recording stuff. electrospray mass spectrometry. fluorescence microscopy. developing ridiculously unorthodox volleyball offenses. compost piles.
everyone is worth knowing. especially these guys:
hum, juno, a tribe called quest, q and not u, jurassic 5, maceo parker, fugazi, broken social scene, drive like jehu, a minor forest, the roots, godspeed you black emperor!, from monument to masses, lush, ride, braid, helms, london beat, hella, helmet, run dmc, victory at sea, don caballero, rodan, slint, primus, the dismemberment plan, mr lif, cymande, living colour, bad brains, unwound, my bloody valentine, ...and you will smell us by the trail of dead, pharcyde, outkast, the fucking champs, aesop rock, 90 day men, night rally, rival schools, faraquet, pele, radiohead, shipping news, the jazz june, june of 44, moss icon, rites of spring, weights and measures, volta do mar, nick drake, oxes, teenage fanclub, shiner, the jesus lizard, the stone roses, joy division, the darling buds, pinback, the charlatans uk, chapterhouse, chavez, tool, mos def, sunny day real estate, js bach, the cancer conspiracy, UNKLE, at the drive-in, snoop, suntan, sigur ros, bikeride, the pixies, black helicopter, serotonin, idlewild, young chili peppers, dinosaurjr, the actual, pretty girls make graves, wire, buzzcocks, circle jerks, all, crispy ambulance, handsome boy modeling school, planes mistaken for stars, aloha, chopin, clickers, compound red, rumah sakit, north of america, failure, big bear, dillinger escape plan, the promise ring, the model sons, presley, radar eyes, charles mingus, christian mcbride, fishbone, ned's atomic dustbin, girls against boys, sweep the leg johnny, neutral milk hotel, rem, donald byrd, art tatum, chick corea, bowie, the spinanes, herbie hancock, the smiths, oingo boingo, the cure, nirvana, shudder to think, afghan whigs, school of fish, too much joy, maritime, tv on the radio, eyes like knives, kinski, m83, windsor for the derby, the beatings, dungen, the up on in, alotia, make believe, joan of arc, songs:ohia, toad the wet sprocket, uzeda, bellini, porno for pyros, the bon savants, read yellow, big black, oceansize, mellowdrone, mclusky, schatzi, xtc, yes, quicksand, meat puppets, tortoise, the ethiopians, do make say think, talking heads, paula abdul, japanther, the panthers, isis, pelican, paper thin stages, skyline rodeo, madvillain, the perceptionists, sebadoh, sounds like braille, devo, piglet, cinemechanica, at this point i have no idea whether i've listed things twice...sorry.
war games, silence of the lambs, pi, dr strangelove, lock, stock, & two smoking barrels, youngblood, the shawshank redemption, the neverending story, fever pitch, real genius, the royal tenenbaums, finding forrester, midnight madness, just one of the guys, weird science, labyrinth, tron, the golden child, four rooms, rounders, starman.
provokes the cells in your frontal lobe to undergo apoptosis at a rate orders of magnitude beyond that at which they could form useful synapses. that written, i'm incapable of turning the channel away from law & order or west wing reruns. also: nhl center ice package so that i can watch kings games instead of sleeping.
i like books written by people like zadie smith, ayn rand, douglas hofstadter, nick hornby, kurt vonnegut, neal stephenson, charles bukowski, aldous huxley, john irving, and vladimir nabokov.
gandhi. chomsky. mackaye. lao-tse. fourier. descartes. bach. zinn. hershiser. albini.