| General | the colonization of the americas, food & cooking, fractals & chaos, memetics, universal darwinism, neuroscience, painting, pattern language, wilhelm reich, typography | | Music | aphex twin, bjork, dock boggs, the beach boys, bobby birdman, can, captain beefheart, catpower, cocteau twins, ry cooder, lee dorsey, dr. dog, bob dylan, brian eno, ESG, john fahey, flying saucer attack, funkadelic, philip glass, gulf of mexico.., headache, joggers, kool keith, the microphones/mt eerie, bill monroe, my bloody valentine, randy newman, harry nilsson, the plastic ono band, rollerskate skinny, doug sahm, erik satie, sleep good, sly & the family stone, harry smith, sunset, tv on the radio, the walkmen, doc watson, gillian welch & david rawlings, bob wills, stevie wonder, YACHT, la monte young | | Movies | 2001, Alien, Aliens, The Big Lebowski, Bottle Rocket, Goonies, The Happy Years, Hoosiers, The Karate Kid, Koyaanisqatsi, Magnolia, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Outlaw Josie Wales, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Right Stuff | | Books | Christopher Alexander, esp. The Nature of Order; Meditations on the Tarot (anonymous); Susan Blackmore, The Meme Machine; Richard Dawkins, esp. The God Delusion; Daniel Dennett, esp. Consciousness Explained; Charles Dickens, Bleak House; Bob Dylan, Chronicles; Benoit Mandelbrot, The Fractal Geometry of Nature; Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove &c.; Haruki Murakami; Wilhelm Reich, esp. The Function of the Orgasm; Jan Tschichold, The New Typography; William T. Vollman, esp. You Bright and Risen Angels | | Heroes | christopher alexander, noam chomsky, chuck close, bob dylan, brian eno, gerhard richter, jan tschichold |
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