"the ones for me have always been the mad ones, the manic ones, the passionate ones, the ones who devour a piece of prose and lick their lips, wanting more more MORE!, the ones who hear music not with their ears but with their spirits, the ones who ride the wave of the moment, the ones whose inner beat infects those around them, the ones whose eyes do not hide but show the true color of their souls, the ones who light fires in the minds of the frozen masses, the ones the free the flow of life from the damn of mediocrity, these are the mad ones that color my world." - j. olson
All the mad ones. The mad rara avis artists, writers, illustrators, photographers, storytellers, musicians, entertainers, psychos, and poets who wanna see their ideas, words, art, photos, songs, rants, cartoons, scribblings, riddles, etc...come to life in Mad Swirl, www.madswirl.com and Mad Swirl Open Mic at the Absinthe Lounge.
All styles, all sizes. Favorites...John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Soft Machines, Wilco, Modest Mouse, Johnny Cash (old and new), Gomez, Elliot Smith, The Beatles, Radiohead, Beck, Bob Dylan, Flaming Lips, Beastie Boys, Hank Sr...and OH SO MUCH more!
In no particular order...No Country for Old Men, Across the Universe, Factotum, Shortbus, Little Miss Sunshine, Millions, Finding Neverland, American Beauty, The Royal Tannenbaums, all Quentin Tarentino's movies (Pulp Fiction the most), Snatch, Henry and June, Fight Club, Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless Mind, Life is Beautiful, Big Fish, The Source, Breathless, Streetcar Named Desire...I know there's lots more but I'm kinda tapped out right now...
Breaking Bad, American Dad, Heroes, Rescue Me, The Simpsons, South Park, The Family Guy, King of the Hill, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Real Time with Bill Mahr, Ali G...heck, any HBO show, American Masters, Austin City Limits...
The Rosy Crucifixion, The Laughing Jesus, Running with Scissors, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, On the Road, Ham on Rye, The Great Gatsby, Notes From the Underground, The Great Shark Hunt, Leaves of Grass, Grapes of Wrath, The Sun Also Rises, Tales of Ordinary Madness, Hell's Angels...and be sure that I'm omitting WHOLE bunches more.
Jesus, John Lennon, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Pablo Picasso, Charles Bukowski, Johnny Cash, Dean Moriarty, Howard Stern, Don Pusateri, Ole Olson, Leonardo DiVinci, Buddha, Henry Chianski, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Vincent Van Gogh, Sal Paradise...