Recording, disappearing during parties, smoking cigarettes, and dancing (off-rhythm and otherwise)...
Circa 1981
MISSION OF BURMA!!, Guided By Voices, Big Star, Todd Rundgren, M. Ward, Bruce Springsteen (pre-1984), Cody ChesnuTT, Everything Now!, Iron & Wine, The Magnetic Fields, John Vanderslice, Mates Of State, Ryan Adams, Tom Waits, Pavement, Ozma, Neutral Milk Hotel, Elliot Smith, The Walkmen, The Fiery Furnaces, The Stooges, The Velvet Underground, Murder By Death, Archers of Loaf, Volcano I'm Still Excited!!!, Magnolia Electric Co., Will Oldham in all of his many monikers, Shellac, June Of 44, R.E.M., The Accidents, CCR, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Tortoise, Fugazi, Pere Ubu, My Bloody Valentine, Yo La Tengo, Sebadoh, The Silver Jews, Sonic Youth, The Minutemen, Radiohead, At The Drive-In, ELO, Interpol, The Cure, David Bowie, The Beatles, Dust From a Thousand Years, Early Day Miners, Impossible Shapes, Horns of Happiness, The Coke Dares, Hayden, Stephen Malkmus (and the Jicks), Boards Of Canada, Thursday, Sigur Ros, Sonic Youth, The Rapture, Beastie Boys, Broken Social Scene, Metric, Stars, Grandaddy, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Sharrock, The Reindeer Section, Belle and Sebastian, Wilco, The Roots, Outkast, Prince, Television, Wire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, Jeff Buckley, Built to Spill, Rainer Maria, Leona Naess, The New Pornographers, Rilo Kiley, The Pixies, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Sparklehorse, The Cardigans, A Camp, Bjork, Iron Maiden, The Shins, Stereolab, The Smiths, Sufjan Stevens, Sly and the Family Stone, Mos Def and Talib Kweli, Modest Mouse, the list goes on...
Breathless, My Life to Live (If you take out the last three letters in Godard, what do you get?), La Strada, La Dolce Vida, Wes Anderson, In America, Mystic River, I 3 Huckabees, Eulogy, Run Ronnie Run, The Big Lebowski, Dancer In The Dark, Amelie, Mulholland Drive, all Tarantino movies
Trailer Park Boys, DVDs, Cops, The Tube Music Network, CNN, The occasional Flavor of Love, Law and Order: SVU
Perfect Sound Forever, Our Band Could Be Your Life, Chuck Palahniuk, Charles Bukowski, The Sex Revolts