electronic music, modern art, design, human sexuality, photography, VANS, good vibes, Jazz, architecture, street fashion, poetry, sneakers, Berlin, food, yoga, cooking, Paris, drinking, Barcelona, movies, travel, Buddhism. Definitely not in that order
Music:
I'm kinda all over the map, but these days it's really a lot of house music, deep house, funky house and tech house, but also...downtempo, JAZZ! breakbeat, broken beat, drum and bass, 70s Funk, Art Tatum, Metro Area, Air, Tom Waits, Basement Jaxx, Annie Nightingale, Hans-Peter Lindstrom, Moon Dog, Stereolab, Postal Service, Masters At Work, John Coltraine, Sufjan Stevens,The Clash, Gladys Knight, X, Tom tom Club, Gilles Peterson, Arthur Russel, Merle Haggard, Swirl People, MIA, Scissor Sisters, Matmos, Two Live Crew, Yo La Tengo, Greenskeepers, Digitalism, Princess Superstar, Antony, Chris & Cosey, Q Burns, Memphis Minnie, Joy Division, Derrick Carter, Deep House Souldiers, Smiths, Pound Boys, DJ Sneak, Juke Joint, Blind Willie McTell, Nina Hagen, Joni Mitchell, Todd Terry, LCD Soundsystem, Miles Davis, Roberta Flack Dead Milkmen, De La Soul, Dave Van Ronk, Herb Alpert, B-Pitch Control, TG, PTV, Coil, Phil Weeks, Descendents, Mark Farina, Luke Solomon, !!!, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Pavement, Bob Dylan, The Rapture, Woody Guthrie
Movies:
Pedro Almodovar! Nashville.. almost all Altman, David Lynch, Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet, etc (even Inland Empire!) Fargo, Big Lebowski, Battle of Algiers, Dr. Strangelove, any Mike Leigh: Naked, High Hopes, Life is Sweet etc, Last Waltz, The Tenant, China Town (any Polanski), Gates of Heaven, Thin Blue Line, Times of Harvey Milk, No Skin off My ass, My Dinner w Andre, Don't Look Now, Walkabout, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gloria, Love Streams (any Gena Rowlands with John Cassavettes) Pink Flamingos, Lust in the Dust, Polyester & Female Trouble
Television:
don't really do it much but if I do: Colbert Report, Daily Show, Curb Yr Enthusiasm, Project Runway, never ever get tired of the Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad..
Books:
Just discovered CA Conrad a few months ago. He blows my mind, and his reading style is out of this world! Love James Baldwin, no one does pain like him...Giovanni's Room and Another Country, Truman Capote In Cold Blood, Jean Genet, Allen Ginsberg, WS Burroughs.. poets James Schuyler, Joanne Kyger, Robert Creeley, Bobby Louise Hawkins, John Wieners, Dennis Cooper, Rene Ricard, Zen Mind Begginer's Mind
Heroes:
James Baldwin, John Cage, Moodyman, David Byrne, Jerry Garcia, Allen Ginsberg, MoonDog, Bob Dylan, William Burroughs, Derrick Carter, Tristan Tzara
