Writing, reading and discussing the divine art of the written word, learning again, philosophic calisthenics, buying books for people but not borrowing, metafiction, beautiful mistakes, multi-media, experimental theater, quixoticism, the art of brutality and despair, the orchestra, aleatory, extended technique, advanced synthesis, the piano as a symphony, not that twee-type acoustic sleeves with hearts on them music, poetry as breathing, film-noir, black comedy, thrashing, DIY, hoodies, black and white clothes, milk and coffee, swollen libraries, soccerfootball, saxophone meditations, concertos and quartets, graphic storytelling, girls sans baggage, Pynchon, Mahler, Marx Brothers, Greenwich, New York, my family in Costa Rica, English accents, Bass and Newcastle ale, Liszt, Chelsea FC, London.
People who make a conscientious effort not to use the word "like" as much as the rest of our sorry generation. sorry.
Mahler - "Symphony #6: The Tragic", John Coltrane - "Meditations", Liszt - "Sonata in B Minor", Ornette Coleman - "Science Fiction", Naked City - "Radio", Ligeti - "Atmospheres", Albert Ayler - "Spirits", John Corigliano - "Circus Maximus", Peter Brotzmann - "Machine Gun", Olivier Messiaen - "Quatre Pour le Fin de Temps", Eric Dolphy - "Out to Lunch", Wagner - "Das Rhinegold", Martin Denny - "Exotica" Ravel - "Gaspard de la Nuit", Bartok - "Music for Strings Percussion and Celeste", Sorabji - "Opus Clavicum Ballisticum", Scriabin - "The Poem of Ecstacy", Maxwell-Davies - "8 Songs for the Mad King", Elliot Goldenthaal - "Interview With a Vampire", Tangerine Dream - "Phaedra", Glenn Branca - "Symphony #10", Pharoah Sanders - "Karma", Bauhaus "In the Flat Field", David Bowie - "Scary Monsters", Neu! - "Neu!", Univers Zero - "Heresie", Art Zoyd - "Nosferateu", Brian Eno - "Taking Tiger Mountain", Angelo Badelamenti - "Twin Peaks", American Nightmare - "Background Music", Emperor "Prometheus: the Discipline of Fire and Demise", Children of Bodom - "Follow the Reaper", Death - "Symbolic", Necrophagist - "Epitaph", Dimmu Borgir - "Enthrone the Darkness Triumphant", Mirrorthrone - "Gangrene", Wolves in the Throne Room - "Two Hunters" ETC.
THERE WILL BE BLOOD. A Zed and Two Naughts, The Holy Mountain, Blow Up, Duck Soup, Lisztomania, a Touch of Evil, Eraserhead, Titus, Dr. Strangelove, Fitzcaraldo, Dumb and Dumber.
B & W twilight zone, Twin Peaks, Python Flying Circus, the Simpsons, South Park, Sienfeld aka the holy trinity, Fuse's hilarious mall-core programming, Entourage. Pretty much never watching TV because I watch tv as part of my JOB now. Fuck. FOOTBALL: EPL, La Liga, Champions League, World Cup live on the idiot-box
Thomas Pynchon - "Gravity's Rainbow", William Gaddis - "The Recognitions", Jorge Luis Borges - "Fictiones", Julio Cortazar - "Hopscotch", Thomas Mann - "Dr. Faustus", William T. Vollmann - "The Royal Family", Alexander Theroux - "Darconville's Cat", Harry Mathews "Tlooth", Cormac McCarthy - "Blood Meridian", Gunter Grass - "The Rat", Vladamir Nabokov - "Pale Fire", William Faulkner - "The Sound and the Fury", Nieztche - "Song of Zarathustra", David Foster Wallace - "Infinite Jest", Steve Erickson - "Tours of the Black Clock", David Mitchell - "Cloud Atlas", Donald Barthelme - "60 Stories", Evan Dara - "The Lost Scrapbook", Alain Robbe-Grillet "Le Maison de Rendez-Vous", William Gass - "The Tunnel", Flan O'Brian - "At Swim Two Birds", John Barth - "Lost in the Funhouse", Hubert Selby Jr. - "Last Exit to Brooklyn", Georges Simenon "Dirty Snow", Raymond Chandler - "The Big Sleep", Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell", Rainer-Maria Rilke "Dunio Elegies", Pablo Neruda - "Complete Poetry", Charles Simic - "Early Poems", Ezra Pound - "Cantos", Charles Baudelaire - "Le Fleur De Mal", Nathanial Mackey - "Bass Cathedral", Samuel Beckett - "Molloy", Tom Stoppard - "Arcadia", Jean Genet - "The Balcony", Eugene Ionesco - "Exit the King", Fernando Arrabal "The Architect and Emperor of Asyria", Harold Pinter - "The Birthday Party", Luigi Pirandello - "Six Characters in Search of an Author", Sarah Kane - "Blasted", Martin McDonough - "The Pillowman, F. Miller - "The Dark Night Returns", Jason Lutes - "Berlin", Dan Clowes - "Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron", Charles Burns - "Black Hole", David Lapham - "Stray Bullets" ETC.
precocious neophytes, those who pay bills with alienating art, those who stay in love.