Music:
"ESTA OBSESSÃO ESTÃ-ME A ROER" ROCK- captain beefheart, the clash, zappa & M.O.I, jimi hendrix, stereolab, the beatles, the stooges, velvet underground, tortoise, can, the pixies, the minutemen, sleater-kinney, bob dylan(early stuff only!), fiery furnaces, joy division, don caballero/battles, NUGGETS-era psych/garage, late70s-early80s Punk & New-Whatever, psych-kraut-space-rock, 'Noise'-Core (esp. Japan), some Indie-Freak Songwriters JAZZ- miles davis, ornette coleman, charles mingus, sun ra, john zorn, john coltrane, peter brotzmann/last exit, ken vandermark, ganelin trio, dave douglas, don cherry, rahsaan roland kirk, Bebop (pre65, before it got old), 60s BLUE NOTE, Thirsty Ear's Blue Series, NY Downtown, some Big Band & Third Stream BEATS- DJ shadow, public enemy, prefuse 73, sage francis/non-prophets, madlib + his many AKAs, the coup, old NINJA TUNE, DEF JUX, ANTICON, james brown, funkadelic, toots & the maytals, lee 'scratch' perry, mf doom NON-WESTERN/ENGLISH- fela kuti, nusrat fateh ali khan, tom zé e as tropicalistas do Brasil (e os baianos), lots of Indian & West African music ELETRONIC- squarepusher, mouse on mars, aphex twin, jaga jazzist, WARP, ricardo villalobos ROOTS-SONGWRITERS- tom waits, john fahey, muddy waters, howlin' wolf, Delta & Chicago blues, old british folk music, some alt-country COMPOSERS- stravinsky, reich, early-mid 20th century French & German composers, some minimalists
Movies:
"ESSE FILME VALE A PENA VER DE NOVO" most of the Coen Brothers movies- Fargo, The Hudsucker Proxy, No Country For Old Men, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Barton Fink, Raising Arizona - are favorites. Anything by Stanley Kubrick - Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Lolita - is a favorite too. also, Wings of Desire, Until The End Of The World, Mystery Train, Down By Law, Taxi Driver, Psycho & any Hitchcock movie starring Jimmy Stewart (Rope, Vertigo, Rear Window...), This Is Spinal Tap, Best In Show, Waiting For Guffman, The 3 Monty Python movies, the early Pink Panther & other Peter Sellers movies, Some Like It Hot, The Seven Year Itch, Waking Life, Before Sunrise, The Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Ran, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ironweed (Jack Nicholson is the shit; like lots of his films), Get Carter, Alfie, Lost In Translation, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Casa de Areia, Nobody Knows, In My Father's Den, Goodnight & Goodluck, The Shawshank Redemption, Persepolis, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Le Quatre Cents Coups....i won't even begin to mention the many documentaries i think are outstanding and necessary viewing....
Television:
"GERALMENTE, EU ADORMEÇO EM FRENTE DA TELEVISÃO" cartoons on "adult swim" (Sealab 2021, The Boondocks, Family Guy, Robot Chicken, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, etc)... occassionally i watch the news, documentaries, movies and The Simpsons. once in a while I watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report on YouTube
Books:
"VIRO AS PÃGINAS DESTES LIVROS COM PRAZER" Kurt Vonnegut, Ernest Hemmingway, Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac, Franz Kafka, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (and other Magic Realism stuff), Dom DeLillo, Lester Bangs (and other music criticism), allen ginsberg (and other Beat poetry). lots of Eastern poetry & philosophy. but in recent years, most of what i has been historical, sociological, political....the obvious 'classic', "a people's history of the united states" by Zinn, is a favorite. so are "corporation nation" by Charles Derber, "makes me wanna holler" by Nathan McCall, "one palestine, complete" by Tom Segev & others by Jean Beaudrillard, Neal Postman & Noam Chomsky.