right now: non-ironic raves, the elegant thuggery of east new york, discovering dope shit like burial. collecting vinyl (kraut rock, disco, italo, early house, detroit techno, hip hop). also, black outs, big love, the cosmic, the uncanny, bataille, blanchot, blue green algae, philosophy after heidegger, giving shade, william blake, frank frazetta, making magic tea for friends and strangers, black/gay music and early new york house culture, eyeliner, mortal anxiety, avocados, whiskey, art brut (the phenomenon, not the band), sippin' on syrup, comic books, sluts, early 90's realness and the 1993 big pants revolution.
I wanna see all my friends at once. I would do anything just to go bang! I wanna go BANG!!!http://youtube.com/watch?v=xbNbNy96fZ8
Lots of new york/new jersey house from 1991-1992. Also, Manuel Gottsching's E2 E4...and gottsching in general, can, brian eno, spacemen 3, spectrum, spiritualized, hawkwind, deuter, amon duul I/II, trad gras och stenar, A.R. & Machines, neu, harmonia, ashra tempel, map of africa, quiet village, professor genius, steve reich, alvin curran, thomas koner, jonathan kane, dead meadow, avey tear and panda bear/animal collective, terrestrial tones, gang gang dance, queens, jane, excepter, steppes, lake, blues control, first nation, black dice, the occasion, mike wexler, psychic ills, ways, crystal stilts, heavy hands, indian jewelry, invisible conga people, glass candy, chromatics, clipse, slum village, j dilla, pete rock, premier...the greatest, gang starr, jeru, group home, brainsick mob, beatnuts, kurious, juggaknots, puba, finesse, show, ag, diamond d, oc...ditc!!! , little brother, 9th wonder, mood, marley marl, the infamous mobb deep (pre-g-unit), big noyd, cormega, screwball, cnn, az, nas, masta ace, black moon, boot camp clik, ogc, heltah skeltah, wu tang, P&P disco, patrick adams, prelude/westend/salsoul garage classics, trammps, change (with Luther Vandross), imagination, grace jones, sylvester, gwen guthrie (!), 52nd Street, arthur russell, production and remixes by walter gibbons/tom moulton/larry levan/tee scott, John Morales & Sergio Munzibai, frankie knuckles, timmy regisford/boyd jarvis, paul simpson, darryl payne and new image records, aleem, touch, ben cenac/dream 2 science, bobby konders, jovonn (!), bluejean/blue moon productions (thx, adam), MK, jesse saunders/mitchbal records, risque III, master c & j (!), blaze, mental instrum, cassio james vincent ware, victor simonelli, quark records, sumo records, polar records, movin' records, basic channel, chain reaction (before the green label), sahkho, Ø, sleeparchive, marcel dettmann, convextion, early stuff by luke slater/morganistic, lost entity/code 6/joey beltram, early stuff by patrick pulsinger, jeff mills, robert hood (!), richie hawtin/plastikman/concept 1, deepchord, mike huckaby, spectral network, theo parrish, moodymann,andres, omar-s & fxhe records, rick wilhite, 3 chairs, derrick may, kevin saunderson (kms/innercity), juan atkins, kenny larkin, carl craig, stacey pullen, walt J, drexciya, b12, eevo lute muzique, early autechre, early Murk, early roger sanchez, kerri chandler, ron trent 'n' chez damier, prescription records, serious grooves records, decisive records, terrence parker, larry heard, robert owens, baby ford... current fascination deep dubstep: timeblind, kode 9, burial.
80 Blocks from Tiffany's, Lessons of Darkness, Paris is Burning, Aguirre: Wrath of God, Michael Apted's "7-Up" series, the Shining, the Ister, Bladerunner, Dawn of the Dead, The Loved One, Maestro, Fanny & Alexander, Stalker, Cruising, Bad Boys (w/Sean Penn, not Will Smith), Waiting for Guffman, City of God, In the Realms of the Unreal, Amon Duul "Phallus Dei" DVD, Withnail & I, Gallager: Melon Crazy.
doctor who (the original series), the office (uk series), I'm alan partridge, arrested development, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, rome, twin peaks, the prisoner.
Pynchon (except for Mason & Dixon), nietzsche, evelyn waugh, white noise - delilo, days between stations - steve erickson, space of literature - blanchot, small world - david lodge, lucky jim - kingsley amis, mumbo jumbo - ishmael reed, discipline & punish - foucault, Graham Greene's "entertainments" (i.e. his thrillers, not his ponderous meditations on Catholicism), Y the Last Man - brian k. vaughn, moebius/jean giraud, echoes after heidegger - john sallis, Poetry Language Thought - Heidegger, and Dhalgren - samuel r. delany...and House of Leaves.
my father