Fondly remembering hallucinagenic experiences, naps with my baby, iced coffee, kai food
Bands with $
This Week: Ted Leo + Rx, New NIN, Magnetic Fields, My Morning Jacket. Forever: Suede, Joy Division, Morrissey, The Cure, The Chameleons, New Order, Depeche Mode, The Walkmen, Rufus Wainwright, Ride, Lush, Ted Leo, The Stone Roses, Mogwai, The Blood Brothers, Belly, Bowie, Meat Beat Manifesto, Galaxie 500, The Velvet Underground, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pixies, Tubeway Army/Gary Numan, Aarktica, The Magnetic Fields, Marilyn Manson (no I am not kidding), Slowdive, dark jungle, minimal/acid techno, old-school UK hardcore (esp. old DJ Hype), Electro, EBM, Industrial, Mash-ups, Shoegazer (god, what a lame genre name).
Lebowski, Dead Ringers, Ashes of Time, Happiness, Weird Science, Ying Xiong, Dead Man, Fight Club, Monster Squad, The Limey, Sunset Blvd, Dawn of the Dead, Shivers, Day of the Locust, High Plains Drifter,The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Code 46, Shadow of a Doubt, Jewel of the Nile (for real), Kicking and Screaming, Hedwig, House of 1000 Corpses, Videodrome, The Black Cat, Igby Goes Down, True Romance, Cure, Sonatine, Overboard. Also Zombie movies and 70's paranoia cinema (esp. Polanski and Pakula, the two P's).
Mr. Show, Alan Partridge, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Fitzgerald, Dan Chaon, Murakami, Day of the Locust, As She Climbed Across the Table, Please Kill Me, Watership Down, The Wanting Seed, Last of the Savages, The Conversations, Julian Barnes, books about doing drugs in New York. I also enjoy the following magazines: Res, Stop Smiling, Vice, The Fader.
Bowie, Byrne, Morrissey, Jack Dangers, Chris Eigeman, Gary Numan, Steve Coogan, Walter Murch, David Cronenberg, Egon Schile, and Robbie Williams. Also those authors who were tragically doomed but rocked like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathaniel West, and Oscar Wilde. And then there's the Hollywood badasses, like Robert Mitchum, Howard Hawks, and Raoul Walsh. And finally, the nastier filmmakers: Wilder, Lang, Hitchcock, Fuller, Solondz, LaBute, Von Trier, Miike, Kitano, and Noe.