Anything that makes me think or feel in new or interesting ways
I'd like to meet:
musicians to be friends with or work with, like minded people to talk to, artists, photographers, potential partners in crime...
Music:
My band...Rhea's Obsession: http://myspace.com/rheasobsession...bands/composers/artists that have changed my life and/or influnced me would have to include, in totally random order...deep breath...Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Jaco Pastorius, Tony Levin, Bach, Mozart, Handel, Gyorgy Ligeti, Henryk Gorecki, Brian Eno, Jimmi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, Velvet Underground, The Doors, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Jeff Buckley, King Crimson, Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, Kraftwerk, Joy Division, Cocteau Twins, Sonic Youth, Dead Can Dance, Ennio Morricone, Peter Gabriel, David Sylvian, Daniel Lanois, U2, Bill Laswell, Massive Attack, Cop Shoot Cop, Jim Thirlwell, DJ Shadow, NIN, Ministry, Metallica, Sepultura, Fear Factory, No Means No, Big Black, Bauhaus, Frank Zappa, Marvin Gaye, Pixies, Bauhaus, Einsturzende Neubauten, Nick Cave/Birthday Party, Tool, Jesus Lizard, Radiohead, Portishead, Kyuss/Queens Of The Stoneage, Lamb, Public Enemy, Youssour N'Dour, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Dimmu Borgir, Iggy Pop, Dead Boys, Sex Pistols, Nusrat Fatah Ali Khan, Baaba Maal, Fatala, AC/DC, Motorhead, Dead Kennedys, Fugazi, Test Dept., Ramones, Chris Whitley, The Who, Bob Moog, Black Sabbath, Henry Rollins/Black Flag, Sigor Ros, Swans, Diamanda Galas, David Torn, Danny Elfman, Killing Joke, Hednigarna, Garmarna, My Bloody Valentine, Kronos Quartet, The Stooges, Legendary Pink Dots, Tom Waits, Bjork, Rob Zombie, Glen Branca, The Clash, Television, Talking Heads, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Jane's Addiction, Juno Reactor,Queen, Otep, Buzzcocks, Godflesh, Alec Empire/ATR, Interpol...need more ??
Movies:
Oh Gawd...do I really have to list them all ? It's a fucking endless list. No..really. I love anything that's intelligent, pretty, interesting, weird, funny, epic or subtle, subversive, obscure or generally messed up.Rhea's Obsession at The Pyramid Club in NYC, 1999.. type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="internal" height="350" width="425" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/EQShBKtOLQk"Loose Change is a must see.These two movie clips are easter-eggs aka hidden content from my all time fav video game Silent Hill (in this case, SH 3).......
Television:
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Books:
I own hundreds of books...how about we go with authors instead. At a glance to the shelf in no order...J G Ballard, William Gibson, Charles Bukowski, Milan Kundera, Edgar Allen Poe, Aleister Crowley, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Herman Hesse, William Burroughs, Philip K Dick, George Orwell, Kahlil Gibran, John Brunner, Doris Lessing, Anais Nin, Noam Chomsky, Nietzsche, James Joyce, Robert Anton Wilson, Indries Shaw, Thich Nhat Hanh, Albert Camus, Carl Jung, Michael Moore, Lao Tsu, Sun Tsu, Roger Zelazny, Stephen Hawking, The Dalai Lama, Buckminster Fuller, Ray Kurzweil, Frank Herbert, Baudelaire, Baudrillard, Kathy Acker, Mikhail Bulgakov, all of the Re/Search series, M.C. Escher, Dali, Helnwein, H.R. Giger, Neil Gaiman, Dan Brown, Marshall McLuhan. That doesn't include any of my comic collection or techy manuals or reference books.... :D
Heroes:
My brothers Jon and Chris
