Music and Sound, music production, sound recording, engineering, sound synthesis, guitars, keyboards, cognition, psychology, neuroplasticity, neuroscience, science, the science of sleep, DJing, record shoping, books, bookstores, web design, robots, writing, screen writing, independent content, creative commons, music software, Cycling 74, MAX/MSP, Lap tops, computers, vinyl records, ipods, music theory, macs, fragmented poetry, songwriting, philosophy, mechanical devices that go bleep and bloop, buddhism, jumping out of windows, film, relationships, people, the beach, deep thoughts, the string theory, words, paradigms, cycles, acoustics, big cities, subways, and pianos
Radiohead, The Beatles, Neil Young, Beck, Portishead, Al Green, Miles Davis, James Brown, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Monk, Jimmy Smith, Wes Montgomery, Grant Green, Cannonball Adderley, Herbie Hancock, Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, Otis Redding,Curtis Mayfield,Dusty Springfield, Frank Zappa, Sigur Ros, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, Wilco, Fiona Apple, Jon Brion, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Talking Heads, R.E.M, The Beta Band, Clinic, Spiritualized, The Velvet Underground, John Cale, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, The Meters, Astrud Giberto, Broadcast, Air, Zero 7, Tortoise, Stereolab, DJ Shadow, Boards of Canada, Mum, Autechre, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, Prefuse 73, Herbert, Four Tet, Amon Tobin, Modeselektor, Kid Koala, Jurrasic 5, Madlib, A Tribe Called Quest, Gangstar, Outkast, Anti Pop Consortium, The Roots, De La Soul, Del The Funky Homosapien, Blackalicous, The Beastie Boys, MF Doom, Diplo, Public Enemy, Can, Kraftwerk, The United States of America, Neu!, Serge Gainsbourg, Scott Walker, Olivier Messian, Stravinsky, Elliott Smith, Sufjan Stevens, Sergio Mendes, Roy Ayers, Charles Wright, Claude Dubussy, Classical Middle Eastern and Arabic Music, Charlotte Gainsbourg, St. Vincent
Forbidden Planet, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Fargo, High Fidelity, Meeting People is Easy, Ground Hog Day, Garden State, Ghostbusters, Pi, Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind, Scratch, Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Vertigo, Lost in Translation, The Virgin Suicides, The Life Aquatic, American Beauty, Half Nelson, The Science of Sleep, Woody Allen, Children of Men, Spellbound (not the documentary, but the hitchcock film of the same name), Syriana,
Lost, The Office, The Daily Show, cough...Gray's Anatomy.... cough, CSPAN, PBS, Nova, Frontline, 30 Rock, Weeds
Eastern and Western Philosophy, Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Siddhartha, 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Dalai Lama, Kurt Vonnegut, Hermann Hesse, The Elegant Universe, Chuck Klosterman, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Haruki Murakami, High Fidelity, Free Culture, Sophies World, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Jorge Luis Borges, A Short History of Nearly Everything, A Brief History of Time, This is your Brain on Music, Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon... for an extensive list of every book I own check out my librarything catalog