tomato plants, paul wellstone, lightning bugs and cicaidas,snow flakes, the affect of music on babies, electric viola noise, herman miller furniture. physiology, pathology,
sun ra, john coltrane, oliveir messian, hannah arndt, poppy minner
pianooverlord,ESG,DetroitCobras,Madlib,Guru,Camplo,Mahalia Jackson,Prefuse73,sweet honey in the rock,the fat keys player from the shins,the books,LTJ Bukem,Jeff Mills,The Blend Crafters, Miles Davis,the sea and cake,dolce stil nuovo,Herbie Hancock,Joao Gilberto, Jill Scott, Kosheen,Illogic,um ok, all things gospel, all things dirty dnb, all things B.I.G., APHEXTWIN and all his alter egos, KoolKeith and all his alter egos, Leo Koteke, Dub masters King Tubby and The Mad Professor lee scratch perry, Theivery Corporation, and yo la,Psalm One the dopest girl mc ever. And of course my first ave. MPLS youth staples Atmosphere, Brother Ali, Abilities, the Heiruspecs, K Salaam, and on and on. all things viola and cello, Neko Case, all things traditionally irish, most things blues. oooooooo and lets not forget the grovely yet gingerly expressive baritone voice of Ken Nordine and Word Jazz...
Hero, the life aquatic, jackie brown
oceans of sound, jitterbug perfume, even cowgirls get the blues, Camino Real, a wild sheep chase, blind willow sleeping woman, the wind up bird chronicle, kafka on the shore, south of the border west of the sun, norwegian wood, hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world, infinite jest, geek love authors: ayn rand, hermann hesse, j.d. salinger, mark twain, franz kafka, david sedaris, thomas moore, oscar wilde, garrison keillor, saul bellow, salman rushdie, anthony burgess.
coco chanel, ayn rand, anne sophie mutter, my mother , my father, my sister