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music, reading, bonvivantism.
the country pop stylings of Mr. Glen Campbellthe choreographic genius of Crazy Horses by the Osmonds!
the strange boys, velvet underground/nico, patti smith, modern lovers, van morrison, the laughing clowns, the beatles, the germs, the dream syndicate, nick drake, the apartments, the verlaines, the go-betweens, burt bacharach, tim buckley, the shaggs, stevie wonder, the able tasmans/humphreys and keen, the clientele, the gun club, the teardrop explodes, jps experience, the stooges, neil halstead, nancy sinatra w/lee hazelwood, skip spence, the michael meister phenomenon, the 13th floor elevators, the creation, look blue go purple, the quags and the crackies, the young marble giants, galaxie 500, the chills, kendra smith, al green, the pale fountains, bressa creeting cake/ed cake , suddenly tammy, the b52s, scott walker, the byrds, calexico, yo la tengo, the posies,teenage fanclub, downy mildew, gang of 4, uxa, the cheifs, catholic discipline, the specials, the negro problem/stew, the pretty things, the yardbirds, the pink floyd, gabor szabo, middle class, talking heads, the weirdos, cat power, the salvation army, dave yetton (with the jpse and on his own) television, iron+wine, patria, j.jacoby, jafphd, wire, annette z., the creation, the rheostatics
the world of henry orient, ghost world, the last picture show, rushmore, paper moon, being there, a face in the crowd, criminally insane, the fountainhead, heavenly creatures, sybil, who's afraid of virginia woolf, whistle down the wind, the rose tattoo, the landlord, chinatown, citizen kane, the cruise, the celebration, and so on and so on
kenny vs. spenny, jeopardy, american experience, frontline/nova, documentary mondays on sundance, cable access when it's racially inappropriate and therefore confirms my worst fears about humanity.
77 dream songs/his toy his dream his rest (john berryman), in cold blood (truman capote), robert lowell, delmore schwartz, any thing by janet frame, united states (gore vidal), of plymouth plantation (william bradford), sarah vowell, leni riefenstahl autobiography, the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay (michael chabon), the colony of unrequited dreams AND the divine ryans (wayne johnston), the bird artist (howard norman), the loss of leon meed (josh emmons), the professor and the madman,stiff (mary roach),and books on etymology, etc. etc.
randy kaye,jesus huelguera, john cale, orson welles, john berryman, bob kaufman, syd barrett, henry peck, peter milton walsh, timothy speed levitch, jane dodd, graeme downes, humphreys and keen, delmore schwartz, robert lowell, brian rea, and the godlike genius of Abraham Lincoln upon whose birthday yours truly was born. and, last but not least, the talent that IS steve salardino, founding member and superior dude of Ukefink.