content vs. form, rhythm and blues, the american song, lost artforms, redemption, wizardy, the view from my window, common sense, the thoughts that come to me on airplanes, imagining myself in an old porsche, late night dance parties, car camping, putting my Ranger through the paces, documentation of many forms, the creative moment, muses
Old Souls
13th Floor Elevators, Chris Bell, Dylan, The Action, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Birds, Millennium, Arthur Lee and Love, MC5, Buffalo Springfield, Fairport Convention, Big Star, Flying Burrito Bros., Blue Cheer, Black Flag, The Shirelles, Pretty Things, Grateful Dead, Charley Patton, Mance Lipscomb, Memphis Jug Band, Frank Stokes, John Fahey
Cool Hand Luke, Easy Rider, Office Space, Election, Sweet And Lowdown, Bottle Rocket, Bring The Pain, Caddyshack, Don't Look Back, Bring It On
PBS, History Channel, late night gospel programs
East of Eden, Cannery Row - Steinbeck, Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Twain, This Side of Paradise, Tender is the Night - Fitzgerald, Slaughterhouse 5, Galapagos - Vonnegut, Bound for Glory - Woodie Guthrie
Mark Twain, Steinbeck, Bob Dylan, FDR, Winston Churchill, Miki Dora, Ralph Nader, Woodie Guthrie, Elizabeth Cotten, Abraham Lincoln