Yeah. They're the worst. Buying a sarong does not a Goan make thee.

The Beatles
Nirvana
The Pixies
Sonic Youth
Weezer (Matt Sharp era)
The Strokes
Velvet Underground
Frank Sinatra
The Black Lips
Syd Barrett

my bloody valentine
sonic youth

two bands that really got me to change the way i perceive music.

i used to want to be james brown, and then later on james chance. ive always seen chance as like the white boy punk version of brown, with all the hyper energetic stage movements, screams, 'contortions', and just extremly entertaining. both of them are two of my heroes for sure.

yeah, it's quite good, public attack 3.

if you haven't heard libertarian recordings' split with ramleh, you're missing out on some great stuff.

Xiu Xiu, Sufjan Stevens, Nick Drake, Talking Heads, Velvet Underground, Peter Gabriel era Genesis, lots more.

i don't know how you could even imagine that james chance is in the same league as james brown

Everyneurotic - I "acquired" a copy of "Return To Slavery" a while back, and very impressive stuff it is too.

There's some amazing stuff on the Broken Flag boxset that Vinyl On Demand put out last year - some great MB tracks, for example, and also some stuff by Un-Kommuniti (Tim Gane in pre-Stereolab racket mode). Another great Broken Flag comp is the "Statement" LP, featuring (unnamed) Consumer Electronics tracks - these were the recordings that got him fired from Whitehouse in 1984...

Neil Young.

My influences depend on the musical phase I'm going through at that moment. Sometimes I'll listen to Sonic Youth constantly, so I'll be playing around with alternate tunings and such. Recently, I was obsessed with the Laughing Clowns, so my music was saxophone based. Right now I'm in a black metal phase, so I'm using tremelo picking and trying to ruin my voice.

my friends and my family and my kidz......

oh, i infuence myself on a daily basis too