the port of oakland, smashing the state!, sharpie markers, drawing, dancing, revolution, pinay pride!, guilty pleasures, satisfying cravings, being impulsive, 'tangental seemingly-so-but-not-really non sequiturs', passion as a life process, name-dropping: rothko, miro, gursky, murakami, kara walker, julie mehretu, *free palestine*
There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to indicate to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machines will be prevented from working at all - Mario Savio
xploding plastix, royksopp, aphex twin, rjd2, tortoise, velvet and nico, beethoven, prince, mbv, postal service, lou barlow, yeah yeah yeahs, peaches, neutral milk hotel, shadow, kid koala, talib kweli, radiohead, massive attack, chopin, bach, shostakovich, labels: ninja tune, astralworks, warp records"Disregarding all the wordiness and adjectives that can be heaped like a pile of horse dung at Disneyland upon great, timeless albums, the importance of this record can perhaps be more suitably measured by the number of people who remember the first time they heard it" - Andy Kellman on Fugazi's 13 Songs (allmusic.com go learn something)
michel gondry, wes andersen, miyazaki, charlie kaufman, napoleon dynamite, i heart huckabees, lost in translation, 28 days later, hero (kicks tiger's crouching butt), all kar wai, ang lee (even the hulk), shanghai noon/knights, metropolis, singing in the rain, kurosawa, miyazaki, tom tykwer, the matrices, kevin smith, city lights, lynch, mamet, bring it on, pulp fiction, casablanka, orfeu, hiroshima mon amour, cronenberg, to die for, kieslowski,
heroes (like reading comics w/o the reading), L word (2nd season's sucky), big love (polyamory sux), top model/project runway (oh come on, u do it too), anything to keep me from doin' my research ;)
sam kieth, adrian tomine, mishima, bukowski, durrell, calvino, kundera, marquez, oh the thinks you can think, allende, borges, lorca, rilke, rimbaud, Ishiguro, the golden compass trilogy, the phantom tollbooth, the sorrows of young werther, gourmet magazine
my mom