Urban photography, Tarot cards, Qabalah, my hometown Grand Rapids, techno and electronic music, DJ's, writing poetry, mysticism, being a flaneur, singing, female and male impersonation, "living large", Oberlin College, vodka, wine, sacramental blackberry wine, kosher loganberry wine, Bosch paintings, Venician Carnival masks, random bouts of unemployment, Bob Barker's Girls, bungalow homes from the 1910's, Rose and stories about St. Olef, "taking it in the face", Berry's Restaurant in Norwalk, The Feve, albino squirrels, Amish people, surrealistic highway back-ups, The Wheaton Inn, Roscoe and Halstead, Polish surrealist poster art, crashing after-bar parties, "The Life and Times of Dirty Dave", yiffing artwork, Joan Miro, and dancing on the concrete supports of expressways.
All the crazies, crusties, shameless hussies, sluts, dealers, dopers, dancers and hard-to-pleasers . . . Drag queens, dancefloor fanatics, drum-and-bass fascinators, the Djs and acid house-freakers of tomorrow, anyone in love with the idea of dark lights and musical experiences on highways at 4AM. If you love abandoned buildings where love is expressed in spray paint, rusted cans kicked down alleys while walking hand-in-hand, Roots Manurva at 3AM with champaigne and red lights in comfy couches, and those special places in cities only you know about and you go to escape the madness of capitalist society and waste . . . Meet me at MS76 in Eastown, we'll talk more later.
Groove Armada, Basement Jaxx, Fatboy Slim, Aphex Twin, The Chemical Brothers, Blank and Jones, Daft Punk, Royksopp, High Contrast, Logistics, Orb, Orbital, Underworld, Lamb, Thievery Corporation, DreamTheater, Apoptygama Berserk, VNV Nation, Rammstein, M People, Dubtribe Sound System, DJ Tiesto, DJ Shadow, iiO, Darrude, DJ Irene, DJ Encore, DJ Sammy, Benny Benasi, The Crystal Method, Everything But The Girl, Cabaret Voltaire, Cocteau Twins, Pet Shop Boys, Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Auterche, Faithless, Paul Oakenfold, Ananda Project, Danny Tenaglia, Shape:UK, VERVE Remixed, Bjork, Depeche Mode, New Order, Bauhaus, Kraftwerk, Devotchka, Pixies, Bright Eyes, Sonic Youth, Mogwai, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blackalicious, Dialated Peoples, Aesop Rock, Peanut Butter Wolf, A Tribe Called Quest, Slick Rick, SWV, En Vogue, Blackstreet, Salt 'n' Peppa, TLC, CeCe Penniston, Anita Baker, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Africa Bambatta, Silk, New Edition, AL B. Sure, Keith Sweat, Jodeci, Boyz II Men, Jade, Sade, Blackbox, Spagna, Sweet Connection, Crystal Waters, Quad City DJ's, La Bouche, Real McCoy, C & C Music Factory, Martha Wash, Felix, Kraze, The Style Council, ABC, Cheryl Lynn, Erasure, Gnarles Barkley, Danger Mouse, Atmosphere, Sergei Rachmaninov, Sergei Prokofiev, J.S. Bach, Frederic Chopin, Philip Glass, Aaron Copeland, Virgil Thompson, Astor Piazzolla, Herbie Hancock, Ramsey Lewis, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, Scott Joplin . . . And Iron Maiden.
Amelie, A Beautiful Thing, Blade, Fantasia, Metropolis, Mujeres al Borde de un ataque de nervios, Sin City, Labyrinth, Cleopatra (with Miz Taylor!), The Others, The Cell, Jurassic Park.
The Golden Girls, The World of David The Gnome, Thundercats, old Hercule Poirot mystery series, old-school Mickey Mouse Club from the 1950's, The ORIGINAL Price Is Right (screw Drew Carey!), Shirt Tails, and The Hair Bear Bunch.
Authors loved and found include: Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Josef Skvorecky, Jose Saramago, Robert Musil, Gunter Grass, Jack Kerouac, Bertolt Brecht, David Sedaris, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Anna Akhmatova, Juan Goytisolo, Reinaldo Arenas, Pablo Neruda, and Neil Gaiman.