special interests.
cranberry flavoreds.
Ornette Coleman, godspeed you black emperor!, Autechre, Coil, mum, Stars of the Lid, Peter Brotzmann, Aphex Twin, Frank Zappa, Nine Inch Nails, Cardiacs, Lexaunculpt, Mr. Bungle, Eric Dolphy, Meshuggah, Frankenixon, The Shaggs, Boards of Canada, Jim Black, Tara Jane O'Neil, Kneebody, Blonde Redhead, The Beach Boys, John Coltrane, Steve Reich, Soundgarden, My Bloody Valentine, Nurse With Wound, John Zorn, V/VM, Mogwai, The Pixies, Miles Davis, Iannis Xenakis, Squarepusher, The Smiths, Matmos, The Beatles, Meat Beat Manifesto, Nirvana, Arovane, Emil Beaulieu, Conlon Nancarrow, Ken Vandermark, Mats Gustafsson, Fennesz, Sabir Mateen, Non/Boyd Rice, Gescom, King Tubby, Sigur Ros, Thought, Portishead, La Monte Young, Steve Coleman, Merzbow, Me'Shell N'Degeocello, Jerseyband, Panasonic, Sonic Youth, Peter Epstein, Fridge, Albert Ayler, The Repsect Sextet, Venetian Snares, J.S. Bach, Charlie Parker, Gentle Giant.
The Usual Suspects, Amelie, Spirited Away, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (and all other Miyazaki), Naked Lunch, The Big Lebowski, Delicatessen, The Squid and the Whale, Jesus Camp, Gummo, Crumb, A Clockwork Orange, Baby Snakes, Happiness
special television.
Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine, Nova Express, The Ticket That Exploded, Junky, Queer (any Burroughs, really), The Illuminatus Trilogy (Robert Anton Wilson/Robert Shea), J.R.R. Tolkien, anything by Kurt Vonnegut, Notes from Underground (Dostoevsky), all Tom Robbins (especially Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates), The Stranger (Albert Camus), Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon), Water Music (T.C. Boyle) Otherland (Tad Williams), South of No North (Bukowski) , The Girl With Curious Hair (David Foster Wallace), The Wheel of Time series (Robert Jordan), Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card), How it Is (Samuel Beckett), Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns (Nicolas Slonimsky), Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary, The Real Frank Zappa Book (Frank Zappa), The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)
special heroes.