music, travel, world war 2, france, anthropology, pop culture, fascism, analog synthesis, bubblegum, uniforms, advertising, kitsch, history, junk, italy, records, wine, skateboards, thrift stores, classical music theory, programming synths, film, suicide, fun, capitalism, art
Dead composers and dead dictators. Germans. Ronald McDonald. Ian Curtis. Ayn Rand. Alton Brown.
Einstuerzende Neubauten, Joy Division, Fad Gadget, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Schubert, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Kraftwerk, New Order, Telex, Italodisco, Anthony Rother, Legowelt, Gang of Four, Jefferson Airplane, Factory, Viewlexx, Ersatz Audio, Cabaret Voltaire, Amebix, Throbbing Gristle, Crime and the City Solution, Nitzer Ebb, Alexander Robotnik, Abba, Bananarama, Ural 13 Dictators, DFA, DAF, Some Bizarre, Acid House, Jean Michael Jarre, David Bowie, Raiders of the Lost Arp, Slayer, Death In June, Der Blutharsch, Grace Jones, Diamanda Galas, Section 25, Non, Current 93, Coil, Chris and Cosey, Cocteau Twins, Anthony Rother, Wendy Carlos, Senor Coconut, Laibach, the Smiths, Swans, Love and Rockets, Tom Tom Club, Nancy Sinatra, Kylie Minogue, the Damned, the Cramps, Talking Heads, Martin Denny, Subhumans, Les Baxter, Bauhaus, Gina X, Stereolab, Air, Plastic Bertrand, Klaus Nomi, Ride, Slowdive, Brian Jonestown Massacre, B-52s, Echo and the Bunnymen, Strawberry Switchblade, Falco, Gary Numan, Big Black, Lush, Foetus, Yaz, Kim Wilde, Iron Maiden, Serge Gainsbourg, the Monkees, Nico, Maximum Joy, Velvet Underground, Visage, the Partridge Family, Francois Hardy, Amebix, Iron Maiden, A Certain Ratio, Japan, Death From Above 1979, Interpol, Goldfrapp, Paul Hardcastle, Sir Mixalot, Nina Hagen, Rita Mitsouko, Crass Records, Hit Parade, Zoundz, Ying Yang Twins, the Mob, Delta 5, Angels of Light, Black Heart Procession, Low, Egyptian Lover, Heart, Duran duran, Primal Scream, Tones on Tail, Sisters of Mercy, Giorgio Moroder, Bathory, Three 6 Mafia
Wings of Desire, Bladerunner, 2001 Space Oddyssey, the Wickerman, Triumph of the Will, Sick, the Night Porter, Stalingrad, Suspiria, Me and You and everyone we know, Amelie, the beat my heart skipped, Sexy Beast, Lolita, Oldboy, the Third Man, Der Untergang, Zchannell:a magnificent obsession, Naked, Story of O, Happiness, Storytelling, Palindromes, City of Lost Children, Grave of fireflies, Sid and Nancy, Suburbia, Life is Beautiful, the Hunger, A dirty Shame, Big Fish, Better off dead, American Beauty, Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind, Gummo, Fat Girl, Intimacy, Room for Romeo Brass, Whithnail and I, Harold and Maude, the English Patient, Velvet Goldmine, the Filth and the Fury, A very long engagement, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Closer, the Pianist, the nomi song, Casablanca, the Butcher Boy, Quadrophenia, Clockwork Orange, Battle Royal, Free Radicals, Donnie Darko, 24 Hour Party People, Romper Stomper, Vertigo, Suicide Club
I do not watch much TV but when I do...Curb your enthusiasm, Aquateen Hunger Force, Six Feet Under, the History Channell, Court TV, Jerry Springer, Elimidate, Nova, weird cable access music shows, City Confidential, the Sopranos, the Simpsons, Beverly Hills 90210, Golden Girls, made for tv movies on the lifetime channel, National Geographic anything, the news
Far too many to name. I read about 3 books a week.
Wolfgang Flur, Albert Speer, Benito Mussolini, Klaus Nomi, Clara Rockmore, Bob Moog, Ernest Dichter, Carl Gustav Jung, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ian Curtis, Napoleon, John Waters, Ayn Rand, Andy Warhol, Oswald Spengler, Yukio Mishima, my Grandma