn Gould - I'm most interested in his "Solitude Trilogy" - but its all incredible. Here's the WIKIpedia
  • The Jazz Butcher - Proof that a degree in philosophy can get you somewhere. Happy Birthday, Ms. Wheeler
  • 3 Mustaphas 3 - The Balkan Secret Plot to Undermine the West through Fezzes
  • Wir Sind Helden - Punk Leute nach Hamburg. Das ist ja echt 'cool' - Horchen Sie auf!
  • The Mountain Goats - Showing just exactly how much damage a lone, angry man with an acoustic guitar can do.
  • Jose Feliciano - The Coen brothers know how cool this man is. I know. Now you do, too.
  • Pinback - Blue-Screen Life is my current favorite album. Worth your time.
  • Too Much Joy - They were too smart for their own good.
  • Captain Beefheart - My head is my only house unless it rains
  • The Jayhawks - I remember one night I stayed up until past three listening to Rainy Day Music a couple times through. That was a good night.
  • Dion DiMucci - What you don't know about Dion is how much Lou Reed and I both love him. I cannot be sad when I hear this man sing.

  • Bel*Air Studios - Where I record my albums - run by the wonderful Jason NeSmith. A musician's home away from home
  • Orange Hat - Grab your bendy! Atlanta's best twisted pop band
  • Sue Witty - Great energy, great songwriting, world-travelled and down-to-Earth. I love playing shows with Sue.
  • The Swear - formerly Atlanta grrrl band Alastor - really rockin' friends of mine
  • Sonia Tetlow - Art + Fury = the beauty of Sonia Tetlow. Spellbinding.
  • Cowboy Mouth - Sonia is currently the bassist for this rockin' N'awlins band
  • Melanie Hammet - Amazing lyrics, stellar songwriting, and a great friend from Atlanta. Check out her album Map of Glass
  • Big Fish Ensemble - One of my favorite bands for many years running
  • Kenny Howes - The powerpopilicious Mr. Kenny Howes, esq.
  • Ceiling Fan - I have never ever been disappointed by this band. They just flat rock.
  • Primrose Studios - Formerly the Amalgamated Violin Company. They make great fiddles.
  • Zeus Henderson - Twisted pop genius and bassman extraordinare
  • Jude Stevens - The indie-rock alter-ego of my pal Pete Delorenzo. His music is wicked good. Tasty lo-fi pop.
  • Stephanie Morris - Chicago-based songstress aquaintance o' mine - You might've heard me do her song "White Sands"
  • Troy Bronsink - Atlanta-based, blues 'n' jazz inspired, the best haircut in town, love 'm yes I do
  • The Shut-Ups - Power-pop with a twist(ed). Repeat after me: "Other bands are lame..."
  • Jen Wallwork Dominguez - Nashville-based folk rock with great melodies and evocative lyrics

  • SPEBSQSA - The Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America, of course.
  • Seale Keyworks - They keep my piano in tune. Nice folks and very helpful
  • GEMM - A truly comprehensive resource for your obscure music needs. Approved by my best friend, the Folding Chair
  • Music Stack - Similar to GEMM. Lost music regained!
  • Creative Commons - Because partial copyright and open-source songwriting is a damn fine idea

    Art and performance

  • Fluxus Portal - the single most influential event in my artistic life was being introduced to Fluxus. Now you can learn about it, too
  • More Fluxus - from art/not art
  • John Cage - the WIKIpedia entry
  • Nam June Paik - again, WIKIpedia saves the day.
  • Joseph Beuys - a cool interactive site put together by the Walker Art Center
  • Joseph Beuys Music Video (?!?!) - This is more "Deutsche Schlager" than "Beuys II Men", but still: Whoa.
  • Marcel Duchamp - The Godfather of Fluxus and the Patron Saint of the Concept Union. Dig.
  • Making sense of Duchamp - An interactive timeline of his life and major works, created by SanFran designer Andrew Stafford. Top notch.
  • Krazy Kat - George Herriman's surreal masterpiece.
  • Ralph Eugene Meatyard - I wrote a song about him. This is a basic introduction to his ethos and body of work
  • Meatyard Samples - Photos from the George Eastman collection - some I had not seen before
  • Laurie Anderson - Say Hello. Hello. Excuse me. Can you tell me where I am?
  • Art Papers - A really cool, Atlanta-based source for reviews and art theory.
  • Improv Everywhere - The best thing to do to a Starbucks, ever.

  • Kay Stanton - Athens-based musician, artist, and frog aficianodo
  • Charlotte and Tom Wegrzynowsky - Bookbinding, painting, and the dark side of America's literary soul...
  • C.-Hua Jen - Luthier, photographer, and our favorite "secret Asian man"...
  • Simple Faces - Portraiture by my friend Maria Robbins
  • Snorkel Films - An ongoing conspiracy by Janeen Whitney and Christo Harris
  • Orange Cat Art - Photography and art cards from this North Carolina collective

    Literature and poststructuralism

  • William S. Burroughs - A very good intorduction, brought to you by our friends (fiends?) at Rotten.com
  • Naked Lunch - here is a good site on Burroughs's major work and its controversial history
  • And for the curious, here is an online version of the Cut-up machine developed by Burroughs and Bryon Gysin
  • A good Jacques Derrida site - if it exists - would be lovely. Any suggestions?
  • Stanley Fish - Perhaps the single greatest influence on my recent academic career
  • Hakim Bey - Complete overview of writings on piracy and 'ontological anarchy'
  • Thomas Pynchon - A-a really freakin' good site for all you JAMF's out there...
  • The Kafka Project - There are no 'secure links,' friend. Welcome to the Panopticon.
  • The Diamond Age - A WIKIpedia around this really cool book by Neal Stephenson
  • James Joyce Centre - Which includes quite a lot of info about the man James Joyce himself, as you might expect
  • Samuel Beckett - a comprehensive site run by the Modern World
  • Samuel Beckett - Resources and links

  • The Modern World - A list of sites about a good number of avant-garde 20th century authors. Very comprehensive.
  • Culture Machine - An online journal that feeds some of my current poststructural fetishes

  • Powells - A massive online used bookstore based out in Portland.
  • Loompanics Unlimited - An equally massive online resource for "subversive literature." Enter at your own risk.

    Radio - Present and Golden Age - I have a love of Old Time Radio and the lore of its major characters...

  • I Love a Mystery - Simply the best serial radio drama ever. "Written and directed by Carlton E. Morse..."
  • ILAM Episode Guide - with the complete runs of both the East and West Coast series
  • The ILAM Companion - A volume of lore and back-stories about the best radio show ever, and the man who created it, published in 2003
  • Fu Manchu - Sax Rohmer's "fiend incarnate" who set out to rule the world through terror long before Osama or Saddam
  • Chandu the Magician - Another serialized battle against a would-be world dictator, the evil ROXOR. I'm looking for a better site - but here is an episode log
  • Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy - Again, looking for a better site. For now, here's the episodes
  • Adventures of Superman - A good comprehensive site, though not as many links as one might hope...

  • National Public Radio - Not as fun as the old stuff, but still - a daily passion of mine
  • Public Radio International - Hard to believe, but there is more to life than Terry Gross

  • KCRW -a truly hip left coast station, serving up everything from Old Time Radio to cutting edge rock

    Film and Television

  • Smallville - The only TV show I currently watch. And I watch it fanatically.
  • 24 - I also watch this show fanatically, but on DVD, so the above statement still holds, Nyah.
  • Carnivale - my claim to only watch one TV show is becoming increasingly less accurate. Oops.
  • Freaks and Geeks - Terri told me about this one - a great show
  • Fritz Lang - Excellent background site with links maintained by the British Film Institute
  • Alphaville - Jean-Luc Godard's surreal sci-fi/noir masterpiece. Quite nearly my favorite film (see next)
  • F for Fake - Much maligned, often misunderstood: Orson Welles' last film, and my current cinematic favorite
  • V for Vendetta - 'Remember, remember the Fifth of November...' I cannot believe this movie is being made. I can't wait.
  • The Prisoner - Perhaps the best - and most subversive - show ever to air on television
  • The Six of One - The Prisoner appreciation society. Be Seeing You.
  • Christopher Walken - from The Dead Zone to 'more cowbell!', this guy is one whacked dude. I love 'm.
  • Aqua Teen Hunger Force - A WIKIpedia for this really bizzare show which I love
  • Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Oh, Creepy Girl, will you be mine before movie sign?
  • Kino Video - Great online catalogue of foreign and avant-garde cinema

    Culture and general interest

  • MIT Media Lab
  • Andre the Giant - Wrestler, philanthropist, Kierkegaard scholar.
  • Andre the Giant has a Posse - and he's looking to bring the spectacle-commodity society down.
  • Obey the Giant - Propaganda engineering from the left coast to help the Giant do his work.
  • Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps - We're All-One or None! Dilute! Dilute OK!
  • AdBusters - Sass back to your puppet masters.
  • The Persuaders - A Frontline commentary on how your opinions are made
  • Scholar Google - Search for your favorite eggheads online
  • The Ayn Rand Institute - Having read most of her work, I can safely say: These people are idiots. See for yourself.
  • Mitch Hedberg - That's ridiculous, but it's true. I guarantee you, one day I will have a beret on.
  • This Is Not a Fugazi T-Shirt - A blog site I stumbled across. Can't vouch for it fully yet, as I haven't read much. But it looks interesting. The title's a winner.
  • Homestarrunner.com - Yep. We're just lookin' at a thing in a bag.
  • The Homestar Wiki - In the words of the inimitable Thnikkaman: "No, you can't have some. Shut up, kid!"
  • Achewood - Since when do you smoke, Phillipe? And what happened to your regular, non-ridiculous pants?

    Products I dig - So I'm not at all down with mass market capitalism, but I like folks who make good things. So here are some.

  • Plum Island Soap Company
  • Bee & Flower Soap
  • Cheerwine in bottles

    Just really really weird

  • We Like the Moon - Which could be considered an argument for, and simultaneously against, psychedelic drugs.
  • The Zero Wing Conspiracy - You have no chance to survive make your time. HA HA HA HA.
  • Frederic Jameson was so right - This is the best definition I've found so far for the term 'Postmodern.' With apologies to Bob Perelman: 'If it tastes good, we eat it.'
  • Human Upgrades - I do not do not do not know what to think about this. Really. I mean, really.
  • Crazy Horses - It is a law of nature: The Osmonds Should Not Rock. And yet, perhaps...
  • Lazy Sunday - The Chronic (what??!)cles of Narnia, yo.
  • Straight Outta Compton - the sensitive acoustic version
  • Eugene Mirman - this is perhaps the creepiest thing I have ever seen online

    Really useful (just not everyday useful)

  • The Fujita Scale of Tornadic Activity
  • UNC Writing Center Handouts Page


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