film, music of all kinds from all places, playing violin, reading, beer, coffee, green tea, cooking, tai-chi, yoga, baking apple pie, chess, go (an ancient Asian strategy game), whistling, and recently I discovered Sudoku.
Music:
Estradasphere, Secret Cheifs 3, Fishtank Ensemble, God of Shamisen, Carne Cruda, El Douje, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Jason Webley, Taraf de Haidouks, Jean-Luc Ponti, Stephane Grappelli, Tin Hat Trio, Dvorak, Carlo Gesualdo, Shostakovich, Bach, Beethoven, Saint-Saëns, Prokofiev, Rimski-Korsakov, Tchaikovski, Brahms, Stravinski, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Beach Boys, Davka, Mr. Bungle, Bill Monroe, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Antonio Carlos Jobin, Bela Fleck, Farmers Market, Beck, Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet, Bartok, Raymond Scott, Brian Wilson, Astor Piazzolla, Simon and Garfunkel, Frank Zappa, Johnny Cash, Sandor Lakatos, Willie Colon, Django Reinhard, Ivo Papazov, Edith Piaf, Omme Kolsoum, R.D. Burman, Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota, and of course, Tom Waits
Movies:
Films by, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, Guy Maddin,
Shohei Imamura, Yasujiro Ozu,
Shuji Terayama,
Bernardo Bertolucci, Michelangelo Antonioni, Ingmar Bergman, Jan Svankmajer,
Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Jean-Luc Godard,
Terry Gilliam, Fritz Lang, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Wong Kar Wai, Jim Jarmusch, Marx Brothers, Maya Deren,
Alejandro Jodorowsky,
Stan Brakhage,
The Brothers Quay, Andrei Tarkovsky
Television:
Twin Peaks was the best show ever produced. Don't watch TV much but I love TV on DVD and on the internet. South Park, Simpsons, Family Guy, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Lost.
Books:
Last 10 Books:
Kurt vonnegut's "Galapagos", Novakov's "Pale Fire", Bukowski's "The Most Beautiful Woman in Town and Other Stories", Osamu Dazai's "Selected Short Stories", Katherine Dunn's "Geek Love", Steinbeck's "Tortilla Flat", Yukio Misima's "Confessions of a Mask", Douglas Adam's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", Shuji Terayama's "Throw Away Your Books, Run into the Streets!", George Orwell's "1984"
Heroes:
Picasso and Shuji Terayama
