..Music, Performing Arts, Independent Film, Now a Proud Triumph Bonneville Owner! Slam Poetry, enjoying the occasional art opening, working on my new house, running, cycling, swimming at Barton Springs or Deep Eddy. Kayaking on Town Lake; outdoor stuff, walking my dogs around town lake, playing guitar, Longbranch, Deep Eddy, Hole in the Wall, Opal's, Hill Country roadhouses. Luckenbach. Good restaurants w/a good wine/champagne list.
The Patron Saint of Lost Causes. I need to ask him something
And maybe this guy:
XTC, Replacements/Paul Westerberg, The Who, Wilco, The Kinks, The Damned, The Clash, Pistols, Psychedelic Furs, Echo and the Bunnymen, Cheap Trick, Small Faces/Faces/Humble Pie, Alejandro Escovedo, Blur. Siouxsie and the Banshees, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Stephane Grappelli, Django Reinhardt, Stan Getz, Sarah Vaughan, Bebel Gilberto, Nat King Cole, Neko Case, Tom Waits, TMBG, DEVO, Sex Pistols, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, Polyphonic Spree, Nick Drake, B-52s, Harry Nilsson, Fred Neil, Big Star, Dream Syndicate, Raymond Scott, Television, Decemberists, Dramarama, Go-Gos, Two-Tone Music, anything on Stiff Records. Ambient music. Arcade Fire, Johnny Cash, Pogues, Chieftains, Arcade Fire, John Prine, Billy Bragg, Gang of Four, Radiohead, Shriekback, Wire, Steely Dan, Stretford, The Wannabes, Kronos Quartet, Tortoise, Velvet Underground, Joy Division, Hamell on Trial, Hives, HEM, Steve Earle, Old School Jazz. Music that I can't play myself.
I love it when I find a band that excites me, and that still happens about once or twice a year. 99% is shite.
Jim Jarmusch, Cohen Brothers, Buster Keaton, Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino, Stanley Kubrick, Wes Anderson, Brazil, Moulin Rouge, Delicatessen, Amelie, Cinema Paradisio, Marx Bros, Michael Moore, Amercan Beauty, Gone With the Wind, Catch 22 Magnolia, Quadrophenia... lemme think...
Sopranos, Carnivale, Six Feet Under (R.I.P), Entourage, The Daily Show, Ken Burns Documentaries, My Name is Earl, The Office, Curb Your Enthusiasm. The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Arrested Development, Russel Simmons Def Poetry.
I Prefer Nonfiction, Biographies, Humorist Writing, eastern philosophy, David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell, Saul Williams, Spalding Gray, Nick Hornby, H.S. Thompson, Archy and Mehitabel (Don Marquis), Wm. Burroughs, Walt Kelly's Pogo, Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, Punk Diary...
Pete Townshend, Buster Keaton, Paul Westerberg, Bill Hicks, Billy Bragg, Noam Chomsky, Lenny Bruce, Captain Sensible, Frank Zappa, Groucho Marx