strange movies, books, obscure music magazines, plants/flowers, cryptozoology (BHM!), christian marclay's art, adrian tomine's comics, seattle (most beautiful city in the world), record collecting like a fiend, coast to coast a.m. with art bell, being married.
NWW list. kraut/prog, garage/psych/freakbeat, hardcore/punk/post, rocksteady/dub, 60's pop, free/out jazz, noise/power electronics, private press/real people, avant garde composition/free improvisation, latin/brazillian psych/funk/salsa, grindcore/death/doom/black, other scary fringe stuff. favorite labels- ESP-Disk, Impulse!, BYG/Actuel, Stiff, GoldStandardLabs, Factory, Ze, lust/unlust, Independant Projects, Fania, Futura, ecstatic peace, Brain.
Texas Chainsaw, Wild Bunch, Bob Dylan's Don't Look Back, Wicker Man, Wages Of Fear, 28 Days Later, Jackass(es), Amores Perros, On the Waterfront, Basquiat, Space is the Place, Downtown 81, All The Real Girls, Night of the Hunter, Eyes Without a Face, Rosemary's Baby, Knife in the Water, Django, Tod Browning's Freaks, Vanishing Point (1971). g.romero zombies . documentaries like Weather Underground, Keep The River On Your Right, Grizzly Man, & How to Draw a Bunny. stan brakhage/ira cohen/richard kern/kenneth anger ART films. criterion stuff.
snl. lost. south park. kimmel (jimmy the sports guy is really funny).
Trouser Press, Psychotic Reactions & Carburator Dung, any kafka/anais nin/rilke/ferlighetti, The Stranger, Life Of Pi, dorky music history books & biographies like Krautrocksampler by julian cope, and Freedom Principle: Jazz after 1958. Fucked Up and Photocopied, thurston's Mix Tape book, the Mike Kelley book that kerry got me at the art institute in chicago, Cosmic Price Guide (2nd revised edition) for europrog/krautrock, and The Music Library are good to look at stoned. periodicals- Wax Poetics, The Wire, Vice, Arthur, Cometbus. pre-computer era zines.
lester bangs, rodney bingenheimer, tony wilson-- people that have made careers out of being professional 'fans'. also wayne kramer, sonny sharrock & thurston moore-- people that make guitars sound unlike guitars.