Ambient sound, sailing, languages, quantum mechanics, beautiful confusion, film, prepared piano, rhythm, calculus, minimalism, surrealism, art in the world, art on the wall, music as both of the previous, love, impromptu philosophy.
Jan Svankmajer.
Blonde Redhead, Astor Piazzolla, Radiohead, NIN, Bjork, D'Angelo, Mum, Carla Bozulich, Nels Cline, Weezer, Brad Mehldau, Frank Zappa, Coldplay, Sebastian Craig, Chopin, Sigur Ros, CURRENTLY LISTENING TO: HERMETO PASCOAL!!! Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Deerhoof, Brian Eno and David Byrne, Silversun Pickups. AMAZING BANDS OF FRIENDS: Fairmona, Hour of the Shipwreck, Joe Napolitano, The Switch, B.R.A.M.
8 1/2, The White Diamond, Grizzly Man, (perhaps anything by Werner Herzog?) The Truman Show, Magnolia, The Return (russian), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, American History X, Memento, DIG, (Anything by Pedro Almodovar!) La Dolce Vita, Wild Strawberries, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, Ratcatcher, The Prototype, Fitzcarraldo. (all the short films by Jan Svankmajer!)
Sharp, 25 inch.
A Confederacy of Dunces, East of Eden, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Brave New World, Lolita, The White Mountains series, The World According to Garp, A Handmaid's Tale, Hamlet, Einsteins' Theory of Realtivity, The Merchant of Venice, Anything Vonnegut, Tonal Harmony by Kostka and Payne, Waiting for Godot. Endgame.
Cline. Mehldau. Yorke. Bjork. Ignatius J. Reilly. Anyone who finishes something.