Irreverence followed by shame. breaking things, making things, drawing, painting, screenprinting, track bikes, velodromes, drunk bicycling, Thai food, welding, atomic and modern furniture, Armenia, sharp cheddar, literature, beating myself and doing things differently. And Petting horses too.
Sennelier Naples Yellow light, Zinc, Payne's Grey, Prussian Blue, Indian Red, Dragging brushes, viscous, prime, sand, prime, sand, Semi Transparent, clouded, memory, fading, blurring lines, working without thinking, staying up late on work nights to do real work, not giving up, self assurance, transformation, thresholds, sensitivity, resilience, mutation, forgotten people, times past, freezing rapid moments, emotion.
The Microphones, Pinback, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Kinks, rogue wave, broken social scene, Spoon, Smog,Calexico, Black heart procession, keren ann, Animal Collective, The Books, Neil Young, gangstarr, GY!BE, Old Van Morrison, Pelican, Will Oldham, the make up, Saviors, very be careful, Slayer, Kimya Dawson, Television, Yo La Tengo, (i hate noise bands), Dj Shadow, Pete Rock, Arab Strap, The Arcade Fire, Deerhoof, The Champs, The Unicorns, Black Sabbath, Otis Redding, Velvet Undergound.
Anything Egoyan, Taxi driver, I 3 huckabees, punch drunk love, Return to OZ, Kubrick, The Red Balloon, Being John M, Stranger Than Paradise, Eternal sunshine, Ghostworld, breaking away, triplets of belleville, adaptation, royal T's, me and you and everyone we know, june bug. RECYCLED MOVIES ARE ANNOYING.
Forensic Files, COURT-TV, ghost shows, paranormal crap and anything that entertains a morbid curiousity.
Books with images, not the kind for lazy people, but the kind with war photography. Emily Dickinson, Wieland by Brockden Brown, Any novels by my brother, Incidents in the life of a slave girl, Wordsworth, Blake, Shelley, Zora Hurtson, Shakespeare's sonnets and drama, ben johnson (volpone), decker, middleton, sedaris, the beats, good art history books, whoever it is that wrote "rasselas prince of abyssinia", cycling books about training that i will never do. I should also note the one book i have hated reading, War and Peace and a Fool's Errand.
Lucian Freud, Jansem, my mom, kinetic potential.