Tetrapharmakos , Literature, Writing (some of which is on my myspace blog, some of which is here , most of which is in a little notebook I carry around), Skateboarding, Playing the Piano, Nonsense, Frisbee, Human beatbox, Etymology , Interesting Words, The Thesaurus, Psychoanalysis, Going for long walks in London, Urban Drifting, Flâneury , Psychogeography , painting street furniture new colours in the middle of the night, writing things on the wall, photography, palindromes , and the guardian newspaper G2 supplement.
Shazney Lewis.
Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett (solo stuff, not his jazz), Regina Spektor, Maurice Ravel, The Beatles, J. S. Bach, Eldar Djangirov, Magma (the French prog band not the Icelandic pop band), Ben Folds Five, Weather Report, Jason Mraz (only in "Live at Java Joe's" - 2001), The Police, Steely Dan, Bjork, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, DJ Shadow, Jaco Pastorius, Joanna Newsom, and Nizlopi.
Studio Ghibli films, Marx Brothers films, Withnail And I, Buster Keaton, One Flew Over The Cukoo Nest, Amelie, Fight Club, Lilia Forever, Mallrats..... I rarely watch films. Strangely, despite being able to sit and read comfortably for hours, I usually can't sit still long enough to watch a film.
"where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise," - Thomas Gray (1716–1771).
I stay away from the television in case I end up watching a bit of the news. I am blissfully ignorant of current affairs. I am all the more blissful in my ignorance of celebrity folly.
The literature of Kurt Vonnegut, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Henry Miller, Knut Hamsun, Charles Bukowski, Cervantes, Adam Green (who wrote Satsuma Sun-mover), James Frey, George Orwell, Herman Hesse, Ernest Hemingway, John Kennedy Toole, Charles Dickens, Ma Jian, Shakespeare, Gunter Grass, Stendhal, Mark Twain, Flann O'Brien, Peter Manson, and John Fante. The comics of Peter Blegvad and Glen Baxter. The thought of Richard Rorty, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Thomas Kuhn, Mikhail Bakhtin, Epicurus, Heraclitus, and most of all: Sigmund Freud. I also love the photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Dan Eatok. I am slowly exploring paintings: I like Hopper and Heironymous Bosch. Andy Goldsworthy's art rules too.
Harpo Marx. Kurt Vonnegut. Daniel Kitson. Friedrich Nietzsche. Bill Evans. Sigmund Freud. Roxorloops (beatboxer). [Skateboarders:] Og de Souza, Mark Gonzales, Chris Haslam, Louis Barletta, Jason Adams, Danny Supa, Ragdoll, William Spencer, Marc Johnson, Daewon Song, Dan Drehobl, and Colin Fiske.