my friend Ima had this on her site and I thought I'd share w/ others, enjoy!!
A lazy woman who will have me. must not require ambition in a man. a loathing for drama preferred.
most important: my new band is athttp://www.myspace.com/springbreak82Not so new music, some of which has become SpringBreak 82 songs along with much by Mike @ www.canardmusic.com LISTEN OK here goes: Art Ensemble, Adam and the Ants, Agitpop, Bauhaus, Beastie Boys, Beck, Beatles, Bow Wow Wow, Black Flag, James Brown, Black Sabbath, Big Black, Butthole Surfers, Art Blakey, Bastro, Birthday Party, Blue Oyster Cult, Blondie, David Bowie, Jeff Beck, Ornette Coleman, Captain Beefheart, Johnny Cash, John Coltrane, Nick Cave, Cheap Trick, Chrome, Cocteau Twins, Can, Coil, Cibo Matto, the Cure, Cream Abdul Babar, Dead Boys, Deep Purple, Miles Davis, DEVO, Neil Diamond, De La Soul, Dr. Octagon, DVC, Einsturzende Neubaten, Brian Eno, Roky Erikson, the Fall, Fantomas, Flaming Lips, Fu Manchu, Funkadelic, Gang of Four, Marvin Gaye, Generation X, Al Green, Gruel, the Gun Club, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Halo of Flies, Hendrix, Hickey, Honky, Husker Du, Iggy Pop, Jesus Lizard, The Jam, Gearge Jones, Jethro Tull, Joy Division, KRM, King Crimson, Kiss, Kraftwerk, Kyuss, Led Zep, MC5, Melt Banana, Melvins, the Meters, Mingus, Minutemen, Mountain, Ennio Morricone, Van Morrison, Motorhead, New Order, Willy Nelson, Willie Heath Neal, Gary Numan, Shuggie Otis, Pentagram, Parliament, Pixies, Perez Prado, Public Enemy, Prince, Rolling Stones, Rapeman, Ruins, Scratch Acid, Sex Pistols, Seeds, Shockabilly, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, Siouxie and the Banshees, Jimmy Smith, Sir Lord Baltimore, the Sonics, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, Jon Spencer, Spinal Tap, Supagroup, Sun Ra, the Stooges, Yma Sumac, Swell Maps, Syrup, Tad, Test Dept., Thee Hypnotics, Tubeway Army, Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Throbbing Gristle, Tones on Tail, T. Rex, Velvet Underground, the Ventures, Hank Williams 1, 2, and 3, Tom Waits, Fats Waller, Barry White, Stevie Wonder, Ween, Wu Tang Clan, X, XTC, Frank Zappa, and ZZtop and much much more
all right since there has been nothing good lately heres some I I think are must see's: Forbidden Zone, Desperate Living, Dr. Strangelove, the Dark Backward, Fitzcarraldo, Aguirre, Blade Runner, the President's Analyst, Night of the Hunter, Dark Passage, Seven Samurai (any Kurosawa really), High Plains Drifter, the Outlaw Josie Wales, Evil Dead 2, Mean Streets, the Warriors, Reservoir Dogs and other Tarantino, Boondock Saints, Super Troopers, everything directed by Wes Anderson so far, Fight Club, Memento, A Clockwork Orange, Wild at Heart and Blue Velvet but not real happy with other Lynch movies really, Willy Wonka (the original), the Big Lebowski and all previous Coen brothers movies, Down by Law and others by Jim Jarmusch, Sam Fuller movies, Two Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia and others by Pekinpah, a Boy and His Dog, Man Bites Dog, Amores Perros, the Devils Backbone, City of God, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch (maybe Mr. Madonna will make another movie as good as these again someday), Trainspotting, Twister (not the one with Helen Hunt), Wings of Desire and assorted others by Wim Wenders, the Princess Bride, this is Spinal Tap and while we're at it all the Christopher Guest ensemble comedies (Guffman, Best in Show and Mighty Wind), Prime Cut, Point Blank, The Marathon Man, the Babycart movies w/ Tomisaburo Wakayama, Beat Takeshi films (Violent Cop, Fireworks, Sonatine etc.), Old Boy, Sin City, Robert Altman films(gotta love the multiple conversations thing), Bad Boy Bubby, Office Space, Trey Parker-Matt Stone movies (all good thus far even Baseketball that those damn Zuckers did), Sean Connery Bond movies and the first few w/ Roger Moore, all Monty Python films,Pan's Labyrinth, Tideland, Idiocracy,Stranger than Fiction,
The League of Gentlemen, Upright Citizens Brigade, Tenacious D, Mr. Show, Penn and Teller's Bullshit, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Deadwood, South Park, the Daily Show, Battlestar Galactica,Arrested Development,Sealab,Rome Carnivale
Burroughs, Bellow, Ballard, Calvino, Ellison, Eco, Heinlein, Herbert,Heller, Irving, Gibson, Niven, Toole and Vonnegut to name a few. I read a lot oh yeah add Donald Barthelme, Walker Percy, and Davis Grubb as well as Joseph Conrad, Gogol,and Flannery O'Conner and how can I forget Bukowski and Henry Miller...... Haruki Murakami kicks so much ass its amazing!! Robert Anton Wilson, Bruce Sterling, Richard Brautigan, David Sedaris, Sara Vowell, Richard Condon