star fruit, monkey nut production, Mexican jumping beans and slinkys on escalators.
non-republicans, kidney plagued people and this man:
the SUBJECTS and Communist Bakesale on my friends list, Alejandro Escovedo, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Aimee Mann, Patti Smith Group, Lucinda Williams, Grateful Dead, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Steve Earle, Nick Cave, Richard Thompson(& Linda), Velvet Underground, John Cale, New York Dolls, The Harry Smith's, The Band, The Hawks, Rodney Crowell, Dylan, Fairport Convention, Elvis Costello, Allman Bros., Gov't Mule, Clash, Johnny Cash, Petty, Kinks, The Jam, Springsteen, Charlie Musselwhite, John Hammonds, Tom Waits, MC5, Garica/Grisman, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, John Hiatt, Flying Burrito Bros., Marshall Crenshaw,Warren Zevon, Van Morrison/Them, Steely Dan, Bowie, Phil Spector, Robbie Robertson, Old & In in Way, Harry Nilsson, Stones, Ramones, U2, Television, Flatlanders, Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Alberta Hunter, Memphis Slim, White Stripes, James Cotton, Elmore James, Son House, Howlin' Wolf, Lightnin' Hopkins, Hubert Sumlin, Bob Margolin, Tom Russell, Tom Rush, Bobby Neuwirth, Charlie Sexton, Jon Dee Graham, Ray Wylie Hubbard, JGB, Talking Heads, Lyle Lovett, Tony Joe White, Los Lobos, early George era Little Feet, Jeff Beck, Traffic, the Brill Building, Carole King, The Jam, White Stripes, Jackson Browne, Solomon Burke, Otis, Bruce Hornsby, JJ Cale, John Lee Hooker, Uncle Tupelo, Bob Willis, Steve Cropper, Joan Baez, Willie Nelson, Muddy Waters, Eric Bibb, Pentangle, Bert Jansch, The Who, George Shadow Morton, Modern Lovers(Jonathan Richman), Richard Hell, Staple Singers, Ronnie Earl, Robert Cray, Walter Trout, Tinsley Ellis, Rory Block, WC Clark, Joe Henry, Willie Dixon, Alan Lomax, Ralph Gleason, Lester Bangs, Lenny Kaye, Ivan Kral, The Be Good Tanyas, the Blasters, Black Crows, Wilco, New England Conservatory Klezmer Band, Klezmatics, Sam Phillips and his slap-back technique and lastly whoever wrote the music for all Hensen productions in paticular Fraggle Rock!!
Garden State, Coffee and Cigarettes, Ghost Dog, Mystery Train, Down By Law, Night on Earth, Midnight Cowboy, The Graduate, Taxi Driver, Spinal Tap, The Jerk, Goodfellas, Cuckoo’s Nest, The Last Waltz, Don't Look Back, The Royal Tenenbaums, Straw Dogs, Papillion, Casino, Rebel W/o a Cause, Man w/ the Golden Arm, Lost in Translation, Street Car Named Desire, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dog Day Afternoon, Apocalypse Now, Where the Buffalo Roam, Shawshank, Bowling for Columbine, Fargo, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Pressure Point, Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Baraka, Heartworn Highways, Barfly... also there's a slew of steve mcqueen movies i'm oddly blocking out.
i don't watch tv much at all, but if antique road show, austin city limits or soundstage are on i'll think about sticking around. hence pbs, but tlc and animal planet have some nice things too. i also like Bones and House, but watch them so seldomly.
Poets: Gary Snyder, Robert Creeley, Anne Sexton, Plath, John Berrymen, Leonard Cohen (published poet way before musician), Paul Blackburn, Sharon Olds, Louise Gluck, Gregory Corso, Lucile Clifton, Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, Philip Whalen, Larry Ferlinghetti, Maxine Kumin, Denise Levertov, WD Snodgrass, Frank O’Hara, Adrienne Rich, Muriel Rukeyser, WCW, Kenneth Patchen, Amiri Baraka Richard Brautigan, Jim Carroll, Dianne di Prima, Erica Jong, David Lehmen, Kenneth Koch, Michael McClure, Marge Piercy, John Wieners, Cid Corman, Robert Kelley, Kerouac, Anne Waldman.I'm big also on non-fiction books, but not novels or fiction.And for some trivia: Allen Ginsberg plays finger cymbals on the Clash’s Combat Rock. Anne Sexton even had a rock band the year prior to her suicide. And Lou Reed wrote the classic VU song Heroin years before trying it first hand. He wrote it as a poem for his Syracuse professor Delmore Schwartz’s course work. Schwartz is obscure now, but once had a quick pinnacle wining the awards that mattered before alcoholism took him down.
after failing to narrow it down: keith olbermann, joe strummer, robin yount, townes van zandt and charlie watts for being married to the same wife since the Stones started.