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MY INFLUENCES

I am in eternal debt to my influences. In general, each of these artists made me rethink my relationship to this world, and inspired me to express myself. I am not a confident person, but somehow reminding myself of the achievements and sacrifice of these influences keeps me going even when i feel like I'm creating stuff on an island.

For now, only a list, and maybe some links. Let's hope Unamerican takes off, I don't have to get a day job for a long time, and I'm able to flesh out this page.

Stereolab - absolutely the best music i've ever heard! i've listened to 'em constantly for two years now and still haven't been bored

the Boomer Bible - oh my GOD. this is it. impossible to describe. it is the best breakdown of all that's fucked up in the Baby Boomer mentality. All in pseudo-Biblical format. I read all 800 pages in a week. Totally hysterical, a monument to the ability of creative people to defeat the prevailing mentality of the times through irony and ideas ALONE. wow.

radical honesty - this amazing book that freed my lame assbe here now - another amazing book that freed my ass, sort of helping me reclaim my hindu background and it got me to meditate 'n shit - far out!time & space management books (try The Time Trap)

lame, suck-ass day jobs - reminding me how important it is to find work that doesn't suck!!!

Business 2.0!!!! Thank you!!!! Helped me skip biz school!!!!

Punk rock in general (generally older stuff, not the blink 182 stuff on the airwaves today, more like "kids of the black hole" or "banned in dc"

The Church (and especially the BOOK) of the SubGenius

Abbie Hoffman

Philip K. Dick

The Apple Macintosh and Adobe Illustrator

HTML and Javascript (thank you for existing!!!)

the Webcom Forms Processor, the Javascript Tip of The Week and Webmonkey reference sites

the moon is a harsh mistress by Robert A Heinlein

The Bad Brains

Public Enemy

The Minutemen

Pranks!, by RE-Search Publications

Lookout Records for giving us bands like operation ivy, green day, rancid, nuisance, and crimpshrine - shout out to my friend maiko who works there

also Punk Planet and the
spirit of 'zines in general

Marshall McLuhan

being in a band for eight yearsThe Gang of Four

The Crowley-Thoth Tarot, especially with
Gerd Ziegler's Tarot: Mirror of the Soul

Jenny Holzer, Keith Haring, and Barbara Kruger

Chris at Web Communications for
hosting the forms on this site for free

Slacker, the movie... also Dr Strangelove,
Spinal Tap, The Empire Strikes Back, Animal House
and so many more

even though i studied sociology, which rules.....

.working at Kinko's for a bit...and then at some boring-ass corporate jobs......

only to wind up nowhere & nobody

The Nation of Ulysses

books like Catch-22, A Clockwork Orange,
Haynes Johnson's Divided We Fall,
Hakim Bey's TAZ, Asimov's Foundation trilogy
and tons of other science fiction

Feminism

Race and class consciousness

The city of Berlin and
the continent of Europe

Life in Hell and Zippy the Pinhead

e-sheep.com

being a Gemini and the amazing astrologers
Rob Brezny and Jonathan Cainer

being a Hindu and understanding


andre the giant has a posse

i'd be lying if i didn't mention
amazon, yahoo!, wired magazine, and suck

Black Flag and the Ramones,
the Clash and X and the DK's

the classified manufacturer of the fonts i use

Anna, Jenson, Eddie, Eric, Clayton, Rebecca, Anthony, Leah, Tracy, Sparky, Jay, Hiroko, Robynn, James, Vic, Turtle, Angela, Dai, Daniel, Brad, Keith, Peter, Matt, John, Todd, Tom, Sean, Ryan, Betty, Kaytee, Chris, Erika, Maiko, Brian, Andrew, Stefanie, Dan, Alex, Andy, Kristoff, Beth, Alexis, Molly, Sameer, Griffin, Chris, Steve (wherever you are), the biancanauts, my webzinester pals, my awesome family, and everyone else who made my time in the Bay Area, as a punk, and on the Internet so totally engrossing and worthwhile

and finally YOU... and the constant feedback
and support i'm receiving from the world nowadays

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