Game programming, black holes, God, muzak
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Auto Escape, Arcade Fire, Silversun Pickups, Beastie Boys, Queen, Radiant, Neil Young, My Bloody Valentine, The Hourly Radio, B52s, Magic Numbers, Emiliana Torrini, Buck 65, The Ramones, Angels and Airwaves, Sebastian Tellier, Villains, Burning Hotels, Black Tie Dynasty, The Demigs, Prince, Michael Jackson, Soundgarden, Death From Above 1979, The Cure, New Order, Echo and the Bunnymen, Sonic Youth, Captain Clyde, The Early Tapes, The Postal Service, Air, Mazzy Star, Blink 182, Tortoise, Portishead, New Order, Warren Mills/Western Sparks/Marvel the King/Model UN, Lauryn Hill, The Cure, Bangarang, Morrissey, The Smiths, U2, Deathcab For Cutie, Duran Duran, Ben Folds Five, Radiohead, Depeche Mode, Sex Pistols, Jesus and Mary Chain, Brian Eno, The New Horizons, The Dicks, Dandy Warhols, BJM, Velvet Underground, Black Flag, Modest Mouse, Sparta, Silverchair, The Dissociatives, Green T and the Sushi Platter, Incubus, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Kinks, The Who, Tom Petty, Nine Inch Nails, Bob Dylan, At the Drive-in, Mars Volta, Joy Division, Marilyn Manson, System of a Down, Slipknot, Panic at the Disco, Fallout Boy, Soul Coughing, Supergrass, Super Furry Animals, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Flaming Lips, Butthole Surfers, Simon & Garfunkel, My Chemical Romance, Fiona Apple, Thelonious Monk, Chick Corea, Miles, Coltrane, Parker, Ella, Louis, Sinatra, Bill Evans, Jon Brion, David Bowie, Beck, Pavement, Rancid, Chris Coats, Jamiroquai, Zeppelin, Stones, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles, Shannon Wright, Carla Bruni, Ambulance, Greatness in Tragedy, SouthFM, Circulatory System, Elliot Smith, Hot Hot Heat, Muse, Coldplay, Mutematwh, Rachmaninov, Debussy, Beethoven, Nobuo Uematsu, John Williams, Squarepusher, Blood Brothers, Midlake, Envoy, Hendrick, Gorillaz, The Books, Pixies, where does it end...
Games Day of the Tentacle , Full Pipe, Zork I-III, Loom, Monkey Island, King's Quest, Quest for Glory, Doom, Half-Life, Zelda, Final Fantasy 1-9, Megaman, Warcraft II, Secret of Mana, Bomberman, Mario Kart, Street Fighter II, Ms. Pacman, Q-Bert, Tetris
The Life Aquatic, Brazil, Monty Python Holy Grail, Fearless Freaks, Lost in Translation, Rocky Horror, Fifth Element, Anchorman, Everything Is Illuminated, Lord Of The Rings, The Song Remains The Same, Searching For Bobby Fisher, Toy Story, Finding Nemo, The Princess Bride, Napoleon Dynamite, Return to Oz, Lord of the Rings and anything with Christopher Walken
Painting with Bob Ross. Fawlty Towers. Dexter's Lab before they freakin changed the voices and ruined it. The Cosby Show reruns. Southpark sometimes. Anything with that dude who does the "lifestyles of the rich and famous" voice. TV static.
Graphics Programming Black Book (Michael Abrash). A Brief History of Time. Lord of the Rings trilogy, Harry Potter, A Wrinkle in Time, Jurassic Park, Where the Sidewalk Ends, anything by Dr. Seuss, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Goodnight Moon, Clifford the Big Red Dog, anything by C.S. Lewis, anything by Francis Schaeffer, The Giver, Zen of Assembly Language, my Indian cookbook.
Nathie, Jon Brion, Bob Ross, Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Jacques Cousteau, John Carmack, Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Steven Drozd, David Firth, Frankenfurter, Donatello (the turtle), Buzz Lightyear, Frodo Baggins, Ben Mayer