Circus, fire arts, aerial dance, acrobatics, sideshow, contortion, mime, clowning, set design, music, sculpture, welding, mixed media, performance art, installations, spontaneous acts of a vaguely artistic nature, Playa del Fuego, traveling, poetry, costuming, Burning Man, anarchism, direct action, reptiles, literature, sociology, myth, squatting, radical self expression.
Anyone. Everyone. Freaks, dancers, spinners, aerialists, jugglers. Sideshow folk, circus folk, burlesque folk, theater geeks. If you want to run away and join the circus, I probably want to talk to you.
These categories make no damn sense. I haven't updated this in at least a year and don't care to. Suffice to say I listen to every genre of music from ever time period possible.
Industrial/ Trip-Hop/ Techno/ Dance/ Experimental/ Noise:
Squarepusher, Tweaker, Mouse on Mars, Einsturzende Neubauten, Ministry, The Sneaker Pimps, Lords of Acid, Peaches, Otto Von Schirach, Cyrusrex, The Chemical Brothers, Aphex Twin, Velvet Acid Christ, Skinny Puppy, Killing Joke, Benny Benassi, Project Pitchfork, Bile, Kraftwerk, Opiate for the Masses, Nine Inch Nails, The Metrosexuals, Spektralized, Hyperdex 1 Sect, Croc Shop, Gothminister, Assemblage 23, Stromkern, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Mindless Self Indulgence, Revolting Cocks, Covenant, The Prodigy, Front Line Assembly, Plastic Noise Experience, Zeromancer, Funker Vogt, Hanzel Und Gretyl, Marilyn Manson, Ohgr, Front 242, VNV Nation, Wumpscut, Portishead, Massive Attack, KMFDM/MDFMK.
Folk/ Indie/ Progressive/ Alternative/ Funk:
Mischief Brew, Clara Hendricks, Bob Dylan, the Indigo Girls, Johnny Cash, Joan Baez, Ani DiFranco, Dar Williams, The Rolling Stones, Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, The Blues Vultures, Mary Prankster, all the incarnations of Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Steppenwolf, Arlo Guthrie, The Smiths, Phil Ochs, Woody Guthrie, Canned Heat, Jefferson Airplane, Shannon Murray, all the Riot Folk people, The Flaming Lips, The Talking Heads, The Scissor Sisters, Spoon, Smashing Pumpkins, Jane's Addiction, The Pixies, Placebo, Tegan and Sarah, The Transplants, Soma Solution, Sublime, Pearl Jam, Mary Prankster, Regina Spektor, Zwan, Jeff Buckley, The Veils, Pedro The Lion, Le Tigre, Animal Collective, The Arcade Fire, The Blood Brothers, The Cocteau Twins, Ambulance LTD, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, They Might Be Giants, Deadsy, Sonic Youth, Buckcherry, m83, !!!, The Faint, The Cult, Beck, Kill Radio, Barenaked Ladies, Nautilus, 451, Telesma.
Composers/Classical musicians:
Bach, Bartok, Mahler, Paganini, Copland, Mussorgsky, Gershwin, Chopin, Ives, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Crumb, Dvorak, Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Berlioz, Wagner, Brahms, Cage, Debussy, Rouse, Glass, Prokofiev, Pablo Casals, Leon Fleischer, Yehudi Menuhin, Evgeny Kissin, Anner Bylsma, Peter Frankel.
Glam/Glitter rock/Glam Metal:
David Bowie, Queen, The New York Dolls, Brian Eno, Brian Ferry, Motley Crue, Hanoi Rocks, Faster Pussycat, Beautiful Creatures, Trash Light Vision, The Murderdolls, Robin Black and the Intergalactic Rock Stars, Bang Tango, Wednesday 13, Pretty Boy Floyd, the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack, T-Rex, Frankenstein Drag Queens from the Planet 13, The Peppermint Creeps, Cheap Trick, Mott the Hoople, Venus in Furs, Velvet Underground.
Metal (the rest of it):
Turbonegro, Tool, Dog Fashion Disco, Rob Zombie/White Zombie, John Lowery, Judas Priest, Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society, Buckethead, Rage Against the Machine, Andrew W.K., Motorhead, Danzig, The Plasmatics, Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver, Guns N' Roses, Type O Negative, Machine Head, Soil, Slayer, Alice Cooper, AC/DC, Freudian Slip, A Perfect Cricle, Alice In Chains, 40 Below Summer.
Jazz/Blues:
John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Chet Baker, Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis, Chick Corea, B. B. King, John Lee Hooker, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ray Charles, Etta James, Billie Holiday, Eric Clapton, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Henry Mancini, Janis Joplin.
Deathrock/Deathpunk/"Goth"/New Wave:
London After Midnight, Christian Death, Bauhaus, Depeche Mode, Samhain, The Dresden Dolls, Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Misfits, The Damned, Duran Duran, The Cure, The Pet Shop Boys, Fear Cult, Gary Numan, Devo, Death in June.
Punk/hardcore/psychobilly:
Iggy and the Stooges, Propaghandi, Operation Ivy, The Jam, The Descendants, Rasputina, Social Distortion, Bad Brains, The Circle Jerks, The Degnerettes, The Meteors, Seven Shot Screamers, A.F.I., Tiger Army, Suicidal Tendencies, The Cramps, Subhumans, Minor Threat, Bella Morte, The Exploited, The Adicts, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Black Flag, Mongoloidian Glow, Johnny Thunders, Billy Idol/Gen X, Mischief Brew.
Hip Hop/Dancehall/Reggae/Ska:
Zola, Pharcyde, NWA, Wu Tang Clan, Sean Paul, Matisyahu, Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Unknown Jeromes, The Elements, Reel Big Fish, Mystikal, Busta Rhymes, Jay-Z, Cypress Hill, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Sublime, The Specials, Naughty By Nature, Public Enemy.
Off the top of my head? John Waters, Almodovar, Stanley Kubrick, Kevin Smith, George A. Romero, David Lynch, Chris Marker, La Jete, DeadAlive, Shaun of the Dead, Grindhouse, Pan's Labyrinth, The Machinist, Requiem For A Dream, Velvet Goldmine, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Donnie Darko, Me and You and Everyone We Know, I <3 Huckabees, Amelie, Benny and Joon, The Hebrew Hammer, Labyrinth, Saved!, Elvira, Chocolat, Quills, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Enron; the Smartest Guys in the Room, Bowling for Columbine, Contact, Todo Sobre Mi Madre (All About My Mother) Candyman, The Devil's Backbone... alot more. I can't list 'em all.
So many more than I can list here. At the moment:
Audre Lord- "Zami"
Anne Carson- "Autobiography of Red"
E.L. Doctorow- "Ragtime"
Reinaldo Arenas- "Before Night Falls" "Farewell to the Sea"
Jeffrey Eugenides- "Middlesex"
Neil Gaiman- "American Gods" "Anansi Boys" "Neverwhere"
Philip K. Dick- "A Scanner Darkly" "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
John Perkins- "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man"
Italo Calvino- "Six Memos for the Next Millennium"
Salman Rushdie- "The Satanic Verses" "Shalimar the Clown"
Douglas Adams- "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy"