fried fair foods, nekkid backyard croquet, train station coffee shops, stinky spanish blue-veined cheese. hunting sneaky little musty first-editions in dark bookstores. driving highway 35 in my trusty quicksilver pickup, Calamity.
Acrobat monkeys, world champion hot dog eaters, donut-friers with some extra time and batter on their hands, slue foot sue. And cowboys. Barrels of cowboys brined in horse sweat and courage. Especially if you have most of your teeth and can tie some fancy knots.
old 97's, X, hank I,III,and sometimes II, pixies, the smiths, social distortion, the knitters, rum & rebellion, firecracker, naked raygun, the living end, swinging utters, the clash, ramones, new york dolls, tom waits, billy bragg, woody guthrie, the breeders, pretenders, cadillac tramps, velvet underground, lou reed, lucero, uncle tupelo, wilco, whiskeytown, bob wills and his texas playboys, dolly parton, loretta lynn, emmylou harris, wanda jackson, duke ellington, count basie, nat cole, andrew sisters, elvises(presley,costello,red, and el vez) django reinhardt, music for animals, lucky stiffs, massive attack, tricky, mos def, princess superstar, los lobos, john mellencamp, neil young, iron maiden, acdc.
an american in paris, cool hand luke, dog day afternoon, the professional, bound, blue angel, the fifth element, big lebowski, crybaby, polyester, blue velvet, the apartment, some like it hot, 7 year itch, annie hall, dawn of the dead (i like the oldie one better), 28 days later, sin city, ghost in the shell 1 &2, unleashed, the warriors, clay pigeons, super troopers, office space, bamboozled, do the right thing, summer of sam, zatoichi the blind swordsman, ichi the killer, kung fu hustle, shaolin soccer, magnolia, scarface, natural born killers, cape fear (both of em), apocalypse now, thin red line, raising arizona, true romance, buffalo '66, pulp fiction, kill bill 1 and 2, goodfellas, whatever happened to baby jane, the roman spring of mrs. stone, el mariachi, desperado, once upon a time in mexico, hope floats, crying game, ghost dog, viva las vegas, grumpy old men, moonstruck, save the tiger, goonies, pretty in pink, the sure thing, high fidelity, grosse point blank, the grifters, prizzi's honor, royal tannenbaums, witches of eastwick, mask, women on the verge of a nervous breakdown, high heels, the cook the thief his wife and her lover, pollack, rambling rose, fried green tomatoes, joe vs. the volcano, big trouble in little china, planes trains and automobiles, la story, the player, la confidential
dead like me, weeds, smallville-superman is dreamy, this old house, king of the hill, andy griffith show, charmed, project runway, medium-patricia arquette is rad, law and order reruns at odd hours, gilmore girls, i love lucy, the twilight zone, outer limits, friday the 13th the series.
confederacy of dunces, white noise, middlesex, the adventures of cavalier and clay,snow crash, crime and punishment, the book of laughter and forgetting, tortilla curtain, falconer, wapshot chronicle, wapshot scandal, love in the time of cholera, lake wobegon days (reminds me of the milwaukee), bee season, beloved, a tree grows in brooklyn, martin dressler, heart of darkness, american pastoral, drop city, lipstick traces, justice for none, manifesta, pretty in punk. comic books:fables, kingdom come, witching. plays: death of a salesman, the cherry orchard, a doll's house, suburbia, balm in giliad, hot l baltimore, the search for signs of intelligent life in the universe