Art, Music, People, the whole big world in various configurations.
Los Quatro Fabulosos
Adrian Belew
music from Veracruz, Mexico Robert Fripp Jeff Beck
Tuvan Throat Singer - Chirgilchin
I like many kinds of music, particularly, from artists that have a unique knack for songwriting that conveys strong stories or imagery, musicians that have amazing technical skills or performers with extraordinary singular vision. So many to mention but here are a few... The Beatles, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Tool, Ella Fitzgerald, Peter Gabriel, APC, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, David Bowie, Opeth, Denison Kimball Trio, Jesus Lizard, Die Haute, Metric, Gary Myrick and the Figures, Devo, Mastodon, Fantomas, Mike Patton, Diamanda Galas, John Zorn, Jeff Beck, Adrian Belew, Meshuggah, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Trevor Dunn's Trio Convulsant, Marc Ribot, Los Lobos, The Young Gods, The Swans, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, TU, KTU, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sigur Ros, the Mars Volta, Joni Mitchell, Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, Portishead, Tricky, Greehornes, Los Relampagos del Norte, Lucinda Williams, David Garza, B.L.U.E., This Mortal Coil, Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, Massive Attack, Billie Holliday, Nina Simone, Black Sabbath, Trey Gunn Band, Bill Bruford, Talking Heads, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Sonny Landreth, John Hiatt, Joe Ely, Rainbow, Queens of the Stone Age, Failure, Flaming Lips, NIN, Ozomatli, Lila Downs, Lhasa, Okkervil River, Nil Lara, Fantasy's Core, Melvins, Dirty Three, Death From Above 79, David Sylvian, Crime and the City Solution, David Byrne, Queen, Mike Doughty, Soul Coughing, Bjork, California Guitar Trio, White Stripes, Ahmad Jamal, Allan Holdsworth, Niacin, Terry Bozzio, Frank Zappa, Dillinger Escape Plan, Ry Cooder, Vernon Reid, ....the list goes on.
Miller's Crossing , Barton Fink (anything Coen Brothers), Wings of Desire, Fast Runner, Brazil, Eraserhead, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet (anything David Lynch), Lonestar, (anything John Sayles) anything Brothers Quay, Miazaki, Luc Besson, Terry Gilliam, Pixar, Aardman animation, Harryhausen, Herzog, Kurosawa, Peckinpah, Bliss (the 80's Ray Lawrence one not the 90's crap by the same name) ...
Turn your TV OFF go talk to someone, make something, do nothing quietly, listen, find out how something works, ride a bike, read a book, get some exercise, learn to cook, plant a tree, wash your stinky socks, learn about what scares you, rock out, be naughty, call your mom...
"The Lorax" or anything by Dr. Seuss, any thing by the GREAT Jim Harrison, Joseph Campbell, Alan Watts, Leonard Shlain, Chris Moore, Sherman Alexie, Bret Johnston, Daniel Alarcon, Carl G. Jung, James Hillman, G. I. Gurdjieff...or stuff about music/musicians or art/artists.
L.S.R., Mi Familia, John Lennon, Robert Fripp, that guy in front of the tank... and these guys: Battle of the Drums