music, indie music and films, live music, old movies, my doggie, classic cars, friends, journalism, photography, graphic design, reading ...
Bluebeard (Rabo Karabekian), okay, maybe just Kurt Vonnegut. The "Fists of Fury" Care Bear. Tom Verlaine. The inventor of the drive-in movie theater. You, maybe.
In no particular order (and by no means complete -- and yes I need to update this!!!!!!): Ho-Hum, Flaming Lips, Malachy Papers, Dead Boys, Peaches, Television, Watermelon Slim, Beatles, Beck, Love, Electric Rag Band, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Charlie Parker, Starkweather Boys, Talking Heads, Chemical Brothers, Dust Brothers, Public Enemy, The Jam, Rocket from the Tombs, Yo La Tengo, Matthew Sweet, Ween, Aqueduct, Harry Nilsson, Southern Culture on the Skids, Rumblejetts, White Stripes, Jerry Lee Lewis, Alex Chilton, Weezer, Billy Joe Winghead, Bjork, Pavement, Beastie Boys, Redd Kross, Goldfrapp, Paul Westerberg (Grandpaboy), Flat Duo Jets, Gogol Bordello, Big Star, Big Audio Dynamite, E.t.L.O., R.E.M., E.L.O., N.W.A, E.M.F. (heh!), G. Love and Special Sauce, U2, Brian Parton (and the Nashville Rebels), Modest Mouse, Brandon McGovern, 808 State, Admiral Twin, Lee Harvey Oswald Band, Poison Okies, almost any classic Sun Studio musician (Carl Perkins, Wanda Jackson, etc.), Big Daddy Alright, Jane's Addiction ... whew ... did I mention The Engine Hearts?
Any Stanley Kubrick, Spike Jonze, Hitchcock, Monty Python, Cohen brothers or B-horror flick, Evil Dead (all three), Napoleon Dynamite, Dill Scallion, Bladerunner, Best in Show, Fahrenheit 451, Fletch, The Kentucky Fried Movie, Catch 22, Bubba Ho-Tep, Blue Velvet, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Wild at Heart, His Girl Friday, Shaun of the Dead, Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill!, Garden State, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, Eternal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind ... more soon.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report ... old Twilight Zone episodes ... I try to not watch TV.
Staring at Sound: The True Story of Oklahoma's Fabulous Flaming Lips (read it!), Man in the High Castle, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Choke, Fight Club, Farewell My Lovely, Valley of the Dolls, Executioner's Song, White Noise, Libra, Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories, R. Crumb's America, Budding Prospects, The Life of Pi, Fast Copy, The Kite Runner, Sez Who? Sez Me, Breakfast of Champions, American Tabloid, The Dog of the South, Norwood, 1984, Naked, Barrel Fever ...
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Mike Royko, Bruce Campbell, Wanda Jackson, Margaret Bourke-White, Johnny Cash, Studs Terkel, Philip K. Dick, Spike Jonze, my dog Spot ...