creativity...no matter the medium
everyone: they make us who we are and render dimension to our flattened perceptions of reality
front line assembly (and ALL side projects), nine inch nails, medeski martin and wood, pink floyd, nirvana, chopin, crystal method, expansion union, albert collins, orbital, jimmy hendrix, infected mushroom, j5, deltron 30/30, tool, perfect circle, rage, dj shadow, skinny puppy, stevie ray vintage metallica, dj qbert, manson (portrait and antichrist), led zepplin (old skool experimental blues material esp), beethoven, chick corea (trio collections esp), dj sasha, numb, laether strip, photek, ministry, unkle, kid koala, diesel boy, Front 242 (and some of his side projects), the cut chemist, tribe called quest, sneaker pimps, slipknot, sage francis, atmosphere, aphex twin, square pusher, radio head, meshuggah, mr ozio, deftones, massive attack, some sepultura, meat beat manifesto, haujobb, some fear factory, dust brothers, chemical brothers, KMFDM, gorillaz (demon days), some crossbreed, korn (first two & dare I say some of the new record), some stabbing westward prodigy, pig, some otep, clint mensell, Juno Reactor, hed PE's first record, apparat, collide, some insolence, ohgr, kidney thieves, some of the Chariot, the doors, lunatic calm, dabrye, some chevelle, modeselektor, some norma jean, alias & tarsier, rob dougan, some tricky, boards of canada, some mnemic, some roots...
lets go directors....david fincher (except panic room), jean pierre jeunet (esp CITY OF LOST CHILDREN), darren aronofonski, terry gilliam, david cronenberg (except crash), david lynch, tim burton, alex proyas(except I robot), stanley kubrik, ridley scott (esp BLADE RUNNER), spike jonez, m night shamylan,Robert Zemeckis, gui ritchie (except when he squandered his integrity for madonna), terentino (except jackie brown), scorsese, peter jackson, sam mendes, Jan Svankmajer, Richard Linklater now 1 hit wonders: donnie darko, the cell, vanilla sky AI and minority report (so 2), NBK, the Matrix, the ring, equilibrium, 1 hour photo, what dreams may come, arlington road, jacobs ladder, ravenous, TMNT (hell yes), blade, brotherhood of the wolf, romeo and juliet (newskool), big trouble in little china, memento, crouching tiger, sin city, mirror mask...
seinfeld, simpsons, transformers, gi joe, thundercats, looney tunes (vintage), prison break, aeon flux, chapelle, farscape, the maxx, family guy, csi (vegas), samurai jack, twin peaks, 24(first season), dexters lab, bernie mack, unsolved mysteries (used to give me nightmares when i was a kid), NOVA, PBS documentaries, futurama, liquid tv, exposure (tim burton's ex girl hosted it), who's line (before wayne brady), sopranos, adventures of grim and mandy, curb your enthusiasm, house, foster's home for imaginary friends...
Orwell (esp 1984), farenheit 451,
stephen hawking, j r tolkien,
lion witch and the wardrobe
(most CS Lewis shit actually),
edgar allen poe, shakespear,
the odyssey/iliad, chuck pallanuck,
naked lunch, fear and loathing in Las Vegas,
isaac aismov, the brothers grim,
do androids dream of electric sheep,
the mathematical experience, Darwin,
clockwork orange, metamorphosis
Art
Davinci, Salvador Dali, Keinholtz,
HR Giger, Ray Mead, Dave McKean
fuck that