Being an internet phenomenon. MAKE IT HAPPEN AMERICA (and other countries)
People who've seen me on television giving the thumbs up.
Pavement, Neutral Milk Hotel, Deerhoof, McLusky, Matmos, Manitoba/Caribou/Dan Snaith, Can, Faust, Neu!, Fugazi, Liars, Destroyer, Animal Collective, Built To Spill, pre-2004 Modest Mouse, Silver Jews, Why?, The Books, Prefuse 73, Broken Social Scene, Wu-Tang Clan in general and Ol' Dirty Bastard in particular but for different reasons, Ween, Jason Forrest, Lightning Bolt, J Dilla, Sleater-Kinney, Sonic Youth, Miles Davis (early seventies era especially), Black Eyes, Black Dice, Brainiac, Enon, Smart Went Crazy, Beulah, Boredoms, Bongwater, OOIOO, Max Tundra, Melt Banana, Nina Nastasia, Sonny Sharrock, Silver Apples, John Coltrane, Girl Talk, Beach House, Shellac, Public Enemy, Pixies, My Bloody Valentine, Need New Body, Daniel Johnston, Mouse On Mars, The Mountain Goats, Mirah, The Microphones/Mount Eerie, The Blow, Lifter Puller/The Hold Steady, The Velvet Underground, Funkadelic, Fennesz, The Fall, Wire, Akron/Family, Sun Ra, Olivia Tremor Control, This Heat, Spank Rock, Syd Barrett, Johnny Cash, Glenn Branca, Califone, The Psychic Paramount... it goes on like this. ..
Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Joel and Ethan Coen, Little Murders, Mind Game, 3-Iron, Michel Gondry, especially his video for the Chemical Brother's "Let Forever Be," Slacker, sixties Kubrick, seventies Nicolas Roeg, David Lynch, Jan Svankmajer, some Hitchcock (ROPE), The Holy Mountain, Space Is The Place, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, Pedro Almodovar, Ghost Dog, Straw Dogs, Dog Day Afternoon, Best In Show, The King Of Comedy, Brewster McCloud's Sexy Flying Machine, The Wicker Man, The Ruling Class, Brazil, Pootie Tang, Danger Diabolik. This used to be longer.
Home Movies, Wonder Showzen, The Sarah Silverman Program, The Colbert Report, The Office (British), Seinfeld, Kids In The Hall, The Wire, Twin Peaks, The Prisoner
Borges, Salinger, Pynchon, Kafka, Nabokov, Vonnegut, Steven Millhauser, Days Between Stations, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Catch-22, Something Happened, Sometimes A Great Notion, The People Of Paper. I read a lot of comics- more than actual books? Almost invariably. Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol, Calvin And Hobbes, Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes, Kevin Huizenga, Paul Pope's 100%, Snake And Bacon's Cartoon Cabaret.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (sorry, Japanese), Robert Oppenheimer (sorry, Japan)