Walking. Light. Warmth. Endless days. Dreamless sleep. Insane prophets. The past. The future. Pattern recognition. Your thoughts. Late night phone calls. Old guitars. Trying. Giving up. Hope. Failure.
The blessed, the sacred, the damned, the holy, the profane, the liars, the mystics, the angels, the devils, the royal, the dirt-poor, the Vagabonds, the Patrons, the justified, the ancient, the weird, the wailing, the joyous, the guy who has the good Ecstasy, the illuminated, the lost child, the broken, the fixed, the fragile, the unbreakable, the random, the hellbound, the hopeful.
Also: Riot Becky.
RECENT LISTENING: liars, king loser, the twilight sad, boris, maserati, gong, the pipettes, the voodoo organist, the sundays
FOREVER: acid mothers temple, velvet underground, do make say think, underworld, ghost, captured by robots, broken social scene, spiritualized, joy division, the legendary pink dots, sun city girls, joan jett, iron and wine, dead meadow, labradford, the real tuesday weld, devendra banhart, xiu xiu, interpol, annie, the kills, bauhaus, mono, jane's addiction, mercury rev, arab strap, a silver mt. zion, the jesus and mary chain, polyphonic spree, love and rockets, arcade fire, sonic youth, the beta band, mogwai, guitar wolf, the streets, pulp, negativland, black heart procession, the new year, godspeed you! black emperor, pink floyd, cabaret voltaire, explosions in the sky, swervedriver, neutral milk hotel, cat power, the beatles, the cramps, pavement, future sound of london, sisters of mercy, nick cave, bob dylan, public enemy, the smiths, yo la tengo, psychic TV, bright eyes, the boredoms, red house painters, belle and sebastian, skinny puppy, the rolling stones, dead kennedys, front 242, DJ krush, third eye foundation, dirty three, trans am, tricky, flaming lips, TV on the radio, happy mondays, the for carnation, +more
Lots of Japanese stuff: NANA, One Missed Call, the Booth, Wild Zero, Battle Royale, Hidden Fortress, Cure, Stacy...
Otherwise: Holy Mountain, Six String Samurai, Zentropa, Jesus of Montreal, Begotten, Sex Lies and Videotape, Love and Human Remains, Waking Life, Bodies Rest and Motion, Time Code, Loaded, Garden State, all of Wes Anderson's, Simon King of the Witches, anything by Hal Hartley (especially The Unbelievable Truth, Trust, Simple Men and Henry Fool), Angel Heart, Citizen Kane, any Tarantino flick, Tromeo and Juliet, David Lynch.
Japanese dramas: The sad ones like Nobuta Wo Produce, Great Teacher Onizuka, Kurosagi.
Anime: Sappy stuff like Risky/Safety and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
Basically I like sad things.
Otherwise: Heroes, Trailer Park Boys. I don't really watch TV.
Irvine Welsh, Neal Stephenson, Tom Robbins, Neil Gaiman, William Gibson, Philip K. Dick, Vonnegut, Robert Anton Wilson, Terry Pratchett, Michael Swanwick, etc
Aleister Crowley, Jesus, Buddha, David Blaine, Terrence McKenna, Tim Leary