Occupation(s): throwing parties for you and your friends

Hobbies: tracking satellites with my lazy eye

Music: Robert Wyatt & Soft Machine, Nancy & Lee, Royal Trux, Scott Walker, old Wire, Ariel Pink, Nina Simone, Grizzly Bear, Aphex Twin, Luke Vibert, Sly Stone, Shuggie Otis, Nick Drake, New York Dolls, Virgin Prunes, Elastica, Bill Withers, The Fall, Animal Collective, Syd Barrett, Suicide, Felt, Denim, Suede, The Zombies, Donovan, Nico and Lou Reed and John Cale, Iggy and the Stooges, LCD Soundsystem, "Vespertine", Television, Dusty Springfield, Young Marble Giants, Bobby Womack, My Bloody Valentine, Leonard Cohen, Nilsson, Randy Newman, Joni Mitchell, Todd Rundgren, Bowie and Roxy Music in the Seventies, Momus, The Slits, Erik Satie, Neil Young, Stereolab, Kraftwerk, Bill Evans, Eno esp. "Here Come the Warm Jets", Ladytron, Keith Hudson, Eric B & Rakim, "A Charlie Brown Xmas", Dome, Coil, "Metal Box", Buzzcocks, Gang of Four, early Cabaret Voltaire, A Certain Ratio, James Chance & the Contortions, Rema Rema, Sly and Robbie, Miles, Can, Neu!, Faust, Cluster, Popul Vuh, Ash Ra Tempel, Biosphere, all those strange musicians in Iceland and Norway right now, they must be drinking glacial milk, the Doors, Tricky, Sun Ra, "Nuggets", Boards of Canada, Prince Far I, Joy Division rather than Interpol, New Order rather than the Cure, Morrissey!, drug-era Stones, "Instant Karma", "Hot Fun in the Summertime", blah blah it never ends.....

Films (Non-Medicine): Performance, almost anything by Fassbinder lately, Crumb, Stan Brakhage, Badlands, the Piano Teacher, Down by Law & Dead Man, Sweet Smell of Success, the Servant, Double Suicide, Husbands, Persona, Man Who Fell to Earth, Loves of a Blonde, The Idiots, Matchstick Factory Girl, Stranger than Paradise, Ciao! Manhattan (which I like to play like a record, put it on and don't watch), Ponette, anything sad that doesn't explode

Books: Martin Amis, Murakami, "La Bas" and "Against Nature" (Huysmans), "Perfume" (Susskind), "Paroles" (Prevert), anything by Paul Bowles, Brion Gysin, or Saul Bellow, "The Gentle Spirit" and "The Double" (Dostoyevsky), "The Clown" (Boll), Edmund White's "Nocturne for the King of Naples", dozens of other poser novels

Artists: W de Kooning, Neo Rauch, Giotto, Terry Winters, Egon Schiele, Hannah Hoch, Frank Gehry, Eva Hesse, Sigmar Polke, Duchamp, Richard Hamilton, Weegee, Lee Friedlander, Francis Picabia, Jean Dubuffet, kid's drawings, art of insane people (they're so tidy)

Heroes: you of course, and Iggy

Enemies: George W Bush and the horse he rode in on