Music, movies, traveling, foreign languages, foreign cultures, challenging myself, thrift shopping, biking to unknown places at night, incense, all things unconventional, cruising for bruising, spirituality, sound devices, vices, psychology, obscurity, beauty, danger, documentaries, autobiographies, cuisines, photography, collecting things, unknown tomorrows...
People insatiably passionate about art or driven by other things. Old and new friends. Bands that ONLY fit into my musical interest. Cool cats...
To quote Miles "It's the highest pleasure I've ever experienced with my clothes on", so it goes...Bill Dixon, McCoy Tyner, Arvo Part, John Coltrane, Rhythm & Sound, Pan Sonic, Pole, Badawi, Raz Mesinai, Wackies, Muslimgauze, Master Musicians of Jajouka, Senking, Bachir Attar, Burial, alva noto, Oxbow, Miles Davis, Ikue Mori, William Parker, Love Joys, Chalf Hassan, John Zorn, Krzysztof Penderecki, Biosphere, Edgard Varese, The Birthday Party, Cecil Taylor, Alice Coltrane, Supersilent, Diamanda Galas, David S. Ware, Nina Simone, Mark Ribot, Archie Shepp, Charles Mingus, Henryk Gorecki, Morton Feldman, John Cage, Zeena Parkins, Autechre, Mos Def, Mutamassik, Krzysztof Komeda, Sun Ra, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Farmer, Pharoah Sanders, The Roots, Slayer, Fred Frith, Don Cherry, Robert Wyatt, Watts Prophets, Philip Cohran, Lounge Lizards, Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen, David Shea, Murcof, Food, Susie Ibarra, Mephista, Brian Eno, Jimi Hendrix, Soft Machine, Magma, Yusef Lateef, Somei Satoh, Popol Vuh, Ornette Coleman, Tony Oxley, Bartok, Eddie Gale, Xenakis, George Crumb, You Fantastic!, U.S. Maple, Einsturzende Neubauten, Nick Cave, Anthony Braxton, Hamid Drake, The Residents, Igor Stravinsky, Luc Ferrari, Nino Rota, Frank Zappa, Sonny Sharrock, Radian, Meredith Monk, dark electronic, avant-garde, modern classical, free jazz, World music...the list goes on and on.
8 1/2, Knife In The Water, The Servant, Cul-De-Sac, I Am Cuba, Cyclo, The Silence, Holy Mountain, Twin Peaks, Ghost Dog, M, Blue Velvet, Faithless, Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, Solaris, Shawshank Redemption, Wings Of Desire, Persona, Stalker, Brazil, Conspirators Of Pleasure, Even Dwarfs Started Small, Hour Of The Wolf, Bad Boy Bubby, Wild Strawberries, Battle Of Algiers, The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser, Rope, Stroszek, Inland Empire, Grizzly Man, Rosemary's Baby, Nights Of Cabiria, Cobra Verde, Bullets Over Broadway, Dune, Aguirre, Institute Benjamenta, Fando & Lis, Space Is The Place, Withnail & I, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Kill Bill, Taxi Driver, The Accident, Scent Of Green Papaya, Scenes From A Marriage, Andrei Rublev, Shame, Thin Red Line
"The 622 Downfalls of Bungo, or The Demonic Woman" by Witkacy, "Roman" by Polanski, "Thirst For Love" by Yukio Mishima, Tess of The D'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy, "Bergman On Bergman", "I Put A Spell On You" by Nina Simone, "Pussy, King Of The Pirates" by Kathy Acker, "Ferdydurke" by Witold Gombrowicz, "Idiot" by Dostoyewsky
My parents, John Coltrane, Werner Herzog, Krzysztof Penderecki, Ingmar Bergman, Diamanda Galas, Roman Polanski, Witkacy