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Influences

Favorite albums

Steven Wilson

  • The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) 

  • Hand. Cannot. Erase

 

Porcupine Tree​

  • Stupid Dream

  • Lightbulb Sun

  • Deadwing

  • Fear of a Blank Planet

  • The Incident

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Rush

  • Fly by Night

  • Caress of Steel

  • 2112

  • A Farewell to Kings

  • Hemispheres

  • Permanent Waves

  • Moving Pictures

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Steely Dan

  • The Royal Scam

  • Aja

  • Gaucho

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Yes

  • Fragile

  • Close to the Edge

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Ween

  • White Pepper

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The Beatles

  • Abbey Road

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Frank Zappa

  • Joe's Garage

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Jethro Tull

  • Aqualung

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Stevie Ray Vaughan

  • Texas Flood

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Medeski Martin & Wood

  • Friday Afternoon in the Universe

  • Shack-man

  • Combustication

  • Uninvisible

  • End of the World Party (Just in Case)

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The Aristocrats

  • Tres Caballeros

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Radiohead

  • OK Computer

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St. Vincent

  • Daddy's Home

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Lorde

  • Melodrama

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Jim Croce

  • I Got a Name

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Dream Theater

  • Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory

  • Train of Thought

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Transatlantic

  • SMPT:e

  • The Whirlwind

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Björk 

  • Debut

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Pat Metheny Group

  • Still Life (Talking)

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Iron Maiden

  • The Number of the Beast

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Avenged Sevenfold

  • Nightmare

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Miles Davis

  • Kind of Blue

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Cosmosquad

  • Cosmosquad

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Camel

  • Mirage

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Kate Bush

  • Lionheart

  • The Dreaming

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Coheed and Cambria

  • The Afterman: Descension

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Opeth

  • Pale Communion

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Pink Floyd

  • The Dark Side of the Moon

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Tower of Power

  • Oakland Zone

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Sneaker Pimps

  • Becoming X

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Favorite movies

Citizen Kane

Casablanca

Judgment at Nuremberg

Lawrence of Arabia

The Sound of Music

2001: A Space Odyssey

Network

Star Wars

The Empire Strikes Back

Kagemusha

Blade Runner

Ran

Brazil

Vampire's Kiss

Goodfellas

JFK

Schindler's List

Pulp Fiction

The Shawshank Redemption

True Lies

Casino

Boogie Nights

The Big Lebowski

Saving Private Ryan

Buffalo '66

The Matrix

Being John Malkovich

American Psycho

Mulholland Drive

The Aviator

Napoleon Dynamite

Inland Empire

Zodiac

There Will Be Blood 

No Country for Old Men

In Bruges

The Dark Knight

Inglourious Basterds

Inception

Django Unchained

The Wolf of Wall Street

Nymphomaniac

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

Blade Runner 2049

Mission: Impossible - Fallout

The House That Jack Built

Poor Things

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Favorite Novels

The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosiński

Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West - Cormac McCarthy

Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry

American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

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