melodies that melt my rotting soul
laughing people, smiling people, people who don't throw rocks at their shoes or at the shoes of others
currently........Rosebuds, Ponies, Modest Mouse, Amy Winehouse, Shins, Arcade Fire,Suede (from London, not Ohio)(@) Junk Face (from P-Town)(@) Black Francis (yes, Frank Black also) (@) Heatmiser (the band that sounds like Elliot Smith, but really is Elliot Smith's band) (@) The Clientele (love exclamation love) (@) We are The Telephone (life after courtney courtney taylor) (@) The Ravonettes (i don't feel like going home now, i wish that i could stay) (@) Neko Case (kinda makes me feel like babysitting) (@) Love (@) Modern English (after the snow is one of the most under-rated records ever) (@) Will Oldham (in all his manifestations) (@) The Jesus and Mary Chain (@) The Bob Dylan sing-a-longs with those who know the brilliance. (@) The Arcade Fire (@) The Flaming Groovies (@) That band that Kuki is in with Sandy that I'm dyin' to hear(@) Pulp, Rufus Wainwright, Gang of Four, The Buzzcocks, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Billy Preston, The Four Tops, The Drifters, Al Green, pretty much any R & B record cut before 1980 and any post-punk album posted before the internet existed. Portland derelict band Hello Stranger (miss mudai! and the "university" corporate restaurant workers union) Then there's this damn fine band named The Hurt. This was their last show in pictures.
I have enjoyed these movies:
Being There (@)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (@)
Pieces of April (@)
The Waking Life (@)
Better off Dead (@)
Masked and Annonymous (@)
Metropolis (@)
The Wizard of Oz (@)
Amazing Grace (@) Boondock Saints (@)
Emmett and Otter's Jugband Christmas
whaaa?????
The Lotus Sutra (@) Unlocking the Mysteries of Birth and Death (@) Calvino- Cities and Desire, t-zero.............(@) Sedaris- Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day............ (@) Salinger- Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zoe.......... (@) Kerouac- Dharma Bums, On the Road............. Another Roadside Attraction (@) Campbell- The Power of Myth, Hero with a 1000 Faces........... (@) and books written by dudes that claimed to have heard the word of God- The Bible, The Koran, Siddhartha, The Kama Sutra..........
Nichiren Daishonin, Siddhartha Gautama, Albert Schwitzer, Joseph Campbell, Italo Calvino