Early Industrial Age Technology, Cultural Theory, Roller Derby, Anarchism, Identity Formation, Abandoned Industrial Structures and Caffeine.
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Music:
Lady Sovereign, Sufjan Stevens, The Shins, Wilco, The Soviettes, Deep Purple, Dandy Warhols, Peaches, Miles Davis, Venom, Goudron, BT, I Roy, Drive By Truckers, Sista Otis, The Beta Band, Dead Prez, Sons of Strippers, Massive Attack, Coaltrane, A Perfect Circle, Death Cab, Crystal Method, James Brown, Dead Can Dance, Mr. Airplane Man, Morphine, Gorillaz, Blow-fly, The Police, Circle Jerks, Ani DeFranco, Devo, Nick Cave, Public Enemy, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Wire, Ladytron, Adult, Scotty Karate, Paul Oakenfold, Marvin Gaye, Quincy Jones, Dead Kennedys, Four Tet, OK GO, Joy Division, One Be Lo, Kraftwerk, Pas Cal, Goldfrapp, Hank Williams I & III, really early Pink Floyd, David Bowie, A-frames, Brazillian Girls, Orbital, De La Soul, The Kinks and Ken Nordine among many, many others.
Movies:
Repo Man, Dig, Renaissance, Naked Lunch, 2046, Layer Cake, Drugstore Cowboy, The Hustler, Spun, Days of Being Wild, Garden State, The Deserter (Soviet version), American Beauty, Scanner Darkly, etc. Pretty much any movie in which seedy folks are showcased. Also, any scenes of mass production, foundries, locomotives and so on.
Television:
Escapist nonsense: Lost, Six Feet Under, Fantasy Island and Lost in Space.
Books:
Blood and Guts in High School, The Handmaid's Tale, The Practice of Everyday Life, One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver, Geek Love, Discipline and Punish, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Mother Night.
Heroes:
My wife and daughter. Emma Goldman, Michel Foucault and Spider Jerusalem.
