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Music creation and listening, art, reading, Buddhism, photography, physics, philosophy, time and space, string theory and trying to wrap my head around them.
intelligent, competent, interesting human beings...people who have taste in something and/or believe in something. People who DONT put a ton of video and audio crap on their profile...whats wrong with you people?
of course my parents and aaron mellinger are probably my biggest influences and inspirations musically and otherwise...if not for them..i'd probably given up on music along time ago. if you care- here is a small offering of influences- aphex twin, amon tobin, boards of canada, plaid, marumari, chris clark, royksopp, ulrich schnauss, Trentemoller, bjork, severed heads, underworld, radiohead, david sylvian, jack dangers/meat beat manifesto, coil, peter gabriel, geniuser/wolfgang press, edward ka-spel/lpd, wire, kraftwerk, mylo, massive attack, placebo, porcupine tree, muse, pink floyd, fsol, !!!, lcd soundsystem, pete namlook, barry adamson, arrovane, blur, neotropic, nick cave, the fixx, tom waits, swayzak, gus gus, sonic youth, fila brazillia, soft cell, failure, air, interpol, orb, modest mouse, arcade fire, tones on bauhaus love dalis rockets, peter murphy, casino vs japan, chameleons, cabaret voltaire, harold budd, brian eno, oliver lieb, coldcut, david holmes, dj shadow, hector zazou, sneaker pimps/iamx, billy corgan, klaxons, koushik, morphine, sinatra, old 4 a.d, warp records, darkwave, 80s synth, 90's techno and various classic/prog rock. Anything but trite pop or rap (except for old 80's rap...thats ok).
how about favorite artists instead- Mark Ryden, Joe Sorren, Johathan Viner, Camille Rose Garcia, Arunas Zilys, Ray Caesar, Tim Biskup, Todd & Kathy Schorr, Robin Scott Walker, Dan Kennedy, Daniel Martin Diaz, Daniel Peacock, Dave Cooper, Donovan Crosby, Jeff Soto, Kathy Olivas, Marion Peck, and Nathan Jurevicius.
Little Britain, Family Guy, anything with Eddie Izzard, various History, Learning, Travel and Discovery channels. Daily Show, Conan and Howard Stern addict. Lisa has corrupted me with Survivor and lately- for some reason I cant stop watching Dodgers and Angels baseball...I dont know whats wrong with me.
Anything by Thich Nhat Hanh, Lama Surya Das, Sakyong Mipham, Pema Chödrön and sometimes that wacky Dalai Lama.
Lisa, Eian, Mom & Dad, Aaron & Dianna, Donny, Brian, Jen...all the people in my top 8.