throwing ping pong balls into goldfish bowls at rural carnivals, kona, the smell of mulch, dredging up the future, jukeboxes and pool tables, pumping irony, strangers and their stories, taking baths, roughhousing, hitchhiking, moss, histories of marginalized peoples, nightlife and daylife, sleep, monkeys, anything to do with Baltimore, tossing salad, muscle cars, flitting out, classic pro wrestling, manners, parisian street brawls, wood panelling, seafood, lots of seafood, dreams, maps, untangling knots, impure thoughts, math scrabble, denim, hanging with out-of-town friends, pick-up trucks of my youth, all sorts of hats, and landing in far away places.
Replacements, Ramones, Magnetic Fields, Funkiller, Neutral Milk Hotel, Meat Puppets, Dead, Butthole Surfers, Left Eye, Sigur Ros, Dylan, Judas Priest, Scissors, Early 80's RnB, Bach, Flaming Lips, Willie Nelson, Def Leppard, The Shins, Prince, Azure Ray, Anna Mae Bullock, The Cramps, Scott Matthew, Tom Petty, Circle Nine, Dvorak, Zeppelin, Waylon Jennings, Bruce, Ocean Blue, Beach Boys, Music Tapes, Miles Davis, Kids on TV, Metallica, Nick Cave, Antony, John Camp Cougarmellon, Beetoven, Chaka Khan, Nirvana, Pretenders, Chili Peppers, Loretta Lynn, Eurythmics, Lou Reed, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Elf Power, Ashford and Simpson, Wainwrights, Tammy, Tanya, Keane, B52's, Joan Jett, REM, Nightmares on Wax, Bitch, Nick Drake, Dwight Yoakam, Hound Dog Taylor, Nina Simone, Jim Croce..And of course, Jay.
Desperate Living, Red Balloon, Elephant Man, Outland, Dead Zone, Broken Noses, The Island('80), Umberto D, Me and You and Everyone We Know, White Mane, Love Streams, Drawing Lines, Gloria, Squid and the Whale, Curse of the Cat People, Imagine, The Wall, Garp, Wolfen, Looker, Huckabees, Endless Summer, Junebug, Young Frankenstein, Frankenstein vs. The Wolfman, Conan the Barbarian, Flesh, Female Trouble, Hedwig, Opening Night, Cannery Row, Day of the Locust, Continental Divide, The Thing(Carpenter), Song Remains the Same, Brainstorm, Dazed and Confused, Being There, Hawmps (my first movie when I was a kid), Cujo, Late-Night Adult Films on Super TV, Harold and Maude, 3 Women, Empire Strikes Back, Kramer vs. Kramer, S.O.B., History of the World Part 1, Cabaret, Dressed to Kill, Repulsion
Spanbauer, Whitman, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Trouble With Normal by Michael Warner, E.A. Poe, Gonzo, Dry, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Demian, James Baldwin, Cookie Mueller, Mark Thompson, Herman Hesse, Paramahansa Yogananda, LJN...
Miss Estelle