guerilla theatre, Fascist architecture, Situationist politics, Anti-art, popular delusions and the madness of crowds, cult theology and/or aesthetics, Yves Klein, the elephant in the living room, personal cosmologies, carnivorous plants, morphogenetic resonance, Japanese demonology, organ meats, reading books in bars, visual metaphors, Harry Crosby, formalist cinema, sleep apnea, water fowl, spider bites, autonomous currencies, gratuitous social provocation, ankimo nigiri, Donald Cammell, the destructive nature of the creative impulse, singing icebergs, cargo cults, shibui, the biological ecosystems of clouds, the lifeless ideal of tangible insurrection, and furniture. And cooking. And ants.
Music
The New Blockaders, AMM, Magma, Voice Crack, Neu!, musique concrete, chance operation, Ye-Ye, non-idiomatic improv, onkyo, zeuhl, Chinese opera, atrocious children's records, surface noise, Indonesian pop, poesie sonore, shortwave interference, liturgical motets, people practicing instruments badly somewhere nearby, electricity, 4'33", sweaty hair flyin' oil-lamp soaked lysergic Bavarian effects-pedal freakouts, Muzak, Luigi Nono (I'm looking at you, Mike Min), Creel Pone, Creel Pone, Creel Pone!, and y'know the Shaggs never get old.
Movies
"Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles". Also, pretty much anything by Carlos Reygadas, Ilya Khrjanovsky, Bruno Dumont, Andrzej Zulawski, Alain Resnais, Shinji Aoyama, Fernando Arrabal, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Peter Watkins, William Klein, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Seijin Suzuki, Andrei Tarkovsky (duh), Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Fred Fucking Wiseman, Roy Andersson, Nagisa Oshima, Dusan Makavajev, Michelangelo Antonioni, Michael Haneke, Sergei Paradjanov, James Benning, etc...
Television
Oh Braverman!, Si Senor!, Heil Honey I'm Home!, that Japanese sit-com about the guy with three lactating nipples!, Cop Rock!
Books
Around the middle of the third shift, Frank went for some breakfast at the flapjack emporium up the street, where it didn't take him long to understand that Stray had been *right upstairs all along*, with some motor outlaw whose widely-recognized blue Excelsior was parked outside, and, well, the contentment in her face when she did step back down again into this pocket-size eating house, her bearing, her *hair*, for Lord sakes, was enough to divide a fellow into two, one saying, calmly, would you just look at her, how can any man begrudge and so forth, and the other wounded enough to soak a whole restaurant tablecloth with the snot and tears of it, never mind who was watching. As she glided on down, the attractively costumed waiter girls (more of them, really, than the size of the room and the time of night could quite account for) kept throwing her *certain glances*...
Heroes
Constanza Macras, Mauricio Kagel, Robert Wilson, Pina Bausch, George Maciunas, Chuck Barris, Yayoi Kusama, Paul McCarthy, Nikki de Saint-Phalle, John Cage, Charlotte Moorman, Guy Debord, Delphine Seyrig, Frank Norris, Alan & Rick Bishop and Charlie Gocher and Grux and Gregg Turkington, Michel Houllebecq, Chris Burden, Alphonse Allais, Wilhelm Reich, Vaclav Havel, Roman Polanski, Michael O'Donoghue, Norman Mailer, Harry Nilsson, Malcom McLaren, Paul Twitchell, The Unknown Comic
LE VIDE avant, experimental, noise, filth, art, damage, improv, skronk, skree, electronic, power electronic, electroacoustic, acoustic, chamber, death, my ears, my ears...
