Music, Movies, and Books

Albums
John Coltrane - "Meditations"; Nomeansno - "Wrong"; The Beatles "S/T" (White Album); Black Flag "The First Four Years"; Bad Brains "Black Dots"; Archie Shepp "The Magic of Ju-Ju"; Boredoms "Wow 2"; Captain Beefheart "Trout Mask Replica"; Slint "Tweez"; Butthole Surfers "Locust Abortion Technician"; Ol' Dirty Bastard "Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version"; Lou Reed "Metal Machine Music".

Movies
"El Topo" (1970); "The Holy Mountain" (1973); "Persona" (1966); "The Fountain" (2006); "Waking Life" (2001); "Rashomon" (1950); "Amarcord" (1973); "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968); "Suspiria" (1977); "Oldboy" (2003); "Pulp Fiction" (1994); "The Evil Dead" (1981).

Books
Milan Kundera "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"; Howard Zinn "A People's History of the United States"; Friedrich Nietzsche "Beyond Good and Evil"; Friedrich Nietzsche "Thus Spake Zarathustra"; Malcolm X "The Autobiography of Malcolm X"; Kay Larson "Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and The Inner Life of Artists"; Sam Harris "Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion"; Albert Camus "The Stranger"; Alan Watts "The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are"; Ram Daas "Be Here Now"; J.D. Salinger "The Catcher In The Rye"; Laozi "The Tao Te Ching".