absinthe, adbusters, albee, amos tutuola, artaud, asian culture, bartok, beck, beckett, blue cliff record, bucky fuller, bukowski, burroughs, cats, chuang tzu, chuck e weiss, coffee, composing, crowley, dada, dave eggers, david byrne, david foster wallace, discordia, disinfo, european culture, farmers market, fishbone, fluxus, futurism, game theory, gorecki, grimm fairy tales, hakim bey, haruki murakami, hotcore, huxley, ibanez, idiot flesh, image fiction, ionesco, irvine welsh, james joyce, japonize elephants, jay marvin, jean genet, john barth, john fante, john zorn, kandy whales, kesey, korzybski, kronos quartet, kurt vonnegut jr, mancini, mark leyner, meditation, melvins, milan kundera, morricone, mr bungle, mythology, naked city, new journalism, nick cave, ornette coleman, oto, oulipo, partch, phillip glass, pj harvey, portishead, postmodernism, poststructuralism, prick, renaissance culture, residents, ritual magick, seven string and baritone guitars, sex mob, shinyville, shou mei, steven jesse bernstein, stravinsky, surrealism, surrealist games, throbbing gristle, tom robbins, tom waits, tricky, tzara, violent femmes, webern, white tea, will self.
Like-minded individuals who make art on the edge, who make art because they have to, who make art because they care. People who are striving to communicate/connect with audiences would be great to know, too.
I love almost anything, but here's a few of my perpetual favorites:beck, mr bungle, john zorn, cake, soul coughing, prince, ornette coleman, anthony braxton, miles, bird, fishbone, jane's addiction, primus, praxis, material, beefheart, bill laswell, bartok, stravinsky, schoenberg, varese, ligetti, xanakis, sex mob, morricone, mancini, pj harvey, nick cave, einsturzende neubauten, bobby mcferrin, tom waits, portishead, tricky, reich, prick, conlon nancarrow, buckethead, tom jones, idiot flesh, violent femmes, boredoms, ruins, ministry, melvins, serge gainsbourg, a r rahman, mindless self indulgence, screaming headless torsos, japonize elephants from the land of zorlock, gong, faust, can, flying luttenbachers, need new body, ooioo, bablicon, sir millard mulch, stereolab, moondog, dynamite club, time of orchids, kayo dot, etc etc etcLocal: Shinyville, Dr Strangelove, The Show is the Rainbow, Fulcrum, Bliss Repair, Stolen Kisses
a few of my fiction favorites are burroughs, bukowski, italo svevo, joyce, vonnegut, kundera, jay marvin, david foster wallace, will self, haruki and ryu murakami, beckett, dave sedaris, john fante, barth, barthelme, vollman, steven jesse bernstein, genet, celine, robbins, pynchon, etc etcart/social philosophy: elements of tzara and dada, breton and surrealism, fluxus, futurism, situationism, hakim bey and taz, korzybski and non-aristototelian logic, kalle lasn and adbusters, discordia, ordo templi orientis, astrum argentum, the gysin/throbbing gristle apocalyptica, dream machines, noism, radical centrism, etc etc...but you have to watch out, or those nasty little isms will turn into self-serving corporate jokes trying to sell their product. their enlightenment is bigger than ours, after all.painters/multimedia psychos: dekooning, pollack, rothko, paul klee, karen finley, al hansen, yoko ono, dick higgins, etc etc as I'm getting mighty bored with name-dropping.