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Originally Posted by Cantankerous
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What I posted then still stands (though off the top of my head I'd add my son - who wasn't around yet then, Alastair Reynolds, William Gibson, Cory Doctorow & Boing Boing, China Mieville, Hawkwind, Daniel Menche, and making a living doing mediation):
LSD & THC (the former not in decades, but enough to last four lifetimes; the latter rarely these days but ditto)
Sonic Youth
Sun Ra
John Cage
Brian Eno
Zeb Andrews (a photographer friend both on Flickr and in my neighborhood, who has taught me many things through his photostream)
Derrick Tyson (another Flickr friend, though this one's in Georgia and we haven't met in person)
Phillip K. Dick
H.P. Lovecraft
Michael Moorcock
Fellini
being an only child
Salvador Dali (though I hope I never do art that cops his style0
Doctor Who
W.S. Burroughs (mostly the Naked Lunch)
iced tea
first two original Planet of the Apes movies
The Point
science fiction literature in general
The Fluxists
The Seattle music scene before it got called "grunge"
Negativland
musique concrete
Sun City Girls
comic books (though I haven't read or collected any in years and no longer own any)
Gertrude Stein
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Bowie/Reed/Iggy
role-playing games (though I kicked that habit completely decades ago)
photocopiers (I worked at Kinkos for 8 years and my biggest flyer art days predate even that)
Holga
computers (most specifically Macs, but both major platforms, and Phostoshop increasingly influences my art)
the quest for pussy
the frustration of creating music that made it less likely I would get any
radio
djing
the Olympia music scene circa end of '90s start of '00s
the Olympia bar scene of the same period
Please Kill Me
the early '90s zine scene
Hundertwasser
cats
Jackson Pollock
rain
I-5
my wife and her art
the Olympia Experimental Music Festival (which I started, but all the acts through the years have been hugely influential)
Amy Denio
Crank Sturgeon
Noggin (RIP Michael)
driving (especially influential to my photography)
Charles Peterson
the rest of the Dead Air Fresheners
Chuck Swaim
The Screamers
Suicide
Patti Smith
Ken Kesey
Ornette Coleman
The Dadists
message boards
Flipside magazine in the early '90s
The Wire
Wired
Wire
Melvins
Stanislaw Lem
digital cameras
strip clubs
never having left the North American continent
making a living as a mediator
Hinduism
Deism
Quakers/Friends
growing up without religion
Einsturzende Neubauten
Legendary Pink Dots/Edward Ka-Spel
The Orb
Beta-lactam Ring Records
The Boredoms
boredom
Portland
The PDX (Portland) Flickr Group
KAOS
KPSU
The Evergreen State College
Brian Cloudhopper (this wacked out Bellingham hippie/activist in the '80s)
The Seattle Peace Heathens
Harry Partch
Stanley Kubrick
Autechre
The Halfler Trio
softcore porn
The Soft Boys
silence
Wow, I must have been holding all that in by refusing to create a personal My Space profile. I feel much better now.