Music:
a very few of the bands that mean something to me:
the zombies, the zombies, the zombies, Can, Faust, Black Sabbath, Spacemen 3, Parson Sound, Bardo Pond, Ash Ra Tempel, Magical Power Mako, Hawkwind, Terry Riley, Loop, Flower Travellin' Band, Orthrelm, Guru Guru, Golem, Acid Mothers Temple, Skullflower/Sunroof!/Total/Hototogisu, Les Rallizes Denudes, Sleep, Growing, John Lennon, Cream, Blue Cheer, Amon Duul II, the Dead C, Neu!, Tangerine Dream, Harmonia, Laddio Bolocko/The Psychic Paramount, Taj Mahal Travellers, Double Leopards, Zoviet France, bali gamelan music, ghostface killah, starflyer 59, big star, beat happening, o.v. wright, pavement, mckinley mitchell, james carr, howard tate, neil young, the byrds, harry nilsson, cannibal ox, the marvelettes, aztec camera, jesus and mary chain, animal collective, kevin coyne, 14 iced bears, orange juice, robyn hitchcock, michael jackson, t. rex, the sonics, joy division, why?, the stooges, the monks, themselves, cLOUDDEAD, jay z, el-p, television personalities, the dB's, talking heads, MF DOOM, the human league, stevie wonder, don covay, the wedding present, the four tops, the shangri-las, the velvet underground, the united states of america, pere ubu, bmx bandits, television, modern lovers, raekwon, john cale, brain eno, neutral milk hotel, phil elverum, the pixies, the clean, the chills, the tall dwarfs, the ronnettes, teenage fanclub, the pastels, the rain parade, sebadoh, the action, the meters, the psychadelic furs, the soft boys, tom waits, danielson, leonard cohen, galaxie 500, guided by voices, the go-betweens, stephin merritt, the make-up, mission of burma, pearls before swine.
Movies:
directors who i tend to like more than not:
allen, brakhage, scorsese, rohmer, antonioni, godard, sturges, tarkovsky, tarantino, malick, suzuki, mckelwee, (errol) morris, wong kar-wai, greenaway, jarmusch, brothers quay, wilder, powell and pressburger, maddin, kieslowski, altman, and more.
a few of the many movies that mean something to me:
manhattan, mean streets, annie hall, medium cool, nashville, red, sherman's march, 2001: a space odyssey, stranger than paradise, street of crocodiles, the life and death of col. blimp, the thin red line, tokyo drifter, stop making sense, chinatown, diary of a country priest, days of being wild, and more.
Books:
some recent favorites:
"brideshead revisited" - evelyn waugh
"the violent bear it away" - flannery o'connor
"pale fire" - vladimir nabokov
"bend sinister" - vladimir nabokov