"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."
- Alan Watts
DISINFORMATION
fUSION Anomaly
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Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension
Music
(must feed the iPod every day or I suffer seizures) all kinds....classical, ambient, world, DJ, noize, funk, hip-hop, electronic, fusion, avant garde, pop, rock, you get the idea
Film
If it messes with my head, makes me laugh or makes me feel like I've grown as a person from watching it, I tend to like it
Books
Fiction & non
Foodstuff
The hotter the better (Thai, Korean, Indian), sushi, SAKE!!!
Art
Some of my favorite contemporary artists are James Koehnline , Alex Grey , Tomato , Paul Laffoley
Also, Philosophy ; Psychedelics ; Public transportation (which I hear they actually have in other cities...)
Culture Jamming
in all of its forms
Above all else, I appreciate
FREEDOM
(of speech, sexuality, creativity - anything that doesn't hurt another person/people)
Douglas Rushkoff , Grant Morrison , Genesis P-Orridge , Bill Laswell , George Carlin , The Wachoski's , H.H. The Dalai Lama
Animal Collective, Anja Garbarek, Aphex Twin, Apples In Stereo, Arcade Fire, Arto Lindsay, Beastie Boys, Belle And Sebastian, Ben Neill, Bernie Worrel, Beth Orton, Bill Laswell in his many guises, Bjork, Blur, Brian Eno, Broken Social Scene, Buckethead, Cake, Calexico, Camper Van Beethoven, Dan The Automator, Danielson, David Bowie, Dead Can Dance, Death Cab For Cutie, Deerhoof, Del Tha Funky Homosapien, Depeche Mode, DJ Q bert, DJ Revolution, DJ Soul Slinger, DJ Spooky, Drum -N- Bass, Dub, Echo & The Bunnymen, Foetus, Fridge, Future Sound of London/Amorphous Androgynous, Gang Of Four, Gavin Bryars, Gnarls Barkley, Gnarls Barkley, Godpseed You Black Emperor!, Gorillaz, Harold Budd, Ian Brown, Interpol, Invisible Skratch Picklz, John Frusciante, John Zorn, Joy Division, Jungle, Kasabian, Kodo, Lamb, Laurie Anderson, LCD Soundsystem, Les Claypool, Lisa Germano, Lori Carson, M.I.A., Mates Of State, Mike Ladd, Mike Patton, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, My Bloody Valentine, Negativland, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Order, Of Montreal, Ozric Tentacles, Panda Bear, Pete Namlook/FAX Records, Pinback, Poe, Pop Will Eat Itself, Portishead, Primal Scream, Psychick TV, R. Carlos Nakai, Radiohead, Rainer Maria, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Refused, REM, Ride, Scorn, Shpongle, Shriekback, Sigur Ros, Sondre Lerche, Soundgarden, Soundtrack Of Our Lives, Spacemen 3, Spectrum, Spiritualized, Stars of the Lid, Stephen Merritt, Stereolab, Steve Roach, System Of A Down, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, The Butthole Surfers, The Buzzcocks, The Clash, The Dead Kennedys, The Dead Milkmen, The Faint, The Fall, The Flaming Lips, The Golden Palominos, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Orb, The Pixies, The Pogues, The Postal Service, The Ramones, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, The Streets, The Twilight Singers, The White Stripes, They Might Be Giants, They Might Be Giants, Tom Waits, Tricky, TV On The Radio, Underworld, Vidna Obmana, Weezer, Wire, XTC, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2001 A Space Odyssey, 24 Hour Party People, Akira, Akira Kurosawa - Dreams, Alfred Hitchcock, All Coen Brothers, American Beauty, American Splendor, Angela's Ashes, Baxter, Blade Runner, City of Lost Children, Clerks, Dead Poets Society, Delicatessen, Donnie Darko, Dr. Strangelove, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (or anything else by Terry Gilliam for that matter), Fight Club, Following, Freaks, Ghost in the Shell, Ghostworld, Harvey, Hellraiser, Henry Fool (any Hal Hartley), In the Mouth of Madness, Jacob's Ladder, Jim Jarmusch, Leolo, Lost in Translation, Magnolia, Man Bites Dog, Memento, Michel Gondry, Mindwalk, My Dinner With Andre, Naked Lunch, Orson Welles, Pieces of April, Requiem for a Dream, Run Lola Run, Seven Samurai, Spiderman 1-3, Spike Jonze, Spirited Away, Stand By Me, The Butcher Boy, The Fisher King, The Fountain, The Matrix Trilogy, The Orphanage , The Shawshank Redemption, The Silence of the Lambs, The Usual Suspects, Trainspotting, Triplets of Belleville, Twelve Monkeys, Unbreakable, Willie Wonka, X-Men/X-2/X-3...
Adult Swim, All In The Family, Carnivale, Da Ali-G Show, Dave Chappelle, LOST, M.A.S.H., Mr. Show, Oz, Six Feet Under, SNL, Tenacious D, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, The X-Files, too much news, Top Chef, Twin Peaks, Weeds...
FICTION:
Angela's Ashes, Brave New World, Catcher in the Rye, Children of God, Fight Club, Flatland, Geek Love, H.P. Lovecraft, House of Leaves, Island, Journey to the East, Love Medicine, Narcissus and Goldmund, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Siddartha, Slaughterhouse Five, The Acid House, The Diamond Age, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Illuminatus Trilogy, The Plot To Save Socrates [Paul Levinson], The Sparrow, Tropic of Orange
NONFICTION:
Joseph Campbell - The Power of Myth, The Hero with a Thousand Faces; David Toop - Exotica, Ocean of Sound; Terence McKenna - Food of the Gods; Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception & The Perrenial Philosophy; Jean-Paul Sartre, Stanislav Grof - LSD Psychotherapy; Leary/Metzner/Weil - The Psychedelic Reader; Masters & Houston - The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience; Robert Anton Wilson - Cosmic Trigger; Prometheus Rising; Christopher S. Hyatt - Undoing Yourself with Energized Meditation; Hakim Bey - T.A.Z. & Immediatism; Aleister Crowley - 777; Will Durant - The Story of Philosophy; D.T. Suzuki - Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind; Alan Watts -
anything...; William James - The Varieties of Religious Experience; Irwin - The Matrix and Philosophy; Naomi Klein - No Logo; Huston Smith - The World's Religions; Russ Kick - You Are Being Lied To; Marshall McLuhan - The Gutenberg Galaxy, Essential McLuhan; John DeGraaf - Affluenza; David Jay Brown & Rebecca Novick - Mavericks of the Mind; Marilyn Ferguson - The Aquarian Conspiracy; Robert M. McChesney - Rich Media, Poor Democracy; Henry David Thoreau - Civil Disobedience; Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self Reliance
COMICS:
The Invisibles, Transmetropolitan, The Watchmen
Socrates , Martin Luther King Jr. , Ghandi, Joseph Campbell , Timothy Leary (I actually met him once) , Terence McKenna , Aldous Huxley , Allen Ginsberg , H.H. The Dalai Lama