cultivating "gnoseological thirst" among the cows of midwest, via "anthropology" trips down south (seeking ever-present distance and "detachment" (insert jarmusch and baudrillard quote here)), mad dashes to chicago (aspiring for the "misplaced relative" title), "cultural" trips to nyc as well as moscow and st. petersburg (trying to live fully "in" (with?) two cultures),...
a weakness for conceptual art and "ideas"; seeking continuous refinement "everywhere" (aka "richness of understanding"); endless pursuit of self-expression. amateurishly fervent interest in aesthetics and art theory, interdisciplinary art, film, "different" music, shameless geekery; early fascination with constructivism and suprematism, followed by dadaism, timidly poking at "internationale situationniste" and "postmodernism" among other "isms"; constantly writing lists of things to "study" and "learn about." currently valid (semi-random) snapshot of influences and interests (aka reference points):
rhythmic noise, breakcore, all things idm, glitch+cuts+clicks+whirrs+pops, power electronics, dark ambient, italodisco, dark electro, various incarnations of post-industrial, serialism, minimalism, "pussy grooves that make you move", "meaty" electroacoustic/"egoless improv." poorly repressed vinyl fetish, unsatisfied desire to spin music and organize shows for folks that care. a few years of dabbling in "music journalism" as a side effect of collector fetish and a severe case of badly restrained "graphomania,"...
abbas kiarostami, guy maddin, sokurov, jarmusch, bunuel, early dovzhenko, bresson, "mental hygiene" movies, wong kar-wai, miike, horrifyingly bad b-movies, seijun suzuki, ruiz, claire denis, kieslowski, kiyoshi kurosawa, kim ki-duk, tsai ming-liang, 60s antonioni, herzog, early fassbinder, hou hsiao-hsien...
swarm intelligence/social networks, aspect programming, grid computing, freenet/security/crypto, development for wireless devices, pattern recognition, software engineering...
nabokov, beckett, proust, deleuze, gunter grass, eco, baudrillard, kundera, boell, neal stephenson, pynchon, kracht, musil, amis...
alvin booth, sugimoto, francis bacon, hermann nitsch, magritte, kiefer, edward hopper, barney, shirin neshat,..