Cinema, literature, political theory, photography, writing, cycling, film making, video art.
Music
Beatles, David Byrne/ Talking Heads, Clash, Kinks, Drive-By Truckers, Vivaldi, Debussy, Stravinsky, Ravel, Vaughn Williams, Raveonettes, Big Star, Chris Bell, T-Rex, Television, Paul Westerberg, Harlan T. Bobo, Eldorado and the Ruckus, Reigning Sound, Bowie, Sonny Curtis, Furry Lewis, Stone Roses, Panda Bear, Grizzly Bear, M. Ward, most British invasion stuff, rock, classical, blues.
Movies
David Lynch, Mallick, Cocteau, Antonioni; surfing movies (fiction, not docs); Night of the Hunter, A Place in the Sun; boot-legging movies; Suspiria, Planet of the Vampires, most Italian horror; Kurosawa (both of them); Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia and Straw Dogs; everything by Bresson; everything by Murnau, Lang and Stroheim; Fassbinder movies; Begotten; Brazil; dark, '70s American folk dramas like McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Bonnie and Clyde and Badlands; Cat People, Curse of the Cat People; good movies, some bad ones.
Television
Lost, Twin Peaks, Sopranos, Hidden Palms, Six Feet Under, Damn Van, Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Family Guy, the Office, Young and the Restless, anything on TCM, crime docs, Pasadena.
Books
Nabokov, Paul Auster, Bret Easton Ellis, Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Hemingway, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Neil Gaiman, Martin Amis, Joan Didion, James Agee, the Russians (but not Dostoyevsy).
Heroes
Jenean Morrison, Gandhi, Juanita Osborne, David Byrne, Loretta Lynn, Stanley Kubrick.
.. while my feet take me too many places to contemplate. So sorry I haven't replied to your letter yet! I will though I promise.. good to see you're doing great : )
Wanted to let you know our new album "Don't Be Like That" is available as a FREE download for 2 weeks, via a link on our MySpace page....hope you enjoy it!
just realized you got married... by looking at your profile picture. congrats!!! best of luck and happiness to you two! it's a wonderful thing...have fun with it!
