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A long, incomplete garble here we go: A-Trak, Abba, Mark Abbott, Kairu Abe, The Accüsed, Acid Mothers Temple, Barry Adamson, Cannonball Adderley, Hasil Adkins, Agnostic Front, Air, Steve Albini, Tori Amos, Laurie Anderson, The Angels of Light, Aphex Twin, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Autechre, Kevin Ayers, Roy Ayers, Albert Ayler, Laurie Anderson, The B-52's, B Beat Girls, Bach, Burt Bacharach, Bad Brains, Angelo Badalamenti, Derek Baily, Afrika Bambaataa, Brigitte Bardot, Syd Barrett (and early Pink Floyd), John Barry, Bartók, The Beach Boys, Beat Conductor, Beat Happening, The Beatles, Elmer Bernstein, Chuck Berry, Big Black, Big Daddy Kane, Mark Bingham, Dara Birnbaum, Björk, Black Flag, Ed Blackwell, Paul Bley, Blind Idiot God, Andy Blinx and Don Hunerberg, Blondie, Blur, Booker T. and the M.G.'s, Boredoms, Pierre Boulez, Bowie, Glenn Branca (and The Static, Theoretical Girls), Anthony Braxton, Breaking Circus, Breakstra, Brick Layer Cake, Michael Brook, James Brown, Gavin Bryars, Buckethead, Harold Budd, Kenny Burke, Kate Bush, Butthole Surfers, The Buzzcocks, Michael Byron, John Cage, Bill Callahan, Can, Captain Funkaho, The Cars, Carcass, Wendy Carlos, Johnny Cash, Catherine Wheel, Nick Cave (and Birthday Party, Bad Seeds), The Centurians, Jennifer Charles, Eugene Chadbourne, James Chance (The Flaming Demonics, The Sardonic Symphonics, Terminal City, James White and the Blacks), Charizma, Rhys Chatham, Don Cherry, Chic, The Chi-Lites, Circle Jerks, Cock E.S.P., Cocteau Twins, Leonard Cohen, The Cold Crush Brothers, Alice Coltrane, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Tony Conrad, Mitch Corber, Corrosion of Conformity, Wayne County, Cradle of Filth, The Cramps, The Cranes, Crime, Julee Cruise, The Crystals, The Cure, Cut Chemist, Dick Dale, The Damned, Dan the Automator, Danzig, Bobby Darin, Datacide, Miles Davis, Dead Can Dance, Death Ambient, Debussy, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Georges Delerue, The Delphonics, Anne Demarinis, Bob Demmon and the Astronauts, Depeche Mode, Destroy All Monsters, Bo Diddley, Dire Straits, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles (D.R.I.), D.I.T.C. (and Lord Finesse, etc.), Dizzee Rascal, DJ Olive, DJ Rels, DJ Shadow, Eric Dolphy, Fats Domino, Nick Drake, The Dream Academy, The Dream Warriors, Trevor Dunn's Trio Convulsant, Bob Dylan, Earth Wind and Fire, Egon, Einstürzende Neubauten (and all things Blixa Bargeld), The Electric Eels, Elephants Memory, Danny Elfman, Alec Empire, etc., The English Beat, Brian Eno, The Equals, Erasure, Ernie and the Top Notes, Extreme Noise Terror, Yamataka Eye (Boredoms, Vooredoms, Hanatarashi, UFO Or Die, Puzzle Punks, Destroy 2, DJ Carhouse and MC Hellshit, DJ ???, DJ Pica Pica Pica, Elvis Dust, Audio Sports, Concrete Octopus, Dendoba, The Dramatics, etc.), Fabulous Souls, Faust, Morton Feldman, Fennesz, Bryan Ferry, Flood, Brigitte Fontaine, The 45 King, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Fred Frith, Free Kitten, Robert Fripp, Fugazi, The Fugees, The Fugs, The Future Sound of London/Amorphous Androgynous, Serge Gainsbourg, Diamanda Galas, Gang of Four, Gang Starr, The Gants, The Gap Band, David Garland, Mike Garson, Marvin Gaye, The Geisha Girls, Michael Gira, Philip Glass, The Glove, Goblin, Peter Gordon, Dan Graham, Grandmaster Flash, Al Green, The Green Fuz, The Gun Club, Gwar, Charlie Haden, Nina Hagen, Keiji Haino, Johnny Hammond, Herbie Hancock, Kathleen Hanna (Julie Ruin, Le Tigre), Mick Harris, George Harrison, Steven Harvey, Jon Hassel, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Lee Hazlewood, Richard Hell, Bernard Herrmann, The Highlighters, Shelley Hirsch, Billie Holiday, David Holland, Son House, Howlin’ Wolf, The Human League, Hüsker Dü, Iggy Pop, Iron Butterfly, Ives, Ryoji Ikeda, J-Rocc, Joe Jackson, Japan (and David Sylvian), Wyclef Jean, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Robert Johnston, Grace Jones, Quincy Jones, Joy Division/New Order, Jungle Brothers, Oum Kaltsoum, Hoppy Kamiyama, Kid Koala, Killing Joke, King Tubby, Kool Keith, Koushik, Kraftwerk, Kramer, Krzysztof Komeda, Kool and the Gang, LA Carnival, Daniel Lanois, John Lennon, Liberace, Arto Lindsay (and DNA, Ambitious Lovers), Little Feet, The Lively Ones, Lord Alibaski, The Lounge Lizards, David Lynch, Madlib (Madvillain, Quasimoto, Lootpack, Yesterdays New Quintet, Jaylib), Henry Mancini, The Marketts, Christian Marclay, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Mars, Masada (every form), Meat Beat Manifesto, MED (Medaphoar), The Melvins, Sergio Mendez, Stephin Merritt (The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, The Gothic Archies, Future Bible Heroes), Merzbow, Messiaen, The Meters, Alicia Meyers, MF Doom, Charles Mingus, Ministry, Mission of Burma, Joni Mitchell, Momus, Meredith Monk, Thelonious Monk, The Moody Blues, Ikue Mori, Ennio Morricone, Mark Mothersbaugh, Alan Moulder, My Bloody Valentine, Naked City, Asahito Nanjo, Napalm Death, Negativland, Chris Nelson, Ricky Nelson, The Neon Boys, Neu!, Joanna Newsom, Nine Inch Nails, The Notekillers, Gary Numan, Nurse With Wound, Michael Nyman, Oh No, O.M.D., OOIOO, Roy Orbison, OutKast, Percee P, P16.D4, Nam June Paik, Painkiller, Parliament-Funkadelic, Charlie Parker, Evan Parker, Carol Parkinson, Arvo Pärt, Harry Partch, Mike Patton (Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Faith No More, Tomahawk, Maldorer, Lovage, etc.), Peanut Butter Wolf, Pere Ubu, Dudley Perkins, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Pet Shop Boys, Pixies (and Frank Black, Breeders, Martinis, etc.), Astor Piazolla, Plaid, The Pop Group, Popol Vuh, Primal Scream, Primus, Prince, Prince Far I, Public Enemy, Public Image Ltd. (PiL), Pulp, ?uestlove, Robert Quine, Rahzel, The Raincoats, Les Rallizes Denudes, Rammstein, The Ramones, Rapeman, Ravel, Otis Redding, Steve Reich, Repulsion, The Residents, The Revels, Ride, Terry Riley, Robin Rimbaud (Scanner), Sam Rivers, Nigel Rollings, The Ronettes, The Roots, David Rosenbloom, Nino Rota, Jim O'Rourke, Roxy Music, Rubber City, Ruins, Run DMC, The RZA, The Sadies, Ryuichi Sakamoto (and Yellow Magic Orchestra), Satanstornade, Satie, Arleen Schlossv, Schoenberg, Raymond Scott, Scriabin, Secret Chiefs 3, Septic Death, The Shadows, David Shae, Shellac, Kevin Shields, Yamashiro Shoji, Wayne Shorter, Siege, Larry Simon, Sinatra, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Skinny Puppy, Slayer, Slint, The Slits, Slowdive, Wadada Leo Smith, The Smiths, S.O.B., Sonic Youth (and solo Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, etc.), The Sonics, The Specials, Phil Spector, Spiritualized, SPK, Alan Splet, Carl Stalling, The Standells, The Stark Reality, Stezo, Stockhausen, The Stone Roses, The Stooges, The Stranglers, Stravinsky, Sun O))), The Supremes, Swans, Sylvester, Masayuki Takayanagi, Talk Talk, Talking Heads and David Byrne, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Sebastien Tellier, They Might Be Giants, J.G. Thirlwell (and Foetus, etc.), Johnny Thunders, Wharton Tiers, The Tornadoes, Tortoise, Bruce Tovsky, The Trashmen, Tricky, Urge Overkill, Vangelis, Varèse, The Velvet Underground (and solo Lou Reed, John Cale, Nico, etc.), The Ventures, Violent Femmes, The Voidoids, Volcano Suns, Tom Waits, Fats Waller, Anton Webern, Michael White, Whitehouse, Wildchild, The Tony Williams Lifetime, Brian Wilson, Gary Wilson, Wire, Stephan Wischerth, Link Wray, Bernard Wright, The Wu-Tang Clan (etc., etc.), Robert Wyatt, Iannis Xenakis, La Monte Young, Neil Young, Zappa, John Zorn (etc., etc., etc.). Also, bands these people are in, and people from these bands, as well as a good deal more world music, a great deal of jazz and film music, and what my friends are up to.
Paul Thomas Anderson, Kenneth Anger, Michelangelo Antonioni, Darren Aronofsky, Antony Balch, Jordan Belson, Bergman, Charles Boultenhouse, Stan Brakhage, Buñuel, Tim Burton, Cassavetes, Cocteau, the Coen Brothers, Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Cronenberg, Chris Cunningham, Maya Deren, Fellini, David Fincher, Samuel Fuller, Terry Gilliam, Godard, Michel Gondry, Storm De Hirsch, Hitchcock, Derek Jarman, Jim Jarmusch, Jodorowsky, Spike Jonze, Richard Kern, Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Spike Lee, Sergio Leone, David Lynch, Jonas Mekas, Christopher Nolan, Claes Oldenberg, Brian De Palma, Pasolini, Amos Poe, (early) Sam Raimi, Hans Richter, Robert Rodriguez, Suzuki Seijun, Harry Smith, Jack Smith, Michael Snow, Todd Solondz, Tarantino, Jacques Tati, Stan VanDerBeek, Warhol, John Waters, James Sibley Watson, Peter Weiss, Robert Wiene, Ed Wood, Nick Zedd, a good deal of Film Noir, many documentaries and too many porns to name!
Antiques Roadshow, Arrested Development, Banacek, Batman, Batman the Animated Series, Beavis and Buthead, Bobby's World, Chappelle's Show, The Colbert Report, Columbo, Conan O'Brien, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Da Ali G Show, The Daily Show, Dream On, The Equalizer, Fashion Television, Fawlty Towers, Hotel Room, In Living Color, The Kids in the Hall, The Larry Sanders Show, Leave it to Beaver, Media Television, Monty Python's Flying Circus, NextTV, Poirot, Ren and Stimpy, most other Nickelodeon cartoons, Seinfeld, Sex TV, Six Feet Under, South Park, Star Trek (the first two series), Strangers with Candy, Trailer Park Boys, early Twilight Zone, Twitch City, Twin Peaks, Wallace and Gromit, The Wonder Years, early X-Files, a great documentary show I'm forgetting, wildlife shows and any good films.
Apollinaire, Antonin Artaud, J.G. Ballard, Georges Bataille, Baudelaire, L. Frank Baum, Beckett, William Blake, Victor Bockris, Borges, Stewart Brand, Bukowski, Anthony Burgess, Burroughs, Jim Carroll, Lewis Carroll, Carlos Castaneda, Céline, Cervantes, Raymond Chandler, Daniel Clowes, Joseph Conrad, Cortazar, Aleister Crowley, Robert Crumb, DeLillo, Daniel C. Dennett, Philip K. Dick, Arthur Conan Doyle, T.S. Eliot, Bret Easton Ellis, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ian Fleming, Neil Gaiman, Jean Genet, William Gibson, John Giorno, The Brothers Grimm, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Joyce, Kafka, Yasunari Kawabata, Kerouac, D.H. Lawrence, John Lilly, H.P. Lovecraft, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, McLuhan, Frank Miller, Henry Miller, Haruki Murakami, Nabokov, Nerval, Nietzche, Dan Oniroku, Orwell, Chuck Palahniuk, Morse Peckham, Edgar Allen Poe, Thomas Pynchon, De Quincey, Rimbaud, Richard Rorty, De Sade, Hubert Selby, Jr., Dr. Seuss, Mickey Spillane, Gertrude Stein, Jonathan Swift, Hunter S. Thompson, David Toop, Verlaine, Jules Verne, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., H.G. Wells, Irvine Welsh, Oscar Wilde, William Carlos Williams, Wittgenstein, Tom Wolfe
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