Finding music that inspires people, Helping kids who have had a rough start at life, Live music and production, Staying positive despite my discontent with politics and aspects of popular culture. Staying pro-active, Doing things for myself, Writing, Drinking, Playing guitar/violin. Watching blind people read their favorite books in brail. waiting to see if anything will grow in my backyard. Reading, reading, reading.
The people hanging out on stoops, roofs, fire escapes and dive bars
People in Prague
People in New York
People in Seattle or Olympia, WA.
Warren EllisThese are the artist's who won contest 1 at Music Nation dot com
T-MAX
YOLANDA RUIZ
KID DEPOSIT TRIUMPH
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Kool Keith, Lupo Fiasco, Pharrell, The Roots, Aesop Rock, Chuck Berry, Green Milk From the Planet Orange, Banana Hands, Ignite the Will, TV on the radio, M. Ward, Teo Leo, Capital, Trial, Terror, old Throwdown, Springsteen, Mum, Atmosphere, Nick Cave, Richard Buckner, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Blonde Redhead, Ten Grand, William Elliott Witmore, Black Heart Procession, D'Jango Reinheart, Do Make Say Think, cruder and dorkmeister, Murder City Devils, Erik Friedlander, Miles Davis, Michael Nyman, rachels, dirty three, old gospel from the 40's and 50's: Mississippi Joe Callicott, The Mississippi Blind Boys, The Sensational Nightingales
All The Real Girls, Spell Bound, repo man, serpico, Andrei Rublev, The Sacrifice, Wild Strawberries, Shoot the Piano Player, Day for Night, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, Drowning By Numbers, Talk To Her, The Devils Backbone, Tampopo, Super Troopers, Down By Law, Cinema Paradiso, you, me and everyone we know, Delicatessian, Twilight of the Cockroach, Black cat White cat, Underground, Stray Dog, Sweet and Lowdown, Dig!, Air Guitar Nation,
House, Flavor of Love, history channel, fire fly (rip)
RIGHT NOW: THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLES AN ANTHROPOLOGIST ON MARS OULIPO anything relating to Bifurcations etc...Calvino, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Phillip Roth, Phillip K. Dick, Henry Miller, Millan Kundera, Dennis Johnson, Barthes, Cage, Lydia Davis, Oliver Sacks,
"When Hemingway killed himself he put a period at the end of his life; old age is more like a semicolon,"
Kurt Vonnegut.
Rest In Peace"