magø is my musical alter-ego.
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Making electronic music, Macs, old synthesizers, gadgets, gizmos, black tea, Australian wine, NPR, really spicy food, WZBC, indie fims, indie music, being naked, the Patriots, the Red Sox, the Celtics, college hoops (UNC), the proper use of the English language, monkeys, the BBC, European history, other countries, road trips, London, Montreal, France, the deep blue sea, and outer space.
Too many to list properly - but I always return to the innovators: Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, Cabaret Voltaire, New Order, Daft Punk, David Bowie, Devo, The Smiths, The Human League, Boards Of Canada, Talk Talk, Talking Heads, Gang Of Four, R.E.M., Simple Minds, Young Marble Giants, NEU!, Can, Chris + Cosey, Severed Heads, Gary Numan, Renegade Soundwave, OMD, Radiohead, The Cure, Wire, Stereolab, The Clash, ESG, Seefeel, Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, 808 State...
Blade Runner, The Fifth Element, Pan's Labyrinth, The Messenger, High Fidelity, Donnie Darko, Wild At Heart, Star Wars, Alien, Uzumaki, Seven Samurai, Dark City, The Matrix, Lost In Translation, Fantastic Planet, Ed Wood, Liebestraum, The Silence Of The Lambs, Fight Club, Austin Powers, Run Lola Run, The Thing, 16 Candles, North By Northwest, Rear Window, Minority Report, Blue Velvet, Wings Of Desire...
24, Heroes, Dexter, The Tudors, Six Feet Under, Farscape, Nip/Tuck, X-Files, CSI, Star Trek, Mystery!, The Office, Wire In The Blood, Eureka, The Outer Limits (original), The Daily Show, South Park, The Simpsons, Futurama, The Family Guy, Beauty and the Geek (BIG guilty pleasure)...
Smilla's Sense Of Snow, The Alienist, High Fidelity, Catcher In The Rye, Siddhartha, Candide, and pretty much anything by Franz Kafka, William Gibson, Philip K. Dick, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, ee cummings or Roald Dahl...
Joan Of Arc, Bob Moog, Benjamin Banneker, Thomas Edison, Yuri Gagarin, Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, Jacques Cousteau, Philip K. Dick, Jim Henson, Joe Meek, Brian Eno, Vince Clarke, Jean-Michel Jarre, Tim Burton, David Lynch, Gene Roddenberry, Marcel Duchamp, Leonardo DaVinci, Galileo Galilei...