Creativity, generosity, friends and music.
Neko Case, Emily Haines, Adam Horovitz, Justine Frischmann, J. Mascis, Thurston Moore, Mark E. Smith, David Lynch, dissonance, Andy Partridge, Thomas Pynchon, Jason and Kori, Jonny Greenwood, Marnie Stern, Sarah Silverman, Damon Albarn, David Berman, Chuck D, George Meyer, M.I.A., & Eddie Izzard.
60s pop and mod and The Velvet Underground, '70s punk and Steely Dan and The Carpenters and early postpunk, '80s postpunk and shoegaze and Amer-indie and Madchester, '90s indie and lo-fi, '00s neopostpunk, neo-neopostpunk and indie-pop.
Woody Guthrie
The Jam
The Kinks
The Who
Blur
The Good, The Bad, & the Queen
Stars
Memphis
Fancey
Vancouver Nights
Havana 3AM
Pavement
Stephen Malkmus
British Sea Power
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down
The OK Bird
Belle & Sebastian
Throw Me The Statue
Beastie Boys
Rilo Kiley
She & Him
Elliott Smith
The Whitsundays
Liam Finn
The Futureheads
Field Music
School of Language
The Week That Was
Modest Mouse
Marnie Stern
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's
Starlight Mints
Sleater-Kinney
Metric
Emily Haines
Mates of State
Art Brut
The National
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Scritti Politti
Nick Cave
Lou Reed
The Breeders
Swell Maps
Butthole Surfers
The Faint
X
The English Beat
The Specials
The Pogues
Teenage Fanclub
Elvis Costello
The Arcade Fire
General Public
Dinosaur Jr.
Tom Waits
Ministry
Radiohead
Catherine Wheel
Elastica
Ersatz Smile
The New Pornographers
The Cramps
Descendents
Mission of Burma
Broken Social Scene
Creation
The Decemberists
Mercury Rev
The Fucking Champs
My Bloody Valentine
Spiritualized
A.C. Newman
The Shins
Galaxie 500
Luna
The Ramones
Soul Coughing
M. Doughty
Bob Dylan
Sonic Youth
The Blake Babies
Bikeride
The Lemonheads
The Fall
New Order
Electronic
808 State
The La's
Supergrass
The Carpenters
Front 242
The Evens
Love and Rockets
Wilco
Joy Division
Gang of Four
Syd Barrett
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Juliana Hatfield
Joe Jackson
The Pixies
Colourbox
The Stone Roses
Aztec Camera
Blue Oyster Cult
Ben Folds (Five)
The Sundays
The Flaming Lips
Super Furry Animals
The Smiths
De La Soul
Fugazi
XTC
R.E.M.
Siouxsie and the Banshees
M. Ward
Cheap Trick
The Sex Pistols
The Blood Brothers
Bad Brains
The Clash
Billy Bragg
Wire
X-Ray Spex
Echo and the Bunnymen
Uncle Tupelo
Electric Light Orchestra
Big Star
The Replacements
Husker Du
The Dismemberment Plan
Bob Mould
Sugar
The Rapture
The Beatles
The Beach Boys.
In Smog and Thunder, Medium Cool, Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco, The Aristocrats, Fur, L'Avventura, Blow-Up, The Passenger, 24 Hour Party People, Velvet Goldmine, Performance, The Moderns, Metroland, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, The Parallax View, 3 Days of the Condor, Chasing Amy, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Under the Volcano, Dr. Strangelove, Barry Lyndon, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr., Brazil, 12 Monkeys, The Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, Two Lane Blacktop, X: The Unheard Music, GoodFellas, Ronin, Heist, Heat, Thief, Manhunter, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Dazed and Confused, Paris Texas, Until the End of the World, Miller’s Crossing, The Hudsucker Proxy, Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Blood Simple, Lawrence of Arabia, The Hunger, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Tao of Steve, The Player, Reservoir Dogs, Henry and June, The Iron Giant, The Ice Storm, Almost Famous, High Fidelity, The Godfather (I and II), Chinatown, Dark City, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Das Boot, The Day of the Jackal, The Exorcist, Grosse Pointe Blank, Sixteen Candles, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Great Escape, The Matrix, The Empire Strikes Back, L.A. Confidential, Tin Men, Diner, Avalon, Liberty Heights, Trainspotting, The Sheltering Sky, The Dreamers, Stealing Beauty, Crumb, My Architect, Let it all Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles, The Impassioned Eye: a Film about Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Weather Underground, Dogtown and Z-Boys, Fugazi: Instrument, Pavement: The Slow Century, Red, Blue, White, Dig!, Shane MacGowan: If I Should Fall From Grace, loudQUIETloud: A film about the Pixies, We Jam Econo, The Mission of Burma Story, Two of Us, Moog, Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns), Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks, The Flaming Lips: The Fearless Freaks, End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones, The Who: The Kids are Alright, Punk: Attitude, The Shield Around the K.
The Simpsons, Freaks and Geeks, Twin Peaks, The Wire.
My favorite writers (right now) include:Michael Chabon, Denis Jonhnson, Carl Newman, George W.S. Trow, Greil Marcus, Paul Auster, Mary Gaitskill, Don DeLillo, Vladimir Nabokov, Robert Stone, Joan Didion, Samuel Beckett, John Ashbery and David Foster Wallace.
"I've always preferred secret heroes"- Bob Dylan