audio, studio recording, microphones, preamps, compressors, collecting audio equipment, etc..etc..etc.
smog, auteurs, piano magic, lilys, big black, angels of light, spiritualized, shellac, Mum, nick cave and the bad seeds, calla, giant sand, tom waits, spokane, rachel's, slowdive, cat power, crooked fingers, built to spill, bjork, kinks, hood, scout niblett, idaho, mbv, blonde redhead, johnny cash, microphones, low, shadow morton, black heart procession, sea and cake, jesus and mary chain, morphine, stereolab, brian eno, calexico, radar bros, will oldham, bedhead, codeine, boards of canada, swervedriver, jim o'rourke, dirty three, cranes, starflyer 59, enon, andrew bird, max richter, mahogany, mazzy star, deaf center, slint, phil spector, the for carnation, opal, unwound...etc etc etc
cronenberg, jarmusch, malick, wong kar wai, wes and pt anderson, bird, trueba, egoyan, almodovar, ramsay, etc
a forgotten friend
carver, cortazar, o'connor, hannah, auster, rulfo, brautigan, sartre, i. banks, pk dick, quiroga
i always preferred the villains.