25 RANDOM LISTS OF 25 THINGS (1-5)

25 of My Favorite Albums (List 1 of 25)

(Only rule for myself: artist/band can only be listed once. In no particular order...)

01. Velvet Underground and Nico - ST
02. Nico - Marble Index
03. Joy Division - Closer or Substance
04. The Cure - Disintegration or Head on the Door or Pornography
05. Gang of Four - entertainment!
06. Lou Reed - Transformer
07. Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
08. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
09. Squarepusher - Ultravisitor
10. Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
11. Bad Brains - ST
12. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
13. Morrissey - You Are the Quarry or Viva Hate
14. Kronos Quartet - Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass
15. Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderly - ST
16. Various Artists (mostly Mulatu Astatke) - Ethiopiques Volume 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale, 1969-1974
17. Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
18. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
19. Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
20. Nick Drake - Pink Moon or Five Leaves Left
21. Health - S/T
22. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
23. Ibrahim Ferrer - Buena Vista Social Club Presents: Ibrahim Ferrer
24. John Coltrane - Live at the Village Vanguard Again!
25. Diane Cluck - Oh Vanille/Ova Nil

* honorable mentions:
Sioxsie and the Banshees - Juju or A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
Orchestra Baobab - Pirate's Choice
Ride - Nowhere
Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Crystal Castles - ST
The Rapture - Echoes
Abe Vigoda - Skeleton



25 STUFFED ANIMALS SITTING AROUND MY HOUSE (List 2 of 25)

1. Green CTHULHU doll
2. Black CTHULHU doll
3. Chenille Bullfrog
4. 35 year old Owl owned by my deceased mother
5. Painted Bunting (Audubon realistic birds with bird call of the actual species of bird recorded by the Cornell lab of Ornithology)
6. Mountain Bluebird (Audubon)
7. Baltimore Oriole (Audubon)
8. Scissortail Flycatcher (Audubon)
9. realistic Pacific Giant Octopus
10. realistic Atlantic Stingray (Worldwildlife Fund adoption plushie)
11. realistic Giant Squid
12. realistic Blue Whale
13. realistic Sperm Whale puppet (Xmas gift from Eric)
14. Chenille Frowning Mini Teddy Bear with B-day hat and present
15. Ugly Doll - Icebat
16. Ugly Doll - Uglydog
17. Ugly Doll - Ox
18. Ugly Doll - Cinko
19. Ugly Doll - Toodee
20. Ugly Doll - Bop n Beep
21. Spotted Owl finger puppet
22. Deer Mouse finger puppet
23. Great White Shark finger puppet
24. Realistic Walrus
25. Patchwork Pig (from Crystal Caverns, MO)


25 FRUIT I'D HAVE TO TAKE INTO SPACE WITH ME (list 3 of 25)

1. Loganberries (Oregon Loganberries)
2. Red Grapefruit (from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas)
3. Dorados (tiny yellow bananas)
4. Regular bananas, you know
5. Braeburn Apples
6. Blood Oranges
7. Kumquats
8. Green Mangoes
9. Yellow Mangoes
10. California Longstem Strawberries
11. Yellow non-cling Peaches
12. Big Ass Watermelons
13. Chirimoya (the really big South American variety)
14. Passion fruit (the really big red South American variety)
15. Limes
16. Large Green Papayas
(I like eating them outside and throwing the seeds to the birds, not sure how i'd pull that in space. We'd have to have birds in the hydroponics bay.)
17. Giant FUCKING Pomegranates
18. Quince
19. Nectarines, yellow
20. Tomatillos
21. Red Table Grapes (seedless)
22. Pineapple
23. Granny Smith Apples (for cooking)
24. Really Large Starfruit
25. Cranberries


25 NAMES I WOULD LIKE TO NAME A BABY WHICH IS ONE MORE REASON WHY I SHOULD NEVER OWN A CHILD (List 4 of 25)

1. Boba Fett
2. Ocean
3. Persnicketty
4. Clam Bake
5. ENORMOUS FUCKING WATERMELON
6. Boys from high school who played soccer and whom I still lust after
7. Monkey biscuit
8. A Lemon and a Grape
9. Purple
10. Zac Efron
11. MACH SCHNELL!!!
12. Squirrelicious
13. Yourmotherwasawhore
14. Chimpanzees should not be pets
15. Speed Racer
16. Little Cunt
17. DennisFuckingCooper
18. Goldfish Lambshanks
19. Darth Maul
20. Nigga Please!
21. Concrete
22. Jesus Fucking Christ!
23. Catamite
24. Faggot
25. Heteronormative Discourse


25 THINGS I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT BEATING YOU TO DEATH WITH (List 5 of 25)

1. A hose filled with sand (because it’s in a Brand Nubian song)
2. A tire iron
3. A wooden baseball bat, fuck aluminum bats!
4. The chair leg in the back of my dad's truck, the one he brandished at the guy who backed into the carwash in front of him
5. An ax handle, an old one… with character
6. A bicycle chain
7. An ENORMOUS fucking watermelon!
8. Your own goddamn femur!
9. The tree branch under the back porch, the one shaped kind of like a giant hammer that I was smashing eggs with when I was 10
10. The sharp end of a claw hammer
11. You know that length of dry bamboo in the garage?
12. GROND! GROND! GROND! GROND!
13. A stuffed stoat (a weasel)
14. A series of terra cotta pots
15. A bronze lawn ornament toad with chemical treatment to create a patina to make it look old, but you just bought it at pottery barn. Why are you so fucking domestic now? It’s kind of a disappointment. I thought you were gonna be an artist or something.
16. A half frozen "hothouse" English cucumber
17. Your baby (it doesn’t have to be yours I guess)
18. My fists encased in steel
19. What is my fucking (heavy duty old school industrial) stapler doing on your desk?!
20. A softball sized agate shaped like a human heart
21. 3/4 inch steel pipe
22. Christopher Robin's skull
23. An antique desk lamp
24. love
25. The telephone, shut up shut up shut the fuck up!!!