Aesthetic divination (transcendental narrative, sonic exploration, graphic experimentalism etc.), cultural dialectics, petty theft, water. ..
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Listen. We all know there are too many. Don't even bother trying to pretend there aren't too many. I mean, there are so fucking many! Here are only some of the wonder: David Bowie (everything he's ever had a hand in, perhaps excepting the artistic void that was the '80s, jeez!); The Velvet Underground (as well as the non-Velvet work of Nico, Lou Reed, and most especially John Cale); Pink Floyd (Syd Barrett in particular); Brian Eno (mainly, though not exclusively, his early pop stuff and collaborations till around '78); Neil Young (and Crazy Horse, Buffalo Springfield, CSNY, Stray Gators etc.); Television (plus Richard Hell and The Voidoids, The Neon Boys, Tom Verlaine, Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers); Swan Lake (and its various components, ie: Destroyer, Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Frog Eyes, The New Pornographers, Hello Blue Roses, Vancouver Nights); T.Rex; Le Tigre; Animal Collective/Avey Tare and Panda Bear; Iggy Pop and The Stooges; Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music; The Decemberists; The Unicorns; The Flaming Lips; Rilo Kiley/Jenny Lewis; Kaizers Orchestra; Elvis Costello; New York Dolls; Mogwai; MC5; Kraftwerk; Mott The Hoople; Xiu Xiu; Blondie; The Arcade Fire; The Ramones; Interpol; The Rolling Stones; Björk; The Clash; The Who; Weezer; Talking Heads; AC/DC; Grandaddy; Van Morrison; Yeah Yeah Yeahs; Mercury Rev; The Small Faces/Rod Stewart and the Faces; The American Analog Set; Simon and Garfunkel; Pet Shop Boys; Cluster/Harmonia; Spinal Tap; The Soft Machine; Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel; Sahara Hotnights; Queen; Leonard Cohen; Richard O'Brien; Sigur Rós; Mick Ronson; The Magnetic Fields; Nick Drake; Tenacious D; Vangelis; Iron Maiden; Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers; Jobriath; Pixies; Mark Mothersbaugh/Devo; NEU!; The Cars; The Tragically Hip; Yann Tiersen; Gary Glitter; Terry Riley; Joy Division; Alice Cooper; Jacques Brel; Yellow Magic Orchestra/Ryuichi Sakamoto; Bob Dylan; Bauhaus; Dirty Three; Roy Wood; Snoozer/Snuggletooth; Silver Apples; Patti Smith; Radiohead; Suzi Quatro; King Crimson; Clap Your Hands Say Yeah; Elton John; Final Fantasy; Nine Inch Nails; Slade; Great Lake Swimmers; The Runaways; The Shins; Boards Of Canada; Architecture In Helsinki; Led Zeppelin; Ace Of Base; Parliament/Funkadelic; Enon; Calexico; Big Star; Neutral Milk Hotel/Elephant 6; Prince; The Dears; Culture Club; Wendy Carlos; The Constantines; Be Bop Deluxe; Modest Mouse; Spice Girls; The Smashing Pumpkins; Guns N' Roses; Coldplay; Blonde Redhead; Andrew Lloyd Webber; Broken Social Scene; Sparks; Explosions In The Sky; Abba; Iron And Wine; 5.6.7.8's; The Kinks; The Album Leaf; Kylie Minogue; Suede; Black Sabbath; Cat Power; Jethro Tull; Stars; David Wilcox; Michael Jackson/Jackson 5; Louis XIV; Yoko Ono; The Sweet; The Weakerthans; Joni Mitchell; Arrows; Eurythmics; The White Stripes; Daft Punk; Yes; Ween; Donovan; Keane; Peter Gabriel/Genesis; Wesley Willis; Pulp; Silver Jews; The Medoza Line; British Sea Power; Godspeed You! Black Emperor; Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem... But these are only my very favourites mind you. And don't even get me started on all those sweet kids i know from Toronto's indie scene whom i'm in-fucking-love with. I mean fuck! There are so many! I also listen to alot of video game music. And some bootlegs of Frippertronics maintain a semi-permanent position in my stereo. Bless that golden Les Paul and shimmering pair of Revoxes. And bless Robert Fripp, bless his sweet heart... Here, look!
Right, here are some of my fav' filmmakers, whose titles hold my favour beyond those specific works mentioned here, and my votes for their awesomest entries into the entire fucking field of cinema, fuck: Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey); Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums); Miyazaki Hayao (Princess Mononoke); Ridley Scott (Blade Runner); John Hughes (The Breakfast Club); Park Chan Wook (Old Boy); Michel Gondry (La Science des Rêves); Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich); Martin Scorsese (Bringing Out The Dead); Jim Henson (The Dark Crystal); Tim Burton (Beetlejuice); David Lynch (Eraserhead); Woody Allen (Love And Death); Danny Boyle (Trainspotting); Alex Proyas (Dark City); Stanley Tucci (Big Night); Fritz Lang (Die Nibelungen: Siegfried); John Carpenter (Prince Of Darkness); Terry Gilliam (The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen); Mamoru Oshii (Patlabor 1); Christopher Guest (Waiting For Guffman); Sam Raimi (Darkman); Christopher Nolan (The Prestige); Jim Jarmusch (Night On Earth); David Cronenberg (Videodrome); Mel Brooks (Young Frankenstein); The Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski); Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle); Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo); Norman Jewison (Fiddler On The Roof); Michael Lehmann (Heathers); Roberto Benigni (Il Mostro); Steven Spielberg (Empire Of The Sun); Rob Reiner (Stand By Me); Jackie Chan (Operation Condor); Richard Donner (The Goonies); Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass (The Last Unicorn)... Other freaking incredible films that i love regardless (and in some cases in spite) of who made them include: West Side Story; Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain; Logan's Run; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; I Heart Huckabees; Transylvania 6-5000; Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon; The Point; Citizen Kane; Ghostbusters; Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls; Napoleon Dynamite; Cidade de Deus; The Wizard; Lola Rennt; Wonder Boys; Infernal Affairs; Office Space; 2046; Almost Famous; Ronin; High Fidelity; Excalibur; Strange Brew; Fantasia; Down With Love; Nosferatu; Troop Beverly Hills; Apocalypse Now; The Little Mermaid; Loaded Weapon 1; Event Horizon; Moonlight Mile; Freejack; Bedknobs And Broomsticks; So I Married An Axe Murderer; La Jetée; Stranger Than Fiction; Cabin Boy; Bandits; Watership Down; Major League; Conan The Barbarian; Purple Rain; Revenge Of The Nerds; Harry Potter And The something something; Mallrats; The Secret Of Nimh; 200 Cigarettes, Disney's Robin Hood; Emmanuelle; St. Elmo's Fire; The Rocky Horror Picture Show; The Wizard Of Oz (especially when accompanied by Dark Side, and preferably some sort of chemical substance)... And you know, about a million more that i can't think of right now. I want to see some Jack Smith films and some Truffaut, i never have '...Jurassic Park?'Right now this's pretty much the best thing i've ever seen.
When trying to think of shows i dig, i realise how much TV totally sucks. Whatever, here are some that i like to watch when i find myself flipping channels: Home Movies; What It's Like Being Alone; Star Trek: TNG; Arrested Development; Conan O'Brien; 24; The Muppet Show; Spaced; Dr. Who; Inu-Yasha; The Crystal Maze; Night Hood; The Daily Show; The Colbert Report; Da Ali G Show; Trailer Park Boys; Sex And The City; Sailor Moon; Saved By The Bell; Little Britain; Dalziel And Pascoe; Newsradio; Farscape; Inspector Morse; Ghost In The Shell; Kids In The Hall; Aqua Teen Hunger Force; The Sarah Silverman Program; Takeshi's Castle; Vision Of Escaflowne; That '70s Show; Midsomer Murders; Gundam Wing; Extras; The Raccoons And The Lost Star; Beverly Hills 90210; Poirot; Fraggle Rock; Countdown; Dr. Katz; Ducktales; Gilligan's Island; This Is Wonderland; Clone High; Mr. Dressup; My Name Is Earl; A Touch Of Frost; Dead Like Me; Family Guy; Catchphrase; The Munsters; Scrubs; Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge; The OC; Dragon Ball; Dawson's Creek; Never Mind The Buzzcocks; The Office (both); Spider-Man (Bakshi's)... I don't know, there are more. Isn't this a freaky list though? TV is so bourgeois. I wish The Marc Show was still on... Also, how radical would it have been if this went on:
Okay, so here are most of those authors i have read and enjoyed: Jorge Luis Borges; Joseph Conrad; David Mitchell; Peter Høeg; Italo Calvino; Jean Baudrillard; Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Philip K. Dick; John Milton; Maurice Sendak; Erlend Loe; C.S. Lewis; Douglas Adams; Franz Kafka; Nick Hornby; Snorre Sturleson; T.S. Eliot; Karl Marx; Kenneth Grahame; William S. Burroughs; James Joyce; George Orwell; Mary Shelley; J.G. Ballard; Homer; Kazuo Ishiguro; Aldous Huxley; Hunter S. Thompson; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Lewis Caroll; Fyoder Dostoevsky; Anthony Burgess; Charles Dickens; Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; Michel Foucault; Roald Dahl; Bram Stoker; Michael Ende; H.G. Wells; Dante Alighieri; Oscar Wilde; D.H. Lawrence; Ryan North; Joey Comeau; Dale Beran and David Hellman; Nicholas Gurewitch; Rev. Brendan Powell Smith; Jon Ronson; Taichi Yamada; Dr. Seuss; Victor Hugo; J.R.R. Tolkien; Geoffrey Chaucer; Edgar Allan Poe; Hans Christian Andersen; E.E. Cummings; Dylan Thomas; Lao Tzu; William Blake; those cats what wrote Beowulf and The Thousand And One Nights... That's all i can think of right now. I've read at least a little something of all these bloody geniuses, but not as much as i'd like. I have yet to finish Sir Gawain And The Green Knight and Pearl, the novelisation of Conquest For The Planet Of The Apes, or the first book in the Sweet Valley High series. I have though of late been getting really into work of Pierre Menard...
Walter and Perry are the best thing ever, out of everything