Perpetuating my precious ways.
Sometimes everyone, sometimes no one.
PIXIES, fugazi, sonic youth, TOM WAITS, MORPHINE, engineers, leonard cohen, bloc party, mates of state, of montreal (nearly anything on the polyvinyl label), DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979, the delta '72, stars, mike watt, page france, brian jonestown massacre, margot and the nuclear so and so's, crystal skulls, brightblack morning light, the wedding present, stevie wonder, medeski scofield martin and wood, BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, the queers, bauhaus, peter murphy, de la soul, the kooks, MASSIVE ATTACK, phoenix, ethyl meatplow, tricky, echo and the bunnymen, sugar, psychedelic furs, metric, the go! team, koop, calvin harris, television, the shins, galactic, deathcab for cutie, postal service, jamiroquai, portishead, squarepusher, JAMES BROWN, muddy waters, vetiver, r.l. burnside, futureheads, beirut, jon spencer blues explosion, reverend horton heat, revolting cocks, beta band, i love you but i've chosen darkness, eagles of death metal, INTERPOL, boss hog, the doves, hard-fi, al green, the editors, arctic monkeys, moby, dismemberment plan, MODEST MOUSE, ugly casanova, califone, man or astro man?, devo, the police, primus, ramones, cold war kids, new york dolls, clap your hands say yeah, vhs or beta, stiff little fingers, yeah yeah yeahs, mobius band, the stills, stereolab, man man, neutral milk hotel, bob log, my life with the thrill kill kult, inxs, DURAN DURAN, prince, the apples in stereo, fujiya & miyagi, the new pornographers, sex pistols, architecture in helsinki, siouxsie and the banshees, david bowie, lou reed, VELVET UNDERGROUND, johnny cash, belle and sebastien, stars, dandy warhols, frou frou, superchunk, franz ferdinand, BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE, thievery corporation, the cult, the cramps, the cure, THE CLASH, madness, george clinton, parliament, JURASSIC 5, mc5, camera obscura, beastie boys, beck, white stripes, dinosaur jr., x-ray spex, outkast, miles davis, theolonius monk, john coltrane, AIR, boards of canada, g love and special sauce, jack johnson, hall and oates, tom vek, the strokes, TALKING HEADS, joy division, NEW ORDER, early U2, ministry, the kinks, the pretenders, simon and garfunkle, butter 08, opus III, orbital, the jesus lizard, aphex twin, bjork, the sugarcubes, thompson twins, adam ant, built to spill, cibo matto, jane's addiction, porno for pyros, melt banana, folk implosion, pavement, archers of loaf, T-rex, FRANK BLACK, kraftwerk, iggy pop, jesus and mary chain, and simple minds(this is by no means an exhaustive list)
The Big Lebowski (No shit right…see my pics), Empire of the Sun, Pi, Dead Man (pretty much any Jim Jarmusch film), American Beauty, Basquiat, Office Space, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Memento, Buffalo ’66, House of a Thousand Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, High Fidelity, Garden State, Mad Max (all of them…and Irun Barter Town, motherfucker!), 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange (Really...any Stanley Kubrick film), Real Genius, Shattered Glass, Kinsey, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz (as well…but zombies are cooler than cops), Lost in Translation, Love Liza, Capote, (pretty much any movie where Phillip Seymour Hoffman has a substantial role), Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the motherfucking original one), Caddyshack, Fletch, Vacation movies (Yes…I just admitted to the Chevy Chase trifecta), Godfather I & II, Good Fellas, Casino, Evil Dead, True Romance, Fight Club, Gattaca, Braveheart, (As if I had a choice being a descendent of William Wallace…Holler!), All Monty Python, Stand by Me, Star Wars, Sideways, The Outsiders, Rumblefish, Drugstore Cowboy, Cool Hand Luke, Midnight Cowboy, Goonies, Sid and Nancy, The Cooler, Boogie Nights, Swingers, Napoleon Dynamite, So I Married an Axe Murderer...and many, many more.
Conchords, Office, Enthusiasm, Six Feet, Whitest kids u'know, Nova, and a sundry of other little gems that make me laugh, think, or worser...both.
Gabriel Jose Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude, & Love in the Time of Cholera), E.O. Wilson (Sociobiology, & Consilience:The Unity of Knowledge), Hunter Thompson (The Great Shark Hunt:Strange Tales from a Strange Time, & Kingdom of Fear:Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Day of the American Century), Ken Kesey (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Richard Dawkins (The Selfish Gene, & The Blind Watch Maker), Bob Persig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance), Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead, & Atlas Shrugged)...besides that...I thoroughly enjoy reading Playboy magazine (say what you want people, but it's 10 pages of nude women, and 200 pages of interesting articles), Scientific American, Hormones & Behavior, Nature, Science, Smithsonian, Architectural Digest, The New Yorker, Cigar Aficionado, The Economist, and the best paper in the world...The New York Times.
While a major fan of a few people I can keep on two hands...I idolize no one.