Drawing, music, movies, contemporary art, counter-culture movements, making things of my own design, political movements, revolutions, world history, philosophy, and Mid-Century architecture and product design
The existential detectives... (I'm going through a quarter life crisis) Actually, creative, artistic, open-minded individuals.Adam Schmidt in some pinstripe pants I made.
Roxy Music, David Bowie, T. Rex, Brian Eno, Jobriath, Lou Reed/Velvet Underground, Belle & Sebastian/Isobel Campbell, Jobim/Getz/Gilberto, Trespassers William, the Microphones, Nika Kazumi, Elliot Smith, Snow Patrol, the Color Turning, the Clientele, Ladybug Transistor, Sondre Lerche, Beck, early Elton John, Simon & Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, the Who, Van Morrison, the Beach Boys (Pet Sounds/later stuff), ELO, Pink Floyd, Supertramp, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Bjork, the Knife, Grandaddy, Daft Punk, Justice, Miss Kittin, The Hacker, Ladytron, Dirty Sanchez, the Clash, the Ramones, Vice Squad, the Slits, the Exploited, the Anti-Nowhere League, Dead Kennedys, the Partisans, the Germs, the Dickies, the Weirdos, the Buzzcocks, the Adolescents, Agent Orange, TSOL, Devo, the Groovie Ghoulies, Berlin, Missing Persons, Duran Duran, Blondie, the Cars, Oingo Boingo/Danny Elfman, the Pogues, the English Beat, the Smiths/Morrisey, New Order, the Cure, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Cocteau Twins, Joy Divison, Depeche Mode
Movies with great art direction and/or quirky humor.... Velvet Goldmine, Broken English, The Baxter, Mutual Appreciation, Zodiac, Trainspotting, Hackers, Rushmore, the Royal Tenenbaums, Titus, Hamlet (1996), The Ice Storm, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Nicholas Nickleby, Marie Antoinette, Shopgirl, Harold & Maude, Blow-Up, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Napoleon Dynamite, Ghost World, I 3 Huckabees, Everything Is Illuminated, Brick, Brokeback Mountain, Rear Window, Vertigo, Pulp Fiction, The Motorcycle Diaries, Songs From the Second Floor, Liquid Sky, The Machinist, The Prestige, Punch Drunk Love, Lars and the Real Girl, Garden State, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, Sideways, SLC Punk, Sid and Nancy, Party Monster, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Muriel's Wedding, Suburbia (1984), Rude Boy, Swingers, This Is Spinal Tap, Back to the Beach, Pretty In Pink, Can't Buy Me Love, The Lost Boys, Spiderman, X-men, Batman and Star Wars movies (cuz I'm a nerd). Black and white horror movies with Vincent Price.
Flight of the Conchords
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathon Safran Foer, the Outsiders, the Great Gatsby, The Republic of Plato, Candide by Voltaire, Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allen Poe, Chronicles by Bob Dylan.
The Hebrew Hammer, Bloo, Eugene Hutz, and Hedi Slimane (some days I think about getting a sex change so I could be a guy who wears Dior Homme). Oh and Koby, "the Punk Rock Andy Warhol."