Vinyl, playing records, collecting records, music, photography, comedy shows, politics, parties, fashion, rollerskating (not the blade kind), jewelry making, graphic design, road trips, 50s-60s-70s game shows, listening to TD Mischke, singing in my car, shaking my ass Motown style, dark chords, drive-ins, water parks, the Quiet Beatle, chirping spring birds, time travel, homemade goods, crochet, german autos, cuckoo clocks, I'm drinkin' Schell's dark, Sam Smith's Nut Brown Ale, Newcastle, Summit Grand, Guinness, and tons o' wine. I love ethnic foods-particularly Indian, Thai, Nepalese, Japanese. I live and breathe MUSIC, and I miss Root Cellar Records terribly, I have new keys now I need lessons, Love investigating deserted properties, St. Paul History and Minnesota History, lake cabins, sidewalk-chalking, thrift/garage sale shopping, astral-projection, parades, am radio at night, reading Brain, Child and Dwell; raking leaves, blue xmas lites, good cheese, being a home-body, going out
Rick Wright, Alan Rickman, Jeff Lynne, Peter Buck, Kelley Stoltz, Radiohead, Bobby Dylan, TD Mischke, Bill Murray, John Turturro, Christopher Guest, Paul Giamatti, Crispin Glover, Ben Stiller, Relics with a breadth of history to share... Anyone who likes board games Gnomes, Unicorns, Scarecrows People who are passionate about their art. Also amazing musicians, local historians, dumpster divers, trivia heads, pop-culture nuts, and those who wish to discuss rock and roll and all things related to music.
ELO-T-Rex-Syd Barrett-Pink Floyd-Flying Burrito Bros-Gram Parsons-The Byrds-Blue Cheer-Blue Oyster Cult-K-Tel Compilations-The Shivers (UK)-Grandaddy-the Kinks-Elliott Smith-Quasi-Kelley Stoltz-Jimmy Smith-Monk-Davis-Billy Holloman-the Stylistics-Jerry Butler-The Pretenders-The Jam- Television-The Gossip-Bauhaus-The Magnetic Fields-Field Music-Robyn Hitchcock-Mew-The Who-The Gap Band-The Zombies- The Hollies-Love-Commodores-Mates of State-Boards of Canada- Magazine-the Small Faces-Bowie-Badly Drawn Boy-Air-Curtis Mayfield-Donny Hathaway-Radiohead-The Church-Simple Minds- Ed Harcourt-The New Pornographers-Echo & the Bunnymen- Psychedelic Furs-U2-Tom Waits-Nick Drake-Stones-Beatles-The Temptations-Sparklehorse-Uncle Tupelo-Wilco-Handsome Family- Bill Withers-Richard Buckner-George-Merle-Hank-Conway- Loretta-Townes Van Zandt-Bobby Bare-the Louvin Bros.- (early)REM-Doves-The Seeds-Roy Orbison-Del Shannon-Dion- Cheap Trick-Van Halen-Sonic Youth -Andrew Bird-Bright Eyes- Steely Dan-Nine Inch Nails-Interpol-The Flaming Lips-Ween- the King of France-Deformo-Mark Mallman-David Byrne-Iron & Wine-Elbow-Funkadelic-Daniel Johnston-The Pixies-John and Sean Lennon-Rage Against the Machine-Journey-Modest Mouse- Pelican-The Sisters of Mercy-Sweet J.A.P-Norfolk & Western- The Jesus and Mary Chain Darklands album-Clap Your Hands Say Yeah-Shuggie Otis-Sufjan Stevens-TV on the Radio-Arcwelder-
Stranger than Fiction, The Shop Around the Corner, Almost Famous, Lovers of the Arctic Circle, The Conversation, Donnie Darko, Buffalo 66, Dead Man, Virgin Suicides, The Last Picture Show, I Love You to Death, Fletch, A Fish Called Wanda, The Motorcycle Diaries, Fallen Angel, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the Truman Show, Peggy Sue Got Married, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Pickpocket, Amelie, Sideways, Rushmore, Dead Man, Sense and Sensability, The Big Lebowski, The Ice Storm, Office Space, Election, Meatballs, Spinal Tap, Xanadu, American Splendor, American Movie, Broken Flowers, Shaun of the Dead, Gone with the Wind, Fargo, Gene Hackman movies, Pink Floyd Documentaries, Walk the Line, Dark Days, The Science of Sleep, The Graduate, The Last American Virgin, The Good Girl, Little Miss Sunshine, City Council Productions (a local film outfit)
Prisonbreak, Weeds, Little Britain, The Office (UK & US), A.I., Frontline, P.O.V., Twilight Zone, Mad Tv, vintage cartoons, the Love Boat, VH1 Classics, The Wonder Years, Kids in the Hall
Hickory Wind by Ben Fong-Torres, Unsinkable: the Full Story of the RMS TItanic by Daniel Allen Butler, the Last of the Crazy People, the Sun Also Rises, the Great Gatsby, the Pat Hobby Stories (F. Scott's shorts), The Catcher in the Rye, Through the Looking Glass, Inside Out, If it's about a shipwreck--I wanna read it.
Syd Barrett, Richard Wright, Elliott Smith, Jeff Lynne, Paul Wellstone, Max Beckmann, Robert Motherwell, BD, TD Mischke, Mitch Hedberg, Gram Parsons, Townes Van Zandt, Richard Avedon, Saul Bass, Vivienne Westwood, Mary Quant, Loretta Lynn, Gene Rayburn, Tex Avery, Art Bell, Toy Makers