after silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - aldous huxley
adrian edmondson, vyvyan basterd or edward hitler. and more people like leah powers.
in no particular order.. 7 fevrier, engineers, fryars, the meeting places, john maus, ariel pink, jukebox the ghost, the go find, kyte, pacific!, spain, we are wolves, dntel, can, donovan, tunng, tobias froberg, everst, map of africa, band of horses, francoise hardy, battles, south, annuals, grizzly bear, afternoons, parsons red head, phoenix, ulrich schnauss, ormer avital, the go find, the modern men, the electric soft parade, her space holiday, fujiya and miyagi, menomena, au revoir simone, the brunettes, le loup, shiny toy guns, dirty on purpose, the shins, my bloody valentine, animal collective, sigur ros (the best concert ever!), jesus mary chain, yo la tengo, amon duul II, pinback, the presets, legendary pink dots, the sounds, built to spill, the police, can, the replacements, tean waterolo, iglu and hartly, gotye, the car is one fire, moloko, hooverphonic, magnetic fields, call and response, m83, air, arvo part, poney poney, nouvelle vague, one-two, sebastien tellier, stuck in the sound, tahiti 80, (co)-pilot, a-tunes, le rodeo club scandale, benoit pioulard, lansing-dreiden, buck 65, joan of arc, aphex twin, the album leaf, kruder & dorfmeister, gabriel a& dresden, tunng, maps, sonic youth, et al. i like danzig too.
antonia's line (this dutch movie from 1996 is probably my all-time). aside from that: anything directed by michael haneke or david lynch. closely watched trains, nowhere, tampopo, house of yes, bad horror flicks. just about anything french. they do a damn good job with movies. go fucking see "shortbus." now.
the young ones, strangers with candy, twin peaks, adult swim. anything on telemundo. news programs.
everything ever written by paulo coelho, choke & invisible monsters by chuck palahniuk, generation x by douglas coupland, fathers and sons by turgenev, lamb by christopher moore, 100 years of solitude by marquez. ishmael. this s&m how-to book jayne let me borrow that i still haven't returned. foucault & derrida.
my father, noam chomsky, master shake, he-man and she-ra.