| Influences | conny planck, the zombies (band), zombie movies, zombie as metaphor, the first eurythmics album, tape echo, fingerpicked guitar, the color of sound (stacked sound in wild layers), whiskey, macrobiotic food, "69 love songs," field recordings, the dream house, drone, "rhapsody in blue," "sketches of spain," naturalist guides, topographical maps, music that manages to be slow and yet still heavy, syncopation, terrible 80's cop movies, "the faust tapes," very cold beer, vinyl records, cassette tapes, vhs, dead and/or dying technologies, nam june paik, cage's scores, les paul / raymond scott / nikola tesla / genius that flowers in america's great wilds, harry smith (esp. his short films), analog tape machine, commodore 64 computer, steve reich is the man, "there will be blood" soundtrack |