regular exercise, situational comedy, the informal sciences: cubism, liberalism, existentialism, hyper-criticism, self-destructive narcissism, unbearably pretentious expositionism, drawing, reading, writing, playing guitar, nursing years of compounded guilt
no bands or softcore models.
caetano veloso, bjork, animal collective, grizzly bear, battles, of montreal, junior boys, peter bjorn & john, matthew herbert, keith f whitman, tim hecker, the books, mbv, stars of the lid, os mutantes, milton nascimento, scott walker, neko case, destroyer, villalobos, the zombies, big star, pavement, yo la tengo, tim buckley, nick drake, gas, tortoise, girl talk, gang starr, spank rock, optimo, stereolab, the congos, the coltranes, john zorn/masada, miles, django, moondog, joao gilberto, nina simone, arvo part, steve reich, john tavener, kronos, ravel, debussy, morton feldman, bang on a can, joanna newsom, gram parsons, brian eno, arto lindsay, david bowie, fela kuti
squid and the whale, hud, blade runner, the host, hot fuzz, pan's labyrinth, devil and daniel johnston, grizzly man, the UP series, mysterious skin, children of men, city of lost children, in the mood for love, amelie, l'avventura, spirited away, the incredibles, ratatouille, eternal sunshine, 24 hour party people, city of god, american splendor, amores perros, yi yi, dirty pretty things, happiness, talk to her, election, vertigo, naked, crumb, triplets of belleville, the thin blue line, batman begins, 40-yo virgin, knocked up, fargo, rushmore, the big fucking lebowski
arrested development, the simpsons, south park, six feet under, the sopranos, extras, the office (both), battlestar galactica, the wire, city of men, deadwood, flight of the conchords
recently...milan kundera, yukio mishima, hisham matar, zadie smith, ex machina comics, david b. "epileptic", oliver saks, mavis gallant, yasunari kawabata, borges, flannery o'connor, don delillo, haruki murakami, george saunders, jhumpa lahiri, j.m. coetzee, paul theroux, raymond carver
penfold, milhouse and ringo