Outdoor high adventure, flailing on the guitar while singing out in an echoey room, zoomin 'round on my bike & lookin all around, caring for and fretting over the garden, good beer with good pals, the right song at the right moment drivin', films and radio stories that make me gasp or cry out, smart & gigglin' chit chat
Music:
Captain Beefheart, Roky Erickson, Minutemen, ZZ Top, Carter Family, Dead Moon, Fall, Thee MIght Caesars, Ramblin' Jack, Howlin' Wolf, Miles Davis, Artanker Convoy, Gene Clark, Smog, Small Faces, Pretty Things, Michael Hurley, Ornette Coleman, Beat Happening, Amon Duul II, Brian Eno, Caetano Veloso, Can, Yardbirds, Hank Williams, Stooges, James Brown, Coltrane, Waylon Jennings, Rolling Stones are ok, Woody Guthrie, Os Mutantes, Boubacar Traore, Blind Willie McTell, Kinks, Television, early Talking Heads, Modern Lovers, Velvets, Skip Spence, Black Oak Arkansas, Flaming Groovies, Townes Van Zandt, Libba Cotten, Jesse Mae Hemphill, Robert Belfour, Doc Watson, Wipers, Charlie Christian, Devendra Banhart, Flying Burrito Bros, Will Oldham, T Rex and of course, Stratotanker.
Movies:
Fitzcarraldo, Woman Under the Influence, Nights of Cabiria... oh man...Kings of the Road, Stardust Memories, Wild Strawberries, Days of Heaven, Deer Hunter, Hud, Lawrence of Arabia, Five Easy Pieces, Reds, Ragin Bull, Matewan...more recently, Together, Jesus' Son, You Can Count on Me, Before Night Falls, Talk to Her, The Celebration, Best of Youth, City of God, Junebug...jeez, and I dig doc's most consistently...such as...Sherman's March, When We Were Kings, Devil & Daniel Johnston, Crumb, My Best Fiend, American Movie...
Television:
Don't own a tv, but I watch it occasionally: 6 ft Under, Deadwood, The Wire, Sopranos.
And when I was still but a wee lad, there was the immeasurable, overarching influence of...SCTV
