Words, expressions, shed music, coffee houses, broken-down dreams, anything but the telephone, spanish guitars, proper chords, street-stalls, new music, old music, small venues, pubs with board games, the open road, cricket, tapes, big venues, low ceilings, running away.
Kerouac and Bukowski. drinking whiskey. in a bar. in Times Square. with Jane Austen.
Animal Collective, Bob Dylan, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Arcade Fire, Interpol, Yo La Tengo, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Shins, Duke Sunnyfield, Willy Mason, Page France, The Velvet Underground, Voxtrot, Sparrow House, Johnny and The Moon, Midlake, Tom Waits, My Bloody Valentine.
Waiting for Guffman, Rushmore, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Big Lebowski, Lost In Translation, This Is Spinal Tap, Airplane, The Royal Tenenbaums.
YouTube.com
Jack Kerouac, Douglas Coupland, Chuck Palahniuk, William S. Burroughs, Albert Camus, George Orwell, John Clellon Holmes, Charles Bukowski, Brett Easton Ellis.
My dad.