drawing badly, baking capably, whining loudly, laffing awfully, running lamely, reading slowly, growing lowly, swinging low, fevering high, making cardboard and cornmush ghost traps, finding the REAL killer, making perfect piecrust, hoarding kimchi, making teeny mysteries and sailing the seven swamps.
someone with a hammock and a harmonicaor this talented fellow: ..
country blues, sacred harp singing, holiness field recordings, bluegrass, hokum, dixie, new orleans funeral jazz, old time country, calp and shake gospel, jug bands, cowboy songs, sailor songs, hobo songs, murder ballads, stomps and shakes, spooky jazz, smokey barroom burners, barnyard hollers and banjo rambling tunes.also many joyful noisemakers and sorrowful songsters who still suck in air one lung at a time just like you and me.
charlie chaplin. alfred hitchcock. chalfred hitchplin.and elia kazan.
Flannery O'Connor, Luc Sante, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, books about hoboes, tramps, crime, ghosts, chicago, molasses, spices, mystery, shipwrecks, charlie chaplin bios, religious texts, cookbooks, picture books and lots and lots of comics...