Melissa, poststructuralist critical theory, cinema studies, experimental filmmaking, disinformation, apocalypse culture, the American experience, electronic music, polysexuality, Modern architecture and design, Los Angeles history, situationist politics, art photography, consciousness manipulation, theoretical physics, hiking and camping, environmental activism, OW racing, car crashes, Guinness, and guns.
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Among many others: Velvet Underground, MC5, Stooges, Kraftwerk, Crass, Flux of Pink Indians, Poison Girls, Rudimentary Peni, The Residents, Dead Kennedys, X, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Chris & Cosey, Kate Bush, Tackhead, Sonic Youth, Swans, Negativland, Public Enemy, Bjork, Massive Attack, Portishead, Autechre, Aphex Twin, Hybrid, Crystal Method, Pole, Thievery Corporation, Uberzone, Squarepusher, and the Chumbas.
Films of David Lynch, Peter Greenaway, Robert Altman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Orson Welles, David Cronenberg, Maya Deren, Jean-Luc Godard, John Cassavetes, Yasujiro Ozu, Terrence Malick, Stan Brakhage, Andrei Tarkovsky, Atom Egoyan, Lars von Trier, Federico Fellini, Todd Haynes, Yvonne Rainer, Kenneth Anger, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Derek Jarman, Stanley Kubrick, Werner Herzog, Chris Marker, Guy Maddin, Wong Kar-wai, David Gordon Green, Gus Van Sant, Sofia Coppola.
Frontline, Globetrekker, TCM.
Anything by William Shakespeare, William S. Burroughs, Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Pynchon, Marguerite Duras, Vladimir Nabokov, James Joyce, Georges Bataille, J.G. Ballard, Charles Bukowski, Angela Carter, Paul Bowles, Jean Genet, Hubert Selby, Jr., Philip K. Dick, Umberto Eco, Milan Kundera, Henry Miller, Raymond Chandler, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Joan Didion, Robert Anton Wilson, James Ellroy, Russell Banks, John Fante, William Gibson, Kathy Acker.
Some interesting folks, in no particular order: William S. Burroughs, Gee Vaucher, Marquis de Sade, Marcel Duchamp, Penny Rimbaud, Emma Goldman, Friedrich Nietzsche, Orson Welles, Andy Warhol, Jacques Derrida, Stan Brakhage, Genesis P. Orridge, Guy Debord, Abbie Hoffman, Judith Butler, Jock Sturges, Lenny Bruce, Joe Frank, Bjork, Bruce Nauman, Camille Paglia, Hunter S. Thompson, Brian Eno, Larry Flynt, Kathy Acker, Lebbeus Woods, Matthew Barney, Cosey Fanni Tutti.