sound art, hardware hacking, radios, field recording, abstract film and video, trying to find places that are almost quiet, ikebana flower arranging, used book hunting without the internet, old growth forests, the beguine mystics, and jason talbots myspace profile
the jub jub bird, the awful din (or the dreadful rauw), a pfifltriggi, bombidil, and as always, a fan of robert walser.
eliane radigue, sciarrino, sabbath, nusrat fateh ali khan, lots of old tape music: henri chopin, bernard parmegiani, ivo malec; tlahoun gessesse, slowdive, young marble giants, charlemagne palestine, phill niblock, ethiopian orthodox chant, morton feldman, scelsi, klaus lang, first 8 or so wu tang related records (i can't wait by odb) and hank snow.
any thing by the brothers quay, alexander kluge, the jerk, new wave, l'ecclipse, airplane, the conversation, the anderson tapes, stan brackhage and len lye hand-painted films, and bresson.
i watch tv with both sides of my brain.
short fiction by borges, robert walser, beckett, silvina ocampo, yasunori kawabata, natalie sarraute, italo calvino, ilse aichinger, robert musil, alexander kluge, and van de wettering. the oulipo, nouveau roman, and surrealists. perennial favorites: perec's Espéces d'Espace, calvino's t-zero, aischinger's the bound man, beckett trilogy, walser's the robber, tanazaki's in praise of shadows. poems of thalia field, mallarmé, valery, issa, ryokan, and lorca. thought by maturana and varela, giorgio agamben, peter szendy, mereau-ponty, de certeau, and blanchot. currently obsessed with: cheesemaking and cassette players.
heroes wear spandex suits and visit us in our dreams.