visiting nyc, eating all the cheese and drinking all the wine at the art opening, vintage stuffed animals (skwirldawg, hollah!), eastside galleries, getting my elian smith on with the acoustic guitar (smoke detector), museums, dressing like an old man, walking like an old man, sitting like an old man, some poetry, Rudy Huxtable.
Ronnie James Dio, Corkey's little sister, sylvia plath
Sonny and Cher,The Seeds, The Byrds,The Cowsills, The National, Sufjan Stevens, Wilco - I'm a cherry ghost, Pernice Brothers, The Castanets, Mum, Concretes, LCD Soundsystem, Animal Collective, French Kicks, Kings of Convenience, Beat Happening, Birthday Party, Suicide, The Books, Wedding Present, Joy Division, Jandeck, Blonde Redhead, Swirlies, M83, broken social scene, hitler in my heart, rain parade, tv on the radio, prefuse 73, Xiu Xiu, British Sea Power, charlemagne palestine, Cage and the other NY composers, erase errata, cat power, numbers, helium, royal trux, mission of burma, hendrix, her space holiday, deerhoof, polvo, sebadoh, philip glass, shannon wright, the rapture, television, VU, MBV, PIL, SY, Wire, G of 4, Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, beach boys, hi tek, El P, Common, Kweli, madlib, Dangermouse, Living Legends,Quasi/Quasimoto, feelies, come, ride, slow dive, teenage fanclub, the who, the stones, the beatles, the kinks, fugazi, verses, +/-, dilated peoples, esg, eleventh dream day, Glorium, broadcast, stereolab, q and not u, roxy music, eno, bowie, mc5, coletrane, ornette, shep, sanders, davis, and it dont stop. keep keep keepin it on on, J Dilla in the deck is lethal. making the scene
Wong Kar-wai, Kubrick, Lynch, Antonioni.In other other words, I don't watch movies. I just pretty much jam Dio in my face all freaking night!
Ryan Trecartin, Brain Bress, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Sol Lewitt, Zaha Hadid, Douglas Gordon, Kalup Linzy, Roni Horn, Bruce Nauman, Tim Hawkinson, Kilgallen, Pettibon, Doyle Hancock , Camille Rose Garcia, Yoshitomo Nara, Barry McGee, Twombly, Jim Hodges, Daniel Clowes, Paul Chan, Chris Johanson, Barbara Bush, Fran Drescher, Oprah when she's fat.
John Dos Passos, Tilley Olsen, John Faint, Art books- pictures or words. Blood and Guts in Highschool. JT LeRoy. Mary Gaitskill. Kent Johnson
My friends are often the people I look up to, that supercute girl in Brooklyn, and R Kelly... oh, and my buddy Michael aka Mikey (that macknonalds P.I.M.P.)