Music, food, art, dancin, life, recording obscure sounds with my ancient microphones, buying 8-tracks (got any?), installation, culinary alchemy, Kaizer Sorsay, Mr Kobayashi, photography, fashion.
People with their heads screwed on in a semi 3 quarter turn. With their view askew. People who love life
The Smiths, Deep Dish, Everything but the Girl, Wamdue, Sunburst Band, Depeche Mode, Stevie Wonder, Kraftwerk, The KLF, 808 State, Manic Street Preachers, Radiohead, Mark Farina, Rob Mello, King Britt, CPO, M DOC, Q Tip, EPMD, Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Shazz, Joy Division, New Order, Kate Bush,Bonnie Tyler, Paul Young, Madness, Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Brand new Heavies, Soul to Soul, Imagination, Jazzie B, Ryuuichi Sakamoto, The Thin White Duke, Matthew Herbert, Prince, Cerrone, Shep Pettibone, Madonna, Floetry, Morrisey, Air, Daft Punk, Luke Solomon, Infected Mushroom, Nano, Flying Rhino,Etnica, Max Lanfranconi, Bjork, Pet Shop Boys, Ya Kid K, Shalamar, Frankie Knuckles, Tony Humphries, X-Press 2, DIY, Paper Recordings,Mood 2 Swing, Glenn Underground, D-mob, Cathy Dennis,Dee-lite, Bomb the Bass, The Shamen, Ken Ishii, LTJ Bukem, DJ Blame, Guy Called Gerald, EZ Rollers, Photek, Justin Robertson, Gilles Petersen, Andrew Weatherall, Steve 'silk' Hurley, Satoshi Tomeii, Inner City, Ten City, Maze feat. Frankie Beverley, BT, The Postal Service, Rick James, James Brown, Alexander O'Neil, Autechre, Adeva, NWA, MC Ren, Gangstarr, Public Enemy, Tribe called Quest, Easy E, Hijack- The Terrorist Group, Dre, Ice Cube, NAS, Tupac, Siouxsie and the banshees, The Cure, ABC, Level 42, Echobelly, MAW, Thelonius Monk, Mingus,Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Stanley Clark, Bill Maxwell, Omar Hakim, Abraham Laboriel, Alex Acuna, Nathan East, John Pattituci, Bill Withers, Tananas, Talvin Singh, Mr Fingers, E-smoove, Herbie Hancock, Andreas Vollenwieder, Sheila E, Marsalis family, Gotan Project, Portishead, Morcheeba, Sade, Randy Crawford, Stevie Nicks, Talk Talk, Terminator X, DJ Premier, DJ Quik, Slick Rick, Arrested Development, Relax, Peter Tosh, Beastie Boys, Disposable Heroes of Hippocricy, Digital Underground, George Benson,The Human League, The House Martins, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Bizarre Inc, Buju Banton, Cocteau Twins, Aphex Twin, Teddy Riley, Lalo Schifrin, John Williams, Danny Elfman, Mantronix, Black Science Orchestra, Salt City Orchestra, South Street Players, DJ Hell, Felix Da HouseCat, Sipho Gumede, Trompies, Mdu, Ray Phiri, Stimela, Brenda Fassie, Black Moses (SA), Isaac Hayes, The Whispers, Doc Shebeleza, Skeem, The Platinum crew, Eric 'more' Morillo, Morell's groove pt 9, Rythm Factor, TKzee, Kabelo, Magesh, Jerah, Thebe, B.O.P (when they were gangsta!),
Everything that isn't too commercial, nothing with Lindsay Lohan in it. Darren Aronofsky also rocks. Big Lebowski, Bram Stoker's dracula, AKIRA, Big Night, Modulations, Ghost dog, Tron, Cinema Paradiso, Spartacus (Kirk Douglas original version),Barbarella, Memento, Chopper, Doberman, Run Lola Run, Scripture with no words, Snake in the Eagles Shadow,Ben Hur, Magnificent 7, The Great Escape, Papillon, The Getaway, The Italian Job (original only!!), The Andromeda Strain,traditional chinese cinema, The Count of Monte Cristo- 6hr french version!, blah blah blah
Lost, NO f@&#*&g reality shows (I watch television to escape!. The original 'Star Trek'. Prisoner. Derrick (that german cop dubbed into afrikaans). Monkey magic (dubbed into sesotho). Hajime no Ippo. Reddings International, Robotech.Quincy - the original CSI. Prince of Tennis. Nip Tuck, The Boondocks,
Oscar Wilde, Sartre, Kant, Tom Robbins, Tetsuya Wakuda, Virginia Woolfe & the rest of the Bloomsbury group, Trotsky, lots of magazines, The KLF, Zakes Mda, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Fry
People everyday, making things happen. The thin white duke. Steve 'silk' Hurley, all the dudes selling dodgy dvds at street lights, the green lantern (comic hero), bakkies botha, morrisey,Divan Serfontein, moog, frank oz, gene roddenberry, captain kirk & the entire crew of the starship enterprise, the man from unkle, terry mcgoohan, number 6, malcolm x, chuck d, the guy who invented the SL1200,OS du Randt, Karl Lagerfeld, Mario Testino,Araki,Hussein Chalayan, Yves St Laurent, Hedi Slimane, Jeurgen Tillmans, George Clinton (P Funk), Zildjian family in Turkey- for inventing the cymbal, Bureau de Betak, Chris Hani, Yul Brunner, Steve McQueen (The Boss!!), Danie Gerber, Tiaan Strauss, Serge Blanco, Stephen Larkham, Franco Baresi, Mauro Tassotti, Demetrio Albertini, Donnadoni, Ruud Gullit, Marco van Basten, Zvonimir Boban, Allesandro Costacurta, Bar Do Me,