life changes, interests shift and mutate, passions always and forever

asterisk = since childhood

grooveboxes
drum machines
synthesizers
no wave and downtown NYC scene, mid-1970s to early 1980s
collective action, 1989-91 (“end” of gulf war)
Spanish civil war
Black Panthers
*M.C. Escher
*Hogarth
*Goya
class C RVs
conversion vans
chess
Aramaic
trains (especially riding them, sometimes time tables as well)
*public transportation (same)

Ted Berrigan (especially The Sonnets)
Eleni Sikelianos (especially The California Poem)
Vijay Iyer
The Coup
Grimes
*Alice Coltrane
*Beethoven
*Chopin

Plants vs. Zombies (the first one)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
The Avengers (first film)
Guardians of the Galaxy I
The Matrix

Game design
Assembly language (graphics especially)
Physical modeling (audio DSP)