music, art, theatre, film, fashion, literature, dance, design, philosophy, postmodernism/deconstruction, critical theory, cultural studies, the avant-garde, culture jamming, adbusting, flashmobbing, dreaming, travel, reading/writing, meditation, yoga, NPR/PBS, coffee/tea, substance(s)
pina bausch and robert wilson
10 CC, 2Pac, ABBA, ABC, AC/DC, Ryan Adams, Cannonball Adderley, Aerosmith, Air, The Allman Brothers Band, Tori Amos, Laurie Anderson, The Animals, Antony and The Johnsons, Aphex Twin, The Arcade Fire, Louis Armstrong, Arrested Development, Albert Ayler, The B-52's, Afrika Baambaata & The Soul Sonic Force, Bad Brains, The Band, Basement Jaxx, Count Basie, The Beach Boys, Beastie Boys, The Beat, The Beatles, Beck, Jeff Beck, The Bee Gees, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Belle and Sebastian, Chuck Berry, Big Star, Bjork, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Art Blakey, Bobby Bland, Blondie, Blue Oyster Cult, Blur, Boogie Down Productions, Boston, David Bowie, Billy Bragg, Blood Sweat & Tears, The Breeders, Bright Eyes, Garth Brooks, Clifford Brown, James Brown, Jackson Browne, Dave Brubeck, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, Built to Spill, Johnny Burnette, Burning Spear, Kate Bush, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Buzzcocks, The Byrds, John Cale, Glen Campbell, Can, The Carpenters, The Cars, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, Tracy Chapman, Ray Charles, Cheap Trick, The Chemical Brothers, Chic, Eric Clapton, The Clash, Jimmy Cliff, Patsy Cline, The Coasters, Eddie Cochran, Joe Cocker, Leonard Cohen, Coldplay, Lloyd Cole and The Commotions, Nat King Cole, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Ry Cooder, Sam Cooke, Alice Cooper, Chick COrea, Cornershop, Elvis Costello, Cream, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bing Crosby, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Crowded House, The Crystals, Culture Club, The Cure, Cypress Hill, Daft Punk, D'Angelo, Miles Davis, De La Soul, The Dead Kennedys, Deee-Lite, Deep Purple, Def Leppard, Depeche Mode, Derek and the Dominoes, Devo, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Bo Diddley, Dion, Dinosaur Jr. Dire Straits, Eric Dolphy, Fats Domino, The Doors, Nick Drake, Dr. Dre, The Drifters, Duran Duran, Ian Dury and The Blockheads, Bob Dylan, The Eagles, Steve Earle, Echo and the Bunnymen, Elastica, Electric Light Orchestra, Missy Misdemeanor Elliott, Eminem, Brian Eno, Eric B. & Rakim, Eurythmics, Bill Evans, The Everly Brothers, Donald Fagen, Fairport Convention, Faith No More, The Fall, The Feelies, The Flamin' Groovies, The Flaming Lips, Grandmaster Flash, Fleetwood Mac, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Foo Fighters, The Four Tops, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Aretha Franklin, Franz Ferdinand, Free, Fugazi, Fugees, Peter Gabriel, Serge Gainsbourg, Gang of Four, Garbage, Judy Garland, Marvin Gaye, Genesis, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, The Go-Betweens, The Go-Go's, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Goldie, Benny Goodman, Gorillaz, Grateful Dead, Al Green, Green Day, Guided by Voices, The Gun Club, Guns'n'Roses, Woody Guthrie, Van Halen, Bill Haley and His Comets, Herbie Hancock, Happy Mondays, Emmylou Harris, George Harrison, P J Harvey, Isaac Hayes, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Jimi Hendrix, John Hiatt, Lauryn Hill, Hole, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly & The Crickets, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, The Human League, Husker Du, Ice Cube, The Impressions, Interpol, Iron Maiden, The Isley Brothers, Janet Jackson, Joe Jackson, Michael Jackson, The Jackson 5, The Jam, Etta James, Jane's Addiction, Keith Jarrett, Jay-Z, Jefferson Airplane, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Billy Joel, Elton John, Robert Johnson, George Jones, Rickie Lee Jones, Janis Joplin/Big Brother and The Holding Company, Bon Jovi, Joy Division, Albert King, B.B. King, Ben E. King, Carole King, King Crimson, The Kingsmen, The Kinks, Kiss, The KLF, Gladys Knight and The Pips, Kraftwerk, The LA's, Cyndi Lauper, LCD Soundsystem, Led Zeppelin, Leftfield, John Lennon, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Libertines, Little Feat, LL Cool J, Los Lobos, Love, The Lovin' Spoonful, Nick Lowe, Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers, Loretta Lynn, Lynyrd Skynyrd, M.I.A., Madness, Madonna, Magazine, Magnetic Fields, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Mamas and the Papas, Manic Street Preachers, Bob Marley and The Wailers, Martha and The Vandellas, Massive Attack, John Mayall, Curtis Mayfield, MC5, Paul McCartney and Wings, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Meat Puppets, John Cougar Mellencamp, Mercury Rev, Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes, Metallica, George Michael, Midnight Oil, Steve Miller Band, Charles Mingus, Minor Threat, Minutemen, Joni Mitchell, Moby, Moby Grape, Modest Mouse, Thelonious Monk, The Monkees, Wes Montgomery, Lee Morgan, Alanis Morrisette, Van Morrison, Morrissey, Motorhead, Mott the Hoople, My Bloody Valentine, N.W.A., Nas, Willie Nelson, New Order, The New Pornographers, New York Dolls, Randy Newman, Nico, Harry Nilsson, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Notorious B.I.G., Laura Nyro, Oasis, Sinead O'Connor, The O'Jays, Mike Oldfield, The Orb, Roy Orbison, Orbital, OutKast, Augustus Pablo, Charlie Parker, Graham Parker, Parliament/Funkadelic, Gram Parsons, Dolly Parton, Pavement, Pearl Jam, Ann Peebles, Pere Ubu, Carl Perkins, Pet Shop Boys, Tom Petty, Wilson Pickett, Liz Phair, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, The Platters, The Pogues, The Police, Iggy Pop, Portishead, Bud Powell, Prefab Sprout, Elvis Presley, Pretenders, Lloyd Price, Prince, Primal Scream, Procol Harum, The Prodigy, Public Enemy, Public Image Ltd., Pulp, Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, R.E.M., Sun Ra, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Bonnie Raitt, Ramones, The Rapture, Dizzee Rascal, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Otis Redding, Lou Reed, The Replacements, Little Richard, Jonathan Richman/The Modern Lovers, The Righteous Brothers, Max Roach, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, The Rolling Stones, Sonny Rollins, The Ronettes, Linda Ronstadt, The Roots, Roxy Music, Run-D.M.C., Todd Rundgren, Santana, Bob Seger, Sex Pistols, DJ Shadow, The Shangri-La's, Del Shannon, The Shins, The Shirelles, Wayne Shorter, Horace Silver, Simple Minds, Sigur Ros, Simon and Garfunkel, Simple Minds, Frank Sinatra, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Slayer, Sleater-Kinney, Percy Sledge, Fatboy Slim, Sly and the Family Stone, The Small Faces, The Smashing Pumpkins, Elliott Smith, Patti Smith, The Smiths, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Soft Cell, The Soft Machine, Sonic Youth, Soul II Soul, Soundgarden, The Specials, The Spinners, Spiritualized, Spoon, Buffalo Springfield, Dusty Springfield, Bruce Springsteen, Squeeze, Steely Dan, Stereolab, Cat Stevens, Sufjan Stevens, Rod Stewart, The Stone Roses, The Stooges, The Streets, The Strokes, Suede, Suicide, Donna Summer, Super Furry Animals, Supergrass, The Supremes, Booker T. & The MG's, T. Rex, Talk Talk, Talking Heads, James Taylor, Teenage Fanclub, Television, The Temptations, The The, Them, Thin Lizzy, Richard and Linda Thompson, Tindersticks, TLC, Toots and The Maytalls, Tortoise, Traffic, A Tribe Called Quest, Tricky, Jethro Tull, Big Joe Turner, Ike and Tina Turner, Tina Turner, U2, The Undertones, Underworld, Ritchie Valens, Sarah Vaughan, The Velvet Underground, The Verve, Gene Vincent, Violent Femmes, Tom Waits, Scott Walker, War, Dionne Warwick, Dinah Washington, The Waterboys, Muddy Waters, Weezer, Kanye West, The White Stripes, The Who, Wilco, Hank Williams, Lucinda Williams, Brian Wilson, Jackie Wilson, Wire, Stevie Wonder, Wu-Tang Clan, Robert Wyatt, Tammy Wynette, X, X-Ray Spex, XTC, The Yardbirds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yes, Yo La Tengo, Neil Young, The Young Rascals, Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention, Warren Zevon, The Zombies, ZZ Top
Before Sunrise/Before Sunset, The Best of Youth, Brokeback Mountain, Dancer in the Dark, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Inland Empire, Pan's Labyrinth, Requiem for a Dream, Waking Life, Y Tu Mama Tambien, '70s grindhouse horror, '30s German Expressionism, '50s Italian neorealism, '60s French Nouvelle Vague, old school Bollywood, anything by Godard, Kurosawa, Bergman, Wenders, Fassbinder, Ray, Hitchcock, Truffaut, Linklater
Project Runway, Arrested Development, South Park, Top Chef, Top Design, Shear Genius, America's Next Top Model, American Idol, The Flavor of Love, I Love New York
White Teeth, Midnight's Children, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Namesake
My parents, Arthur Athanason, Dixie Durr, Bjork, Megan Milota