l'esprit de l'escalier, objects for those gauche, furniture and packaging design, fashion (sartorial significance), predictive text, large scale typography, origami, programming, reciprocity, design mags, [subtle] design that reinvents, boxes, world affairs, making models, making out, npr, converse, the longnow, human-computer interaction, notes on napkins & backs of envelopes, wool pants, sockless naps, ads / ad slander, sending links, sometimes decoupage, nabaztag
ideawomen, ideamen
and michael krasney, still
piano magic, neworder / joy division, chameleons, mbv, stranglers, ride, adorable, disco inferno, lush, labradford, catherine wheel, sisters of mercy, biff bang pow!, lansing-dreiden, spacemen3, ned's atomic dustbin, moose, cocteau twins, wild swans, camouflage, celebrate the nun, charlatans, verve, def jux, jamc, the shins, section25, explosions in the sky, moev, massive attack, clientele, mf doom, mobb deep, and also the trees, sad lovers and giants, stockholm monsters, the names, for against, magnetic fields, squeeze, breathless, lowlife, xtc, essence, boards of canada, boo radleys, cut copy, depeche, erasure, iron&wine, orange cake mix, orange juice, clan of xymox, renegade soundwave, sea and cake, the arms of someone new, 17 pygmies, southern death cult, naked eyes, cetu javu, savage republic, the avalanches, omd, rem, cvb, dcd, tmbg, blur, suede, the wake, post-punk, shoegaze, synthpop, britpop, 12inches @ 45rpm || soulseek
real genius. and... wong kar wai, hitchcock, cronenberg, greenaway, leigh, ozu, tati, bette davis, dogme95, british new wave, documentaries, etc.
the new yankee workshop, alan partridge, deadwood, the wire, arrested development, family guy, prisoner, matlock, young ones, absolutely fabulous, strangers with candy, red dwarf, frontline, pete and pete
raise high the roof beam carpenters, the magic mountain, little prince, envisioning information (tufte), murakami, lahiri, rss feeds, NEST, wallpaper, the economist, maeda, tintin, barth, d. mitchell, delillo
my mom, raymond loewy, saul bass, erik nitsche, neville brody, hussein chalayan, john maeda, antonio gaudi, tagore