stopping the neocon apocalypse, adventures in abandoned buildings, world travel, independent media, good whiskey, the fifties, the un-fifties, space-age sci-fi, neologisms, ghost towns, fairy tales, old cameras, the bikini atoll, nuclear tourism, knives, orchids, tattoos, , swimming in the sea, swimming in the ocean, dolphins, olde-tyme poisons, the scopes trial, vampires, zombies, obscure astrology systems, cinetrance, christmas lights, the fibonacci spiral, Point/Counterpoint as a heuristic for processing reality
stealthy adventurers, kindred spirits
Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, The Mountain Goats, Vladimir Vysotsky, Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips/Luna, Immortal Technique, Grizzly Bear, Nina Simone, Blonde Redhead, Garbage, Eminem, Elliott Smith, Tori Amos, Kino, Manu Chao, Nick Drake, Akvarium, Laurie Anderson, Pet Shop Boys, Velvet Underground, Orishas, Suzanne Vega, Patricia Kaas, Duran Duran, Velvet Chain.I think Duran Duran's "Come Undone" is the most perfect pop song ever written.
Burnt by the Sun, Chronicle of a Summer, She's Gotta Have It, Dirty Pretty Things, Labyrinth, The Royal Tenenbaums, After Hours, Dark City, Me Without You, Pleasantville, Lone Star, Men With Guns, Bladerunner, The Cutting Edge
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Star Wars Holiday Special, The Daily Show, Veronica Mars
Master and Margarita, Mating, Hopeful Monsters, His Dark Materials, Count of Monte Cristo, Nabokov's Short Stories, Steps to an Ecology of Mind, Homo Sacer, Brief History of the Dead, In The Drink, Veronica, Giovanni's Room, Anil's Ghost, Look at Me, American Gods, The Night Sky, My Year of Meats, short stories by Kelly Link, Little Big, Sister Water
Margaret Mead, Barbara Myerhoff, Jean Rouch