urban wilderness, procrastination, akrobatics (physical and lyrical), beauty, breakbeats, the strange & obscure, Post Modern Fiction, multicultural/immigrant/expat lit, synesthesia, generative grammar, lithographs, contrasts, convergences, TRAVEL, grassroots, philosophy, existentialism, socialism, revolution, world domination...
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!†-Kerouac
old school early nineties hip hop, jean greasy, erykah badu, mighty mos, kweli, lauryn, masta ace, aceyalone, mr. lif, wordsworth, immortal tech, pharoahe monch, dilla, automator, del, blackalicious, common, lupe!, cunninlynguists, esoteric, nas, hova, common, meshell, floetry, de la, prince, al green, stevie wonder, ella fitzgerald, billie holiday, cody chestnutt, aaliyah, mary J, janet, missy, mariah, corrine bailey rae, rachael yamagata, control machete, cafe tacuba, molotov, julieta venegas, la oreja de van gogh, serge gainsbourg, brigitte bardot, tom jobim, BI, 1tym, dj doc, jinusean, big mama, hweesung, and all sorts of bubblegum K pop.currently on rotation: Nouvelle Vague, Blonde Redhead, Cocorosie, TV on the Radio, K-Os, Kenn Starr, 7L & Esoteric, Zap Mama, Pauline Croze, Badu, Mos Def, and Wordsworth... lots of Wordsworth
fight club, memento, dogma, waking life, adaptation, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, amelie, smokers only, amores perros, city of god, motorcycle diaries, princess and the warrior, goodbye lenin!, godfather 1, 2, 3, carlitos way, scarface, the edukators, morvern callar, scanner darkly, in the realms of the unreal.
people of paper, lolita, unbearable lightness of being, love in the time of cholera, their eyes were watching god, white teeth, blink, everything is illuminated, adventures of kavalier and clay, life of pi, moors last sigh, how to be alone, speaking with the angels, best nonRequired fiction04/06, Indigo (kwon, shin-a), anything by sedaris or etgar keret, moon and sixpence, the razors edge, caramelo, howards end, on beauty, inheritance of loss, shantaram, nigger of the narcissus, http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm
Richard Buckminster Fuller, Warren Buffett