Experimental cinema/animation, old electronics, patent instruments from the 1930s, the art of Joseph Cornell, home recording, record collecting, quoting Mark E. Smith, bad HTML coding, enjoying glitches and errors, biology, archeology, physics, learning in general, coffee and cigarettes, making art (usually for/about friends) when I'm in the mood, junk stores and thrift shops, insomnia, making cheap food taste good, making the best out of cheap musical gear, cleaning up after my cats.
I also spend too much time playing video games because I'm a dork and my living space has a lot of room taken up by Star Wars and other toys, not to mention anything I see on the street that I think is interesting. Overall, a semi-agoraphobic pack-rat urban hermit.
People who also frequently wear shirts.
And these guys:
Even though one of them is dead...
So far I've managed to see one of them on stage. Now I just have to wait for Kevin Ayers and Eno to come to America.
Joy Division, Subhumans, Soft Machine, XTC, Guided By Voices, The Fall, Brian Eno, Amon Duul II, Sufjan Stevens, Frog Eyes, Pere Ubu, Magazine, Buzzcocks, Gong, Kinks, Syd Barrett, The Ex, Stranglers, Tower Recordings, Cassiber, This Heat, Yo La Tengo, Aphex Twin, Ghost, Red Krayola, Modern Lovers, Animal Collective, The Zombies, Unrest, Galaxie 500, Funkadelic, Sly & The Family Stone, Dock Boggs, MF Doom, Love, Albert Ayler, Iron & Wine, Sun City Girls, Nina Nastasia, John Cage, Bongwater, Comus, Nick Drake, T-Rex/Tyrannosaurus Rex, Terry Riley, Chelsea, Gram Parsons, Angus MacLise, Pernice Brothers, Ornette Coleman, The Damned, Pit er Pat, Charalambides, Six Organs Of Admittance, The Sixth Great Lake, Nanang Tatang, Au Pairs, Otomo Yoshihide, The Dils, Tony Conrad, Unicorns, No Neck Blues Band, Silver Apples, Themselves, Peter Brotzman, Specials, Dead Meadow, Wire, Dear Nora, Jandek, Caravan, Magma, Blonde Redhead, cLOUDDEAD, Gang Of Four, Circle Jerks, Stars Of Lid, Siouxie And The Banshees, Citizen Fish, Culture Shock, Residents, Fred Frith, Zeena Parkins, Incredible String Band, Catholic Discipilne, Henry Cow, Bob Calvert, News From Babel, Stooges, Broadcast, Sun Kil Moon, Kevin Ayers, New Order, Damon & Naomi, Silkworm, Autechre, Pink Floyd, Beat Happening, Test Department, Laurie Anderson, Throbbing Gristle, The Ruts/The Ruts (DC), Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Flux Of Pink Indians, Pretty Things, Sonics, Palace Brothers/Palace Music, The Bags, Will Oldham/Bonnie Prince Billy, Chrome, Robin Hitchcock, Wall Of Voodoo/Stan Ridgway, Kahimi Karie, Blitz, Polysics, The (English) Beat, Roxy Music, Klaus Nomi, Cecil Taylor, Dream Syndicate, Bauhaus, Madlib, Guv'ner, Wolf Eyes, Bob Dylan, Opeth, The Fugs, Electric Prunes, Microphones, Crass, Germs, Coil, Legendary Pink Dots, Squarepusher, Judy Henske, Out Hud, The Clean, Josef K, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Echo And The Bunnymen, Why?, Beatles, Shockabilly, Moby Grape, Cure, Suicide, Creation, Monkees, Theoretical Girls, KMD, Skip Spence, Arthur Brown, Mars, Notwist, Olivia Tremor Control, T.S.O.L., Velvet Underground, NoMeansNo, Kool Keith, Lullaby for the Working Class, Serge Gainsbourg, Motorhead, The Raincoats, 8 Eyed Spy, Can, Seeds, Dirty Three, Acid Mother Temple, Subarachnoid Space, Emmylou Harris, Folk Implosion, Grandaddy, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Billy Bragg, Neurosis, Scanner, Amps For Christ, Rank & File, Blackbird, Tim Buckley, Sole, Big Black, Circulatory System, Johnny Cash, Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly, Talking Heads, Mayhem, Ramones, White Stripes, Dead Boys, Lords Of The New Church, Southern Death Cult, Adam & The Ants, Flaming Lips, Ikue Mori, PJ Harvey, The Who, Bongwater, 801, Slowdive, Dump, X-Ray Spex, Mission Of Burma, Replacements, Jeff Buckley, Black Flag, Red House Painters, Sparklehorse, Nico, Sweet Cobra, Barry Adamson, United States Of America, Cornelius, Adverts, Tubeway Army, Christian Marclay, Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, Califone, Sonic Youth, John Prine, Pixies, Airport 5, Dead Kennedys, Safe As Houses, Bathory, Microstoria, William Shatner, Tom House, John Fahey, Kronos Quartet, LaMonte Young, Ida, Radiohead, In Flames, Massive Attack, Soft Boys, Swords Project, Black Randy & The Metro Squad, Slayer, Handsome Family, K., Electric Wizard, Black Sabbath, Mono, Spacemen 3, 13th Floor Elevators, Low, Art Bears, Frank Zappa, Gil Scott-Heron, Wilco, The Band, Isis, Devo, Neutral Milk Hotel, Van der Graaf Generator, Peter Hammill, Sun Ra, Stiff Little Fingers, Oval, Peter Gabriel, Richard Youngs, Softies, Faust, Daniel johnston, Mastodon, The Shaggs, Scott Walker, Magnetic Fields, DNA, Arto Lindsay, Xui Xui, Roky Erickson, Wee Wilie Shantz
Am I cool yet?
Brakhage, Kurosawa, Kubrick, Lynch, Herzog, Svankmajer, Brothers Quay, Miike, Tarkovsky, Marker, Anderson, Jarmush, Jarman, Cohen Brothers, Argento, Jodorowsky, the three films of Coleman Francis, Ratchatcher, True Stories, M, Alphaville, Forbidden Planet, George A. Romero's Living Dead Trilogy, The Wicker Man, "Manos" The Hands Of Fate, Onibaba, The Haunting, Fantastic Planet, Phantasm, Brazil, The Great Escape, Invaders From Mars, Shaun Of The Dead, Sex & Fury, Shogun Assassin, Road House, Death Race 2000, Battle Royale, Troll 2, 1930s erotica.
In general, my tastes run the gamut from thought provoking, highbrow art house to cheapie drive-in fodder and flat-out exploitation.
I don't follow a lot. I usually just download random episodes of things I'd like to see (and so I can watch it on my computer while I'm studying something worthwhile) and purchase an occasional DVD set of something I liked that was cancelled...
PBS almost exclusively when the TV is on, The Office (BBC), Mr. Show, MST3K, On The Air, Twin Peaks, Arrested Development, Svengoolie, Fishing With John, Battlestar Galactica, Spaced (which was brilliant, but we'll never see it officially in America)
Lately, it's been a lot of Deadwood, for reasons that should be obvious:
Instruction manuals for Casios from the 80s,
The Tin Drum, Leaves Of Grass, The Old Weird America, Assassination Vacation, Wireless Imagination, Immortality, Zoo: or Letters Not About Love, every word Kafka and Camus ever wrote, the collected poems of Lorca, Labyrinths by Borges, old Japanese literature, Chick Tracts. I also love me some Lovecraft and Philip K. Dick
Lee Smith, Lee Crosby, Robert Wyatt, John Brown, Jim Henson, Sisyphus
I cried when Mr. Rogers died.