CD Hunting!!!! (Record Stores, Pawn Shops, Thrift Stores, Half-Priced Books), feeling young, Mp3 Blogs (visiting and curating), Film viewing and film-making, photography, meeting new people, the 8 year old boy diet (pizza, macaroni and cheese, fun dip etc.) The color brown, the Alamo Drafthouse (specifically Weird Wednesday), Emos, I Love Video, Sundance Music, Stencil Art, Mix Cds, Late Late Late Dinners, & 24 HOUR MOVIE MARATHONS!!!!
Shirley MacLaine circa 1958
Shannon Wright (I'm always a bit too shy)
Sheila the Pizza girl
"Chris Popkoff is Killing Music"--Chris Mosley
4AD, Angry Samoans, Astrud Gilberto, Bad Brains, Badly Drawn Boy, Ballboy, Beach Boys, Beat Happening, Bedhead, Belle & Sebastian, The BellRays, Big Black, Big Star, Billy Bragg, The Birthday Party, Birth to Burial, Black Flag, Blonde Redhead, Blood Group, Boris, Bowery Electric, Breathing Holes, Brian Eno, Broadcast, (70's) Bruce Springsteen, Buzzcocks, The Byrds, Camera Obscura, Cat Power, Cherubs, Chris Bell, Christian! Teenage Runaway, Chromatics, Circle Jerks, Claudine Longet, The Clientele, Clinic, The Cranes, Crass, The Cure, Damien Jurado, Damon & Naomi, Daniel Francis Doyle, Danielson Family, David Bowie, Dead Kennedys, Death Sentence PANDA!, Deerhoof, The Delgados, Dios Malos, Dr. Dog, Eat Avery's Bones, Early Lines, Elastica, Elk City, Elliott Smith, ESP Summer, The Ex, The Fall, The Feelies, Flipper, The Forms, Fugazi, Gang of Four, The Go, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Goldenboy, The Gordons, The Gossip, Grand Buffet, Gravenhurst, Great Lake Swimmers, Gun Club, HEALTH, His Name is Alive, Hood, Hot Snakes, Hudson Bell, Husker Du, I Farm, Iggy & the Stooges, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Jackson C. Frank, James Chance, Japanther, Jens Lekman, Jesus & the Mary Chain, John Cale, Jonathan Richman, Joy Division, King Crimson, The Kinks, Kitchens of Distinction, Lansing-Dreiden, Lift to Experience, Lightening Bolt, Lou Reed & the Velvet Underground, Magnetic Fields, Mark Eitzel (I love a trainwreck), Matt & Kim, Mclusky, MDC, Melt Banana, Mercury Rev, Mindflayer, Ministry, Minor Threat, Minutemen, Mission of Burma, Mojave 3, Monks, Morrissey, Murder City Devils, Murs, M. Ward, My Bloody Valentine, My Morning Jacket (Tennessee Fire), Neil Young, The New Year, New York Dolls, Nick Cave, Nick Drake, Nick Lowe, Nico, Nikki Sudden, Nina Nastasia, Nina Simone, Nouns Group, Noxagt, Ocean Colour Scene, Olivia Tremor Control, Orange Juice, Os Mutantos, Outrageous Cherry, Pacific UV, Pale Saints, Part Chimp, Pavement, Pernice Brothers, The Pogues, Portishead, Propagandhi, Pulp, Radiohead, Read Yellow, Red House Painters, Refused, Rock*A*Teens, Rosie Thomas, Roxy Music, Rufus Wainwright, Saturday Looks Good To Me, Saul Williams, Scott Walker, The Shangri-Las, Shannon Wright, Shellac, Shooting at Unarmed Men, Silver Apples, Silver Jews, Slowdive, Sondre Lerche, The Sonics, Sonic Youth, The Stranglers, Strung Out, Sub Pop Records, Sufjan Stevens, Swervedriver, Syd Barrett, Tarnation, Teenage Fanclub, Teenage Symphony, Television, This Heat, This Mortal Coil, Tom Waits, Touch & Go Records, T-Rex, The Tri-Lambs, Urinals, Uzeda, The Vandals, Wedding Present, The Warlocks, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Wire, Wreckless Eric, Yakuza, Yellow Fever, Yo La Tengo, Young People, Zombies
David Bowie "The Man Who Sold The World"
Roxy Music "Editions of You"
Tom Waits "Postcard to Hooker in Minneapolis" on ACL
Morrissey "Moon River"
Iggy Pop "I'm Bored" Hilarious & Amazing
Dr. Dog! "California"
Cluadine Longet "Nothing To Lose" from "The Party"
Rosie Thomas "Since You've Been Around"
The Kinks "Victoria"
Wire "Another the Letter/The 15th"
Lou Reed & John Cale "Nobody But You"
Deerhoof "Milk Man"
Shannon Wright "Portray"
Grand Buffet "1000 Percent"
Flipper "Way of the World"
Sinead O'Connor "War" (In all Seriousness, Probably my Favorite Musical Performance)
Minor Threat "12XU/Small Man, Big Mouth"
Roy Orbison "Crying"
The Pogues "Dirty Old Town"
Gang of Four "To Hell With Poverty"
Pulp "Common People"
Nikki Sudden "Death is Hanging over Me" (Recorded 40 hours prior to his Death)
In Genral: Pretentious Art-house bullshit, and underappreciated Exploitation films of 60's & 70's.
Specifically, these movies:
Last Night
Zero Effect
The Dark Crystal
Happy Accidents
May
Buffalo '66
The Silent Partner
Deathdream
Down By Law
Midnight Cowboy
The Baxter
The Woman Chaser
And Also Movies Directed by these People: Abel Farrara, Al Adamson, Alejandro Amenabar, Alexander Payne, Alfred Hitchcock, Ang Lee, Atom Egoyan, Beat Takeshi, Billy Wilder, Bob Clark, Brad Anderson, Bryan Singer, Cameron Crowe, Carl Reiner, Chan-wook Park, Charlie Kaufman, Christopher Nolan, Clint Eastwood, The Coen Brothers, Curtis Hanson, Danny Boyle, Dario Argento, David Cronenberg, David Fincher, David Lean, David Lynch, David Mamet, David O’Russell, Don Bluth, Doug Liman, Elia Kazan, The Farrelly Brothers, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Oz, Gaspar Noe, Gore Verbinski, Gregg Araki, Guillermo del Toro, Hal Ashby, Hal Needham, Harold Ramis, Hayao Miyazaki, James Cameron, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Jean Rollin, Jim Henson, Jim Jarmusch, Joe Dante, John Boorman, John Carpenter, John Dahl, John Frankenheimer, John Hughes, John Landis, John McTiernan, Kathryn Bigelow, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Larry Cohen, Luc Besson, Lucio Fulchi, Marc Foster, Mary Harron, Martin Scorsese, Mathew Bright, Mel Brooks, Michael Mann, Michael Winterbottom, Mike Judge, Milos Forman, Neil LaBute, Paul Schrader, Paul Thomas Anderson, Paul W.S. Anderson (yeah, that’s right), Paul Verhoeven, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Jackson, Ralph Bakshi, Renny Harlin, Richard Donner, Richard Rush, Ridley Scott, Robert Altman, Robert Rodriguez, Robert Zemeckis, Rob Reiner, Roger Donaldson, Ron Howard, Sam Mendes, Sam Peckinpah, Sam Raimi, Spike Jonze, Stanley Kubrick, Stephanie Rothman, Steve Buscemi, Steven Soderbergh, Steven Spielberg, Takeshi Miiki, Terrence Malick, Terry Gilliam, Terry Zwigoff, Tim Burton, Todd Solondz, Tom Tykwer, Trey Parker, Vincent Gallo, Walter Hill, Werner Herzog, Wes Anderson, Wolfgang Petersen, Woody Allen
Lost (thanks Rodrigo)
Arrested Development (I'll always have DVD's)
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Optic Nerve
Bowie, Iggy, Reed
70's Elliott Gould
William Smith
Burt Reynolds
Warren Oates
Kris Kristofferson
and this guy:
Velvet Hustler