Yaffa's, konkrete, unreliable narrators, barn maintenance, seratonin, nutmeg, my hilarious parents, my fannypack, ginger, rollerblading, swimming, zeugma, smart anarchists, drinking sparxx and watching action movies, free shit, costumes and the activities that necessitate them, manicheism, unlimited semiosis, being inept, drugs, sex, guns, that kind of thing
Some of my friends are brilliant. Some of my friends are sketchy. My very best friends are brilliant and sketchy. I would like to meet more of the same.
Four Tet, Jen Mas, Nick Drake, Philip Glass, Entrance, Ming & FS, South Rakkas, Son House, The Smashing Pumpkins, Leadbelly, Holly Golightly, the Violent Femmes, Woody McBride, The White Stripes, DJ 187, DJ Spooky, The Clash, The Fiery Furnaces, Aretha Franklin, John Fahey, Johnny Lee Hooker, PJ Harvey, Tommyknocker, Boom Bip, Reverend Gary Davis, Z Trip, The Fugees as well as Lauryn and Wyclef as solo artists, Sleater Kinney, Mephiskapheles, Cocorosie, Diplo, Fridge, Jane's Addiction, Blind Melon, Imperial Teen, Ananda Shankar, DJ HowHard, Freaky Flow, Subfocus, Fresh, DJ Soul(soundscapesoundscapesoundscape)Slinger, The Gossip, Le Tigre, Chemical Brothers, MIA, Fat Boy Slim, Cannibal Ox, Tonedef, Jean Grae, The Prodigy, The Beatles, DJ Dara, The Pixies, Neutral Milk Hotel, Ursula 1000, Mugwump, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Solomon Burke, Ciara, Leftover Crack, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Lightnin' Hopkins, The Velvet Underground, Aphrodite, John B, The Macalester College African Music Ensemble, The Glass House Band, Kid 606, Trina, The Breeders, RJD2, Iron and Wine, Amon Tobin, Placebo, Leo Kottke, 45 Theives, Upbeats, Dusty Springfield, Dave Van Ronk, Missy Elliot, Lesbians on Ecstasy, Pendulum, DJ Nikko, DJ Rekha, Stereo Total, DJ C, Enduser, Bass Nacho, Shitmat, Anjelique Kidjo, Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, The Books, Portishead, David Bowie, Andy C, Thunderheist, Yo Majesty, Warrior Queen, The New Pornographers, Bukka White, Prefuse 73, Spiritualized, Gang of Four, shit they play at KAADATT and of course The World! Inferno! Friendship Society!
It changes a lot. Notes on a Scandal, In the Valley of Elah, The Squid and the Whale, Mysterious Skin, Jackie Brown, Salo, Battle Royale, Human Traffic, Blade, Blade Runner, Run Lola Run, Hackers, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, X-Men 2, Wet Hot American Summer, The Royal Tennenbaums, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill 1 and 2, All About Eve, Dark Passage, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Sewing Circle, stuff with muppets, stuff with Lauren Bacall
Most of you have seen this already, but some of you maybe haven't. I'm not willing to take that chance:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvtDD98rK-o
This also changes a lot. Books/authors I especially like would be: Confederacy of Dunces, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, The End of Beauty, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fury, Franny and Zooey, Skinny Legs and All, Parable of the Talents, Indigo, Wicked, House of Leaves, Joe Turner Has Come and Gone, Letters From the Earth, Indecison, All The King's Men, The Sandman, Midnight's Children, Little/Big, The Baron in the Trees, Beloved, Peter Singer, The Illuminatus! Trilogy and the following Schroedinger's Cat books, The Golden Compass, Dune, Neverwhere, Tom Stoppard, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Sound and the Fury, W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, Lolita, Pale Fire, The Piano Lesson, Susan Sontag, James Joyce, The Beggar Maid, Sylvia Plath, Jorie Graham, Gwendolyn Brooks, The Magic Mountain, Autobiography of Red, Written on the Body, On Beauty, Cloud Atlas, Anarchy State & Utopia, books I can rock in my back pocket
Emperor Norton I, Hunter S. Thompson, Fran, W.H. Auden, Aretha Franklin