Riding around town on a bike; studying experimental and electronic music history; blowing my free time watching IFC; getting beaten to a bloody pulp by my new kitten.
The peculiar and the banal.
Fennesz, Kid606, Aphex Twin, Karlheniz Stockhausen, Christophe Charles, Oval, John Zorn, Autechre, Minutemen (R.I.P. D.Boon), Beastie Boys, The Books, Fugazi, DJ Shadow, Jason Forrest (aka Donna Summer), Matmos, CAN (anything recorded before 1975), Akufen, Tim Hecker, Lesser, Thomas Koner, Boards of Canada, Scott Herren's works, !!!, Out Hud, Nation of Ulysses, The Warmers, Boredoms, Mr. Bungle, Sonic Youth, DJ/Rupture, M.I.A, Liquid Liquid, Sun Ra, Coltrane, Miles Davis, The Evens, almost everything reissued by Soul Jazz Records, Sharon Jones and the Dapkings, Antibalas, Philip Jeck, Christian Marclay, The Makers (anything released before 1998), Lee Ranaldo, Ultra-red, Cannibal Ox, Dalek, BJ Nilsen, Kid Koala, Gang of Four, Joy Division, Operation Ivy, Faust, Bardo Pond and a slew of others that would take up too much space here.
Current favorites: Harold and Maude, Man with a Movie Camera (GREAT 1929 documentary of urban Russian life), The Fog of War, This is Spinal Tap, anything by the Cohen Brothers, The Battle of Algiers, Le Jette, Eraserhead, Ed Wood (Johnny Depp's finest hour), The Conversation, Being There, Dr. Strangelove, Clockwork Orange, 2001, Zelig, What's Up, Tigerlilly?, Trainspotting, The Thin Blue Line, Raging Bull, Mean Streets, Kentucky Fried Movie, Scratch, famous propaganda films of yore, and too many others that I forgot at the moment....
PBS Frontline, The Simpsons, Seinfeld reruns, The Daily Show.
Music journalists who inspire me: Byron Coley, Lester Bangs, Philip Sherburne, Susanne Bolle, Mark Richardson, Greil Marcus, David Toop, Rob Young, Hua Hsu, Jeff Chang, Simon Reynolds.