Photography, Cinematography, Soft Supply, Non-Fiction, BLOODY ROBOTS!, bread, spring water, breakfast, bananas, sodaplay.com, Los Angeles, Ed Ruscha, ink & paper, the boomstick, spreading myself thin...
Liars, Television, The Fall, The Minutemen, Mission of Burma, Wire, gainsbourg, gainsbarre, large impossibly named post-rock Canadian musical collectives (like Godspeed! You Black Emperor, A Silver Mount Zion and Tralala Band, Set Fire to Flames), Talk Talk, Pink Floyd, Steve Albini (Big Black, Rapeman, Shellac), Uzeda, Brick Layer Cake, Metal Urbain, Metal Boys, Dr. Mix & the Remix, Spiritualized, Slint, The Ex, The Books, GBV, Radiohead, Giddy Motors, Pavement, Suicide, Can, Fugazi, Young Marble Giants, X-ray Specs, Lightning Bolt, Trans Am, Barber's Adagio for Strings, Soundgarden (pre-BMF), The Kinks, the Silver Apples, Jim O'Rourke, Black Eyes, Gang of Four, Xiu Xiu, Pixies, Andrew WK, Glenn Branca, the new noise/math/prog sound, the old no-wave sound (DNA, James Chance, Theoretical Girls, Cristina), bar rock, arena rock, soft rock, anthem rock, Early Eno, Roxy Music, the Hold Steady, Ruins, Jacques Dutronc, the books, Young People, the Constantines, the Antarcticans, Algebra Mothers, MIKE PATTON! MIKE WATT!
Apocalypse Now!, Hearts of Darkness, F for Fake, Touch of Evil, Fireworks, Kustom Kar Kommandos, Memories of Underdevelopment, In the Mood for Love, Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The New World, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Sortez Vos Mouchoirs, Les Valseuses, Buffet Froid, Emperor Tomato Ketchup, L'Annee Derniere A Marienbad, C'est Arrive Pres de Chez Vous, L'Avventura, Blow-Up, Raging Bull, Punch-Drunk Love, 8 1/2, Bully, Buffalo 66, The Brown Bunny, The Tin Drum, The Passenger, Tristam Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story, The Conformist, In This World, HANEKE! WELLES! WONG KAR WAI! BLIER! ANTONIONI! MALICK!...
I no longer have cable, but I remember that, once upon a time, there used to be good shows on TV: Mr. Show, K.I.T.H., MST3K, Curb, Sealab 2021, A.T.H.F., those ubiquitous Simpsons fellas, Wonder Showzen, le Zapping, Venture Bros, Pythagoras Switch, and... .. width="425" height="350" ..
Le Petit Prince, Paul Auster, James Ellroy, Montaigne, Foucault, Wittgenstein, Moravia, Jelinek, The Iliad, 1984, Johnny Got His Gun, Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes, Joe Sacco, Maus, the photographic anthologies of Robert Capa, Martin Parr, Jean-Loup Sieff, Henri Cartier-Bresson and other Magnum photographers, The Harvard School of Design books edited by Rem Koolhas, A Third Face by Samuel Fuller.
Ed Ruscha, Steve Albini, Terrence Malick, Sam Fuller, Mike Patton, Mike Watt, mom...