Slidin' down the street, waking up.
People
John Fahey, Charley Patton, Bukka White, Jelly Roll Morton, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Johnny Cash, Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Stones, The Kinks, The Velvet Underground, Thirteenth Floor Elevators, The Stooges, John Cale, Lou Reed, Faust, The Who, Little Feat, Funkadelic, Big Star, Television, Warren Zevon, early Genesis, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Caetano Veloso, Richard Thompson, Guided by Voices, Sonic Youth, Mercury Rev, New Pornographers, Teenage Fanclub, Cat Power, Animal Collective, Smog, Miles Davis, Rhys Chatham, Anthony Braxton, Lennie Tristano, Steve Lacy, Ornette Coleman, Derek Bailey, Olivier Messiaen, Iannis Xenakis, Gyorgy Ligeti, all that stuff....and myself.
Au Hasard Balthazar, In Praise of Love, Raging Bull, Shadow of a Doubt, Taxi Driver, Nashville, 3 Women, Kings and Queen, Broken Flowers, Last Days, L'Argent, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Santa Sangre, A Woman Under the Influence, Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Lancelot of the Lake, Blue Velvet, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, The Man Who Fell to Earth, I Spit on Your Grave, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Made in Britain, Scum, A Clockwork Orange, Seconds, The Train, The Swimmer, 2,000 Maniacs, Maniac, Christmas Evil, Scarface, Apocalypse Now, Junebug, Dogville, Deadbeat at Dawn, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Barry Lyndon, Once Upon a Time in the West, Once Upon a Time in America, Enter the Dragon, Mad Max, Midnight Express, Bad Lieutenant, Driller Killer, Candy Snatchers, The Proposition, Miami Vice, A Scanner Darkly, the list goes on...
Yes, and Tom Verlaine's solo stuff is great, too!
I'm not well-read. Not at all. But of the few books that I've actually finished, I've really liked Shella, The Black Dahlia, The Stranger, American Psycho, and any short stories by Raymond Carver. Norman Mailer is awesome, but I've only read half of The Executioner's Song. Still, that was 500 pages worth.
Anyone I can learn from