Art,making art, oil paints,my hands on materials, time in the studio, the smell of a freshly sharpened pencil, books, seeing the world,being able to identify stars and planets, bad dreams that affect the entire day following, an uncomfortable blend of tragedy and humor, atmospheric conditions, our living cats, our dead cat, music, films, people, foods from afar, motion, the taste of ginger,playing the guitar and making up songs for trashy and kitty, when it's soft and slow then fast then soft again,long distance navigation, heavy aircraft, interplanetary trade,third world musty old libraries,drinks at bars,drinks period, hotel lobby bars, ossuaries,taking photos, why people make bad decisions, iconoclastic notions that get little attention from the mainstream , the failure of knowing, gerber daisies and dandelions, absynthe and its odd properties, the unseen, scanning the skies for UFOs while at my night job, (and staring at the stars), poltergiests as a real phenomenon, numbers that speak, talking shite about nothing for hours on end, closing my eyes, being awake, making art.
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the american analog set,arcade fire, blind mammie forehand, Blind Willie Davis, Grizzly Bear, Blind Roosevelt Graves, BobDylan, Built to Spill, Broadcast, Can, Charlie Mingus, Daniel Johnston, Bowie, dEUS, DirtyTHree, Low, Elder Otis Jones, Echo & the Bunnymen(yeah, i still crank them occasionally,Elliot Smith, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Grandaddy, Greg Ashley, Gris Gris, Henryck Gorecki, the Curious Hair,Leos Janacek, Isotope 217, Iron&wine,John Cage, Jessamine, Hendrix, Brahms, Mozart, Beethoven, Joy Zipper, AMarvin Gaye, Mercury Rev, Modmest Mouse, Mogwai, Norfolk&Western, Pavement, Papillon, quasi, Radiohead, Rev. Edward Clayborn, rogue wave, sebadoh, Shostakovich, Sigur Ros, Shellac, Sonic Youth(!), Takehisa Kusagi, BrianJonestown Massacre, The mercury program, the new pornographers, the stones, the shins, the strokes, tortoise, the ex, wilco, washington white, velvet underground, john and alive coletrane, Ornette coleman,....more later...
latest: into the wild and the king
flight of the conchords,tell me you love me,curb your enthusiasm, most haunted, simpsons reruns...
art books,as i lay dying, anything by Borges or Calvino, Kevin Brockmeier's Things That Fall From The Sky, Birds of America (L. Moore....), Canty , Cheever, Return of the Dragon (Hickey), BLINDNESS by J. Saramango, Please don't come back from the moon, The Encyclopedia of Myths and Legends, The Dictionary of Allusions, The Order of Things, Foucault's Pendulum, A.M. Homes' The Safety of Objects.., The Master And Margarita., Skeleton Crew (yes, it's good..), Air Guitar, Return of the Dragon 4 Essays on Beauty,A Tale of Two Cities,The Book of the Samurai The book of imaginary beings, lately anything i can get my hands on by Russell Banks More later...
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