Synthesizers and other related gear, melodies, electronic music, music software, sound manipulation, great color combinations, photography, 35mm slide film, retouching, sleek design, the machine age, art deco, cities, buildings, advertising, health and medicine, researching disease, vocabulary and speaking, trees, steel mills, furniture design, exotic veneer, tattoos, 1940s trains, urban settings, coming into town at night on the Eisenhower and Kennedy, light through building windows, body suit tattoos, baked goods, pot pies and cakes, my first poochey hairballs, cletus the pug, eye patches, ocd, bdd, sad, gad, the flicker of distant light, drinking Gordons in all varieties, gin and water, blue moon, circuses and funhouses, ball lightning, taking Ashland to Lawrence to Cicero to Division and back, teeth filing, Balinese music, exploring new neighborhoods, desolate downtowns, big foot, muffins, the thighmaster, socializing while drinking, taking my blood pressure, taking my pulse, the green glow of metra windows, eating like a fat pig, doing my hair, fixing my hair, the beautiful copper hue of chicago's streelights, worrying, the ab lounge beats em all, the smell of diesel exhaust in moderation, minimalism, prophet synths, native instruments, arpeggiators, midi effects, new friends that are nice and alcoholics, Swampthing, 1950s sci-fi soundtracks, chickens, corned beef hash, the Skyway, and the warmth of a niacin flush ;]
Nice people! NICE!!! (If anyone wants to do anything with me, such as going to Waukegan to fish, going to Irazu's to have a burrito, visiting the Indiana dunes, listening to classical music, eating at a run down diner, studying a word book, driving 50 miles for ice cream, going to california on a whim, or even sleeping in a forest preserve with a cooler full of chocolate bananas, let's do it. We're only here for a finite time. I'll do most anything. I won't talk though. Too shy. I think I'm gonna go run for a burger. Mmm. Oh, and I'm also agoraphobic, so all of the above is bullshit. ;D )
Underworld, Beach Boys, Skinny Puppy, Cabaret Voltaire, Orbital, Seefeel, Scala, Debussy, Aaron Copland, Old Chemical Brothers, Bach, Air, Autechre, Boards of Canada, Massive Attack, Aphex Twin, The Cure, DJ Shadow, Meat Beat Manifesto, Kaito, Tangerine Dream, Art of Noise, Future Sound of London, Brian Eno, Royksopp, Andreas Vollenweider, Handel, very old Moby, Portishead, Biosphere, Plaid, Black Dog, Clinic, Kraftwerk, Node, Daft Punk, Depeche Mode, Download, EBN, React 2 Rhythm, Marvin Gaye, Irving Berlin, Bark Psychosis, Talk Talk, Front 242, Gary Numan, Gus Gus, Bjork, Orb, Serge Gainsbourg, Bernstein, Frankie V and the Four Seasons, New Order, Joy Division, DJ Krush, Howie B, Molarmill, Peter Gabriel, Radiohead, Richard Kirk, Pentatonik, Mellow, One Dove, Opus III, Young American Primitive, Cyberaktif, Scorn, Spoon, Stereolab, KLF, Shamen, Saint Etienne, Wolfgang Press, PTP, Q Lazzarus, Wir, Mighty Bop, Sneaker Pimps, Recoil, cevin Key, Deltron 3030, If, SA42, Intermix, Bill Laswell, Beaumont Hannant, Heitor Villa Lobos, Beck, Air Liquide, Ween, Eels, Enya, Ennio Morricone, Andrea Morricone, Bernard Herrmann, Mr Bungle, Rimsky Korsakov, Aram Khachaturian, Curve, Flood, Felix da Housecat, Young Gods, Goldfrapp, Human League, Isaac Hayes, Nick Drake, David Amram, Spacecube, Monteverdi, OMD, Simple Minds, Pet Shop Boys, Psychedelic Furs, Roy Orbison, Brothers Johnson, Phil Spector, Edward Elgar, Prince, Pat Matheny, Deep Forest, Zero Zero, John Carpenter, William Orbit, Anita Kerr, Beloved, Devo, PIL, Coil, Global Communications, Mancini, Sandoz, Soulwax, Colin McPhee, Stereo Total, Clint Eastwood, Gil Evans, Harold Arlen, and the Little House on the Prairie ending theme music
Flatliners (great concept), Jacob's Ladder (the tail on the train was real scary :[ ), Texas Chainsaw Massacre (I like when the guy in the wheelchair rolls out of the van), Irreversible (almost too hardcore), Edward Scissorhands (strange with a great score), Taxi Driver (awesome urban feel with a score that matches), Hitchcock films (Vertigo, Rear Window, Psycho), Risky Business (amazing score and portrays Chicago in a way that I love), Jimmy Hollywood (it was soo damned awful that it was actually amazingly entertaining, highly recommended)
Court TV (ALWAYS entertaining) I'm talking Psychic Detectives here. Great stuff? Real good. Emergency room tv where everyone ends up okay. Shows about the insane. Prison programming (Supermax baby. They are totally screwed). Documentaries about the grotesquely obese. Plastic surgeries performed live. Liposuction is what i want. Simpsons, Munsters. Public TV cuz it's weird as hell and they talk about food. And HBO's Autopsy series. The music on that program is to DIE for! Literally.
How to Win Friends and Influence People (a self help classic). How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (an anti worrying self help classic). I highly recommend these titles. Word books. Music books. Sound Engineering books. Books on body mods. And freak books.
Anyone who prevails in the face of miserable odds.