Film, theatre, visual art, writing, weird audio art stuff.
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But seriously, hip hop pre-1998 is my heartbeat like The Treacherous Three. SLEATER-KINNEY. Antifamily. Beach House. The Long Blondes. The Velvet Underground. Voigt/465. The Shaggs. Lucrate Milk. The Raincoats. The Delta Five. Au Pairs. X-Ray Spex. LiliPUT/Kleenex. The Gossip. Bratmobile. Heavens to Betsy. Excuse 17. Le Tigre. Julie Ruin. Julie Doiron. PiL. Gang of Four. Blondie. Stereo Total. Movietone. Radio Heart. John Cage. Karlheinz Stockhausen. Arnold Schoenberg. Erik Satie. Matthew Herbert. Saint Etienne. WNYC every day. CFRO. CBC. NPR. Public radio and co-op radio and college radio, yes yes.
Hou Hsiao-hsien. Jia Zhang-Ke. Michael Haneke. Ingmar Bergman. Michelangelo Antonioni. Satyajit Ray. Yasujiro Ozu. Eric Rohmer. Jean-Luc Godard. Agnes Varda. John Cassavetes. Jean Renoir. Carl Theodor Dreyer. Federico Fellini. Wong Kar-Wai. Atom Egoyan. Maya Deren. Hal Hartley. Jim Jarmusch. Woody Allen. Norman McLaren. Arthur Lipsett. Ermanno Olmi. National Film Board of Canada. Les Blank. LA DOLCE VITA.
was a great band.
Mao's little red book. Beckett, Ionesco, Pinter, Mamet, Chekhov, Strindberg, Michel Tremblay, Jason Sherman, Camus, Kafka, Salinger, Michael Turner. Almost everything from Grove Press/Evergreen.
I don't like the idea of "heroes". How about "Work I Like and People I Dig and Things That are Nice":Anna Karina. Cindy Sherman, again. Franz Kline. Roy Kuhlman. Reid Miles. Mies Van der Rohe. Jeff Wall. Robert Wilson, I think. Peter Brook. Monica Vitti. Ingrid Thulin. Anouk Aimee. Raoul Coutard. Sven Nykvyst. Christopher Doyle. Imperfection. Analog. Self-made celebrity. The death and life of cities!