music, language, knowledge, patterns, the absence of patterns, obscurity, hilarity, cephalopods, octoslimer, pterodactyls, odd time signatures, shifting meter, cannondale r600, ensoniq eps 16+ turbo, boss sp-303, peavey 6505, [shitty] esp ec-50, stolen microphone, intricate drum patterns, the chromatic scale, hungarian minor scale, microtonal scales, the symmetrical diminished scale, discordance, tone clusters, tritones, semitones, auditory illusions, timbre, russian, spanish, italian, french, latin, friends, nature, art, ghosts, extemporization, metacognition
venetian snares, dillinger escape plan, aesop rock, daughters, myself, brainstorm, the evidence, company flow, the fall of troy, the sawtooth grin, el-p, jaco pastorius, behold the arctopus, anti-pop consortium, all else failed, king crimson, steve lehman, bela bartok, wu tang, mingus, xploding plastix, etc etc etc etc
the maxx, tetsuo the iron man
the dark tower 1-4, american psycho, godel escher bach: an eternal golden braid, the listening book, i have no mouth yet i must scream, jg ballard, the watchmen.
myself, doan bone