music, too much reading material, flexing, pretty things, ignoring the media, gaming, swimming, my bike and skates, 4:20, incense, Japan, Gettin Funky, drum machines, drum circles, instruments, computers, languages, computer language, building a song about you. Experiencing life with energy.
Artists of all trades..people who live and breathe music and beauty.. Anyone who is a credit to the human race. Also, them:
Techno techno techno. Minimal, bangin, German, Detroit, mm mm. All of it. Tech/tribal/funky house, Electro, Synth pop, 80s, Bjork, Cibo Matto, Avalanches, Dead Kennedys, Blatz, Grimple, Melt Banana. how I love them.. Evil Stig/Joan Jett, Super Junky Monkey (u better ask somebody), Shonen Knife(RIP China), Primus, Tha Breeders, Crass, the Gits, Ministry, Combichrist, Ant-Zen/Hymen stuff, This Mortal Coil, Cranes, Tool, old Sepultura (Chaos A.D.!), Nico, Sugarcubes, Stereolab, Guitar (awesome), Goldfrapp, Mu! (luv crazy bitchz). Stereo Total, VNV Nation, Noisuf-x, Project Pitchfork, Suicide Commando, B Machine, Ellen Allien, Apparat, Telefon Tel Aviv, Mum, Sigur Ros, Sugar Plant (check them out if you're really awesome) Mazzy/Hope, Depeche Mode, Tricky, Massive Attack, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Prefuse 73!! Royksopp, Sneaker Pimps, The Remote Viewer,UNKLE, Yasume, Tujiko Noriko, Coppe, Aki Tsuyuko, Takako Minekawa, Nobukazu Takemura, Cornelius, Digable Planets! Biggie Smalls, WeFunkRadio! Pharcyde, Guru, Masta Ace, various members of Wu Tang, J Dilla!! (RIP), Madlib, Mr. Lif, Tweet, Billie Holliday, Kool and the Gang, Bootsy Collins, Zapp & Roger...
Hong Kong films/wuxia, Anime of both the serious and silly type, Tarantino, Lynch, Takashi Miike, Takashi Shimizu, other various Japanese and Korean horror/gore/weirdness, "blaxploitation" stuff from the 70's, Bill Plympton (HA! HA!) and basically anything with a brain or a wild imagination.
Matt Groening stuff, Ab Fab, South Park, Adult Swim, Most Extreme Elimination Challenge, Discovery channel...everything else I can live without.
Burroughs, Bukowski, Sexton, King, various Eastern chill-the-f-out sorts of books, Fear&Loathing, Clockwork Orange, software and hardware manuals, Human, All Too Human (when I'm in the mood for my head to explode), and the dictionary. If you're still with me by this part of my list of favorites, you are a nerd.
Martin Gore, Yuka Honda, Bjork, Michelle Yeoh, Jet Li, my friends who deserve it, Jello Biafra, my father, and everyone who affects others positively