Silent movies, film theory, old chinese things, slow boring movies, singing saw, the circus, the 1920's, makeup, costumery, Clara Bow, ghosts, good cinematography, obscurity, imprecise meaning, eroticism, spontaniously growing angel wings, folk & blues music, America, anything grainy, Peking Opera, epics, Sake, Murder Ballads, Pretty things, time.
People who remind me of a time long past. People who don't understand language. Nogoodniks
Neutral Milk Hotel, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, The Anthology of American Folk Music, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Skip James, Nick Cave, Music with lots of white noise, anything recorded before the advent of hi-fi (1927-28), The Microphones, Blind Willie Johnson, Hobart Smith, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie McTell, The Music Tapes, Tom Waits, Field Recordings, Tommy Johnson, June Carter Cash, Elizabeth Cotten, Hank Williams, Earl Scruggs, The Birthday Party, Sacred Harp Music
Animations from Edward Muybridge movement studies. Close Ups of Various Body parts. The wind in the trees.
Hootnanny Television, The Smothers Brothers, The Continental, Twin Peaks, The Daily Show
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Tao Te Ching, The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, The Picture of Dorian Gray, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, HongLouMeng (Dream of The Red Chamber), What is Cinema?, Nadja, Camera Lucida, Ovid's Metamorphasis, anything by Borges.
Andre Breton, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Bob Dylan, Edward Muybridge