people, low 70's and cloudy, pun hot streaks, reading, watching movies, finding how out how many strangers i can talk to before getting shanked, playing instruments, and languages. also, i like these people: edward gorey, el greco, matthew barney, marcel dzama and weegee...
my brother from another mother...and people who don't take me as seriously as i do.
(smog), a silver mt. zion, adam ant, al green, alfred schnittke, amon duul II, animal collective, arab strap, arnold schoenberg, arvo part, astor piazzolla, astrud gilberto, bedhead, bela bartok, bonnie "prince" billy, charles mingus, charlie parker, chet baker, cornelius, dalida, depeche mode, devotchka, dirty three, dmitri shostakovich, do make say think, edith piaf, elliott smith, elvis costello, ennio morricone, erik satie, fugazi, gang of four, george crumb, gilberto gil, glenn gould, godspeed you! black emperor, goran bregovic, hanne hukkelberg, henryk gorecki, igor stravinsky, iron and wine, j.s. bach, jacques brel, james brown, joan of arc, john coltrane, john zorn, jsbx, joy division, julie doiron, karlheinz stockhausen, komeda, krzysztof penderecki, lali puna, leonard bernstein, low, man man, manu chao, marvin gaye, mc5, menomena, mice parade, miles davis, mina mazzini, mirah, mogwai, mouse on mars, mum, nick drake, nico, nina nastasia, nobukazu takemura, os mutantes, otis redding, palace music, pheonix(not the french one), pulp, pussy galore, rachel's, rites of spring, sam cooke, scott walker, screamin' jay hawkins, serge gainsbourg, shannonwright, sigur ros, songs:ohia, south san gabriel, spoon, stereolab, sufjan stevens, sly and the family stone, t. rex, taraf de haidouks, the afghan whigs, the birthday party, the clash, the contortions, the creation, the flaming lips, the kinks, the microphones, the rolling stones, the sea and cake, the stooges, the velvet underground, the zombies, thelonious monk, tom waits, tortoise, uncle tupelo, unwed sailor, whiskeytown, wilco, yann tiersen, yo la tengo.
abbas kiarostami, akira kurosawa, alfred hitchcock, andrei tarkovsky, bela tarr, charlie chaplin, dziga vertov, emir kustrica, federico fellini, francois truffaut, fritz lang, ingmar bergman, jean cocteau, jean renoir, jean-luc godard, jean-pierre jeunet, kenji mizoguchi, krzysztof kieslowski, luchino visconti, luis bunuel, michael haneke, michael mann, michelangelo antonioni, robert bresson, roberto rossellini, roman polanski, sergei eisenstein, sergio leone, toshiro mifune, vittorio de sica, werner herzog, wes anderson, wong kar-wai, woody allen, yasujiro ozu, etc...
fydor dostoevsky, vladimir nabokov, george saunders, ezra pound, louis-ferdinand celine, franz kafka, oscar wilde, don delillo, john fante, phillip roth, t.s. eliot, william carlos williams, nelson algren, e.e. cummings, bertolt brecht etc...
emperor fabulous