Film
Kubrick
Bill Viola
music, sailing, hiking, swimming, camping, reading, writing, music, surfing...
traveling, scuba diving, ancient mystical practices...
art
charity work and helping others.
Emily Haines
Avatars. gurus, saints and sages, wise men/women, holders of sacred knowledge, possessers of substantive skills, music teachers, music makers, writers, painters, singers, directors, producers, people who get things done, INVESTORS, rightful
action takers, art makers, talkers, dog owners, vets, Range Rover repairmen, interior decorators, website designers, agents and managers, actors, DRUMMERS! performance artists, light workers. My children.
Jeff Buckley
Radiohead
Jimi Hendrix
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Nina Simone, The Smiths, Robert Johnson, Romeo Void, Haircut 100, Tears for Fears, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Metric, Tom Shnabel (favorite DJ though I don't know how to spell his name), Sonic Youth, Helmet, Sinead O'Connor, Feist, Stevie Wonder, The Cure, Earth Wind and Fire (the band and the elements) & Sisters of Mercy
The Beatles
U2, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, did I mention Radiohead? Queen, Led Zepplin, Pat Metheny, The Flaming Lips, The Silversun Pickups (my neighbors!) and last, but not least because I'm kind of crushing on her, Emily Haines.
Anything by Kubrick, Bergman. The 400 Blows, It's a Wonderful Life, Naked, Fight Club, Close Encounters, The Godfather, Braveheart (Mel is awesome, I'm sorry...), Sergio Leone's westerns, Unforgiven, The Matrix (only the 1st one), Breathless (the French one), Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune's work together, Mad Max (Mel again!), Endless Summer...
...Lawrence of Arabia, Woody Allen (though I don't appreciate the Soon Yi thing), Scorsese, Elia Kazan (though I don't appreciate the naming names thing), Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall (so hot!), Marlon, Monte Clift, Billy Wilder, BUSTER KEATON, ORSON WELLES, Citizen Kane and The General, The Playhouse, Charlie Kaufman, Michelle Gondry, Fincher, PT Anderson, Hertog, Wenders...
...old Jim Jarmusch, Elliott Davis (awesome DP), Declan Quinn (awesome DP) and Robby Mueller (most awesome DP), throw in Greg Toland (shot CK), Ennio Morricone, Jonny Greenwood and Bernard Herrmann, David Lynch (mid career especially), Mike Leigh's process, Tennessee Williams (best playwright ever) and Ernest Hemmingway (best screenwriter without knowing he was a screenwriter, ever.) Tim Burton and last, but not least because I'm kind of crushing on her, this girl I saw in the park.
Don't watch much.
Ugh. I used to read a lot more, but now it's all about research...
So everything I can get my hands on about Spirit and the missing years of a certain world avatar born about 2000 years ago, stuff about Buster Keaton and Orson Welles, Metaphysical books, biographies including on Washington, Lincoln, Franklin and Jefferson, Tesla's biography, lots by Milan Kundera, Hemmingway, Keroac, does Tennessee Williams count and while we're here Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Edward Albee and the man, Shakespeare.
(see above)
My father and mother, brothers and sisters.
Jeff Buckley Sam Shepard