Human evolution, bioarchaeology, ethnobotany, history of science, gender studies, linguistics, foreign policy, the spanish civil war, genocide, pre-historic art, genetics... science nerd stuff and photography. Oh, and checkin out the sea-beasts.
I was lucky enough to have been friends with Shaver....
Negative Approach, the Dwarves, the Pixies, the Cramps, Motorhead, the Kids, Born Against, the Monsters, Roky Erickson / 13th Floor Elevators, Antischism, Geto Boys, Poison Idea, Nervous Eaters, Pleasure Fuckers, Dead Brothers, Butthole Surfers, Turbonegro, Pentagram, Wire, Manu Chao, kbd / bloodstains stuff .......... right now the Creation, Testors,Autolux, Nouvelle Vague, Pagan Altar, Black Lips, Criminal Damage, Camera Obscura, Gris Gris, and Reigning Sound are on the turntable alot.
The Elephant Man, Waynes World, Zoolander, The Dancing Outlaw, Dead Alive, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, PeeWee´s Big Adventure, Hard Rock Zombies. Documentaries and foreign films.
Ali G in da USA!!!! Flava' of Love is pretty amazing too.
John Berger, Marvin Harris, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cintra Wilson, Arundhati Roy, Martin Amis, Irvine Welsh, Albert Camus, David Sedaris,Hunter S. Thompson (RIP), Robert Kaplan (even though I think he's wrong sometimes), James Howard Kunstler, Wade Davis, George Orwell.
THE DRUGSTORE 7".