Hedonist all the way....
I'm into Computers (gadgets and the latest tech on the market), the addictive brain chemistry of the senses: Plants (organic if eaten), crystals and rock formations, the ocean, forests, fire, candlelight, sunlight, warm summer breezes, medicinal and culinary herbs/spices, indian and vegetarian cuisine, herbal tea, wine, giving and recieveing massages, skin (especialy), velvet, silk, vinyl, kissing, the smell of flowers and good food, ozone, essential oils, being in the moment, esthetically pleasing visual delight
I worked at a music store for four years. My taste in music is pretty wide considering i have 600 albums and many mp3's.
Here is a short list: Aesop Rock, Annonymous 4,Aphex Twin, Amon Tobin, Atari Teenage Riot, Martin Atkins, Natasha Atlas, Banco de Gaia (saw at the big top tour), Syd Barret, Bianary Star, Blackalicious (saw at Colby College in Waterville ME), David Bowie, James Brown, Meg Lee Chin, Clock dva, Coil, George Clinton, Damage Manual, Dead Can Dance, Download (it's the groups name), Eat Static, El-p, Estampie, Front 242, Frontline Assembly, Gift of gab, Helium Vola, Hildegard von Bingen, Hoverphonic, Infected Mushroom, Jedi Mind Tricks, Karsh Kale, KMFDM, Lead Into Gold, Living Legends, Love Spirals Downward, Loop Guru (saw at the big top tour), Magnetic Fields, Massive Attack, Meat Beat Manifesto (saw at the Avalon in Boston), Ministry, Miranda Sex Garden, Peter Murphy (saw the Bauhas in Boston near the harbor), Nico, Gary Numan (saw at the middle east in Boston), Nurse With Wound, Orb, Orbital, Ozric Tentacles, Pailhead, Perfume Tree, Pfunk (saw in Providence RI), Pigface, Pink Floyd (saw at gillette stadium, Foxboro MA), Portishead (saw at the palladium in Worcester MA), Psychic tv, Qntal, Revolting Cocks, Severed Heads, Shapehifters, Shpongle, Skinny Puppy, Sky Cries Mary, Squarepusher, State of Bengal, Stereolab, Switchblade Synphony (saw at the middle East in Boston), The Cure, The Future Sound of London, Thievery Corporation, Tricky (saw at the Palladium in Worcester MA), Underworld, Vas, Susan Vega (saw at L.L. Bean in Freeport ME), Velvet Underground, Saul williams, Frank Zappa,
and pretty much anything thats underground.
Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind, Untill The End of the World, A Dirty Shame, The Butterfly Effect, 12 Monkeys, Go, 1984 (read the book), Altered States (try Salvia Divinorum for a completely alien perspective on reality), Liquid Sky, Minority Report, Blade runner (although the book(do androids dream of electric sheep) was way better), Hitchickers Guide to The Galaxy (I read the books in jr high), Stargate, The Doom Generation, Donnie Darko, Hellraiser 1 and 2, Evil Dead 1,2, John Carpenter's They Live and The Thing (saw when I was 10 it scared me silly),The shinning (The book was really drawn out, got to love Jack though), Darkness, PI, Amelie, 5th Element, Fight Club (read the book), Clockwork Orange(read the book), Citizen Kane, Blade 1 and 2, Requiem for a Dream, Spun, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (read the book, Hunter S. Thompson rules......or rather did, Wakeing Life (and anything else by linklater (Scanner Darkly was killer!)
Robert Anton Wilson, George Orwell, Rupert Sheldrake, Buckminster Fuller, Aldus Huxley, Timothy Leary, Philip K dick, Kurt vonnegut, Terrance Mckenna, Jose Arguelles, "The Secret Life of Plants" by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird,
"The Story of Ferdinand" by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson,
(theory has tried to prove that there is underlining order to chaos, if u believe in science and mathmatics(iris be damed, or so u think?))........
My recent reads are: "Beyond Lies The Wub. collected short stories vol. 1" ; "The Transmigration of Timothy Archer" by Philip K. Dick,
"What If Our World Was Their Heaven? (The Final Conversations of Philip K. Dick
(Gives a plot outline of the novel he never got to write "An Owl In Daylight",I so wish he had),
"The Delicious Grace of Moving One's Hand" by Timothy Leary,
and
"Astrotheology and Shamanism - Unvieling the Law Of Duality In Christianity and Other Religions" by Jan Irvin and Andrew Rutajit
Who's radio interviews are literaly out of this world. Shook the man's hand in Time Square shortly after the turn of the millenium. He and Whitley Strieber signed my copy of "The Global Superstorm"
at the turn of the last century he invented alternating current, the radio, and was developing a way to distribute electricity wirelessly around the world for free
highly recomend "The Mass Psychology of Fascism"
pioneered the isolation tank and worked on human-dolphin communications
developed the theory of gaia or the earth as a living entity
in 1959 he gave a speech at Caltech called "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom". This officialy started the advance of Nanotech.
and
Together they created the cut and paste method of words that led to the advent of samples in music. This also effected popular culture to a great degree.
philosopher, highly intelligent
The best novelist on any planet. His themes were "What is human? and What is reality? David Icke ... and any one else who consistently lifts the veil of consensus reality.