faves

hi my names Bryan & i'll be your blogger this evening. i will list for you a few of my favorite things. That's all: super easy! (i'll name the list "faves")

faves:

i always say that my only top favorite movie is WRONG COPS (2013) even tho i have other favorite movies too, cuz it's funny to say: only this one single movie is the best: i'd rather watch WC over & over until god's kingdom lands than to watch any other blockbuster film even once...

so then when i saw the other day that the director of WC posted on twitter a list of his own favorite 15 films, it left me thinking about how fun it is to make lists, especially lists of favorites... so here i wanna go on a twitter meltdown called MY FAVORITE THINGS, A FEW OF DOT-DOT-DOT

my favorite rap tape (by "tape" i mean a full album -- i grew up in the days of cassettes, so i call everything a tape) is "Daily Operation" by Gang Starr...

my favorite gospel hymn is "gather at the river"

Gather with the saints at the river
That flows by the throne of God.

my favorite hot dog is a chili dog, corn dog or beer dog: with beer in the middle. I like the hotdogs with cheese filling... do they make vegan-dogs? then my favorite food is the vegandog. (I'm no vegan but i aspire to be one cuz it seems to piss people off)

my favorite books are:

• moby dick by herman melville
• the poem "song of myself" by walt whitman
• the king james bible

actually no i say:

• the essays of montaigne
• the essays of emerson
• the collected poetry & prose of william blake

my favorite living poet is anne carson

my favorite dead poet is... can I say ME? no i'm not dead yet & i'm not a poet... OK then i say EMILY DICKINSON

what else is there to have favorites of? i already did food movies and books... what else is there to LIFE? ----ah yes, instruments: my favorite instrument is the keyboard... and my favorite animal is god... & my favorite gospel is Mark's... & my favorite prophet, from the four big prophets isaiah ezekiel jeremiah & daniel is Isaiah (is there just one, or is it a school?), tho temperamentally i relate to Jeremiah but that makes me ashamed; and i like Ezekiel but he's too hung up on the sizes of the members of...

& here are a couple more movies that are important to me:

• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), an American Western film directed by John Ford starring James Stewart and John Wayne
• Gilda (1946), an American film noir directed by Charles Vidor and starring Rita Hayworth in her signature role as the ultimate femme fatale and Glenn Ford as a young thug
• SUNSET BLVD. (1950) American film noir directed and co-written by Billy Wilder; starring William Holden as Joe Gillis, an unsuccessful screenwriter, and Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a faded silent-film star who draws him into her fantasy world, where she dreams of making a triumphant return to the screen. Erich von Stroheim plays Max von Mayerling, Norma Desmond's devoted servant

my favorite religion is GNOSTICISM cuz it's not really a religion it's like worshiping the imagination by continuing to...

my favorite sage who's always right is Oscar Wilde... for "The Importance of Being Earnest"
     AND ALSO for "The Soul of Man under Socialism"; "The Critic as Artist"; "The Decay of Lying"... plus a lot of other reasons

my favorite realm, between life and death, is definitely death, but i remain in the land of the living because i'm dead-set on becoming the first immortal to discover the cure for self-slaughter

my favorite jet airplane is the paper airplane

my favorite activity is thinking... i like sleeping cuz it leads to dreaming... but i am not a fan of physical violence cuz it's like taking dreaming way too seriously – just relax & fight exclusively inwardly, mentally, in a fashion that is indistinguishable from making love

my favorite apocalypse was the most recent one, the dinosaurs, cuz i can't remember what happened... i gotta see that one again... (let's make em mammals this time)

my favorite lion is the dandy lion

my favorite rich man is poor

my favorite time of day is 3 a.m. cuz i don't know what to make of it: is it early or late? the saloons close at 2, the sun fell at 18, the phenomenon of "city never sleeps" begins around 21... therefore 3 is the infrathin blank from which endlessness sprang

my favorite sex is female
my favorite line is curved my favorite prose is poem

my favorite color is green, not cuz of money but cuz of plants, but also cuz of radioactive ooze — I like to side with natural growth and unnatural growth (synthetic or wicked?) but not lukewarm modern stale sterile stuffy standing water that "breeds reptiles of the mind": in other words i am anti-necessity and (thus?) anti-capitalist (yet pro-business, especially mom-&-pop shops)

my favorite argument is nonsensical

my favorite marsupial is the kangaroo, and all other marsupials (kangaroos ARE marsupials, correct? from the family macropodidae? — i guess i'm just saying i'm very pro-pocket... and my favotite item to protect in pockets is pens)

my favorite bird is the crow, hands down

my favorite elephant is always the one that's currently in the room

my favorite teacher is every student ever

my favorite grown-up is a child

my favorite rule is forgiveness

my favorite money is love (my favorite prayer is "fuck off, Science")

my favorite time is now-&-then, either that or now-&-again (i always loathe wherever i am; & i prefer the tic of remembering over the toc of anticipating, unless we're half-watching a suspense film)

and my favorite invention is the alphabet. I stand by this one, even still. I think the alphabet was a good seed. Let's help it to fall on fertile soil. No, scratch that: that sounds too preachy – just do what you will... even if it harms your [____]
     — no, on last thot, LONG LIVE THE ALPHABET!

and my favorite mode of travel is walking on foot, & a very close 2nd is riding my bicycle.