Taking part in the undoing of midwestern normals, having a million memes in my culture bank, evolution, leftism, underestimated imperfections, Dobbsian Slack, writing, recording & performing music, the sound of Vox amps, Telecasters, fuzz pedals, digital photography, video production & editing, pretending I can write poetry, fresh thyme, satire, Europe, Fall, glower power, jokes so bad that they are funny just for that very reason, cats, fine cuisine, not-so-fine Coney Islands, hole-in-the-wall restaurants that end up being great, struggling to keep my plants alive, the word "callipygian", a hot bath, blueberries, a good storm, 60's-late 70's/early 80's British music/fashion/culture, dropping a few pounds, sex in the morning, swamp ash overtones, flirtation, your lovely smile, universal healthcare, Lake Superior, the Ocean, rich food, a nap that leaves me refreshed, obnoxiously munching on ice.
A painting I enjoy - Johannes Vermeer's "The Art of Painting"
Open-minded non-jerks. Bright & interesting, yet at least halfway stable fellow creatives & weirdos.
div
That which I write when it is any good, and in no particular order: The Yardbirds, Zakary Thaks, The Pretty Things, The Church, The Creation, Les Fleur De Lys, Music Machine, Arzachel, Funkadelic, Orphan Egg, The Jam, Echo & The Bunnymen, Electrafixion, 13th Floor Elevators, Tol-Puddle Martyrs, Dream Syndicate, Third Bardo, Birmingham Sunday, Left Banke, The Smoke, Amon Düül, Los Mockers, The Monks, Can, Tones On Tail, Kaleidoscope/Fairfield Parlour, Lights In A Fat City, Psychedelic Furs, The Move, Dungen, The Nazz, The Sonics, Chameleons UK, The Sun & The Moon, Q65, The Druids of Stonehenge, Blues Magoos, Hans Reichel, Kaki King, Small Faces, The Kinks, The Attack, Howlin' Wolf, The Herd, Dantalian's Chariot, Locomotive, Fire, the majority of old Motown music, Gong, The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Sorrows, The Who, Chocolate Watchband, Count Five, SRC, Love And Rockets, Peter Murphy, The Action, The Jazz Butcher, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Beatles, The Poets, Brian Eno, Odetta, Inspiral Carpets, The Sweet, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk, Leonard Cohen, London Suede, Captain Beefheart, Lords of The New Church, Lollipop Shoppe, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Kitchens of Distinction, Radiohead, Camper Van Beethoven, REM (Chronic Town & the first 4 records), Ride, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Joy Division, Clash, Killing Joke, Electric Prunes, Love, Fats Waller, Elvis Costello, Leadbelly, Velvet Underground, Gary Numan, Guided By Voices, Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds, Jason Crest, Nick Cave, The Pretenders, The Shadows, Siouxsie, Hysteric Narcotics, The Sisters of Mercy (only up through First & Last & Always), Faust, Julian Cope, Thelonious Monk, Bob Dylan, Captain Beefheart, Devo, Roxy Music, Nick Drake, Talk Talk, Booker T & The MG'S, The Specials, Neil Young, Iggy Pop through Zombie Birdhouse, The Cramps, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers, XTC, Dukes of Stratosphear, The Stranglers, Talking Heads, Television, T-Rex, and a mountain more.
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Citizen Kane, Metropolis, Modern Times, pretty much anything by Akira Kurosawa (well...Dersu Uzala wasn't so good now, was it?), The Loved One, The Wicker Man, The Seventh Seal, Battle of Algiers, The Sinful Dwarf, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Coffy, Superfly, Quadrophenia, The Phantom Creeps, Amelie, Aura, Hotel Rwanda, The Motorcycle Diaries, Daimajin, City of God, Buffalo '66, Taxi Driver, Network, Inherit the Wind, Dark City, A Clockwork Orange, Nosferatu, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Polyester, 12 Angry Men (original), Rear Window, Battleship Potemkin, Giant, Frida, Wings of Desire, Blue Velvet, Pi, The Red Violin, The Corporation, Born Losers, Zardoz, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Vertigo
Monty Python's Flying Circus, Only Fools and Horses, the emergency broadcasting system, blablabla, oh screw it - why bother going on about bad habits?
The Huron or pupil of Nature, Candide, Siddhartha, On The Road, The Dharma Bums, Brave New World, 1984, Crime and Punishment, Notes from the Underground, Walk in the Woods, Notes from a Small Island, Neither Here Nor There, Journey till the end of the Night, Childhood's End, Slaughterhouse 5, Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy, The Shadow Out of Time, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Naked Lunch, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Mother Tongue, If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him!, just about anything by Bukowski
Francois Marie Arouet, Eleanor Roosevelt, Siddhartha, Sir Richard Burton, Joe Strummer, Tommy Douglas, Oscar Wilde, Bob Dobbs, Bill Bryson, James Joyce, Mahatma Gandhi, The Real McCoy (Elijah), Alan Freed, Lenny Bruce, Frida Kahlo, Woody Guthrie