My bikes! Kristin, daughter Gina (Kaizerthea), THE cat, collecting old toys (toycars/slot cars), lazy beach life, nice t-shirts, any object in need of repair, making friends with my KORG Mono/Poly synthesizer and Moog Etherwave Theremin, bad career moves, cookies, offroad/road bicycling, restoring and collecting antique/vintage bicycles, life (and the universe!) in general, eBaying, internet culture, armchair surfing, kustom kulture, Kirby-ing the apartment, motor-racing (a childhood obsession that is still with me) especially vintage drag racing, Indy 500 history and MotoGP.
People with similar interest maybeeeee......... But mainly I'm here for interesting useful/useless information, interesting stuff, and music new/old.
Electronica, early electronic music, da funk, electro, ambient, trip hop, techno, great bass-lines, out-of-control mindwarp country, surf, psychedelia, the Canterbury scene in general, 70's prog, world, alternative and more.
"Don't Look Now" (my all time fave),"Eating Raoul", Tim Burton films (especially "Pee Wees Big Adventure"), "Groundhog Day", "Tampopo", "Chunking Express", "Delicatessen"/"City of lost children"/"Amelie", "Theremin an electronic odyssey", "Near Dark", Coen brothers films (especially "Blood Simple" and "Fargo"), "Grand Prix" (Frankenheimer), "Winning", "Airplane!", "Pleasantville", old Polanski films: "Knife in the Water", "Repulsion", "Cul-de-sac". Anything by Akira Kurosawa, Werner Herzog, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Jaques Tati.
David Letterman. Charlie Murphy. The Daily Show. Junkyard Challenge.
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Allan C. Weisbecker (especially "Cosmic Banditos"), Richard Brautigan, "Stand on It!" (Stroker Ace), Robert Sheckley, R.A. Lafferty, "Little Fuzzy" & "Fuzzy Sapiens" (H. Beam Piper), Reginald Bretnor, Carl Sagan, "The Catalog of Cool" (by Gene Sculatti, got me through the 80's that one), Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Arild Nyquist, Axel Jensen, anything on bicycle history.
LIVING HEROES: The Princess Julianna/PJ Higgins/Black Stripes creative force, KEVIN AYERS (excellent music and laidback attitude), Papa Schimmelhorn, Wendy Carlos, Robert Wyatt, Thomas Carmody , people who ride bikes, Todd Rundgren, Michael Hurley, Jim Hall (of Chaparral fame), Dan Gurney, Danielle Dax, Steve Hillage, Pugh Rogefeldt, Mario Cipollini, and Valentino Rossi!DEAD HEROES: My brother, mum & dad, Robert Moog, Leo Termen, Ed Roth, Mick Ronson, John Cipollina, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Jeffrey Frederick, Richard Brautigan, Robert Sheckley, R.A. Lafferty, Hunter S. Thompson, Guy Debord, Reginald Bretnor, Pedro Rodriguez, Clara Rockmore, Paul Bartel, Sharon Tate Polanski, Carl Sagan, Felix Pappalardi, Randy California, Ronnie Peterson, Lowell George.