| Influences |
General
industrial design, guitars, amps, pedals, recording, delay, record players, records, noise, drone, reverb, keyboards, photography, computers, noise, archetypes, analogs, riding bicycles, organic vegetables, yoga, italian food, wine, d.i.y. stuff, vintage everything, toys, design, architecture, films, movies, flicks, friends, sex-positive culture, philosophy, protesting LNG pipelines, subcultural movements, psychedelic culture, trash culture, human beings.
Music
Donovan, Syd Barrett, Swell Maps, Jacobites, Hawkwind, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Warlocks, Black Angels, CSS, Edip Akbayram, Dead Boys, Stereo Lab, Electrelane, Airiel, A Place to Bury Strangers, Morning After Girls NY Dolls, Stooges, Wire, My Bloody Valentine, CAN, The Cure, Buzzcocks, Sons and Daughters, Devo, The Human League, Roxy Music, Suicide, Silver Apples, The Damned, Tuxedo Moon, DNA, Plastics, Mars, Neu!, Little Claw, Margo Guryan, The Beatles, The Seeds, The Cramps, Mars, James Chance, The Gris Gris, Velvet Underground, Erkin Koray, Os Mutantes, As Mercenarias, The Tubes, The Zombies, The Litter, Spiritualized, Spacemen 3, Joy Division, Bauhaus, The Little Boy Blues, Gang of Four, Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Sisters of Mercy, Television Personalities, The Jesus and Mary Chain, ? and the Mysterians, Seeds, Troggs, Kinks, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Monks, Lizzie Mercier Desclous, The Moving Sidewalks, David Bowie, Stranglers, The Litter, Rolling Stones, Flirtations, Sun City Girls a lot more bands reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeverb, fuzz, wah, garage, psychedelic, punk, Lio,Glass Candy, Chromatics, Mike Simonetti, Automan Reissues, Go vs. Go, Farewell my Lovely, Playgroup, DC Recordings, Emperor Machine, Big 200, Depth Charge, Lindstrom, Prins Thomas, Who Made Who, Headman, Munk, LCD Soundsystem, Bpitch Control, International DJ Gigolos, Tomas Anderson, DJ Hell, Miss Kittin, The Hacker, Gino Soccio, Front 242, Bobby O, Divine, Vivian Vee, Claudio Simonetti, Giorgio Moroder, Trax Records, DJ International, Virgo, Jamie Principle, Jesse Saunders, Visage, New Order, Depeche Mode, Arthur Russell, Ellen Allien, Arthur Baker, Cabaret Voltaire, Kano, Koto, Kraftwerk, Digital Emotion, My Mine, Italo Disco, Mr. Flagio, The Rapture, Juan Maclean, Vive La Fete, DMX Krew, DAF, DFA, Adult., Lime, Eskimo Recordings, Optimo, The Glimmers, I-F, Interdimensional Transmissions, Ectomorph, Out Hud, !!!, Electronic, Crystal Castles, The Teenagers, Gameboy/Gamegirl, DJ Assault, DJ Funk, Human League/The Future, Heaven 17, Prince, Raymond Scott, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Gomma, Ron Hardy, Ron Hardy, Ron Hardy... etc. etc. etc. ...
Movies
Holy Mountain, Akira, No Country for Old Men, Jesus Son, Liquid Sky, Downtown '81, Rushmore, Drugstore Cowboy, Repo Man, La Dolce Vita, Donnie Darko, Le Dernier Combat, El Topo, Something Weird movies a lot of others.
Television
Invitation to Love, Myth Busters, Daily Show, Lost, The Prisoner, The Avengers, Antiques Roadshow, PBS Americana documentaries, The Office (US and UK), 30 Rock, Flight of the Concordes. TV on DVD only.
Books
Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, The Wind Up Bird Chronicles, A Scanner Darkly, The Elements of Typographic Style, A Type Primer, Art History
Heroes
Mom and Dad and Sister, Lindsie Reitz (my girlfriend) Shirley Chisholm, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Kandinsky, Walter Gropius and the Weimar Bauhaus, Verner Panton, Ron Arad, Jan Tschichold, Paul Renner, Piet Mondrian, Lubalin, Aalto, Aarnio, Marcel Breuer, Verner Panton, Charles and Ray Eames, Fernand Leger, Da Da, Hugo Ball, Hannah Hoch, etc... Egon Schiele, Richard Avedon, Herb Ritt, Raymond Scott, Alan Watts, Joseph Campbell, Chung-Liang Al Huang, Siddartha, Harriet Tubman and the heroes of the underground railroad, Bob Moog, Shel Silverstein, Jim Henson, William Burroughs, dreamers, idealists, new archetypes |
