Music. Things that set the soul aflame. Art. Living. My true friends...
people without a shirt on their back because they just gave it to next man.
BJORK.
Múm.
Drum and Bass: Goldie, Paradox, Phantom Audio, Total Science, Flight, Outrage, Kemistry, Storm, Doc Scott, Bailey, Seba, Cloak + Dagger, Skitty, Equinox, K/Polar, Calibre, Marcus Intalex, old Photek, Source Direct, Breakage, Klute, Drifter, Fanu, Fracture + Neptune, Senses, Blame, ASC, Con.struct, Angel Zero, Sileni, Alpha Omega.
Other notables: Squarepusher, A Guy Called Gerald, Smoke City, Canidas, Alpha, Portishead, Lamb, Massive Attack, Gotan Project, Greyboy, Sneaker Pimps (back when they had Kelli Ali), Telefon Tel Aviv, Electric Light Orchestra (or anything Jeff Lynne touches), Jackson Browne, George Harrison, Aphex Twin, Shostakovich, Dvorak, Satie, Elgar, Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, John Coletrane, Wes Montgomery, Stan Getz + Astrud Gilberto, Miguel Migs, Kruder + Dorfmeister, Diplo, Roots Manuva, Del, Dan the Automator, Danger Mouse, Jeru, Aesop Rock, MF Doom, the Pharcyde, Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar, Gipsy Kings, King Tubby, Count Machuki, The Scientist, Prince Jammy, Death Cab For Cutie, Sebadoh, Badly Drawn Boy, the Get Up Kids, Millencollin, the Impossibles.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Life is Beautiful, What Dreams May Come, Being John Malcovich, Vanilla Sky, Dances With Wolves, Rushmore, 50 First Dates, I 3 Huckabees.
It rots the mind. If it's worth seeing I'll hear about it, and buy the DVD.
Mainly, Pablo Neruda.Also - Paulo Coelho, Alexander Pope, W. B. Yeats, Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings.Siddhartha by Herman Hesse.I need to start reading more.
Any bedroom/mom's basement producer that makes it. This includes those with no bedroom or mom. Make good music, and it'll happen.