Yam puppetry, Anhedonia, Henry Darger, funny monkey hi-jinx.
Gulley Jimson, a Yeti, Lora Logic, Diane Arbus, Robert Benchley, Homer Bigart, Charles Bukowski, Skip James, Lenny Bruce, Yusuhiko Mizushima and Mrs. Miller.
In no particular order I like field recordings by Alan Lomax, scratchy records, AM radio stations that the radio cant really pick up, Rich's sun-warped George Benson record, T.G., Mrs. Miller records from start to finish, NEW COLLAPSE, Beefheart, D.A.F., Tuxedomoon, This Heat, No More, Stretchheads, Monitor, Skip James, German Shepherds, Void, early Soft Machine , Wire, Minimal Man, Soft Drinks, Novak, Small Faces, Transparent Illusion, Bonzo Dog Band, Absolute Body Control, Those Helicopters, The Four Plugs, SPK, Menace, Lenny Bruce, DNA, Fatal Microbes, Beirut Slump, Birthday Party, Red Zebra, LAFMS, J.J. Burnel, Crucifix, Metropak, Ralph Recs., PRE FIX, Palais Schaumburg, MAD VIRGINS, Minny Pops, Chain Gang, Silver Apples, Petticoats, Schund, Pussy Galore, Basczax, Battered Ornaments, Chrome, Red Asphalt, Essential Logic, Stump, Primitive Calculators, Snowy Red, whatever...anything Greg Gomberg is doing, and the same goes for Rich Bitch.
Wiseblood, Catch 22, Songs from the second floor, Rififi, Come and See, The Swimmer, The Loved One, Cajun 2-Step, The Horse's Mouth, The Brothers Quay, Decasia, Das Boot, The Harder They Come, Stalingrad, several Miranda July films, Stray Dog, High and Low, The Desert Rats, The Plot Against Harry, Shortbus.
Raymond Chandler, Flannery O'Connor, Charles Willeford, Catch 22, Naked in Garden Hills, A Canticle for Leibowitz.
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