Becoming more present, programming synths, playing guitar&piano, not isolating, accepting reality, string theory, taoism, 20th Century Russian orchestral music, web design, actually doing things instead of just talking about doing them someday
Jim O'Rourke, Thom Yorke, people in New York, Robert Bork, a charm-flavored quark, look out for Mr. Stork
Oxytocin, The Sea and Cake, Dmitri Shostakovich, Tortoise, Aphex Twin, Mouse on Mars, Sergei Prokofiev, G'n'F'n'R, Metallica (until 1993), Esquivel!, Amon Tobin, Jim O'Rourke, Manitoba, The Beatles, Bjork, Boards of Canada, Bogdan Raczynski, June of '44, Aeroplane Pageant, Slowlands, Heston Rifle, Outkast, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Rachels, Bela Bartok, Igor Stravinsky, Public Enemy, Will Oldham, Brad Mehldau, Captain Beefheart, David Bowie, Bobby Conn and the Glass Gypsies, Elliott Smith, Don Cab, Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fennesz, Frank Zappa, Parliament, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Phish, Rush, Husker Du, Leonard Cohen, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Joanna Newsom, John Adams, Steve Reich, Maurice Ravel, Kool Keith, Korn, MMW, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Velvet Underground, Pavement, Oval, Jane's Addiction, Radiohead, The Roots, Shipping News, Stereolab, Stevie Wonder, Wilco, Jimi Hendrix, Yes, Yo La Tengo, Yma Sumac, Beck, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Nobukazu Takemura, De La Soul, BlackStar, Nine Inch Nails, Johnny Cash, Astor Piazzola, F.X. Randomiz, Flaming Lips, Pixies, Velvet Underground, Giant Sand, J.S. Bach
2001: A Space Odyssey, Wet Hot American Summer, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, 12 Monkeys, Fight Club, 28 Days Later, Harold and Maude, Tron, Les Triplettes de Belleville, City of Lost Children, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Akira, Spirited Away, Royal Tenenbaums, The Big Lebowski, Adaptation, King Kong (2005), The Empire Strikes Back, Spiderman 2, The Karma Police, Shaun of the Dead
The Colbert Report, South Park, The Office, Wally George, World's Strongest Man, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Twin Peaks, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Robot Chicken, The State, Strangers With Candy, Lost, Metalocalypse, Mr. Show. . . Hopefully something else that doesn't make me look like as much of a nerd as the above shows
Infinite Jest, The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Barrel Fever, Me Talk Pretty One Day, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Mrs. Dalloway, V., Tao te Ching, Bhagavad Gita, Galapagos, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Cat's Cradle, The Sirens of Titan, Dune, The Stranger, The Plague, Infinite Jest, The Dirt
Jeffrey Wright, Jim O'Rourke, Elliott Smith, Dmitri Shostakovich, Steve Carrell, the staff of The Onion, Alan Watts, Ken Kesey, T. Houser, George Harrison, Khubilai Khan, Richard James, Naomi Watts, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., James Hinton, Andre 3000, Mary Louise Parker, Kurt Cobain, Paul Stepahin, ?uestlove, Jeff Tweedy, Dan Froomkin, Cate Blanchett, Stephen Colbert