music, gaming, my band, homestar runner, weebl & bob, adult swim, dancing, spicy food, swing dancing, DDR, computers, random IMs, scrabble, irc, nocturnalism, hot sauce, ranch dressing, rocking out, kung fu movies, math rock, space rock, idm, metal, post-rock, jazz, the daily show, bash.org, david cross, most extreme elimination challenge, tetris, diesel sweeties, questionable content, odd time signatures, polyrhythm, just intonation, classical music, drone, eastern music, the subtle sound that is made when a musician is taking a breath while playing an instrument on a recording, pretending to be the best air instrument musician in the world, making obscure references, noticing subtleties in everything, making an indie rock dance party truly a dance party, promoting my band or a friend's band, helping to organize plans for those of my friends who need the assistance, walking around the streets of oakland like a fucking crazy motherfucker with my headphones on, staying up really late and pretending to be doing homework but decide to compose music instead, gamelan music, thinking of new out-of-this-world inventions that only crazy people could come up with, meeting random people on the street, new music ensemble, helping people write papers, writing on my left hand to make it my daily planner and phonebook, conducting symphonies of post-rock, using a car defroster to watch the fog melt away from the windshield, using my entire body as a drum kit, watching rain crawl up the side of glass in a moving vehicle, the flying spaghetti monster, ask a ninja, monkey island, being extremely asian gangsta, making field recordings with completely gibberish noises
people who I already know, or want to get to know.
also: any of the people on my heroes list.
and: anyone that knows the origins of my display name and/or headline.
radiohead, dredg, cave in, don caballero, lou harrison, isis, opeth, at the drive-in, deftones, dntel, aphex twin, bjork, portishead, longwave, !!!, failure, hum, sneaker pimps, refused, candiria, glassjaw, lightning bolt, my bloody valentine, sage francis, blur, mogwai, godspeed you black emperor!, sigur ros, coldplay, e.s. posthumous, sweatpant boners, foo fighters, KOMPRESSOR, massive attack, thelonious monk, neil young, miles davis, jim o'rourke, sonic youth, queens of the stone age, dillinger escape plan, kevin shields, minus the bear, a silver mt. zion, stereolab, outkast, bogdan raczynski, the cure, clearlake, beck, giardini di miro, shellac, jeff buckley, polysics, sigh, cocteau twins, yume bitsu, surface of eceon, the vaselines, saso, mindless self indulgence, black sabbath, hot snakes, kinski, lab partners, slowdive, continental, elliott, thedamnwells, meshuggah, tarentel, the darkness, carnal forge, tom waits, lamb, rachel's, fly pan am, set fire to flames, spiritualized, placebo, the verve, add n to (x), elbow, pj harvey, death, missing pilots, the album leaf, the icarus line, man or astroman?, labradford, ester drang, drive like jehu, pelican, rumah sakit, sun kil moon, stars of the lid, segue, kalon, faraquet, finntroll, serotonin, lumen, the fire theft, bela fleck and the flecktones, victor wooten, doves, dave brubeck trio, mary celeste, ween, private lessons, valley of the giants, p:ano, wesley willis, rye coalition, do make say think, shat, sweep the leg johnny, the posies, desert sessions, ocelot, sparklehorse, liars, porcupine tree, lexsis jumps, eagles of death metal, we're wolves, oxes, the sea like lead, two sexy beasts, al green, hamburger salesman, BONUS, bellini, the cancer conspiracy, supporting actress, storm and stress, creta bourzia, kaki king, mono, behold the arctopus, dianogah, battles, dysrhythmia, ela, vale and year, mary celeste, volta do mar, c'est mortel, subarachnoid space, from monument to masses, gremlins & butterflies, baby vs. giant, ted mook, hella, a minor forest, the arcade fire, the kickass, ravi shankar, philip glass, jasper wood, audrey andrist, method man, frakkur, turing machine, rza, gza, q and not u, ulver, william shatner, ellen fullman, acid mothers temple, michio miyagi, bela bartok, shivkumar sharma, red sparowes, mortimur, a is a, victoria jackal, the forms, akarso, maserati, cinemechanica, we versus the shark, jet black crayon, landing, pattern is movement, grails, andrew bird, don't mess with texas, this specific dream, robby roadsteamer, arcade fire, adelaide, god is an astronaut, my disco!, a minor forest, nun of the above, rodan, halifax pier, c-clamp, durian, fin fang foom, the fucking champs, talk talk, foxhole, thee speaking canaries, cult of luna, callisto, pitchfork, the burning paris, gregor samsa, ativin, scraps of tape, 90 day men, audrey, by the end of tonight, autolux, nightfist, shadel, del rey, paul newman, seascapes of the interior, hal al shedad, six parts seven, aix em klemm, film school, shipping news, sharks keep moving, windsor for the derby, september malevolence, once we were, animal hospital, anoushka shankar, johann sebastian bach, stan richardson, steve reich, ensemble nipponia, ustad ali akbar khan, yamato ensemble, esmerine, efterklang, fridge, bark psychosis, kacapi instrumental ensemble, gamelan ensemble, tan dun, zakir hussain, ustad alla rakha, bardo pond, wayang golek, mewithoutyou, friendly bears, meisha, mike tamburo, keenan lawler, danceflur kriminalz, lesser birds of paradise, hundred year storm, the evpatoria report, june of 44, alan hovhaness, vishwa mohan bhatt, romu majumdar, tarun bhattacharya, boredoms, mf doom, bright red paper, triggers, dakota dakota, dalek, jesse dangerously, fm3, brian eno, MGR, zombi, blunderbuss, fzds, apis bull, tony murnahan, maps and atlases, ok go, nusrat fateh ali khan, amusement parks on fire, dat politics, tuvan throat singing, the who, justice, digitalism, dfa1979, you slut!, modey lemon, redneck manifesto, boris, stephen malkmus, yo la tengo
holy grail, snatch, princess bride, american history x, memento, pulp fiction, requiem for a dream, the boondock saints, crouching tiger hidden dragon, trainspotting, lock stock and two smoking barrels, the matrix, empire records, ferris bueller's day off, fight club, clerks, mall rats, e.t., chasing amy, dogma, jay and silent bob strike back, uhf, pump up the volume, lost in translation, ed tv, odd obsession, kill bill, masters of the flying guillotine, kids, the big lebowski, office space, hero, fahrenheit 9/11, zatoichi, team america, pcu, bowling for columbine, the breakfast club, vanilla sky, rushmore, samurai fiction, wet hot american summer, casablanca, musashi miyamoto, y tu mama tambien, sunset boulevard, breathless, battleship potemkin, american movie, touch of evil, she's gotta have it, ghost dog: way of the samurai, shane, the last samurai, sanjuro, yojimbo, isle of flowers, the bicycle thief, the conversation, la jetee, written on the wind, fistful of dollars, dance for camera, the sword of doom, kill!, borat: cultural learnings of america for make benefit glorious nation of kazakhstan, snakes on a plane, a love song for bobby long, seven samurai, shaolin soccer, undercover brother, how high, no country for old men, juno, august rush
house, 24, the office, pushing daisies, dirty sexy money, american gladiators, grey's anatomy [does it look like I care that you don't like it?], mxc, it's always sunny in philadelphia
dante's divine comedy, the hot zone, the outsiders, lord of the flies, harp of burma, the key, the wild geese, flowers for algernon, bushido, hagakure, the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, the restaurant at the end of the universe, the life universe and everything, so long and thanks for all the fish, hocus pocus, galapagos, the real ultimate power, the alphabet of manliness, the gospel of the flying spaghetti monster, any books related to music theory, sex drugs and cocoa puffs, good omens, a man without a country
thom yorke, jonny greenwood, ed o'brien, colin greenwood, phil selway, daryl palumbo, mikael akerfeldt, anders friden, jonsi birgisson, bjork guomundsdottir, richard d. james, sage francis, alexei pajitnov, damon che, ian williams, douglas adams, michio miyagi, ravi shankar, gavin hayes, lou harrison, alan hovhaness, eric belcastro, mike dodin, rob wallace, seth ballentine, krishna rajendran, maria georgievsky, julie cohen, dave jordan, jon dell, andy schulz, andy miller, greg dodin [RIP], rick moslen, josh & deb cohen, tami farmer, jim rita, derrick shantholzer, donovan butts, jeremy hedges, kurt vonnegut, ben rainey, tyondai braxton, dave konopka, john stanier, mike patton, aaron turner, tony murnahan