| General | playing with our kids, Barcelona, making fun of fundamentalists, playing and mixing music, camping, night hiking, traveling, audio geekery, Creative Alliance, NPR, good beer, breeding, Mac geekery, fixing audio electronics, Live Audio Board, sculpture gardens, ignorant stargazing, never ever ever eating fast food, Everyman Theater, incompetent DIY house repair, natural selection, gardening & houseplants, great architecture in mostly old but occasionally new buildings, arming the left-wing, good organic food, strong coffee, compulsive reading, free/cheap museums, Art: Andy Goldsworthy (Storm King sculpture garden), Matthew Barney, Joseph Beuys, Francis Bacon, Antoni Gaudi, Aubrey Beardsley, Hieronymus Bosch, Egon Schiele, Jock Sturges, Rodin museum in Paris, Hans Bellmer | | Music | Kinks, XTC, Beatles, Holly Golightly, Blood On The Wall, Shins, Low, Country Teasers, Botch, Sabbath, Impossible Hair, DNA, Ethiopiques series, Fela & other Afrobeat, Cambodian pop, Tom Waits, Dead Meadow, Pell Mell, Blonde Redhead, Slow Jets, Chrome Cranks, Slug, Mozart, The Ex, (Australian) X, Lungfish, Candy Machine, Sugarcubes with Bjork singing in Icelandic, Oranges Band, This Heat, GBV, New Leviathan Oriental Foxtrot Orchestra, Captain Beefheart, My Bloody Valentine, Smog, Deerhoof, Melt Banana, Camper Van Beethoven, Willie Nelson, Sublime Frequencies, Dog Faced Hermans, Jonathan Richman, The Feelies, Gang of Four, dixieland, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Quixotic, Casual Dots, Brass Roots, Ornette Coleman, William Parker, The Fall, DEVO, Brian Eno, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Pixies, Built To Spill, Cows, Country Teasers, Young Marble Giants, Carter Family, Randy Newman, John Prine, Hank Williams, Magnetic Fields, bluegrass, Les Savy Fav, Wire, Slint, Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Tinklers, Melvins, Daybreak, Velvet Underground, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Billy Childish, Apples In Stereo, Gary Numan, old Sonic Youth, Johnny Cash, Irma Thomas, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Blondie, Polvo, old-time music from the teens, 20's, and 30's, and tons more... | | Movies | Brazil & all Terry Gilliam, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, Short Cuts, Nashville, & most Robert Altman, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, all Hitchcock, Grapes of Wrath, Night of the Hunter, Cape Fear ('61), Thunder Road & most Robert Mitchum, Wings Of Desire, Harold and Maude, Down By Law, Cane Toads, most Woody Allen, Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Shining, Clockwork Orange & most Kubrick, John Waters, Metropolis, M, & Fritz Lang, Viva Zapata!, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Delicatessen, Triplets of Belleville, Manchurian Candidate, Sergio Leone / Clint Eastwood trilogy, High Plains Drifter, Man Bites Dog, Happiness, Strictly Ballroom, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Ricci esp. in Addams Family & Buffalo 66, Eating Raoul, Peter Falk, Dog Day Afternoon, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Blade Runner, 1984, Spinal Tap, Criterion Collection, The Idiots The Celebration, M. Hulot's Holiday & all Jacques Tati, Babe: Pig In the City, Pipolotti Rist, Fargo & all Coen brothers, Cement Garden, Silence of the Lambs series, and a gazillion more... | | Television | is a vast wasteland. On DVD or on the web: the Wire, Simpsons, Twilight Zone, Mr. Show, Sopranos, The Office, 30 Rock, Arrested Development, Daily Show & Colbert Report (real news!) | | Books | Dr. Seuss, Edward Gorey, Mark Twain, Kafka, The Tree of Liberty: A Documentary History of Rebellion and Political Crime in America (vols. 1 & 2), Cormac McCarthy, Truman Capote, J. G. Ballard, Robert Parker, Philip K. Dick, Charles Bukowski, Charles Darwin, Vladamir Nabokov, A Confederacy Of Dunces, Hermann Hesse, Roald Dahl, Joseph Campbell, Edgar Allen Poe, Harry Crews, Nick Cave, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, C. J. Cherryh, Malcolm X, Steinbeck, David Macaulay, Raymond Chandler, Flannery O'Connor, J. R. Williams, E. E. Cummings, Kurt Vonnegut, George Orwell, The Sheltering Sky, and thousands more... | | Heroes | Natasha |
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