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I'm a musician and film-maker. My current project is Mauna Loa (myspace.com/maunaloa88) -- I'm also trying to organize some inner-city collaborative art events, but first I'll need to set up my life as I've been in Canada for the last year finishing my film degree. I was living in Toronto specifically, and had the opportunity to see a huge amount of exceptional live music, off the top of my head: Sigur Ros, Fleet Foxes, Four Tet, Hot Chip, M83, Animal Collective, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Shalabi Effect, Yeasayer, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Klimek, and in New York I was lucky enough to see the Boredoms. Now that I'm in Perth I'm looking forward to digging my teeth into the local scene, which after only a few weeks here has already proven more vibrant, creative and diverse than the local scene in Toronto, which considering Toronto's size is saying something.

• Animal Collective, 
• Bob Marley, 
• The Avalanches, 
• Sigur Rós, 
• Caribou, 
• Four Tet, 
• Out Hud, 
• TV On The Radio, 
• Black Dice, 
• A Silver Mt. Zion, 
• Fleet Foxes, 
• Shalabi Effect, 
• Paul Simon, 
• Boredoms, 
• Akron/Family, 
• Vashti Bunyan, 
• Brian Wilson, 
• Joanna Newsom, 
• The Beach Boys, 
• Gang Gang Dance, 
• Oneida, 
• The Shortwave Set, 
• Built to Spill, 
• Mercury Rev, 
• Múm, 
• Cocteau Twins, 
• The Flaming Lips, 
• Growing, 
• Liars, 
• Pink Floyd, 
• Mahogany, 
• Mountains, 
• Panda Bear, 
• Studio, 
• Sally Shapiro, 
• Fever Ray, 
• The Field, 
• Gui Boratto, 
• The Feelies, 
• Deep Forest, 
• Van Morrison, 
• Neutral Milk Hotel, 
• Talking Heads, 
• Mu, 
• Peter Tosh, 
• Loco Dice, 
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, 
• Brian Eno, 
• Jeff Buckley, 
• M83, 
• UB40

• Powaqqatsi and Koyaanasqatsi, 
• Synedoche NY, 
• City of God, 
• Sideways, 
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 
• Mulholland Drive, 
• Brazil, 
• Pulp Fiction, 
• Adaptation, 
• Kill Bill, 
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 
• Network, 
• The Science of Sleep, 
• The Fountain, 
• Blade Runner, 
• Once Upon A Time In America, 
• Hurly Burly

The Dharma Bums (Jack Kerouac),  The Doors of Perception (Aldous Huxley),  Star Maker (Olaf Stapledon),  The Outsider (Albert Camus),  Labyrinths (Jorge Borges),  The Tao of Democracy (Tom Atlee),  Biocosm (James N. Gardner),  Philosophy of East and West (P.J. Saher),  The Politics of Ecstasy (Timothy Leary),  On the Road (Jack Kerouac),  Earthdream (Robert Hamilton),  Zen Buddhism (D.T. Suzuki),  Irrational Man (William Barrett),  and everything by Joseph Campbell