Antique recording instruments, antique electronic musical instruments, arcane torture instruments (not mutually exclusive?); cigars; organ- melting libations; food; ascots; the invisible overriding order in all things; chocolate; gadgetry; inspiration and education from everything
Them peoples
Karlheinz Stockhausen; ZZ Top; Gilbert & Sullivan; Can; Neu; Led Zeppelin; The Beatles; early Tangerine Dream; The Damned; Debussy; Willie Mitchell; Black Sabbath (through Sabbath Bloody Sabbath); Hawkwind; The Ace of Spades- Motorhead; Johnny Thunders/ Heartbreakers; P-Funk; Miles Davis; Albert Ayler; Beethoven; Harmonia; La Dusseldorf; Jimi Hendrix; Edith Piaf; Kraftwerk; Cluster; Puccini; Verdi; Depeche Mode; Throbbing Gristle; Rolling Stones; Bob Dylan; Brian Eno; Iggy; Captain Beefheart; ABBA; Mozart; Ravel; The Normal; Van Halen; John Cage; Harry Partch; Pierre Henry; The Clash; Ed Rush; Ennio Morricone; John Barry; Miklos Rosza; Toru Takemitsu; Television; Lee Perry; The Beach Boys; Mezzanine- Massive Attack; Go Plastic- Squarepusher; Bad Company; (old) King Crimson; Genesis; Area; Roxy Music; Luc Ferrari; Mauricio Kagel; Aloys/ Alfons Kontarsky; Asmus Tietchens; Riuichi Sakamoto; Frederic Chopin; Ash Ra Tempel; Popul Vuh; The Mission (old); The Stranglers; Studio One recordings; This Heat; Alberto Carlos Jobim; ethnic musicians from every corner of the earth; Morton Subotnick; Isao Tomita; Journey; 10cc; The Who (Live at Leeds); Humble Pie; Small Faces; any type of Jamaican music; Georges Auric; Igor Stravinsky; (old) Metallica; Bill Evans; John McLaughlin; David Bowie; Charlie Parker; Jimmy Smith; Tony Williams Lifetime; Larry Young; Motley Crue (Dr Feelgood);PIL; Buzzcocks; Conrad Schnitzler; Dieter Dierks; Conny Plank; Richard Wagner; Wire; Magazine; XTC (old); Siouxsie and the Banshees; John Coltrane; Soul Sonic Force; Grandmaster Flash, Sven Vath, Anthony Rother; John Cale; Marc Bolan/ T Rex; Fairport Convention; Bert Jansch; Aphex Twin/ Richard James; Steve Reich; Kryzstof Penderecki; Gyorgy Ligeti; Bela Bartok, The Bearded Goats, Human Footache.....this is impossible to finish.
Ichi the Killer, Dead or Alive, almost anything else by Takashi Miike; Bullet Ballet, almost anything else by Shinya Tsukamoto; Jigoku; Old School; any Jacques Tati; Godfather 1& 2; Kwaidan; Amarcord; 8 1/2, Juliet of the Spirits, La Dolce Vita, almost anything else by Fellini; Star Wars; Yojimbo, Dersu Uzala, Ikiru, anything else by Akira Kurosawa; The Life of Brian, any Monty Python; Chopper; Layer Cake; Woman in the Dunes; The Killer; Hard Boiled; The 400 Blows; Forbidden Games; Aguirre, Heart of Glass, other Herzog ; Wings of Desire; Mondo Cane; No Direction Home; Apocalypse Now; Taxi Driver; This Sporting Life; The Night Porter; The Maltese Falcon; Tokyo Drifter, Fighting Elegy, almost anything by Seijun Suzuki; 3 Iron; Old Boy; A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, 2001, almost anything by Stanley Kubrick; nearly all James Bonds; Friday; Next Friday; any Richard Pryor; Come and See; Gone with the Wind; Shane; The Silence of the Lambs; Robocop; The Third Generation; Hell raiser 1&2; 1900; The Promise; Withnail and I; anything by Jean Cocteau; Hook; It's a Wonderful Life; A Night at the Roxbury, Accatone, Salo, anything else by Pier Paulo Pasolini.......
CSI, Forensic Files, Law and Order, The History Channel
Low Life- Luc Sante; Tibetan Book of the Dead; Cousin Bette, Pere Goriot- Balzac; Gray's Anatomy, Symbolists and Decadents; The Miracle of Mindfullness- Thich Nhat Hanh; Atlas of Anatomy- Frank Netter; Amok- Sensurround edition; Electronic Music- Paul Griffiths; Futurist Manifestos- Umbro Apollonio; Picking up the Pieces- Paul Britton; The Job- William Burroughs; Electronic Music- Jon Appleton; Electronic Music- Allen Strange; My Work- Karlheinz Stockhausen; Situationist Reader; Terrorists- RAF; Bhagavad Gita; The Dhamapada; Anarchist's Cookbook; The Prison Letters of George Jackson; Please Kill Me- Legs MacNeill; Spanda Karikas; Kashmir Shaivism; all ReSearch publications; all Ray Bradbury; Cosa Nostra; East London Gangland- James Morton; The Gangs of New York; Anatomic engravings of Andreas Vesalius; anything by Alan Watts; Meditate- Swami Muktananda; Hollywood Babylon; L. Ron Hubbard- Messiah or Madman?; The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious- C G Jung; Jack Parsons biography; The Secret Beliefs of all the Ages; The Hagakure; The Divine Law of Just Compensation; Viz Magazine.....etc
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