| General | Goats, fine food and liquor, cheap beer, rare herbs, exotic spices, hot peppers, stereophonic vinyl, sonic life,untamed wilderness, non-commercial art, subversive acts, dangerous places, mind-expanding discourse, lucid dreaming, skeletal remains, urban decay, alpine tundra, camouflage, succubi, post-apocalyptic wastelands and other sublime scenery, combustion, the wicked game of handball, dream machines, taming wild animals, scintillating moonbeams, distortion, temporary autonomous zones & undiscovered vices | | Music | Angel trumpets and devil trombones, block rockin' beats, bone snappin' breaks, screeching guitar feedback, the wah wah pedal, clanking industrial sounds, when the drummer gets wicked, wind whispering through the pines, the crackle of ice exploding in the sun, the crash of ocean surf, the crunch of sub-zero snow beneath my feet, the howling of coyotes, the dulcet plinking of mellow vibraphones, and the whirs and drones of BRC sound systems fading in and out at the middle of the playa accompanied by tinkling wind chimes | | Movies | Tough Guys Don't Dance, Millers Crossing, Simple Men, Magnolia, The Player, Zardoz, Following, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Videodrome, Yojimbo, eXistenZ, Tetsuo, The Spanish Prisoner, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Layer Cake, The Fountain | | Television | Deadwood, Twin Peaks, The Prisoner | | Books | You Bright and Risen Angels, Suttree, Motoring with Mohammed, Blood Meridian, The Hawkline Monster, The Sheltering Sky, A Scanner Darkly, Amok, Psychotropedia, Omnivore's Dilemma | | Heroes | David Lynch, Brian Eno, Thomas Jefferson, Genghis Khan, Copernicus, Doc Savage |
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