Adem, Animal Collective, Aphex Twin (and all his various aliases), Angelo Badalamenti, The Bark Haze, Lou Barlow, BARR, Battles, Frank Black, Blood On The Wall, Brad, Buffalo Tom, Bill Callahan, Comets On Fire, Billy Corgan, Cotton Museum, Crazy Horse, Dead C, Dinosaur Jr, Diskaholics Anonymous Trio, Don Caballero, The Drag City Super Session, Earth, Erase Erata, Eyes Adrift, Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, Vincent Gallo, Philip Glass, Stone Gossard, Green River, David Grubbs, Hi God People, Jack Irons, Daniel Johnston, Liars, Loose Fur, Stephen Malkmus, J Mascis, Meat Puppets, Joni Mitchell, The Monkeywrench, Thurston Moore, Mudhoney, Joanna Newsom, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, No Age, Oneida, Jim O'Rourke, Panda Bear, Pavement, Pearl Jam, Pixies, Radiohead, Lee Ranaldo, Lou Reed, Slint, Smashing Pumpkins, (Smog), Sonic Youth, Sparklehorse, Squarepusher, Marnie Stern, This Song Is A Mess But So Am I, Three Fish, Alexander Tucker, Wilco, Yo La Tengo, Thom Yorke, Neil Young, ZwanWhat I'm listening to most at the moment:Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Nine Inch Nails - Maybe Just Once/Purest Feeling 7"
The Thirteen Ghosts w/ Derek Bailey and Thurston Moore - Legend of the Blood Yeti
Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II
Battles - Tonto single
Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
The Bark Haze (Thurston Moore & Gown) - Untitled lp
Liars - s/t
Liars - Plaster Casts of Everything (singles)
Earth - Earth 2
Earth - Divine and Bright 7"
Joanna Newsom - Ys
I would never be able to write a list of all the films I'm into, but my favouritest directors whose films I go all funny over are:
P T Anderson, Pedro Almodovar, Atom Egoyan, Victor Erice, Vincent Gallo, Terry Gilliam, Harmony Korine, Kristof Keislowski, Takeshi Kitano, David Lynch, Hayao Miyazaki, Hideo Nakata, Andrei Tarkovsky, Wong Kar Wai, Lars Von Trier
I also like the following directors enough to voraciously seek out anything they have done:
Wes Anderson, Darren Aronofsky, Chan Wook Park, Coen brothers, David Cronenberg, Abel Ferrara, Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Jonze, Stanley Kubrick, Richard Linklater, Polish brothers, Julian Schnabel, Martin Scorsese, Kevin Smith, Steven Spielberg, Francois TruffautThe most noteworthy films I've watched recently are:
Infernal Affairs III - dir. Wai Keung Lau & Siu Fai Mak
The Devil And Daniel Johnston - dir. Jeff Feuerzeig
The Prestige - dir. Christopher Nolan
Infernal Affairs II - dir. Wai Keung Lau & Siu Fai Mak
Ivan's Childhood - dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Riding Giants - dir. Stacy Peralta
Rick Harsch, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, Hunter S Thompson, Phillip K Dick, Alan Moore, Michael Chabon, Clive Barker, Mike Carey...etc.
Bill Callahan, Vincent Gallo, Brendan Fowler, Rick Harsch, Daniel Johnston, Jim O'Rourke, Lars Von Trier, Adam Horvitz, Lee Ranaldo, Chris Onstad, Jeff Tweedy...et al.