Water, steam, and seas. Sorting through rusted machines. Bees. Bomb / Pandemic Shelters. Forgotten ruins. Cheez-It crackers.
Non-Humans, Versions of myself from the future and/or parallel universes, wealthy aristocrats who think i'm a genius and laugh at my jokes, other writers (because misery loves company)
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mostly IDM (lately dubstep, brooklyn experimental, and european mash-up), experimental-experimental (i.e. - "what the hell is that and why does listening to it cause me pain / mental illness"), minimalist classical, shoegaze, native / aboriginal / world / obscure, and sound samples that you would not consider music, but is.
from "M" on ... but … Un Chain Andalou (anything Buñuel), The Take, Memento, 2001, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Aguirre, Logan's Run, The Corporation, Blue Velvet, The Royal Tenenbaums, Planet of The Apes (Damn you all to hell version), History of Violence, Fightclub, Dark City, Virgin Spring, Magnolia, Amelie, Office Space, Enron Smartest Guys in the Room, Sin City, The Fog of War, Who Killed the Electric Car?, Children of Men, Jackass 1&2, Stalker, The God Who Wasn't There, Factotum, A Scanner Darkly, The Fountain, ... You get the idea.
PBS sometimes, but I feel nostalgia for that passive 20th Century invention ... OK, someone called me on this recently ... I do have a LOST addiction.
NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs CRASH by JG Ballard ULYSSES by James Joyce DHALGREN by Samual Delaney BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley 1984 by George Orwell CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller DUNE by Frank Herbert SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN by Gene Wolfe LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London 100 DAYS OF SODOM by Marquis De Sade THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION by JG Ballard MOBY DICK by Herman Melville THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY Henry James THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE by Haruki Murakami THE TRAIL Franz Kafka THE STRANGER by Albert Camus POST OFFICE by Charles Bukowski FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS by John Wyndam, THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy, THE WORLD WITHOUT US by Alan Weisman
Epicurus, Socrates, Democritus, Aristotle, Lucretius, Machiavelli, Bacon, Descartes, De Sade, Nietzsche, Moore, Thoreau, Darwin, H. G. Wells, J. Verne, Heidegger, Schrodinger, Heisenberg, Gandhi, Sartre, M. Shelly, E.O. Wilson, J. Joyce, JG Ballard, N. Chomsky, H. Zinn, Orwell, P. K. Dick, W. S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, Camus, H.P. Lovecraft, E. A. Poe, Freeman Dyson, Richard Dawkins, Gore Vidal, Jonathan Miller ... You get the idea .....