Music:
Too much to mention...but here goes: Brian Jonestown Massacre, Destroyer, Elliott Smith, The Ravonettes, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Donovan, The Warlocks, The Kills, The High Dials, the Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Metric, Stars, Beatles, early Rolling Stones, Belle and Sebastian, Memphis, BRMC, The Concretes, Dead Meadow, Iggy, Jesus and Marychain, MBV, Ride, The Telescopes, Stone Roses, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, The Kinks, The Who, Libertines, Lou Reed/VU, Nada Surf, American Analog Set, Red House Painters/Sun Kil Moon, The Organ, PJ Harvey, the Smiths, Yardbirds, Mogwai, Tortise, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Rick Bain, Oasis, Mercury Rev, Simon and Garfunkel, The Morning After Girls, Outrageous Cherry, The Tyde,The Clientele, Neil Young, Cat Power, Beck when he works with Nigel Godrich
Movies:
IN GENERAL:French New Wave (Goddard, Truffaut), Cassavettes, old Scorcese, Nicholas Ray, Polanski, Terrence Malick, Werner Herzog, Michelagelo Antonioni, Robert Bresson, Luis Bunnuel, Kubrick, Yashuro Ozu. Is THE GRADUATE not the most perfect movie ever made? Mike Nichols is so groovy that I'd even watch his vacation slides. BLADE RUNNER makes me crazy. Never before has such a good looking movie sounded so bad...Still the best looking thing out there...tho' she talks kinda funny... OBSESSED WITH: Herzog docs, My Life to live (Goddard) Badlands (Malick) Mean Streets (Scorcese), A Man Escaped (Bresson) Chinatown (Polanski) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgoise (Bunnuel) L'Eclisse (Antonioni), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Nashville, Eyes Wide shut, Magnolia,The Squid and the Whale, George Washington, Donnie Darko, Mathew Barney's Cremaster Cylcle, Duke and Battersby videos made in Vancouver like "Being Fucked Up" and "Rapt and Happy"
Television:
Fuck TV, I listen to public radio!
Books:
Goodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood, or anything by Graham Greene, or Evelyn Waugh for that matter. Dave Eggers, Tintin comics, David Rakoff's "Don't get too Comfortable, Joan Didion,Haruki Murakami's After the Quake, and David Sedaris. Edward Said and Tariq Ali for non fiction...and the Walrus even though its a magazine becasue its just so friggin' smart!
Heroes:
It is dissapointing to put all your faith in the living...so I am curently obsessed with these dead white men: Brian Jones, Michel Foucault, Charles Baudelaire, and John Cassavettes