MUSIC!!! -- dj'ing house, tech-house, techno, and electro -- music production -- choy li fut kung fu -- writing and editing -- eastern philosophy, predominantly zen buddhism, sufism and asceticism -- biographies and documentaries -- existentialist writers -- kung fu movies -- science fiction, both books and movies -- japanese anime -- event production -- political science and current events -- cooking -- felines -- the ocean
the Smiths and Morrissey, New Order, Joy Division, Meat Beat Manifesto, My Bloody Valentine, the Cure (pre-Wish), Interpol, Curtis Mayfield, the Doves, the Faint, Newcleus, Depeche Mode, early Ministry, the Verve, Cocteau Twins, Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, Boogie Down Productions, the Postal Service, Telefon Tel Aviv, Ulrich Schnauss, Slowdive, Kitchens of Distinction, Felt, OMD, Bark Psychosis, Talk Talk, Swayzak, Eric B. & Rakim, LTJ Bukem, Jeff Mills, Plastikman, the Boo Radleys, Radiohead, Stereolab, P-Funk, Gangstarr, Tortoise, the Red House Painters, Bettie Serveet, the Wedding Present, Cinerama, Pavement, Sebadoh, Front 242, disco, pre-1984 funk, detroit techno, drum n' bass, and many electronic dance artists too numerous to name
Pi, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now, Boogie Nights, Rushmore, Raging Bull, Serpico, the Buddhist Fist, Battle Angel, Better Off Dead, The Search for the Holy Grail, A Clockwork Orange, Outland, Taxi Driver, Natural Born Killer, Heat, Fists of Legend, Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll, Koyaanisquatsi, the Godfather, Weird Science, Taxi Driver, City of Lost Children, Mad Max, Blade Runner, Prince of Darkness, Baraka, the Shining, Sixteen Candles, Elizabeth, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, All About Eve, Alien, Harold and Maude, the Bad Lieutenant, the Right Stuff, Giant, the Third Man, State of Grace, Dracula, Lost in Translation, Bar Fly, Donnie Darko, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Chinatown
Monty Python, Kids in the Hall, Seinfeld, the Charlie Rose Show, the Simpsons, the Young Ones
Albert Camus -- "The Fall" and "The Stranger," Herman Hesse - "Steppenwolf" and "Demian," Vladimir Nabokov - "Lolita" and "Laughter in the Dark," Henry Miller - "Plexus" and "Tropic of Cancer," Flannery O'Connor - "A Good Man is Hard to Find," Iris Murdoch - "A Severed Head," James Joyce - "Dubliners" and "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," Jean Genet - "Our Lady of the Flowers," Krishnamurti - "The Awakening of Intelligence," Frank Herbert - "Dune," Oscar Wilde - "The Importance of Being Earnest" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray," Paul Bowles - "The Sheltering Sky," Andre Gide - "The Immoralist," Philip K. Dick - "A Scanner Darkly" and "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said," Paramahansa Yogananda - "Autobiography of a Yogi," Orson Scott Card - "Ender's Game," Neal Stephenson - "Snowcrash," "The Diamond Age," and "Cryptonomicon," Charles Bukowski - "Tales of Ordinary Madness," Roald Dahl - "Switch Bitch," Rumi - "The Essential Rumi"