Music. Science. Drugs. Brains... BRAINS
Pharmacists in the Cambridge area, singers who will listen to me sing and give reasonable criticism (i.e. laugh at me and then tell me what parts sound terrible), freelance journalists with stories to tell, others who have done suicide shots, conspiracy experimentalists, impressionable children and other idealists.
!!!, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, A Perfect Circle, A Tribe Called Quest, AFI, Aerosmith, Aesop Rock, Against All Authority, Air, Alice in Chains, Anal Cunt, Annie, Anti-Flag, Antischism, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Argyle, Art Brut, Attaboy Skip, Aus-Rotten, Bad Religion, Devendra Banhart Basement Jaxx, Beatles, Beastie Boys, Beck, Ben Harper, The Beta Band, Black Crowes, Black Eyed Peas, Blackalicious, Blackstar, Blatz, Blind Melon, Blink-182, Bloc Party, Blonde Redhead, Blood Brothers, Bloodhound Gang, Blur, Boards of Canada, Bodyjar, The Books, Bouncing Souls, Bowie, Breeders, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Buck O Nine, Built to Spill, Busta Rhymes, Cake, Calexico, CKY, Cannibal Ox, Choking Victim, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, The Clash, Clearlake, Clinic, Company Flow, Conflict, Elvis Costello, The Coup, CCR, The Cure, Cypress Hill, Danger Mouse, Dead Kennedys, Death Cab for Cutie, Death From Above 1979, Decemberists, Descendents, Diesel Boy, Dilated Peoples, Dizzee Rascal, DJ Shadow, Dr. Dre, Dr. Octagon, Dylan, Eagles of Death Metal, Editors, Eels, El-P, Eminem, Exploding Hearts, Explosions in the Sky, FYP, The Faint, Falling Sickness, Fenix TX, Fifteen, Flaming Lips, Foo Fighters, Four Tet, Franz Ferdinand, Fugazi, Funkadelic, Futureheads, Garbage, Germs, Gob, Goldfinger, Gorillaz, Grandaddy, Guttermouth, GZA, Hank Williams III, Helio Sequence, Hives, Hold Steady, Home Cookin', Hot Chip, Hot Hot Heat, Hot Water Music, Iggy Pop, Ill Mitch, Incubus, Interpol, Iron and Wine, Jack Johnson, Jay-Z, The Juan Maclean, Jughead's Revenge, Jurassic 5, Lagwagon, LCD Soundsystem, Les Savy Fav, Less Than Jake, Liars, Libertines, Lifter, Ludacris, Lynyrd Skynyrd, MIA, Madvillian, Mars Volta, Massive Attack, McLusky, Medeski Martin and Wood, Mephiskapheles, Metric, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Millencolin, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Mos Def, Mr. Lif, Muse, The Music, My Bloody Valentine, My Morning Jacket, The New Pornographers, NIN, Nirvana, NOFX, Non-Prophets, Oasis, Offspring, Operation Ivy, Out Hud, Ozomatli, Pennywise, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Pharside, Phish, Pietasters, Pinback, Pixies, Plastic Constellations, Portishead, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Propagandhi, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Rancid, The Rapture, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Reel Big Fish, Rocket from the Crypt, Rolling Stones, The Roots, Rudimentary Peni, Sage Francis, Scissor Sisters, Self, Shins, Sigur Ros, Sly and the Family Stone, Smashing Pumpkins, Snoop, Social Distortion, Spearhead, Spoon, Squarepusher, STP, The Strokes, Strung Out, Sublime, Suicide Machines, Super Furry Animals, Tenacious D, Toasters, Tortoise, Trisula, TV on the Radio, US Bombs, Unicorns, The Unseen, Unwritten Law, Vandals, Vines, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Walkmen, We Are Scientists, Ween, Weezer, White Stripes, Wilco, Wolf Parade, The Wrens
Fight Club, Shawshank Redemption, City of God, Usual Suspects, Big Lebowski
Once in a long while: House, Good Eats, and Family Guy
1984, Catch-22, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Stranger in a Strange Land, Johnny Got His Gun, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Steppenwolf, The Alchemist, Lolita, Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash
Da Vinci, Bohr, Watson, Crick, Lennon, Leary, Feynman, and Fermi