Reading Jim Thompson, Jack Kerouac, and Albert Camus, crushing my enemies, and getting smashed alone in my car.
um... Followers of obsolete, unthinkable trades, doodling in Etruscan, addicts of drugs not yet synthesized, pushers of souped up Harmaline, junk reduced to pure habit offering precarious vegetable serenity, liquids to induce latah, Tithonian longevity serums, black marketeers of World War III, excisors of telepathic sensitivity, osteopaths of the spirit, investigators of infractions denounced by bland paranoid chest players, survers of fragmentary warrents taken down in hebephenric shorthand charging unspeakable mutilations of the spirit, beuracrats of special departments, officials of unconstituted police states, a lesbian dwarf who has prefected Operation Banguttot, the lung erection that strangles the sleeping enemy, sellers of orgone tanks and relaxing machines, brokers of exquisite dreams and memories tested on the sensitized cells of junk sickness and bartered for raw materials of the will, docotrs skilled in treatments of diseases dormant in the black dust of ruined cities, gathering virulence in the white brood of eyeless worms feeling slowly to the surface and the human host, maladies of the ocean floor and the stratosphere, maladies of the labratory and atomic war, some raincoated lovers' puny brothers....larval entries waiting for the Live One.... Charles Nelson Reilly.
off the top of my head... Television, R.E.M., Yo La Tengo, Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, Patti Smith, The Cramps, Gun Club, Tav Falco & His Unapproachable Panther Burns, The Misfits, The Gories, The Dirtbombs, The Reverand Horton Heat, The Ventures, Link Wray, Richard Hell, Tom Verlaine, The Neon Boys, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, John Cale, James Chance, Jonathon Richman, The Feelies, The Ramones, Suicide, Iggy Pop, Talking Heads, Mission of Burma, Jim Carroll, Bob Dylan, Hasil Atkins, Charlie Feathers, Love, Sun Ra, David Axelrod, Lee Scratch Perry, Ennio Morricone, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Joy Division, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Melvin Van Peebles, MF DOOM, Madlib, haunted house records, Bill Cosby Talks To Kids About Drugs, Whodini, Wu-Tang Clan, A Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers, Black Sheep, Digable Planets, Gang Star, Guru, Organized Konfusion, Ice Cube, Del The Funkee Homosapien, Kool Keith, Lounge Lizards, The Del-Byzantines, The Smiths, The Fall, Buzzcocks, Magazine, Public Image Ltd, X-Ray Spex, The Raincoats, Vic Godard and the Subway Sect, Orange Juice, Josef K, The Specials, The Selector, Madness, The Streets, Pere Ubu, Devo, Rocket From The Tombs, Peter Laughner, The Monkees, Dictators, Gary Numan, Big Star, Beat Happening, Sonic Youth, They Might Be Giants, Camper Van Beethoven, Felt, Nick Cave, Leonard Nimoy, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Billy Childish, The Smashing Pumpkins, Pixies, Dinosaur Jr, Goblin, Minutemen, Black Flag, FEAR, Dead Kennedys, Dead Milkmen, The Flaming Lips, The B-52s, Wall of Voodoo, Oingo Boingo, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, The Residents, Renaldo and the Loaf, Joe Meek and the Blue Men, Bruce Haak, Raymond Chandler, Moondog, Roy Ayers, Issac Hayes, Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Booker T and the MGs, James Brown, Parliament-Funkadelic, Sly Stone, The Last Poets, Gil Scott Heron, Fela Kutti, Desmond Dekkar, Jimmy Cliff, The Scientist, King Tubby, DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Baambaata, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson, Son House, Skip James, Kim Fowley, Phil Spector, The Shangri-Las, The Ronettes, The Crystals, The Shaggs
Mostly trash, exploitation, sleaze, and b-horror flicks, but i've been known to occasionally indulge in the works of Jim Jarmusch, John Cassavettes, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Samuel Fuller, Fritz Lang, Segio Leone, Ishiro Honda, Nicholas Ray, John Waters, Roger Corman, H.G. Lewis, David Lynch, Luis Bunuel, Tod Browning, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, [early] Brian Depalma, Quentin Tarantino, Joel and Ethan Coen, Billy Wilder, John Ford, John Huston, Howard Hawks, Otto Preminger, Francois Traffaut, Wim Wenders, David Cronenberg, Crispin Hellion Glover, John Carpenter, George A. Romero, Lucio Fulci, Dario Argento, Mario Bava, Terry Gilliam, Melvin Van Peebles, Peter Bogdanavich, etc.
"Little Johnny Jewel... He's So Cool..."
Jack Kerouac(editing Naked Lunch): Bill, what is all this stuff about young boys being hanged naked in limestone caves? William Burroughs: No idea. I know I'm some kind of interplanetary agent but I don't think my signals are decoding properly.
Harry Dean Stanton, Lux Interior, Bobby Digital, Jack Kerouac, and Godzilla.