Eccentric sports. Japanese things. Foreign languages. Good books, interesting places, kick-ass bands. Getting lost in countries in which my language skills are minimal. Asian proto-novels. Shoes for any mood. Retro-fied dance parties. Things I don't know about yet, but would like to learn.
People who'd like to have coffee. People who'd like to learn to play Go. People who'd like to get to know me.
And thus begins what may prove an infinitely long list:Deerhoof, Say Hi to Your Mom, Rogue Wave, Shiner, Elbow, Interpol, Eisely, The Unicorns, Bright Eyes, Death Cab for Cutie, I am Kloot, Kasabian, Mr. Pacman, Steve Burns, Citizen Cope, Sufjan Stevens, DJ Cam, Green Day, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, The Faint, My Chemical Romance, Hellogoodbye, Head Automatica, The Pillows, At the Drive-in, Belle and Sebastian, Black-Eyed Peas, Scarface, Too Short, Calexico, Elliott Smith, Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, Hum, NERD, Panjabi MC, The Smiths, Morrissey, Phoenix, The Arcade Fire, Wilco, Hawthorne Heights, Straylight Run, Wu-Tang Clan, Xiu Xiu, Basement Jaxx, Coheed and Cambria, Queen, God's Reflex, Talk Talk, Miyavi, The Clash, Bouncing Souls, Black Flag, Badly Drawn Boy, The Postal Service, Matthew Sweet, The New Amsterdams, Prince, Jackson Browne, Johnny Cash, U2 (the pre-cockpunch years), 3+, Devotchka, Bobby Bare Jr., Something Corporate, Tricky, Massive Attack, Radiohead, Rancid, Guided by Voices, deftones, Pulp, Superchunk, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Modest Mouse, Spoon, The Hives, The Vines, The Strokes, Oasis, Orbital, Dogs Die in Hot Cars, Air, The Music, Talking Heads, Jimmy Eat World, The Ravonettes, Bush, The Pixies, Goldfinger, My Morning Jacket, The Bad Plus, The White Stripes, The Minus 5, Uncle Tupelo, Paul Westerberg, the Replacements, Murder City Devils, Del the Funkyhomosapian, Grandaddy, Pete Yorn, Coldplay, Michael Franti, Fountains of Wayne, Jack Johnson, Fugazi, Minor Threat, UNKLE, DJ Shadow, Cap 'n' Jazz, The Dead Kennedeys, Sparta, The Mars Volta, Elvis Costello, Yoko Kanno, Oingo Boingo, The Cure, Weezer, Underworld, UnderOath, The Jayhawks, Sonny Rollins, Barry Adamson, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Atari Teenage Riot, Rae & Christian, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Squarepusher, Outkast, Johnny Winter, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Albert Collins, Freddy King, Elvis, Clifton Chenier, John Coltrane, Deconstruction, Polar Bear, The Dandy Warhols, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Pogues, Operation Ivy, Saul Williams, Mirwais, Toy Matinee, Dresden Dolls, SuperCat, Delroy Wilson, The Shins, REM, Filter, Everclear, Juliana Hatfield, PJ Harvey, Utah Saints, CIV, Portishead, Toad the Wet Sproket, Soul Coughing, Mike Doughty, Frank Black, Superchunk, Built to Spill, James Brown, Joy Division, The Cure, The Legendary Pink Dots, Nine Inch Nails, Jane's Addiction, Dave Navarro, The Jim Carroll Band, The Velvet Underground, Nico, Nick Drake, Taking Back Sunday, Sunny Day Real Estate, My Bloody Valentine, Starlight Mints, Animal Collective, Black Flag, The Germs, Nirvana, The Cramps, Mos Def, Depeche Mode, Black 47, IZ, This is Hell, Action Action, Magnetic Fields, Helmet, Snow Patrol, Califone, Trans AM, The Sea and Cake, The Zutons, The Thermals, Via Satellite, Scientific American.Eh, I'll put in more as shuffle back and forth between the CD-racks.
Kurosawa films. Beat Takeshi movies. Tarentino films and old John Woo movies (for entirely different reasons). Wes Anderson's stuff. Lilo and Stitch. Pirates of the Carribean.
More anime than you'd really like to discuss. South Park, The Boondocks. Other than that, I'm not much for television.
Right now: Cory Doctorow -- Eastern Standard Tribe, Tokitsu's masterful biography of Musashi, Richard II and enough papers to effectively carpet my apartment.Generally, I'm a huge Haruki Murakami, Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, Shakespeare, Homer, Richard Brautigan, and weird-ass English Renaissance play kind of guy.