Art, music, comics, cinema, poetry, irfahn, esoterica,fashion ranging from gucci to Spanish shoes to Indonesian batik prints, Chess, various styles of Persian carpets, sunshine, hot showers, silver age comics, literature,"beautiful women, beautiful horses and beautiful scents" -to paraphrase the prophet Mohammad, physics, history, specifically the history of central asia and it's religious traditions, sanskrit,esoteric traditions within Islam, architecture ranging from Saffavid mosques to contemporary masters like Tadao Ando, Jain cooking, analog synths and effects pedals, vox guitars, laying about, greco roman wrestling, mountaineering/hiking, lucha libre, philosophy, comparative religious studies, anthropology, sex, eating, breathing, sleeping a few times a week, getting off my head while I still can, traveling by sea, air guitar, my two worthless pussycats, arguing.
Music:
The Velvet Underground, The Stones when Brian Jones was around, The Syd Barrett Pink Floyd and the first few post syd records, Can, The Beatles, The Byrds, Neu!, My Bloody Valentine, Hariprasad Chaurasia, First three Jefferson Airplane records, Mahler, Slowdive, The Hafler Trio, Big Daddy Kane, The Who, Belle and Sebastian, Durutti Column, The Smiths, Bowie, Mingus,"Od'd in Denver"-era Hank Williams Jr., The Doors, Prince Far I,Charlie Parker, The cocteau twins, Camera Obscura, Spiritualized, Spectrum, spacemen 3, Magazine, Wire/Dome, Red House Painters, Gang Starr, Autechre, Lee Perry, The Congos,Eric Dolphy, PIL, The pop group, Cabaret Voltaire, New Order, Big Star, Tim Buckley, KRS-ONE, All things Stax and Deep Soul, all things Motown, Faust, Sly and the family stone,Jaki Byard, Roxy Music, The Sparks, Seefeel, Segovia, Vilayat Khan, Echo and the Bunnymen,Booker Ervin, Kraftwerk, David Sylvian, Depeche Mode prior to Alan Wilder quitting, De La Soul, Suicide, The Cars, Klaus Schulze, Eno, Beethoven, Godspeed, Main, Elvis, Pale Saints, Iggy and the stooges, Kluster/Cluster/Harmonia, Zoviet France/Rapoon, King Crimson, Ravel,Steve Reich, Miles Davis esp. the electric era, Augustus Pablo, Chopin, Brainticket, OM, Joao Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto, Tom Jobim, Dean Martin, Marty Robbins, Bud Powell Marvin Gaye, Ride, A tribe called Quest, Jesus and Mary Chain, Harold Budd, J.S. Bach, James Brown, Sand, The Smiths, MF doom, Shivkumar Sharma, Satie, Talk Talk, Curve, Wu-Tang, Hendrix, Chris Clark, Arvo Part, Lush, Amon Tobin, John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Amjad Ali Khan, The Rain Parade/Mazzy Star, Mercan Dede, Hafiz Kani Keraca, Hafiz Ali Khan, Shahid Parvez, Eric Dolphy, Eric B and Rakim, Berlioz, Kohachiro Miyata, Paco Pena, Paco de Lucia, A Certain ratio, Zakkir Hussein, Biz Markie, Dylan, Jackson 5, Mantronix, Boards of Canada, Broadcast, Chapterhouse, Early modular moog era Popol Vuh, VCS3 era Tangerine Dream, Run DMC, King Tubby, DJ cheb i Sabbah, Mendelssohn, Bismillah Khan, Saleh abdel Baqi, Issac Hayes, Del the funky homosapien, Phillip Glass, Luke Vibert, Adorable, Buzzcocks, Allaudin Khan, Liszt, Brijbushan Kubra, EPMD, 808 state, Clock DVA, organum, AMM, Django Reinhardt, early Black Sabbath (i.e. first 3 albums), Renegade Soundwave, DJ Shadow, Khachaturian, Kool Keith, Love, Ashra tempel, MC5, Sabir Khan, Imrat Khan, Shubha Mudghal, John Cale, Wagner, Captain Beefheart, The Chiffons, Gurdjieff/de Hartmann piano works, Archie Shepp, AMM, Pharoah Sanders, Sonny Sharrock, Otis Redding, MF Grimm, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Sam Cooke, Sasha, Mel Torme, The Supremes, Tones on Tail, Fad Gadget, Bury Fateh Ali Khan, Section 25, The temptations, Spacetime Continuum, Delia Derbyshire/BBC radiophonic workshop, broken social scene, butthole surfers circa "locust abortion technician", The The, The Beach Boys, Terry Riley, Stravinsky, Crispy Ambulance, Cecil Taylor, Wolfgang Press, Xenakis, Thomas Koner, Talking Heads, Burt Bacharach, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
Movies:
Or is this where we drop names? OK,all the standard bullshit by: Tarkovsky, Hitchcock, Bresson, Suzuki, new wave Godard (loathe his work since the 80's) new wave Truffault, Chabrol, Dassin, Welles, Kiarostami, Bunuel, Jodorowsky, John Ford, Kubrick, Woody Allen, pre hollywood John Woo, Vincent Gallo, Won Kar Wai, Mehedi, Herzog, Leone, Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, Fellini, Mel Brooks, Christopher Nolan, Peter Greenaway, Scorsese, Cocteau, David Lynch, Dovzhenko,Pasolini, Paradjanov, etc.genre bullshit: noir, wu tang flicks, tamil ultra violent martial arts classics big plus if it's got Rajnikanth setting people on fire, westerns, spaghetti westerns, Thai westerns, universal horror films/Lon Chaney/Boris Karloff, WWII films, anything with Peter Sellers, Dirty Harry, Marx Brothers, etc. etc. etc.
Television:
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Books:
anything by: Jack Kirby, Camus, Peter Milligan, Phillip K. Dick, Grant Morrison, Gardner Fox, Samuel Beckett, Dostoevsky, Marquez, Lorca, Borges, Nietzsche, Mulla Sadra, Ibn Arabi, Jung, William Burroughs, Rilke, Nasr din Al Tusi, The Koran, the teachings of Ramana Maharshi, Raymond Chandler, Kurt Vonnegut, Carmine Infantino, Gil Kane, Will Eisner, Warren Ellis, The Bhagavad Gita, Hazarat Inayat Khan, Nahj al Balagha, Shahab al-Din Yahya as-Suhrawardi, Alan Moore, Will Eisner, Herman Hesse, Kafka, Nerval, Wally Wood, Steve Ditko, Stan Lee, Sartre, Jeff Noon, Frank Quitely, Brendan McCarthy, Brion Gysin, Steranko, Mike Mignola, Joe Kubert, Moorcock, Iceberg Slim, Neruda, Shelley, Hafiz, Gurdjieff, Wilfred Madelung, Farhad Daftary, Ionesco, Artaud, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
