Anything odd or offbeat. Crazy creative things. Morbidly humorous things. Strange factoids. Uncommon combinations. Dada and surrealist art and related schools of art (Futurist, noise, abstract, etc.). Sideshows, from the golden age to the present. Music is a huge thing to me. As is originality. I secretly like cutesy things too. Guess it's not so secret anymore.
Music:
These are in no particular order and should give you a small idea of the range I like: His Name Is Alive, Kayo Dot, Nurse With Wound, A.R. Kane, Gary Numan, Art Of Noise, Changes, Earth, The Mars Volta, Oxbow, LCD Soundsystem, Behead The Prophet N.L.S.L., King Crimson, SunnO))), the Cure, Sol Invictus, The Blue Nile, Throbbing Gristle, Richard D. James (Aphex Twin, AFX, Polygon Window, Caustic Window), Anal Magic & Rev. Dwight Frizzell, Talk Talk, Coil, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Wolfgang Press, U2, Can, 13th Floor Elevators, Slint, Konono No. 1, Urban Sax, Dälek, Golden Palominos, Third Eye Foundation, At The Drive-In, Flipper, Skinny Puppy, Iskra 1903, Wire, Sonic Youth, Gray, Royal Trux, Soft Machine, Ash Ra Tempel, Witthüser & Westrupp, Horrific Child, Carcass, Scarling, Pop Will Eat Itself, Christian Death, Sonny Sharrock, the Mermen, Arvo Part, Jesu, Cocteau Twins, Nitzer Ebb, Burning Witch, This Heat, AMM, Spacemen 3, Butthole Surfers, Fear Of God, Information Society, Big Star, Pearls Before Swine, Death In June, Slowdive, Lamb, Bark Psychosis, Namanax, Sore Throat, MC 900 Ft Jesus, Emerson Lake And Palmer, T. Rex, Cybotron, the Slits, Cromagnon, Smashing Pumpkins, Besombes-Rizet, Nico, Renaldo & The Loaf, Cop Shoot Cop, Alternative TV, Gong, 45 Grave, the Red Krayola, My Bloody Valentine, Herbie Hancock, Sun Ra, Toby Driver, the Stooges, Funkadelic, Iggy Pop, the Smiths, Faust, AMP, Wired (free improvisation group), Helios Creed/Chrome, Loop, The Sperm, Paul Clayton, Newcleus, Suicide, the Gun Club, Terry Riley, Simon and Garfunkel, John Fahey, Main, the Good Missionaries, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Hugh Hopper, Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co., Der Plan, ZNR, The Postal Service, Ladytron, Van Der Graaf Generator, Spiritualized, Joy Division, Current 93, Scorn, the Velvet Underground, Acid Mothers Temple, Laika, Frank Zappa, Napalm Death, DNA, Costin Miereanu, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Zombi, Cows, Jandek, Rev. Fred Lane, Gam, Tiny Tim, Om, Dome, the Sonics, Rudimentary Peni, M/A/R/R/S, the Blood Brothers, The Knife, Henri Roger, Aksak Maboul, Divine, Martin Davorin Jagodic, New Phonic Art, Steve Reich, The Door And The Window, Le Grand Magic Circus, Kate Bush, Jean Guerin, The Blue Denim Deals Without The Arms, Don Bradshaw-Leather, Pôle, Birge-Gorge-Shiroc, Henry Cow, Moolah, the Captains Of Industry, Brainticket, Alvaro, Nubis Oxis Quarum, Tegan and Sara, Porcupine Tree, Razed In Black, Cupol, Kluster/Cluster (basically the same group), Venetian Snares, Peter Brotzmann, Hampton Grease Band, Swans, New Order, Bark Psychosis, Pelican, Sigur Ros, Heldon, Man Is The Bastard, John Wiese, Caspar Brotzmann Massaker, TV On The Radio, Kraftwerk, the Residents, Zweistein, Fad Gadget, Silver Apples, D.A.F., Neu!, Stereolab, Disco Inferno, Battles, John Cale, Y Pants, the Cars, Liquid Liquid, Add N To (X) ........... honestly, wayyyyyyyy too much to list. This barely scrapes the range of what I like. My favorite genres are probably first-wave industrial, minimalism, doom metal, glam, krautrock, drone, no wave, disco, grindcore, dream-pop, free improv, new wave, noise, , folk..... see, this could go forever.
Someone once called me a "musical omnivore". That about sums it up. A complete list of bands, genres, and even songs I like would be far too long for here. Trust me, there's some surprises as to my musical tastes.
