coffee. booze. cigarettes. garage art hackery. gin. naked girls. fake dada. tequila. ramblin'. scotch. art. rum. books. whiskey. carnivals. rat kings. my homies. abandoned places. tintintabulation. winding streams to follow. gypsies. slow movies you fall in and out of sleep to. thunder bolts and lightnin'. oceans. being irritable. guinness. forests. npr. crows. the post-apocalyptic return of cowboys. shiner boch. buildin' shit. negro modelo. jazz bands. 1.75 liters o' gallo. tattoos. galveston. popcorn. kitty-cats. train yards. attracting wildlife. travelin'. ol' south dutch babies. walkin' around. speaking spanish very poorly. holga. new orleans. mrs baird's blueberry fried pies. everything mexican. takin' photos. san francisco. squares. french girls. fake moustaches. the amazing screw-on head. kickin' the boy's ass at super smash bros. pad thai. dickin' around. burnin' CDs from the library. snake wine. feedin' ducks. the salton sea. pokin' at dead shit. ridin' my bicycle. bitching about shit. fire. brown pants. picking at stuff on my body. snapdragon.
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FRIENDS AND LOCAL FOLKS: Panther City Bandits, Theater Fire, Peter and the Wolf, Rene West, RTB2, Oso Closo, Telegraph Canyon, Whiskey Folk Ramblers, Eaton Lake Tonics, Kristy Kruger, Stymie, Denton County Revelators, The Naptime Shake, Thrift Store Cowboys, Boxcar Bandits, Young Offenders, Wayne 'the Train' Hancock, Restaurant, Nathan Payne, Calamity Cubes, Trampled By Turtles, Eastwood, Trapper Jon, Joe Buck, Spitfire Tumbleweeds, Plastic Assassins, End This All, West Coast Pin Ups, Nouns Group, White Ghost Shivers, A.M. Ramblers, Mariachi Inolvidable, Old 97's, Chris Bathgate, 100 Damned Guns, Switchblade Razors, Izzy Cox, Rodney Parker and the 50 Peso Reward ___THE REST: Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, DeVotchKa, Django Reinhardt, Jelly Roll Morton, Violent Femmes, MadLib, Serge Gainsbourg, Gogol Bordello, Andrew Bird, Charles Mingus, Velvet Underground, James Chance, Sonic Youth, Hank Williams, Thelonius Monk, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Pogues, Taraf de Haidouks, Jaques Brel..
spaghetti westerns and bad sci-fi. and good sci-fi. horror flicks. claymation. probably anything by Jan Svankmejer, Jean-Luc Godard, Jeunet et Caro, or Terry Gilliam. ..
Jon Stewart's Cheney impersonation. and Spongebob! ..
the grungily poetic rantings of William Bryan Massey III and the sociopathic 'haiku with picture' of el Hombre, Eric Monten Hobson, a.k.a. FAKE DADA. and these are some good books to smoke cigarettes to: the Brave Cowboy, the Clown, the Stranger, the Big Sleep, the Woman in the Dunes, Factotem, the Great Gatsby, Beautiful Losers, Journey to the End of the Night, Catch-22, the Sun Also Rises, the Castle, the Subterraneans, Slapstick, Down and Out in Paris and London, Moby Dick, Tropic of Cancer, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Emerald Germs of Ireland, Catcher in the Rye, Nausea, V., Still Life with Woodpecker, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Letters From the Earth, Confederacy of Dunces
other people i hold in high-esteem: Doc Holliday, Pancho Villa, Tom Waits, Maurice Utrillo, Edward Abbey, Johnny Smoke and Drinky Crow. And of course, Peanut & Scrumpy. ..