"One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves." -- Paths in Utopia, Martin Buber
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academic freedom, aesthetics, alteration, anaesthetics, anarchism, anime, anomie, aporia, art, art history, astrobiology, beaches, butterflies, cognitive science, constancy, complexity, confusion, contextuality, cryptobiosis, cybernetics, death, decay, defiance, deviance, dread, ecology, ecotone, ennui, environment, existential theology, frisson, fuzzy logic, indeterminacy, informatics, lassitude, liminality, love, malaise, mania, measure, metaphysics, music, neutrality, nihilism, nuance, 'pataphysics, perspectivalism, perspective, physics, poetic terrorism, poetics, poetry, polycontexturality, pragmatics, pragmatism, religion, romanticism, situationism, synchronicity, turbulence, verbiage, water, weather, world domination
Mary-Louise Parker, Rabbi Ishmael, Miranda July, Julio Cortazar, Edie Sedgwick, Oscar Bryan, Maria Callas, Crispin Glover, Mary Shelley, R. Stevie Moore, Geena Davis, Brian Eno, Alison Munn, Alfred Jarry, Lindsay Lohan, Geoff Dyer, Simone Weil, Max Stirner, Kathleen Hanna, Gilberto Lara, Rachel Weisz, Oscar Wilde, Bette Davis, Archimedes, Judy Garland, Grigori Perelman, Judee Sill, George Washington, Abigail Adams, Graham Chapman, Carrie Fisher, Jean-Paul Marat, a girl across the street
honorable mentions: 2 Pac, 16 Horsepower, adult., Alice Cooper, Arcade Fire, Ariel Pink, A.R. Kane, Associates, Albert Ayler, Bauhaus, David Behrman, Big Black, Big Star, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, the Blue Nile, David Bowie, Glenn Branca, James Brown, Cabaret Voltaire, John Cage, John Cale, Mariah Carey, the Chameleons [UK], Frédéric Chopin, Colder, Coloma, Dan Deacon, Debussy, Deerhunter, Dinosaur Jr., Disco Inferno, DJ Shadow, DJ Spooky, Paul Dolden, Eric Dolphy, the Doors, Durutti Column, Electric Light Orchestra, the Embarrassment, Eno, Epic Soundtracks, Eric B & Rakim, Fad Gadget, the Fall, Feelies, Finders, Flamin' Groovies, Fleetwood Mac, Flipper, For Against, Fugazi, Marvin Gaye, the Germs, the Go-Betweens, Guns 'N Roses, Hall & Oates, Health, Lauryn Hill, Hood, Hüsker Dü, Interpol, Japanther, Joy Division, Junior Boys, Paul K. (& the Weathermen), Jack Lee, LL Cool J, Love, Madonna, Manic Street Preachers, McLusky, Mekons, [pre-90s] Metallica, George Michael, Charles Mingus, Minor Threat, Minutemen, the Misfits, Mission of Burma, Modern Lovers, R. Stevie Moore, My Bloody Valentine, My Dad is Dead, the Nerves, Nervous Gender, New Order, New Radicals, Nirvana, the Organ, Jim O'Rourke, Oxford Collapse, Pavement, Ann Peebles, Pere Ubu, Tom Petty, the Ponys, Prince, Psychedelic Furs, Public Enemy, Queen, the Raspberries, Jay Reatard, Lou Reed, Steve Reich, Roxy Music, Rush, Savage Republic, Scientist, Screamers, Archie Shepp, Shoes, Judee Sill, Sisters of Mercy, Slayer, the Smiths, Bruce Springsteen, Sonic Youth, Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, the Stooges, Suicide, Sunset Rubdown, Swell Maps, System of a Down, Talk Talk, Teenage Fanclub, Television Personalities, James Tenney, This Heat, Johnny Thunders, Tindersticks, TV on the Radio, Van Halen, the Walkmen, Weezer, Wham!, Wipers, Wire, Robert Wyatt, Neil Young, Young Marble Giants
local (Austin, San Marcos, San Antonio, Belton, sometimes Denton, other parts of TX): Coma in Algiers, Alex Atchley Experience, AM Syndicate, Steve Arceri, Architects, Attic Ted, BASIC, Big Failure, Maya Bond, Boxcar Satan, Brazos, the Carrots, Cartright, Cavedweller, Charles Potts Magic Windmill Band, Che Arthur, Chief Death Rage, Communal Death Duck, Count Dracula's Weed Smugglin' Jam Engine, Cry Blood Apache, Cue, the Diatribes, Damage Pants, Dialog Box, Daniel Francis Doyle, the Early Tapes, ELV!S, Eta Carinae, Experimental Aircraft, Fancy Feast, Fear Snake Face, Finally Punk, Fires in Roam, Follow That Bird!, Golden Arm Trio, Golden Boys, Gorch Fock, Grand Champeen, Happy Birthday Beast, the Hawks (of Holy Rosary), Headdress, Karrie Hopper, Horse+Donkey, the Hot as Shits, Jana Hunter, iKiLLCaRS, David Israel, Lomita, Matthew and the Arrogant Sea; Jenny Morgan, My Education, Night Viking, One-Eyed Doll, Our Solar System, Pataphysics, Peel, Perennial Tuesday, Real Live Tigers, Red Leaves, Ringo Deathstarr, Marcus Rubio, Savior Daughters, She Died in El Paso, She Sir, Shit City Dreamgirls, Shoot For The Stars...And Kill Them, Silver Pines, The Spirit of Space, The Steed, the Strands, Tacks the Boy Disaster, The Story Of..., the Teeners, This Dog's A Lion, Ume, Reid Wilson & His So-Called Friends, Yatsuzaki, Yellow Fever, You Make Engine
i listen to WFMU b/c it slays!
Amadeus; American Psycho; Barry Lyndon; Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon; Brazil; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Fast Times at Ridgemont High; Fight Club; Forrest Gump; Freddie Got Fingered; The Good, The Bad, The Ugly; Halloween; Happiness; Harry Potter; Hudsucker Proxy; Kicking and Screaming [1995]; King of Comedy; Kings of the Road; Krull; Kung Fu Hustle; The Outlaw Josey Wales; Se7en; Starship Troopers; A Thin Red Line [1998]; When Harry Met Sally; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
musicals, especially Victor/Victoria; films written by Charlie Kaufman, Whit Stillman or Noah Baumbach; Wes Anderson films; movies starring Bill Murray, Parker Posey, Chris Eigeman or Christian Bale
Adventures of Pete & Pete; American Dad; American Experience; American Masters; Aqua Teen Hunger Force; Are You Being Served?; Arrested Development; Briscoe County Jr.; Drawn Together; Family Guy; Freaks and Geeks; Fresh Prince of Bel Air; Frontline; Full Metal Alchemist; Get A Life; Hee Haw; Heroes; Human Weapon; King of the Hill; M*A*S*H; The Newshour with Jim Lehrer; Oz; Peewee's Playhouse; Reno 911; Robot Chicken; Rome; Stargate Atlantis; Surface; The Tick [animated]; Weeds; Wonder Showzen
Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa; Collected Poems of John Wheelwright; Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dosteovksy; Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck; Great Expectations - Charles Dickens; The Iguana - Anna Maria Ortese; Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth - Chris Ware; Lipstick Traces - Greil Marcus; The Lost Lunar Baedeker - Mina Loy; Magister Ludi (The Glass Bead Game) - Hermann Hesse; Moby-Dick - Herman Melville; Oscar: An Inquiry into the Nature of Sanity - Peter J. Wilson; Our Band Could Be Your Life - Michael Azerrad; Piano Stories - Felisberto Hernandez; Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban; The Robber - Robert Walser; The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester; Unexpected Journeys: The Art and Life of Remedios Varo - Janet A. Kaplan