Music, movies, politics and pop culture. I also read too much, so I suppose that books ought to be up here as well.
people who laugh with me, not at me
I like music, I like lots of music, so this is an abbreviated list... Brian Eno, Spacemen 3, techno (Jeff Mills / Gaetek / Robert Hood / Marco Carola / Surgeon / Advent / Stewart Walker / Adam Beyer etc), The Fall, Minor Threat, Minutemen, Man or Astroman?, Nomeansno, The Mummies, LOVE, The Seeds, The Sonics, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Henry, Galaxie 500, Leather Uppers, Stone Roses, Pavement, Quadrajets, Mercury Rev, Legion 666, Man Is The Bastard, Buzzcocks, Rezillos, Quintron, Big Black, Hershel Savage and the American Flag, My Bloody Valentine, The Smiths, Can, Faust, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Neu, The Chesterfield Kings, Kishore Kumar, Rorschach, Psychic TV, Chrome, Left For Dead, Happy Mondays, Dropdead, Kraftwerk, Six Finger Satellite, Supersuckers, Legendary Stardust Cowboy, The Stinkies, Husker Du, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Os Mutantes, Front 242, Lassigue Bendthaus, Nitzer Ebb, Asmus Tietschens, Vomito Negro, Test Department, Jesus and Mary Chain, Detroit Cobras, His Hero Is Gone, Infest, Sun Ra, Television, Suicide, Velvet Underground, Basic Channel, Immortal Lee County Killers, Deadly Snakes, ESG, Antibalas, The Oblivians, The Dik Van Dykes, The Jam, Thee Headcoats, Belle and Sebastian, Ultramagnetic MCs, PiL, Spiritualized, Spectrum, E.A.R., Simply Saucer, 13th Floor Elevators, The Stooges, Toots and the Maytals, Daniel Johnston, Horace Andy, Los Crudos, Guided By Voices, Satan and Disciples, Dilated Peoples, The Kominas...
24 Hour Party People, If..., The Thin Blue Line, La Guerre est Finie, Chinatown, Diva, The Devil's Backbone, The Fourth Man, The French Connection, etc. I also grew up with Bollywood films and really enjoy movies directed by Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Akira Kurosawa, Takashi Miike, Hayao Miyazaki, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Werner Herzog...
T.V. can be really bad for you, sadly I watch a lot of it.
Tropic of Capricorn, Love and Longing in Bombay, Agents of Repression, Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Ticket That Exploded, Revenge of The Lawn, South of No North, The Bijak, Saragossa Manuscript, If On A Winter's Night A Traveller...
"No more heroes anymore..."