… Kim Stanley Robinson’s books and ideas, R. Buckminster Fuller, The 13 Clocks by James Thurber, Moby-Dick, The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James, Deadwood, The Sopranos, Mad Men, The Wire, Lonesome Dove (the book), Michael Mann — especially Heat and Miami Vice, and that scene from the Miami Vice TV show where Crockett and Tubbs drive the white Ferrari Testarossa and load the shotgun to In the Air Tonight and the incredible shot of that phone booth, Adam Curtis’ documentaries, Dune (the books), Denis Villeneuve’s films — especially Dune and Sicario, Kubrick — especially 2001, Barry Lyndon, and Eyes Wide Shut, Spring Breakers, Uncut Gems, Cormac McCarthy’s novels, Alan Moore’s comic books — especially From Hell, Marvel Comics — especially Hickman’s X-Men, Grant Morrison’s New X-Men, Brian K. Vaughn’s comic books, The MCU, lots of Image Comics, The Sandman (the comic book series), films directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, David Graeber’s books and ideas, David Foster Wallace (sorry), psychedelic drugs, Succession, Hipster Runoff, Star Wars, Marc Rothko’s art, Hieronymus Bosch, Bruegel (the elder), Albrecht Durer, The Overstory by Richard Powers, John Steinbeck’s novels, late ‘70s New York, ‘77 punk, San Diego emo and posthardcore, Black Flag, Minor Threat and Fugazi, Joy Division and New Order, Madchester, Metallica’s 2nd, 3rd, and 4th albums, Grouper (the musician), X (the band), Leonardo Da Vinci, Phil Elverum’s music, Philip K. Dick’s books and ideas — especially Ubik and Valis, Nathan Fielder, The Marx Brothers, The Misfits, space disco, city pop, The Weeknd, Frank Ocean, LCD Soundsystem, skateboarding, surfing, California flora and fauna, how to pack better, ADHD, how to be a good parent, interior design and landscape architecture, my rowing machine, novels written by Thomas Pynchon, The Field, film noir and detective novels, Aphex Twin, Brian Eno, Scott Walker, David Bowie, Odd Future, Pusha T, Rihanna, Lil Wayne, David Lynch (as a broader American concept), good food and restaurants, David Lynch (the guy), movies and tv shows directed by David Lynch, movies directed by David Fincher, The Wu-Tang Clan, Kanye West, Tarantino — specifically Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Inglorious Basterds, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, movies directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, Ryan Gosling, Ray of Light-era Madonna, early-to-mid career Jackie Chan, pacific northwest indie rock, films directed by Wang Kar-Wai, films directed by Park Chan-Wook, Dostoevsky, Drive My Car, Burning, Murakami’s novels, Tolstoy, contemporary tattoos (the good stuff), The Raid 2, Ram Daas, health and longevity, meditation, Buddhism, Judaism, CBT, Carl Jung, The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, dolphins, crows, whales, great apes, early 2000s New York, Los Angeles (as an idea), Los Angeles (as a city), Anthony Bourdain, Neil Stephenson’s books and ideas, Mandy (the Nicholas Cage movie), cars, Nicholas Cage (the guy), climate change, ecological collapse — you know, the really scary stuff, Shakespeare — mostly Henry IV, Henry V, Macbeth, The Tempest, and King Lear, how big and awesome the universe is, Rockwell Kent’s illustrations, Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte, The Last Samurai by Helen Dewitt, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Wuthering Heights (the vibes, mostly) The Lord of the Rings, The Legend of Zelda, Mario Kart, being in nature, Being In Time, Terrence Malick (also vibes), Big Sur, 285 Kent, films directed by Hayao Miyazaki, Sophia Coppola’s films, Apocalypse Now, movies directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, Akira (the movie — the score, more than anything), longtermism, balearic pop, Alien, Blade Runner, John Carpenter movies — mostly The Thing and his movie soundtracks, Calvin & Hobbes, Ingmar Bergman’s films, how tight or baggy men’s pants are and what that says about the guy wearing them, Spike Jonze, Jackass, The Replacements (the band), hyphy (the music), politics, culture war/identity politics stuff, Atlanta hip-hop, shoegaze, dream pop, late-period Foucault, Iron Maiden (the band), ascetic philosophy, Nietzsche, Rene Magritte’s art, Thomas Kinkade’s art, Louise Bourgeois’ art …