Living's mostly wasting time,
And I waste my share of mine.
But it never feels too good,
So let's not take too long.
-TVZ
the sound of my own voice, short stories, southern literature, architecture, structural engineering, industrial design, furniture design, graphic design, grids, typography, web design, photography, football, mexican food, pasta, bears, dogs, guitars, drums, tall women, sociology, logic, american history, economics, liberterianism
A lady in the streets. A freak in the sheets.
the Band, Chuck Berry, Black Sabbath, Dock Boggs, Johnny Cash, Guy Clark, David Allan Coe, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Lefty Frizzell, Gang of Four, Merle Haggard, PJ Harvey, Son House, Iggy & the Stooges, Waylon Jennings, Robert Johnson, George Jones, Kings of Leon, the Kinks, Kris Kristofferson, Led Zeppelin, Jerry Lee Lewis, Nick Lowe, Loretta Lynn, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Roger Miller, Buck Owens, Cat Power, John Prine, Otis Redding, Jimmie Rodgers, Billy Joe Shaver, Nina Simone, Carl Smith, Elliott Smith, Sammi Smith, Son Volt, Spoon, Wynn Stewart, Television, Ernest Tubb, Townes Van Zandt, the Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, Muddy Waters, Whiskeytown, the White Stripes, Keith Whitley, the Who, Don Williams, Hank Williams, Hank Williams Jr., Hank Williams III, Wire, Howlin' Wolf, Tammy Wynette, Dwight Yoakam, X
In general, I like honky tonk & outlaw country; anything from the Sun, Stax or Chess labels; R&B from Atlantic; bebop & cool jazz; early punk & post-punk; the mods & the beats; delta blues & folk music.
Annie Hall, the Aviator, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Casino, Chinatown, Dog Day Afternoon, Don't Look Back, Fargo, Godfather I & II, Goodfellas, the Graduate, the Jerk, Mean Streets, Nashville, Network, North By Northwest, Pulp Fiction, Raging Bull, Raising Arizona, Rio Bravo, the Silence of the Lambs, Taxi Driver, the Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Waiting for Guffman
Filmmakers - Robert Altman, Robert Bresson, Luis Buñuel, the Coen brothers, Francis Ford Coppola, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Christopher Guest, Brian De Palma, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Wong Kar-Wai, Stanley Kubrick, Sergio Leone, Jean-Pierre Melville, Sam Peckinpah, Nicholas Ray, Martin Scorsese, Douglas Sirk, Billy Wilder
the Andy Griffith Show, Chappelle's Show, Entourage, Freaks and Geeks, Law and Order: SVU, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Mr. Show, My Name Is Earl, Northern Exposure, the Office, Seinfeld, Sopranos, South Park, Squidbillies, Strangers With Candy
James Agee, William Blake, Harry Crews, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Keats, James Joyce, Greil Marcus, Cormac McMcarthy, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Arthur Rimbaud, Dylan Thomas, Thucydides, Eudora Welty, Walt Whitman, the Old Testament
Merle Haggard & my momma