Dancing, Playing with instruments, Makingout, Fixing and building Synthesizers (Modular Moog reproductions), Theremin Kits & other electronic Paia kits, Psychology, Evolution, Tickling others, Swimmin', Cliff Jumpin', Singing in front of the mirror, Threadless.com, Make:Magazine, Make:Blog, Mcsweeney's Wholphin DVD, Riding my bicycle, Critical Mass, DIY Electric Cars & BioDiesel, Renewable Energy Sources, My queen sized bed, 60GB iPods, Going to lots of shows, Random cats, Collecting Vinyl, Sequencers, Cheap Heavy Broken Organs, Salvation Army, Scenester Points, Snorting while laughing, Drinking Americanos (my doctor says no no though), Meandering around town, Doing things alone that are normally done with a group (i.e. movies, shows, dancing), fighting the stereotypes associated with piercings, Collecting Music Videos (i've got over 500!) Watching YouTube, Generally being obsessed with watching music videos, Knowing where all the Cats in the neighborhood live and pursposely redirecting my path home to pet a few of them, procrastination in the form of cleaning, procrastination in the form of not cleaning, procrastination in the form of never finishing anything i start, Picking through the garbage at work and selling the things i find on ebay or craigslist!
Creative, Intelligent & Independent Thinkers (with a sense of humor?), Artists, Engineers who break the mold, Your Cat, Every Musician I've ever obsessed about.
My idols:
!!!, +/-, Against Me!, Air, The Aislers Set, Album Leaf, Alkaline Trio, ALL, All Girl Summer Fun Band, Aloha, Andrew Bird, Animal Collective, Anniversary, Apples in Stereo, Appleseed Cast, Aquabats, Arcade Fire, Architecture in Helsinki, Atom and His Package, Azure Ray, Bad Religion, Band Of Horses, Beastie Boys, Beat Happening, Beck, Beirut, Belle and Sebastian, Bell Orchestre, Beulah, Big D, Bis, Bjork, Bloc Party, Blonde Redhead, Blondie, The Books, Boy Least Likely To, Bravery, Brian Eno, Broadcast, Broken Social Scene, Camera Obscura, Caribou, Cat Power, Catch 22, Chromeo, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Clash, CocoRosie, Collections Of Colonies Of Bees, The Cure, Daft Punk, Dance Hall Crashers, Danger Adventure, Daniel Johnston, Danielson, David Bowie, Decibully, Deerhoof, old Depeche Mode, Descendents, Devo, Discount, The Dismemberment Plan, Dntel, The Dresden Dolls, Drums & Tuba, Dungen, Duran Duran, Echo And The Bunnymen, Eels, Elf Power, Eliot Lipp, Emperor X, Enon, Epoxies, Exploding Hearts, Explosions In The Sky, Face To Face, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Fatboy Slim, Fatlip, Fiery Furnaces, Flaming Lips, Forces Of Evil, The Gadjits, Gary Numan, Get Him Eat Him, Get Up Kids, Ghoti Hook, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Goldfinger, Good Life, Grandaddy, Green Day, Grizzly Bear, Guided By Voices, Hank, Headphones, Hepcat, The Hidden Cameras, High Water Marks, Hippos, Hot Chip, Husker Du, Idatel, Impossibles, Interpol, Iron & Wine, Islands, Jean Jaques Perrey, Joanna Newsom, The Jolly Rogers, Jon Brion, Jose Gonzalez, Josephine Foster, Joy Division, Karmella's Game, Kiss Kiss, Kraftwerk, Koufax, Ladytron, Les Rythmes Digitales, Less Than Jake, Love Is All, Mad Caddies, Madness, Magnetic Fields, Man Man, Manitoba, Mates of State, Matt Pond PA, Matthew Friedberger, Me First And The Gimme Gimmes, Melt-Banana, Menomena, Metric, Michael Andrews, Midlake, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Millencolin, The Minds, Mission Of Burma, Mixel Pixel, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Mono, Moog Cookbook, Motion City Soundtrack, Mountain Goats, Mum, MU330, Nerf Herder, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Amsterdams, New Order, New Pornographers, Nofx, Notwist, Of Montreal, Oh No! Oh My!, Ok Go, Olivia Tremor Control, Oneida, Operation Ivy, The Organ, Out Hud, Ozma, Ozomatli, Pavement, Perrey and Kingsley, Pet Shop Boys, Peter Tosh, Phenomenauts, Pilfers, Pixies, The Planet Smashers, Polysics, Portishead, The Postal Service, Prefuse 73, The Presets, Q And Not U, Radiohead, Rainer Maria, Ramones, Rancid, Ratatat, Reel Big Fish, Reggie And The Fucking Full Effect, The Rentals, The Reunion Show, Rilo Kiley, Rx Bandits, Saturday Looks Good To Me, Saves The Day, Seu Jorge, Shining, The Shins, Sigur Ros, The Silver Jews, Six Organs Of Admittance, Skeletons And The Girl-Faced Boy, Slackers, Sleater-Kinney, Sleeping Kings Of Iona, Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, Sound The Alarm, Starlight Mints, Stars, Stereolab, The Streets, Suburban Kids With Biblical Names, Sufjan Stevens, The Suicide Machines, Sunset Rubdown, Swingin' Utters, Talking Heads, Tapes 'n Tapes, Tears For Fears, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, The Thermals, They Might Be Giants, This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, Thunderbirds Are Now!, Tijuana Crime Scene, Tilly And The Wall, Troubled Hubble, TV On The Radio, Ugly Cassanova, The Unicorns, Violent Femmes, Vitalic, Viva Voce, Volcano I'm Still Excited!, The Walkmen, The Weakerthans, Ween, Old Weezer (Pinkerton Era), The White Stripes, Wolf Parade, Xiu Xiu, Yo La Tengo, Zwan
Any Movies By These Directors:
- Michel Gondry
- Wes Anderson
- Sofia Coppola
- Kubrick
- Jim Jarmusch
Other Movies:
Fear and Loathing, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Noi, Moog Documentary, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, The Aquabats! Serious Awesomeness!, Better off Dead, Jurassic Park, Atom and His Package (Last show ever) DVD, Just the Two of Us (Mates of State Documentary), Pixies DVD, Eels Live at Town Hall, I'm obsessed with pretty much any band documentary DVD
I don't have a TV, but lately it's been Arrested Development, Penn and Teller Bullshit!, Myth Busters, Curb Your Enthusiasm on my computer, Also I'm a big fan of Adult Swim (Home Movies - Venture Bros - Sealab 2021 etc) and an unhealthly addiction to America's Funniest Home Videos (Bob Saget style) when watching others TV sets, In addition: I love nerdy learning channels
Asimov, Palahniuk, Bradbury, Vonnegut, Our Band Could Be Your Life, Analog Days (the story of Bob Moog and Moog Music), Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, The Clash: Passion is a Fashion
Bob Moog, Kurt Vonnegut, Milo from the Descendents, Adam Goren from Atom And His Package, Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo