1968-1975. Lots of people, music fans in particular, seem to think nothing happened between the summer of love and punk rock. They are sorely mistaken. I am also interested in Tibetan Buddhism, weightlifting, poetry, and owls.
A record mogul who recognizes genius when s/he hears it.
Babylon Dance Band, The Birthday Party, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, James Brown, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Alice Cooper, Skeeter Davis, The Dicks, Die Kreuzen, Dion, Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show, Bob Dylan, Endtables, Everly Brothers, Freddy Fender, Gang of Four, Bobbie Gentry, Humble Pie, Iron Maiden, Jackson 5, Skip James, Waylon Jennings, The Left Banke, Loretta Lynn, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Curtis Mayfield, MC5, Melanie, Joni Mitchell, Dolly Parton, Charlie Rich, The Rolling Stones, Bob Seger, Silver Jews, The Sir Douglas Quintet, Sly and The Family Stone, Sonic's Rendezvous Band, The Stooges, Thin Lizzy, Void, Tony Joe White, Wire, Neil Young, and the late, great Sammi Smith.
Alice in the Cities, Cisco Pike, Coffy, Electra Glide in Blue, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Fast Times at Ridgement High, Foxes, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, Heartworn Highways, The Hired Hand, The Idiots, Kings of the Road, Mikey and Nicky, Over the Edge, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Play It As It Lays, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, The Searchers, Seven Samurai, Stroczek, Two-Lane Blacktop, A Woman Under the Influence, The White Dawn, The Wild Bunch.
Pro football, University of Louisville sports, The Wire, Project Runway, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. I also enjoy watching reruns of Sanford and Son and CSI.
Prose: Knut Hamsun, Mary Gaitskill, Nikos Kazantzakis, Carson McCullers, Oakley Hall's 'Warlock', Cormac McCarthy, Charles Portis, Hubert Selby Jr., John Steinbeck, Charles Willeford. Poetry: Josh Bell, David Berman, Paul Celan, Federico Garcia Lorca, Tony Hoagland, Robinson Jeffers, Denis Johnson, D.H. Lawrence, Larry Levis, Jeffrey McDaniel, Campbell McGrath, W.S. Merwin, Rainer Maria Rilke, Muriel Rukeyser, Anne Sexton, Christopher Smart, Frank Stanford, Wallace Stevens, James Tate, Georg Trakl, John Wieners, Franz Wright, James Wright.
People: Jimmy Carter, Muhammad Ali, and Saint Francis of Assisi. Songwriters: Bob Dylan, Merle Haggard, Catherine Irwin, Kris Kristofferson, Mickey Newbury, Will Oldham, Hank Williams.