Filmmaking, screenwriting, editing, composing soundtrack music, practicing Bikram Yoga and eating spicy food
filmmakers/writers/actors/producers/editors/musicians/visual artists, fans of exploitation and cult films; and Bikram yoga enthusiasts
Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, My Bloody Valentine, Galaxie 500, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Ride, Slowdive, Lush, Pale Saints, Cocteau Twins, Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses, Primal Scream, The Fall, PiL, Pere Ubu, Television, Suicide, The Pastels, The Vaselines, The Jam, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Jam, The Smiths, Lee Scratch Perry, The Velvet Underground, Soft Cell, Kraftwerk, Neu, Faust, Can, Stereolab, Dead Can Dance, Silver Apples, The Cure's early stuff, Depeche Mode's early stuff, U2, Bauhaus, The Birthday Party, The Byrds, The Kinks, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, This Mortal Coil, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, Joy Division, New Order, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, Aphex Twin, X, The Germs, Husker Du, Dinosaur Jr., T-Rex, The Flaming Lips, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, The Sisters of Mercy, Pixies, old 4AD stuff, Factory Records, Creation Records' bands, The 13th Floor Elevators, Young Marble Giants, Red Krayola, garage rock, The Seeds, Pet Sounds, psychedelic and druggy stuff, The Warlocks, post-punk bands, Red House Painters, Brian Eno, Talking Heads, Big Star, 2-Tone bands, Tim Buckley, Nick Drake, Kate Bush, Orange Juice and much more...
Stanley Kubrick, Michelangelo Antonioni, Andrei Tarkovsky, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Martin Scorsese, Maniac, Murder-Set-Pieces, early Ridley Scott, Performance, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog, Bela Tarr, Jim Jarmusch, The Last House on Dead End Street, giallos from the 60s and 70s, early Wes Craven, Francis Ford Coppola's films till Rumble Fish, Ruggero Deodato, Umberto Lenzi, JLG, Gaspar Noe, Haute Tension, George A. Romero, John Carpenter, Alan Clarke, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, 24 Hour Party People, Orson Welles, David Lynch, Vice Squad, Night Patrol, PTA, Darren Aronofsky, Terrence Malick, William Friedkin, David Cronenberg, Jerry Schatzberg, Sidney Lumet's films from the 70s, Sam Peckinpah, Italian zombie and cannibal films, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Visconti, Oliver Stone, The Hollywood Strangler Meets The Skidrow Slasher, early Tobe Hooper, Over The Edge, River's Edge, Near Dark, Robert Bresson, Robert Altman, spaghetti westerns, early Bernardo Bertolucci, Heaven's Gate, The Hired Hand, Hal Ashby, Alex Cox, Sin City, Atom Egoyan, Rob Zombie, Lynne Ramsey, David Gordon Green, Wes Anderson, Gus Van Sant, Terry Gilliam, Roman Polanski, Ken Russell, John Boorman, Terry Zwigoff, Philip Kaufman's films till Henry & June, Peter Greenaway, Steven Soderbergh, Alan Parker, Abel Ferrara, Coen Bros., Gregg Araki, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jim Van Bebber, THX-1138, August Underground, The Year of the Dragon, Andy Warhol, Paul Morrissey, Jean Eustache, Mark Savage, Nacho Cerda, Richard Stanley, Bill Plympton, Dusan Makavejev and many more...
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Entourage
Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, David Foster Wallace, Rick Moody, Dennis Cooper, Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, William S. Burroughs, Philip K. Dick, George Orwell, Don Delillo and Chuck Palahniuk
Stanley Kubrick, William Lustig, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mark E. Smith, Alan Clarke, Joe Spinell, John Lennon, Henry Milller, Kevin Shields, Andy Warhol, Fred Vogel, Nick Palumbo, Richard Stanley, Brian Eno and Roger Watkins