Civilization
Werner Herzog
I am in this band called Chrome Wings. We make space jamz.
Perenial Favorites:
the Tasteful Nudes, the Homosexuals, Lee Hazelwood, the Marvelettes, Glen Branca, Nice Nice, the Shangri-Las, Guided by Voices, the Talking Heads, Maurice Ravel, the Crystals, Wolf Eyes, the Yardbirds, Henry Cowell, the Rolling Stones, Growing, Black Dice, Electrelane, Igor Stravinsky, the Animal Collective, Neu!, Zoviet France, This Heat, Chromatics, Aa, the Kinks, Tussle, Gas, Birchville Cat Motel, the Silver Apples, Clinic, Non, Out Hud, Erik Satie, the Velvet Underground, Hildigard von Bingen, Death in June, the Ronnettes, Kraftwerk, the Modern Lovers, Can, Boredoms, Gustav Holst, Tim Hecker, the Buzzcocks, Gang Gang Dance, the Clash, Astral Social Club
The Motorcyle Dairies, City of God, Apocolypse Now, Bringing Out the Dead, Orpheus, Grizzly Man, Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, 2001: A Space Oddessy, M, Yojimbo, Fitzcarraldo the Great Escape, Rushmore, Nosferatu, Aguire: The Wrath of God, Hell House, Prince of Space, Baraka, the Thin Red Line, the Cabinet of Dr. Calagari, Throne of Blood, Papillon, the Wild Bunch, Chairman of the Board, Surf Ninjas
If you sincerely hate television, do you think surfing Myspace is a better use of your time?
Globe Trekker, Frontline, MST3K, the X-Files, Meet the Ancestors, Evangelion, In Search Of, Star Trek: TNG, How it's Made, the Great War, the Office, Black Adder, Serial Experiments Lain, Lost in Space
If someone is trying to prove something to you, ask them how many books they have read last year. If they have read less than five, don't believe anything they say.
the Epic of Gilgamesh; the Bible ;the Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen; Erotism: Sexuality and Death by Georges Bataille; the Wind Up Bird Chronical by Haruki Murakami; the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke; Sexual Personae by Camile Paglia; Illuminations by Aurthur Rimbaud; the Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima; Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama; Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath; the Song of the World by Jean Giono; the Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis; Catch 22 by Joseph Heller; the Complete Stories by Franz Kafka; Big Sur by Jack Kerouac; Beowulf, translation by Seamus Heaney; the Stranger by Albert Camus; Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad; Collected Stories by Flannery O'Connor; Forests by Robert Pogue Harrison
Cormac McCarthy, Werner Herzog, and Charles Darwin