Hum some hum, strum some strum, drum some drum.
I enjoy riding my bike around these weary streets, rocking out when need be or displaying my more subtle musical craft at other times, staring at the album cover and reading the liner notes as I listen, being in the wilderness without a global positioning system, taking walks and shooting photos, writing insane nonsense that may one day produce a screenplay that becomes a film, enjoying the company of complete strangers, dancing to a hustling beat, not waiting around in airports, discovering new music, managing to make you smile when you'd rather cry, realizing my worth after years of self-loathing...oh, and breaking-and-entering.
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Tortoise, Trans Am, Grandaddy, Flaming Lips, Pixies, Modest Mouse, DJ Shadow, DJ Q-Bert, DJ Spooky, Prefuse 73, Unkle, Faun Fables, Jim O'Rourke, Will Oldham, David Grubbs, Dave Pajo, Slint, Crain, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Johnny Cash, The Smiths, Morrisey, The Cure, Joy Division, New Order, Blondie, Human League, Mono, Mogwai, Portoisehead, Interpol, The Strokes, Smog, Songs:Ohia, Calexico, Blonde Redhead, Fugazi, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV On The Radio, Rachel's, Jurassic 5, Dead Prez, Mos Def, Danger Mouse, Sage Francis, Aesop Rock, My Morning Jacket, JSBX, Soul Coughing, Mike Doughty (None Of Those Shitty Solo Albums, But Just Him Playing Live With His Guitar), Of Montreal, Sleater-Kinney, Le Tigre, Breeders, Ennio Morriccone, The "Beat It Cinecitta" Series (60's/70's Italian Sex Film Music- Some of the Best Drumming I've Ever Heard), Leonard Cohen, Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Telafon Tel Aviv, Giant Sand, Howe Gelb, The Mekons, Wilco, Joe Henry, Low, Mastodon, The Fucking Champs, Trans-Champs, Sigur Ros, VHS OR Beta, the Merediths, Macha, Depeche Mode, the Commonwealth, Absorb/Dissolve, Iron and Wine, Guster, Tom Waits, Venice is Sinking, Follow the Train, Shipping News, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Teen Pregnancy!, Books on Tape, the Photographic, Lucky Pineapple, Ayin, Tilly and the Wall, Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Stars, Mogwai, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Black Heart Procession, Three-Mile Pilot, Dirty Three, Don Caballero, Shellac, Big Black, Minute Men, Mike Watt, John Frusciante, Beans, Battles, Yo La Tengo, Helium, Mary Timony, Tara Jane O'Neil, Mirah, Julie Doiron, Hum, Will Garrison, Barbez, Quasi, Gillian Welch, Pavement, Gastr Del Sol, Sonic Youth, The Notwist, Village of Savoonga, Tied and Tickled Trio, Shedding, Elephant Micah, Creature Bagging Groceries, Sapat, TBW!, Venus Trap, New Pornographers, Metric, Antony and the Johnsons, Scott Carney (and his Heavy Friends), Shapes and Sizes, Minmae, Polaris Mine, Davan, Victory at Sea
Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Breakfast Club, Dark Crystal, Brazil, Lost Highway, Nashville, Dark City, Amelie, George Washington, All the Real Girls, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, Wonder Boys, Memento, Requiem for a Dream, Garden State, Donnie Darko, American Beauty, Labyrinth, the Muppet Movies, Felicia's Journey, The Crying Game, Dead Man, Ghost Dog, Glengary Glenn Ross, Taxi Driver, Kundun, Raging Bull, Love Liza, Sunshine State, Limbo, Men with Guns, City of God, Secretary, High Fidelity, Better Off Dead, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Network, Me, You, and Everyone We Know, Hammer Horror Films, Direct-to-Video nonsense
Static and White Noise.
Midnight's Children, Things Fall Apart, Wicked, The Corrections, Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Girl with Curious Hair, Lullaby, Choke, Haunted, Diary, Dark Materials trilogy, Movie Guides, Cat's Cradle, Dave Eggers, Small Press publications, Hobo, America's Best Non-Required Reading, V For Vendetta, Watchmen, The Secret History, John Fante, Perdido Street Station, The Scar, James Ellroy, Hearbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,
My late mother, my sickly father, and all the people who get up and go.