music, radio (college/non-commercial) , live electronic music (in a basement or otherwise) , used record stores (the cheaper the better) , the Amen break , breakcore , rave anthems , Detroit techno , italo-disco , pretty much any bad/irrelevant/outdated form of dance music , twee , the 365 Days Project , free food, the 7-Eleven at Rockoff , sleep, TBSOWFMU, defenestration, The Noid, Connecticut (specifically New Haven) pizza and its superiority to all other pizza in the world, discogs.com, getting a non-minimum-wage job so i can afford a nice place to live and a decent set of turntables and all the records i can find
and SHIZUO
All Time Favorites:
His Name Is Alive : entire oeuvre, especially Stars On ESP
Cocteau Twins : Treasure
Queen : A Night At The Opera
Future Sound Of London : ISDN (the album that single handedly turned me on to electronic music when i was a kid)
The KLF : Chill Out
New Grape : New Grape Time
Alice Coltrane : Journey In Satchidananda
Radiohead : Kid A
Coil : Musick To Play In The Dark Vol. 1
Meat Beat Manifesto : "Radio Babylon"
Knifehandchop : "Dancemix2000"
Squarepusher : "Tundra"
Dev/Null : "Rave 5"
People Like Us : "Swing Largo"
Beastie Boys : Paul's Boutique
Funkadelic : Maggot Brain
Guided By Voices : Alien Lanes
Honorable Mention: Stereolab , Venetian Snares , Aphex Twin , µ-ziq , Duran Duran Duran , Orbital , early Alec Empire , Jason Forrest , Negativland , 808 State , Lee "Scratch" Perry (and basically any other Jamaican music from the '70s ), etc.
Current/Recent Favorites:
Gas : Nah Und Fern 4 cd box set
Toecutter : Here I Go Again
Cloetta Paris : Secret Eyes
Venetian Snares : Detrimentalist
UHF
Kure Kure Takora
The Manual (the single most important book ever written), Songs In The Key Of Z , The Trouser Press Record Guide , any other books that educate me about weird music, James Kochalka comics . sorry, i don't have the attention span to read anything remotely resembling literature.
Warn Defever , Freddie Mercury , The Weatherman , Bill Drummond and Jimi Cauty (the Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu)