MUSIC, MATHEMATICS, AND MAGICK. MUSIC: my band Altheas Bane, which you can hear at http://www.myspace.com/altheasbane MATHEMATICS: just about everything algebraic, from rings to topology and geometry, but forget the classical analysis and the PDE crap... MAGICK: ?!
Anyone who's into alternate realities and POVs, original thinking, conspiracy theories, and outrageous hopes for the future. I prefer coffee culture to club culture, playing onstage to listening in the audience, piano to electric guitar, real musicians to poseurs, SciFi Network to MTV, women of academia to runway models, seasoned to fresh and new, reading to partying, talking to people physically next to me to talking on my cell, Altheas Bane (my band) to all MTV bands, romantic movies to porn, CNN to sitcoms, Miles Davis to Coltrane, poor and principled to rich and compromised, rich and principled to poor and compromised, Tori Amos to Alicia Keys, The Beatles to The Rolling Stones, up till 4am to up at 4am, and organic to processed.
OK, my first albums were The Police, Asia, Yes, Van Halen, and Rush, then came Depeche Mode, The Cure, Ultravox, Soft Cell, U2, Sting, Pet Shop Boys, The Sugarcubes, and OMD, then came NIN, Nitzer Ebb, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, The Beatles, King Crimson, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, The Doors, Tori Amos, Oasis, Led Zeppelin, Kate Bush, and Peter Gabriel, and then Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Monk, Ellington, RTF, Fiona Apple, RHCP, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Copland, Debussy, Ravel, Messiaen, Scriabin, Shostakovich, A Perfect Circle and finally Coldplay, Radiohead, Tool, Incubus, Jeff Buckley, Monica Mancillas, and Althea's Bane.
Star Wars Trilogy, Indiana Jones Trilogy, Jesus of Montreal, Risky Business, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Man With Two Brains, When Harry Met Sally, Say Anything, Dances With Wolves, Heathers, True Romance, The Chinese Connection, Enter The Dragon, The Shining, Poltergeist, The Omen, The Silence of the Lambs, Edward Scissorhands, Contact, Strictly Ballroom, Charade, American Beauty, Magnolia, Punchdrunk Love, Fight Club, Reservoir Dogs, Tombstone, The City of Lost Children, Delicatessen, Harry Potter Trilogy, LOTR, Amelie, The Matrix (ONLY 1st), 21 Grams, AI, Amistad, Pulp Fiction, Lost in Translation, Au Revoir Les Enfants, The Virgin Suicides, A Beautiful Mind, Pi, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Closer, Good Will Hunting, The Spanish Prisoner, Schindler's List, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Ninth Gate, Adaptation, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, V Is For Vendetta, Proof, and A Beautiful Mind.
Laker games, grand slam tennis coverage, Ghost Hunters, and drug commercials
Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, Visions of Cody, The Dharma Bums, Desolation Angels, Big Sur, The Subterraneans, Junky, Naked Lunch, The Trial, The Castle, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, The Sun Also Rises, LOTR, Harry Potter I-V, Jitterbug Perfume, Still Life With Woodpecker, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, Half Asleep In Frog Pajamas, The Illuminatus Trilogy, The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abremalin The Mage, Necronomicon (and its illustrious mythos), The Book of The Law, Magick in Theory and Practice, The Vision and the Voice, Fingerprints of the Gods, Frogs into Princes, Character & Neurosis, Discipline & Punish, The Birth of the Clinic, Madness and Civilization, The Order of Things, The Archaology of Knowledge, The Book of Lies, The Mystical Qabalah, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Metaphors We Live By, Human Types, A True and Faithful Relation, Lemegeton, and for all you mathies: Hartshorne's Algebraic Geometry, Matsumura's Commutative Rings, Spanier's Algebraic Topology, Griffiths and Harris Principles of Algebraic Geometry, MacLane's Categories for the Working Mathematician, Rowen's Ring Theory, Knapp's Lie Groups, and Cohn/Bergman's Free Rings and Their Relations.
Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, James Joyce, Bob Dylan, Aaron Copland, L.v. Beethoven, Paul McCartney and John Lennon, Aleister Crowley, Eliphas Levi, John Dee, Alexandre Grothendieck, J.P. Serre, Michel Foucault, David Quillen, Claudio Naranjo, Claudio Arrau, Richard Bandler, John Grinder, and John Rhodes.