Architecture, preservation, restoration, adaptive reuse, urbanism, local history (anywhere, here), transit, walking, smooching, working, music, music, music, Indian food, vegan soul food, grey & green, hopefully becoming a better person, passionate but not so serious.
Portlanders, urbanists, park-readers, rain-walkers, architectural firms looking to hire dedicated traditionalists, record hoarders, friends.
In no order: Charles Mingus, Can, This Heat, Scritti Politti (early), Brian Eno, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, Pere Ubu, Arthur Russell, Os Mutantes, Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, Steven Reich, Wire, Bjork, Raincoats, Saka Acquaye, Bill Evans, Jimi Hendrix, Kraftwerk, Minutemen, Galaxie 500, Noizz Boys, Beach Boys, 23 Skidoo, Modern Jazz Quartet, Suicide, Pearls Before Swine, Alex Chilton, Public Image Ltd. (early), Front 242, Sonic Youth, Mnemonists, Blue Nile, 8 Eyed Spy, Liquid Liquid, Pigbag, Colin Blunstone, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Red Krayola, Erykah Badu, British Electronic Foundation, Sam Phillips, David Thomas, Low, Syd Barrett, Flamin Groovies, Meat Puppets, Shaggs, Silver Apples, Y Pants, ESG, Birthday Party, A Tribe Called Quest, Leonard Cohen, Faust, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Los Microwaves, Tom Tom Club, John Foxx, Harmonia, Skip James, Comsat Angels, Yello, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Blue Orchids, Tyrannosaurus Rex/T.Rex, Soft Machine, MX-80 Sound, Flying Lizards, Fun Boy 3, Velvet Underground, Residents, Rain Parade, Pylon, Mission of Burma, Boredoms, Orange Juice, Beekeeper, Swell Maps, Human League, Frank Zappa, The Slits, Pavement, Marine Girls, Modern Lovers, Laurie Anderson, Flying Burrito Bros., KUKL, 49 Americans, Terry Riley, Big Star, The Carter Family, Teardrop Explodes, Roberta Flack, Gary Numan, Belle & Sebastian, Weekend, Ludus, Young Marble Giants, Booker T & the MGs, Trio, LAFMS, Roxy Music, Buzzcocks, Moondog, Jeremy Enigk, New Musik, Fire Engines, Glenn Branca, John Coltrane, B-52s, No Night Sweats, Voigt/465, Plastics, Neu, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Nico, Television, The Chills, David Byrne, Psychedelic Furs, Sly & The Family Stone, Essendon Airport, Slowdive, Toumani Diabate, Prince, New Order, Lizzy Mercier-Descloux, The Sugarhill Gang, Zoomers, Magazine, Colin Newman, Devo, Dave Brubeck, Cat Power, Bow Wow Wow, Captain Beefheart (late), LIaisons Dangeruses, John Lennon, Sugarcubes, Mars, A Certain Ratio, Benny Goodman, The Feelies, The Sound, Mad Wookiees, Massacre, Stone Roses, Beck, Au Pairs, Adam & The Ants (early), Japan, Bauhaus, Aretha Franklin, Suburbs, Gang of Four, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Radiohead, The Cramps, The Fall, Pete Seeger, King Tubby, DNA, De La Soul, Thick Pigeon, Gil Scott-Heron, The Jayhawks, The Embarrassement, James Chance, Stereolab, The Gordons, Gun Club, The Byrds, Ultravox, Crass, Leadbelly, Go-Betweens, Charlie Parker, His Name is Alive, Mark Kozelek, Brand Nubian, Antena, Woody Guthrie, Eddie Bo, Half Japanese (early), The For Carnation, Eric B & Rakim, Art Bears, The Ex, Stan Getz, Last Poets, Fela Kuti, Johnny Cash, Holger Czuckay, Funkadelic, Blur, Ray Charles, D.A.F., Soophie Nun Sqaud, James P. Johnson, Honeymoon Killers, Dog Faced Hermans, Bob Marley, Thomas Dolby, Innocence Mission, Miles Davis, Joy Division, 9th Scientist, Flaming Lips, David Bowie, Depeche Mode, Neon Judgement, Disco Inferno, ET Mensah, Outkast, The Homosexuals, Stina Nordenstam, Jonathan Richman, REM, Songs:Ohia, Talk Talk, James Brown, Mick Karn, Dome, Ornette Coleman, The Cure, Ultramagnetic MCs, Killing Joke, Howlin Wolf, Duke Ellington, Heaven 17, The Specials, Robert Wyatt, Neil Young, John Willis, Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, Mirah, Heavenly, Bob Dylan (early), Einstruzende Neubauten, Isaac Hayes, Uncle Tupelo, Durutti Column, Dif Juz, Sun Ra, Charlie Patton, Nick Drake, Pixies, Zombies, Memphis Minnie, Beatles, Love, Neutral Milk Hotel, Marvin Gaye, Cocteau Twins, XTC, Rufus Wainwright, Fats Domino, Paul Simon, Built to Spill, Leo Kotke, Richie Havens, Sam Prekop, Yo La Tengo, The Meters, Gamelan Orchestras, Nina Simone, The Creatures, Cybotron. Contemporary things I'm liking: Junior Boys, The Knife, Feist, Burial, Dengue Fever, Gnarls Barkley, Talkdemonic, Per Se
Jeunet, Kieslowski, Chaplin, Coens, Welles, Anderson (Wes), Lang, Gilliam, Burton, Keaton, Allen, et al. I'm pretty predictable, here. I finally bought the whole Kino 'Art of Buster Keaton' set, been watching all the stuff I hadn't seen all weekend. So great. Just got the Harold Lloyd box, too.
Wolf, Shakespeare, Ellison, Faulkner, Rushdie, Chris Ware, 1920s-1940s
My Dad, Mom, sisters, grandparents, cousins, uncles, aunts. Portland Metro planning. All the anonymous, forgotten architects who designed the beautiful cities and towns that we then systematically dismantled from the 50s onward. Unheroes: the bastard fuckers who systematically dismantled our cities, and the soulless "architects" who aided them to sate their egos, esp. Corbusier and Wright.