Music:
Guqin: Guan Pinghu, Wu Jinglüe, Zha Fuxi, Zhang Ziqian, Li Xiangting, Gong Yi, Dai Xiaolian, Wu Wenguang, Pipa: Lin Shicheng, Guzheng, Bianzhong (ancient bronze bells), ‘Confucian’ ceremonial music, Chinese folk tunes at the interface with classical art, Komun’go: Sin Kwae-Dong, Kayagum: Hwang Byung-Ki, Koto, Shakuhachi, Gamelan, Mongolian long-song, Inner Asian fiddling, Central Asian quasi-shamanic lute technique, Sogdian/Transoxanian maqam, traces of maqam in Uighur Xinjiang, Persian classical, Zarb solos (Chemirani family), Carnatic (South Indian), M. Balamuralikrishna, Semmangudi, Ariyakudi, Alathur Brothers, Aruna Sayeeram, Lalgudi, MSG, L Subramaniam, L Shankar, Ravikiran, Chitti Babu, ‘Vedic intensity’ mridangam and pakhawaj solos, Hindustani (North Indian), Ram Narayan, Sabri Khan, Rudra Veena: Asad Ali Khan, ZM Dagar, Dagar family vocalists, Vilayat Khan, K. Sridhar, Partho Sarathy, Turkish: Lalezar ensemble, Ihsan Özgen, Kudsi Erguner, Arabic: Munir Bashir, Naseer Shamma, other Baghdad school oudists, maqam singers including Yusuf Omar, Riyad al-Sunbati, Ali Jihad Racy, Moroccan nuba ensembles, Omar Metioui, etc., etc., descant, organum, early polyphony, Notre Dame school, 13c. motets, Cantigas and other secular monody, Machaut, Dufay, medieval dance music, Jordi Savall, highly abstract viol music, trailing off and off…also, more recently, heavy doses of trance. And, I must admit, I went through an MJ phase. Fuck he can dance!!!
Movies:
The Last Temptation of Christ, Peter Brook's Mahabharata. By recent viewing: Hero.
Television:
Lifelong B5 devotee.
Books:
Everything you'd predict from 'interests'.
Heroes:
There are people all over the world doing heroic things I'll never know about. It's very humbling.