i play in these bands. every time you listen to them my guardian angel gets free smack!
THE LAURELS
THE HOLY SOUL
THE BLACK RYDER
SILVERTONE
NO MORE AND THEN!
i like having my witzelsucht
my anti matter double
3Ds, adorable, alex jarvis, a minor forest, ..trail of dead, aspera ad astra, the astral kaleidoscope , astrobrite, bailterspace, syd barrett, bardo pond, the bats, beat happening, beatles, because of ghosts, belles will ring, beta band, black angels, black heart procession, black mountain, black rebel motorcycle club, black tambourine, blonde redhead, blue sunshine minds, big star, boo radleys, brian jonestown massacre, francoiz breut, broadcast, byrds, can, captain nemo, castings, charlatans, the church, city city city, clouds, codeine, colditz glider, coloursound, concretes, cornelius, creeper lagoon, curve, damo suzuki, dandy warhols, dead c, dead meadow, death in vegas, die! die! die!, dinosaur jr, dolly rocker movement, do make say think, drive like jehu, drop city, drop nineteens, dungen, elliott smith, engineers, essex green, even, faust, fleeting joys, fountains of wayne, for carnation, founder, flying saucer attack, fugazi, galaxie 500, gang of four, gaslight radio, glide, godspeed you black emperor, grandaddy, guided by voices, gun club, happy mondays, helio sequence, helium, high dials, high llamas, high pass filter, holly golightly, hood, htrk, hummingbirds, icecream hands, ill bravados, i [love] space, international karate, jakob, jesus and mary chain, jim o'rourke, john fahey, joy division, june of 44, kinski, kelley stoltz, ladybug transistor, lali puna, laura, the laurels , lee hazelwood, lenola, libraness, lightning bolt, lilys, lone pigeon, loop, love, lovetones, low, lush, m83, mainline, the make up, mazzy star, mclusky, m craft, medicine, mellow drunk, mogwai, mojave 3, monks, moose, morning after girls, my bloody valentine, the null set , olivia tremor control, oneida, pale saints, pbr space program, pavement, pixies, pluramon, polvo, primal scream, princess one point five, rachel's, radio dept, rand and holland, raveonettes, red sun band , richard in your mind, ride, ripe, rodan, rollerskate skinny, sea and cake, sebadoh, serena maneesh, sianspheric, sidewinder, sigur ros, silver apples, silvertone , silver mt zion, singapore sling, skull squadron, skygreen leopards, slight of build, slint, sloan, slowdive, smiths, sonic youth, sounds like sunset, spacemen 3, sparklehorse, spectrum, spiritualized, stereolab, stone roses, strawberry alarm clock, suede, sunn o, supergrass, swans, swervedriver, swirlies, teenage fanclub, telescopes, the thaw, tides , tortoise, toshack highway, trans am, treetops, tucker b's, underground lovers, unwound, urge overkill, velvet underground, versus, verve, very much robot, the volta sound, warlocks, the who, wolf and cub, wolf eyes, woods themselves, yo la tengo, zillions, zombies.
i usually fall asleep in them. but..david lynch, star wars (ORIGINAL TRILOGY ONLY!), the entire teen movie genre ("kate, you have exceptionally bad taste in movies" - toby), john hughes, john waters, ed wood, russ meyer, anime - i LOVE hayao miyazaki - (spirited away is my favourite movie ever), bollywood/indian film, any crap parody, waking life, a clockwork orange, reservoir dogs, kevin smith, crap 80s horror, japanese horror, whatever's showing at the mu-meson archives, ..ARIES are better than movies. usually.
futurama, family guy, puppets who kill, the office, red dwarf, league of gentlemen, shameless, brak, harvey birdman, aqua teen hunger force, space ghost coast to coast, ren and stimpy, sealab 2021, six feet under, arrested development, happy tree friends, nighty night, rocky and bullwinkle, the young ones, the simpsons, south park, spongebob squarepants, upright citizens brigade, lancelot link, the royal, degrassi, saved by the bell, sweet valley, father ted, sat arvo on ABC - australian story and landline totally rule!, foreign correspondent, catalyst, most anything in the ..ary format, footballers' wives, the extras, the mighty boosh, the simple life, drawn together, iron chef, anything trashy and british, most reality TV, anything lowbrow or animated.
mostly non fiction. physics, mathematics, neurobiology, psychology, ecology/evolution and philosophy are my favourite subjects. if more than one of those appears in the one book i am in nerd heaven. (by the way, this doesn't actually mean i understand what i'm reading half the time)
i also like science fiction. what an enormous shock.
anything obscelecent, biased, out of date or discredited. having spent time in jail for fraud on a matter completely unrelated to his theory that modern religion has it's roots in outer space, erich von daniken is pretty much my hero.
fiction: most anything a miserable looking teenager with a black trenchcoat would have a tattered copy of sticking out of their pocket. albert camus and raymond carver are my favourites. fairy and folk tales - i love a good didactic story especially if it involves talking animals.
street directories, phone books, instruction manuals, the side of packets of food, raw binary data, rude words on upside-down calculator screens, the same sentence over and over and over and over again etc...
here are some blogs and websites i really like:
* nick bostrom's website
* erin of volta sound's amazing laying in bed blog!
* my brother james' live journal
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* the annals of improbable research
* john w trinkaus . this man is a genius, and i can't see why he never won a nobel prize.
* nick bostrom . just click the damn link! brilliant!
* FM 2030 . not for his work with the UN on the arab israeli conflict (good job there, mate) but for being possibly the BIGGEST nerd ever to walk the earth, leaving legions in his (cryogenically preserved) wake who take neuromancer a bit too seriously. i suspect he also had some role in inspiring the "ZOLTAN!" people in "dude, where's my car".
* peter singer . a wonderful, inspiring man, who amongst other things is pressuring the UN to give apes 'person' status. i can't wait till they get myspace accounts. ..