WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL STEVE EARLE TO GET HIS VICE-PRESIDENTIAL SHIRT ON?1. Saving the world from zip a dee doo dah 2. Comforting lost souls, broken hearts, and everyone mentioned in Johnny Cash's "Man in Black" 3. Wearing black 4. Working to make sure that every human being in this country is treated with dignity and fairness 5. Being a bigger and better socialist than Steve Earle 6. And don't get me started on our health care system.....
NEVER MET 'EM SO I'LL HAVE TO SETTLE FOR THE AFTERLIFE: Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Townes Van Zandt, John Lennon, FDR, Emma Goldman, Winston Churchill, Woody Guthrie, Graham Chapman.MEET UP WITH 'EM AGAIN IN THE AFTERLIFE: Gram Parsons, Abbie Hoffman, Joey and Johnny Ramone.STILL OUT THERE SOMEWHERE IN THIS LIFE: Eric Idle, Walter Cronkite, Wavy Gravy AND MY PICK FOR NEW ARTIST 2008 IF I HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT --- JAMES SCOTT BULLARD! Check him out!
"It's either good or it's bad.... ya either like it or ya don't...." said my main man Gram Parsons, but TOWNES VAN ZANDT IS THE BEST F*CKIN SONGWRITER IN THE WHOLE F*CKING WORLD.And this is THE ONLY WOMAN that knows what country soul is all about:Otherwise: anyone who got kicked off the Opry; anyone that got kicked out of Nashville; Waylon,AND NOW WE NEED SOME NEW BLOOD!!!! PETE BERWICK, THIS IS JUST TOO GOOD!!!!!!!Show 'em how it's done, Girls Guns & Glory!And how about this from Elvis, I mean Blake and the boys in YARN:And I think this Kid named Justin Townes Earle just might have a career here....And Joe Cassady is pretty good for a high school teacher, if he'd just get out from under the tent: Cash, Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper, Dwight, Hank III, Bobby Bare, Jim Lauderdale, Nick Lowe (still the Jesus of Cool),Charley Pride, Roger Miller, Chris Hillman, Buddy and Julie Miller, ELH, Ryan Adams, Billy Bragg, Jeff Tweedy, Billy Joe and Eddie Shaver, Skeeter Davis, Marty Stuart, Tuff Darts (Your Love is Like a Nuclear Waste!), psycho-rockabilly, RAMONES gabba gabba hey!,Mark Lindsay (my first luv....) and oh hell I named my radio show after a Steve Earle song so him too.
The Die Hard series; Sean Connery's 007 series; the Torchy Blane series; anything British. And though not technically a movie, I like to watch Dwight spin around doing "Streets of Bakersfield". But this aint that video:
Blow up yer tv. Throw away yer paper. Watch Brian Molnar instead:
Whatever is in the library, odds are I've borrowed it.
My dad (the coal miner), my mom (a VanLear Rose), Kathy Mattea for this in particular:Gram Parsons, FDR, Abbie Hoffman, Bobby Bare ("country music's answer to Bruce Springsteen"???? I THINK it's the other way round...) and Steve Earle.