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Recommendations: Jon Taylor
Jon's recommendations:
Musical
influences - too many to mention - just a few major inspirations or things
I've been enjoying lately:
Ian Brown
Hamilton Bohannan
Martin Denny/Arthur Lyman
Brian Jonestown Massacre
OMB
Warlocks
Funkadelic
Rachid Taha
Franco
Velt Punch
Dead Meadow
Issa Bagayogo
Slowdive
Ligetti
Ex-Centric Sound System
Scientist
A.R. Rahman
John Coltrane
Nenes
Roots Radics
Light reading:
Out by Natsuo Kirino
Anything by J.
G. Ballard
Anything by Philip K.
Dick
Anything by Ken Wilber
Anything by Jim Thompson, Raymond Chandler and all the rest of the hardboiled
writers
Anything by William
Gibson
Victor
Pelevin - Buddha's Little Finger
Anything on the late 1960s esp. Acid
Dreams and Storming
Heaven
good books on environmental
history and environmental issues (ok, not so light)
anything on Okinawa
A few favorite
films:
Metropolis
Blade Runner
The Man Who Would be King
Ran
The Big Lebowski
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Night of the Hunter
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Touch of Evil
Northfork
Akira
Spirited Away
Contemporary
Artists:
Kahn and Selesnick
Okinawan
web sites:
John Purves' Contemporary
Okinawa Website