air, aiwa, balkan gypsy music, boozoo bajou, dZhihan & Khamien, bassnectar, blackalicious, bigga bush, boards of canada, brian eno, buscemi, bobby hughes experience, calexico, cal tjader, can, cat power, chet baker, the clash, coltrane, da lata, dj cam, daft punk, daktaris, the dandy warhols, david bowie, the darkness, ELO, fela kuti, fila brazilia, flamenco music, the flaming lips, freur, astrud gilberto, glitch mob, koop, luscious jackson, m.i.a. massive attack, !!!, modeselektor, nicola conte, stereolab, orlandivo, everything but the girl, federico aubele, four tet, funky lowlives, husky rescue, low, gorillaz, galaxy 500, gustavo cerati, groove armada, the herbalizer, hamsa lila, honey barbara, horace andy, iron and wine, james brown, jane's addiction, jazzanova, jem, koop, kraftwerk, miles davis, jeff buckley, gotan project, kruder & dorfmeister, latyrx, medeski martin & wood, mad professor, mazzy star, morcheeba, mos def, mr. scruff, nickodemus, parallel mechanics, pedro the lion, pop will eat itself, the police, thievery, beck, sea & cake, nightmares on wax, nina simone, paul weller, prefuse 73, radiohead, radio citizen, royksopp, sam prekop, sergio mendes & brazil 66, sea and cake, selda bagcan, sigur ros, slide five, the smiths, st. germain, savath & savalas, slow dive, tones on tail, tosca, the verve, broken social scene, clap your hands say yeah, the cult, yo la tengo, zap mama, zero zero, zero seven, mumbles, euphone, tosca, afro-beat, dub, funk, garage rock, freedom rock, classic rock, classic music, cheezy cocktail synth-pop music with xylophones, anything with a harmonica or a moog2000, the soundtrack to "free to be you and me," weird 60s psychedelic shit, drum & bass when it was called jungle, techno when it was called acid house, acid jazz when it was called acid jazz, rock when it was called the devil's music, old harmonica-playin', foot-stompin' -front-porch-settin' blues singers from back in the day, seventies porn soundtracks, and oh ya shuggie otis.
bertolucci, blade runner, carlos saura's carmen, carwash, donnie darko, the graduate, reefer madness, breakin', black orpheus, the hunger, akira kurosawa (seven samurai, dreams..), koyaanisqatsi, radio favela, how to get ahead in advertising, the gods must be crazy, logans run- uncut (thanks, sergio!) the neverending story, the princess bride ("mawage?"), fantastic planet, abre los ojos, belle du jour, frenzy (anything hitchcock), manon de sources, breakfast at tiffanys, a room with a view, secretary, delicatessen.. and others like seventies science fiction, horror, mystery and true crime..
i don't watch the tell-lie-vision. life is far too interesting.
books that can change your life: grunch of giants, (buckminster fuller), the teenage liberation handbook; how to quit school and get a real life and education, bomb the suburbs (w. upski wimsatt), desolation angels (kerouac), the teachings of don juan, the art of dreaming, (castaneda), fear of flying (erica jong), white noise (don de lillo), revolution for the hell of it (abby hoffman), r is for rocket (ray bradbury), do androids dream of electric sheep (phillip k. dick) east of the sun and west of the moon, the brothers grimm, isabel allende, pablo neruda, joseph campell, stan rice, william burroughs, isaac asimov, kerouac... for beautiful lyricism, et al..
and she-roes: maria guadalupe sotomayor de casaurang (1915-2004) "que duermas con los angelitos, amor.."