Strange loops, mythology, magicalization of the mundane, Macchu Picchu, Sun Wu Kong, Mt. St. Helens, desiring machines, reduction sauces, precession of simulacra, Egon Schiele, utopia, dystopia, translation, AI, Cotes du Rhone, vagabonding, foreign language, Zoroastrianism, cello, belligerent imperialist capitalism, intimacy through antagonism, intimacy through compassion, my brother, bioethics, the future or lack thereof, Mexico, children, etre tj ivre (au sens baudelairien), Paris, Prague, my friends.
Shostakovich, Bach, Jolie Holland, Animal Collective, Degenerate Art Ensemble, Sonic Brat, Leonard Cohen, Roger Miller, Tchaikovsky, Robert Johnson, Goran Bregovic, Bartok, Woody Guthrie, Suzanne Vega, The Pope, Ah Holly Fam'ly, Microphones, The Blow, Mozart, etc. ad nauseam
Petersburg, El Mono Gramatico, Rayuela, La guerre, La peste, Der Verwandlung, Journey to the West, Cien años de soledad, the Tin Drum, Sometimes a Great Notion, Everything is Illuminated, The Adventures of Augie March, Pedro Paramo, le Città Invisibili............ currently learning Greek and reading Gary Lutz.
Clarence Darrow, Alex the parrot