Muses

Albums

• Beautiful Speck Triumph — Birchville Cat Motel
• Promises — Floating Points
• Wow / The Magick Fire Music — Jackie-O Motherfucker
• The Visitors — Ragnar Kjartansson
• Trilogie de la Mort — Eliane Radigue
• Stones — Colin Stetson & Mats Gustafsson
• The Late String Quartets — Takács Quartet
• The Lemon of Pink — The Books
• Mingus Ah Um — Charles Mingus
• Travel — The Necks
• 画鋲 — betcover!!
• Flood — Boris
• Mahler’s 2nd Symphony — SF Symphony Orchestra
• Orange Rhyming Dictionary — Jets To Brazil

Books

• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — James Joyce
• The World as Will and Representation, Volume II — Arthur Schopenhauer
• The Passion According to G.H. — Clarice Lispector
• Ficciones — Jorge Luis Borges
• The Perennial Philosophy — Aldous Huxley
• Essays — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Upstream — Mary Oliver
• On the Nature of the Scholar — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
• The Beginning of Infinity — David Deutsch
• The Will to Power — Friedrich Nietzsche

Films

• Mimosas — Oliver Laxe
• Resurrection — Bi Gan
• The Matrix — The Wachowskis
• Ikiru — Akira Kurosawa
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans — F. W. Murnau
• My Dinner with Andre — Louis Malle
• Andrei Roublev — Andrei Tarkovsky
• Megalopolis — Francis Ford Coppola
• Baraka — Ron Fricke

Quotes

“The peculiar self-debasement of a man consists in this,—when he makes himself an instrument to a temporary and perishable purpose, and deigns to spend care and labour on something else than the imperishable and eternal.” — Johann Gottlieb Fichte, On the Nature of the Scholar

“If there be one lesson more than another that should pierce his ear, it is—The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all; it is for you to dare all.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar