Music, Art, Yoga, Biking, Drinking etc. Typical New Yorker stuff.
I really have no idea. Interesting people willing to put up with me.
You hate me for writing all of these down, but this is actually why I joined myspace. (I mostly like music without words, by the way.)Alarm Will Sound
The Album Leaf
Amon Tobin
Apparat
Aphex Twin
the Arcade Fire
A Tribe Called Quest
Autechre
Bauhaus
Black Sabbath
the Beatles
Beck
the Bees ("A Band of Bees"?)
Bettie Serveert
The Big Sleep
Bjork
Blonde Redhead
Boards of Canada
Bonobo
Booker T. & the MG's and Stax records in general
the Books & Zammuto
Boom Bip
David Bowie
Francoiz Breut
Broadcast
James Brown
BS2000
Built to Spill
Can
the Cardigans
Johnny Cash
Catpower
Chris Clark
Clinic
Console & the Notwist & Lali Puna
Cul de Sac
the Cure
Daedelus & Adventure Time
Dan the Automator/Deltron/Gorillaz/Lovage/Handsome Boy Modelling School
De La Soul
Depeche Mode
Devo
Diplo
DJ Shadow
DNTEL & Postal Service
Do Make Say Think, Broken Social Scene & Apostle of Hustle
the Doors
DoseOne/Themselves/cLOUDDEAD/Subtle/13&God
Electrelane
Ellen Allien
Brian fuckin' Eno & (some) Roxy Music
John Fahey
Fela Kuti
Fennesz
Fourtet & Fridge
Funki Porcini
Funkstorung
Gang of Four
Marvin Gaye
the Good Good
Herbie Hancock & the Headhunters
PJ Harvey
Tim Hecker/Jetone
Holy Fuck
Mattew Herbert
Hrvatski & Keith Fullerton Whitman
the Jealous Girlfriends
Joy Division & New Order
Kid Koala
the Kinks
Kinski
The Knife
Led Zeppellin
Le Tigre
Lullabye Arkestra
Manitoba/Caribou
Massive Attack
Matmos
Curtis Mayfield
Mazzy Star/Hope Sandoval
Menomena
MF Doom/Viktor Vaughan
the Microphones
Modest Mouse
Mogwai
Mum
µ-Ziq
Neu!/Cluster/Harmonia
90 Day Men
Nirvana
Nobody And Mystic Chords Of Memory
Nouvelle Vague
the Occasion
the Octopus Project
O'Death
On!Air!Library!
Pantha du Prince
Pelican
Pink Floyd
the Pixies
Iggy Pop & the Stooges
Portishead/Beth Gibbons
Prefuse73, Delarosa & Asora, etc.
Elvis Aaron Presley
Radiohead (& Venus in Furs & Jonny Greenwood)
Rotary Downs
Steve Reich
The Rollings Stones
Seefeel
Senor Coconut, Atom Heart etc.
the Shins
Six Organs of Admittance & Comets on Fire
Sonic Youth
Sneaker Pimps
Sparklehorse
Spoon
Squarepusher
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Stereolab
Sufjan Stevens
Talking Heads
Tortoise & A Grape Dope
Trans Am
Tricky
Tycho
Velvet Underground
Vetiver
Vladislav Delay
Hank Williams
Wire
White Stripes
Link Wray
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yeasayer
Yo La Tengo
Neil Young
and maybe some other stuff.Congratulations on making it so far down the list! Sometimes, I also make music:
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Black Orpheus, Wings of Desire, Alphaville, Schizopolis, the Big Liebowski, Donnie Darko, etc.
Futurama, Homes Movies, Good Eats, I watch entirely too much television but I can only think of three shows that I can call great. Damn you, Cable Television.
Invisible Cities
Catch-22
The Sirens of Titan
Candide
Childhood's End
Tortilla Flat
V.
"The Circular Ruins" by J.L. Borges
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
a lot of Philip K. Dick
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vladimir Nabokov
Joseph Campbell
Guns, Germs & Steel
Joseph Campbell, Italo Calvino, Richard Misrach, Robert Adams, Andreas Gursky, Brian Eno, Richard D. James, etc.