sweat, skepticism, staring in wonder and curiosity, bikes, books, tools, honesty, math, perspective, not eating dead animals, fixing things, seeing shapes in clouds, other people's garbage, defeating security mechanisms, mystery, libraries, kukicha, disassembly, climbing over obstacles instead of walking around them, fuji pro 800z, not being intimidated by technology, and lots more!
anyone who hasn't given up
so much! descendents, illusion of safety, 7seconds, boy kicks girl, my bloody valentine, aesop rock, godflesh, aphex twin, new order, ladytron, blondie, adult., 2pac, dirty three, modest mouse, sonic youth, tortoise, acid mothers temple, depeche mode, gy!be, dsch, janis joplin, the cure, pet shop boys, kmfdm, kraftwerk, belly, fad gadget, prefuse 73, misfits, ace of base, garbage, busdriver, rem, joy division, ochre, lauryn hill, notorious big, any and all japanese GS bands, death in vegas, CCR, autechre, jonathan richman, death from above 1979, eminem, subhumans, mogwai, seefeel, leonard cohen, gravediggaz, government warning, bomb 20, solaris earth pipeline, metric, and an ever-expanding list of others
knife in the water, notorious, charade, dog day afternoon, ronin, war games, back to the future 2, the breakfast club, the conversation, casino, sneakers, blow-up, chinatown, blade runner, glengarry glen ross, jackie brown, rififi, ghostbusters, real genius, all the presidents' men, the falcon and the snowman, don't tell mom the babysitter's dead, labyrinth, three days of the condor, who framed roger rabbit?
life's too short for that
some people: horace mccoy, bruno latour, iain sinclair, chester himes, david sedaris, erving goffman, christopher andrew, avital ronell, hunter s thompson, doug hofstadter, william gibson before virtual light, j g ballard, f scott fitzgerald, sir arthur conan doyle, thomas merton, james ellroy, donald e knuth
recently notable: miranda july, "no one belongs here more than you"; michael young, "the rise of the meritocracy"; joyce cary, "the horse's mouth"; gustave flaubert, "madame bovary"; john sewell, "shape of the city: toronto struggles with modern planning"; ken ichigawa, " do you suck as well as fuck? "; bruno latour, " aramis: or the love of technology "; e m forster, "a passage to india"