VIRB

INFLUENCES

MUSIC:
m83, boards of canada, khonnor, world's end girlfriend, sigur ros, sun ra, caribou, the books, fog, jon brion, isan, four tet, air, radiohead, boredoms, minotaur shock, fennesz, ulrich schnauss, delarosa & asora, tujiko noriko, max richter, animal collective, cocteau twins, daedelus, philip glass, steve reich, kronos quartet, bad plus, ryuichi sakamoto, ooioo, nobukazu takemura, stars of the lid, explosions in the sky, stars, akron/family, yann tiersen, sea and cake, albert ayler, nobuo uematsu, flaming lips, wilco, album leaf, my bloody valentine, squarepusher, lali puna, mum, beach boys, brian wilson, headlights, pipettes, wendy carlos, michael gira, jimmy scott, greg davis, keith fullerton whitman, modest mouse, sufjan stevens, swans, mf doom, clouddead, i cactus, john cage, dntel, postal service, prefuse 73, cannibal ox, common, talib kweli, aesop rock, el-p, why?, dose one, mr. lif, dosh, busdriver, outkast, andre 3000, kanye west, saul williams, atmosphere, deltron 3030, krs one, acid mothers temple, ghost, melt banana, merzbow, ruins, spacemen 3, spiritualized, com.a, legendary pink dots, current 93, mike patton, the microphones, aloha, cornelius, william basinski, oval, stereolab, angelo badalamenti, dj shadow, grandaddy, broken social scene, stars, feist, parliament, prince, george clinton, marvin gaye, john zorn, glenn branca, brian eno, autechre, talking heads, beatles, bowie, notwist, architecture in helsinki, of montreal, asobi seksu, andrew bird, godspeed! you black emperor, mogwai, swirlies, magnetic fields, styrofoam, rjd2, purple confusion, arcade fire, ghostface, otomo yoshihide, lullatone, vijay iyer, mike ladd, elliott smith, vashti bunyan, madlib, arovane, aphex twin, amon tobin, bjork, plaid, clash, pixies, super furry animals, john coltrane, miles davis, new order, the robot ate me, seu jorge, sonic youth, ariel pink, ennio morricone, erik satie, piana, mouse on mars, matmos, caspian, lilys, luminous orange

BOOKS:
james joyce, haruki murakami, thomas pynchon, william s. burroughs, samuel beckett, vladimir nabokov, chris ware, daniel clowes, charles burns, j.g. ballard, mark z. danielewski, david mitchell, william faulkner, jonathan franzen, david foster wallace, italo calvino, anthony burgess, t.s. eliot, william carlos williams, e.e. cummings, ezra pound, don delillo, albert camus, sri adi sankaracarya, sri ramana maharshi, douglas r. hofstadter, richard feynman, william james, bhagavad gita, the upanishads

MOVIES:
hayao miyazaki, david lynch, ingmar bergman, terry gilliam, the coen brothers, wes anderson, yasujiro ozu, takashi miike, shunji iwai, hal ashby, akira kurosawa, satoshi kon, alejandro jodorowsky, p.t. anderson, jim jarmusch, darren aronofsky, stanley kubrick, inland empire, andrei rublev, solaris, late spring, visitor q, santa sangre, life aquatic, spirited away, fanny and alexander, all about lily chou-chou, dead man, eraserhead, twin peaks, ikiru