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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