workin on my house lately,.,.and my garden.,.on a professional level,.,.hehe.,.if there is one.,..,carpentry, welding, travelling, was what i did for the last 15 years.,mostly, hitching, driving my truck, hopping freight trains,airplanes unfortunately convincing others i needed a ride.,.,etc
my son,.my greatgrandmother steven jessie bernstein,charles bukowski, janis joplin,bill hicks, jack white,ned kelly,chopper reid, reed,.dunno,,che guevara,hank williams,. nina simone, john steinbeck,lou reed, the coen brothers,john waters,.friends are good ,.,.no religious zealots aloud.,.,bad bad bad.,musicians,.,.,.,people into playin blues,.,.,and old school country.,,. really anything bruce springsteen, tom waits,.gypsies,. muso's,. busker's,.,. howler's,. vagrant's,.,. tramp's,.,.and transient ramblers
this is where it gets thick.junior kimbrough,.jolie holland,. the pogues,the devil makes three.,tom waits,.modest mouse,.old 97's. nick cave.jeff buckley,nina simone,the heartless bastards, steve earle ,cat power{like a motherfu**er}.the velvet underground, john cash,loretta lynn,bob dylan's bootlegged album {in the basement}with just his guitar.,,.itll change your ideas about what and who he is.listen to "sally girl",.i guess a sally girl was the cook on a boat back in the day.,or a salie or saley was a pirate from biscayne?,,. methinx as well as "cocaine blues" and "landlady blues" a underestimated and relatively unknown texas songwriter rickey cardwell.he ran with the likes of blaze foley, townes van zandt,, farm aid, back in the day.talk to me i go up to east texas and see me dad on occassion.we play music. it aint nothin professional just all night fun.. me dad and i never knew each other until i was about 20., but i am proud of him. we are just alike.genes are a freaky thing. to not know someone. but follow in their footsteps that accurately is strange methinx. anyway,. white stripes, iggy,scott H. biram, i play harmonica,,.blues., old school country.,.anything fat possom records puts out runs a hard first,.townes van zandt,.dylan of course,.,. its gettin old huh.,.,black keys jimmy martin,.,. MANU CHAO!!!.neil young,.,.girls place. and she still comes and plays a once a year gig for the natives.i love it,.bury me with my harp., but i just heard an amazing hawaiian man named "isreal kamakawawiwo'ole that will bring tears to any hardened road tramp.he sings an amazing version of"what a wonderful world/over the rainbow" i know it sounds a little risky but im telling you., do it.! a man that is also under estimated alot of the time is "blind willie mctell" another favorite is memphis minnie., mississippi fred mcdowell.,and if you dont know hasel adkins you better get his "lonesome " record., its his best ,.,.back in his rockabilly days,.,.he gave billy idol his scowl,.., he was from west virginia? methinx,.,. he lived in a trailer with his dog ,.,. he was a one man band like "scott h biram" from buda tx. and he was known to toss his giddy box at the crowd,.,. and lived on commodity meat and had a peanut butter fetish,.,.skip james,.,., bukka white, if youre down in new orleans go see me pal jimmy horn down at the apple barrel on frenchman street or "19th street red" hes another one man band,.,.leanord cohen, check out bruce springsteen "nebraska",. thats the motherfucker,.,. tis truly a monumental album,.., but just as well "small change" tom waits,. either way you aint losin
the coen brothers,harmony korin,"santa sangre",., "cabeza de vaca"..,., "amores de perros"., "the adventures of tom thumb".,., ferlinghetti,.?,.,.chaplin,.those three brothers.,.,marx.,.dyslexia what a bit*h.dennis hopper isabella rossalinni?.,.,. gummo,.delicatessan, sling blade,big bad love, black cat white cat dunno
? discovery.,.,history..,forensics,.,. true crime,.,. mass murderers
.julie doucette., love and rockets comix,. bukowski he had insight as well as balls some beat generation.,william burroughs,.,sylvia plath. right now.,,.albert camus,. frank mcCourt "Tis" is real good,. Hunter S. thompson..,isreal regardie,idries shah,.,eastern thought.,,. khalil gibran,.,.john steinbeck.,.,jean genet, tim robbins, anthony bourdain,.,. katherine dunn,pablo neruda,flannery o'connor,upton sinclair,vonnegut,dashell hammett,raymond chandler,jim thompson, anthropology
woody guthrie., cisco houston ,.Hunter S. Thompson., Chaplin.,Burroughs{in a sense},.nina simone.,jeff buckley,.johnny cash. my mother.bob dylan.the brave who scalped custard.native americans nomadic self sufficient non dinominational peoples. it was my dream for the longest to fly to the siberian steppes and hopefully .,.hehe.,.,"blend in" with the nomadic reighndeer herders.livin in a yurt,.yert.,yort.,no yert methinx,. my grandparents were cotton pickers in the lower mississipi delta area., in the early 1900's,. theyre name was cotten,.i guess the spelling was different at times,. they moved some friends here to texas right before the depression hit and got stuck here financially,.,. and had to stay.,. good for me.,my grandpa mr. earl cotten/cotton he spelled it different., was a carpenter and my ma was a cotton picker and his better to do family wouldnt let him mary her for she was a "destitute river rat cotton picker" but thankfully he disobeyed and ran with her., we keep some of the furniture he made over his life., tables made with furnace legs., pie safes,. with punched metal plates., pretty pretty.,he was of the old school., very respectable., anyways ill hang it up.,