Great literature, great music and great film--anything that suits my snotty bitch palate. I'm a whore for the liberal arts and if that deems me a loser than I'm pretty effing lost. Surrealism. Art brut. Dream art. Anamorphosis. The Decisive Moment. The Eternal Return. Involuntary memory. Existentialism. Idealism. Unrealism. Postmodernism. Bohemianism. Indie culture. Subculture. Pop Culture. Counter-culture. Concepts as instruments. Fresh water. Tall trees and verdure. Shady (as in shade) parks. Historic districts and old neighborhoods flooded with hipsters and other absurd party favors. Dog stars, diamond dust and the midnight sun. Empyrean clarity. Architecture of a city. Architecture of the Unconscious. Deus ex Machina. The use of language as an art form and the art of form-as-language. Europe. Hinduism. Wayang Kulit. Stop-motion animation. Musique concrète. The cool, avant-garde waters Outside the Box. History of an idea. The Occult. The Underground. Esoterica. Adbusting. Subvertising. Culture jamming. Social Terrorism. Mythopoetica. Archetypes. Apophenia. Synchronicity. Doublethink. Isms. Pretentious and obscure ideas that can hardly be applied. Big fuck-off, shiny words. Fantasy and phantasmagoria--the Unconscious Instrument and the Internal Museum. Brunettes. Animals--we're all animals. Verdant hills. Bullshits. Bullshits are also an interest of mine. Especially bullshits on hills with animals frolicking around them.
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La Monte Young, White Stripes, Ween, the Warlocks, the Verve, the Velvet Underground, Unwound, UNKLE, U2, Typical Cats, a Tribe Called Quest, Tortoise, Tool, Thievery Corporation, Tapes n' Tapes, Tabla Beat Science, Supergrass, Sun Ra, Subtle, the Strokes, Stars of the Lid, Spoon, Spiritualized, Sparklehorse, Spacemen 3, Souls of Mischief, Sonic Youth, the Soft Machine, Slowdive, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Silver Apples, Sigur Ros, Ravi Shankar, DJ Shadow, Set Fire to Flames, the Secret Machines, Scarab, the Roots, the Red Sparrowes, Radiohead, Qabballah Steppers, Professor Shehab, Primal Scream, Pink Floyd, the Pharcyde, Pelican, P.I.L., NIN, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Neu, My Bloody Valentine, Muslimgauze, Money Mark, Mogwai, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Mazzy Starr, Lydia Lunch, Louis XIV, DJ Krush, Joy Division, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Jel, Interpol, Iggy Pop & the Stooges, Grandaddy, the Flaming Lips, Faust, the Fall, Explosions in the Sky, Brian Eno, Echo & the Bunnymen, Doves, Doseone, Do Make Say Think, Digable Planets, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Dead Meadow, Dangermouse, the Cure, Tony Conrad, Coil, Chrome, Cabaret Voltaire, Captain Beefheart, Can, John Cage, Buzzcocks, Broken Social Scene, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, David Bowie, Blonde Redhead, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, the Black Keys, the Black Angels, the Birthday Party, Biosphere, Bill Laswell, the Beta Band, Beck, the Beatles, the Beat Junkies, the Beastie Boys, Bauhaus, the Automator, the Arcade Fire, Animal Collective, Amon Tobin, Ambulance Ltd., Aphex Twin, Alias, and a plethora of sundry other names I could drop in the reams of indie rock, Britpop, prog-rock, post-punk, post-rock, experimental, trip-hop, hipster-hop, ambient, and marginalized electronica, as well as occasional fits of Eastern tradition.
The films of the Brothers Quay, Masters of Russian Animation, Fantastic Planet, Light Years, Ghost in the Shell: Innocence, Decayja, Shadow of the Vampire, City of God, Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Burden of Dreams, Ring of Fire (Indonesia), Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, American Beauty, Labyrinth, Mulholland Drive, Stay, Layer Cake, 2046, blah blah blah, the brief and experimental, the non-human representation; Jan Svankmajer, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Tim Burton, Rene Laloux, Terry Gilliam, Stanley Kubrick, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurasawa, Jean-Luc Godard, Tarkovsky, Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger; films inspired by Vague Nouveau (French New Wave), German Expressionism, Italian Neorealism, glammed up and discofied psychedelic cinema, a modest share of Wuxia and an equally immodest share of Anime. Anime pwntz ur nutz.
The telly will rot your brains faster than a dissociative anaesthetic microwave.
Vladimir Nabokov, Oscar Wilde, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Edgar Allen Poe, Rainer Maria Rilke, Mark Z Danielewski, Jorge Luis Borges, Carl Gustav Jung, Charles Baudelaire, Cervantes Saavedra, Neil Gaiman, Philip K. Dick, Frank Miller, Umberto Eco, Nietzsche, Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Gaston Bachelard, etc. I'm a literature whore. Too much to prattle off and not much of anything written by anyone born in the past half century.
My heroes are just anothers' daydreams eclipsed by another's hypocrisy. On a second thought: Ziggy Stardust, V, Oneiros, Major Tom, Thurston Moore and various other rockstars, Milton's Morning Star for all his monumental bitching and moaning; Andre Breton; Banksy and other social terrorists; the double-agent archetype...