music making, song writing, darkrooms, photography, sparrows and swallows, polaroids, poems, printing, cursive, drawing and painting, small towns in Oregon, Alaskan culture, letters, cameras, having the right tools, my Martin guitar, gladiolas, sweet peas, Leicas, street photography, working with 'at risk youth', creating community, chocolate chips, meatballs, big time, doing what I'm suppose to do, my heart, eating navel oranges in December, road trips, oatmeal with chocolate chips, old cars that look like boats, laundromats, mix tapes, downtown 81, working hard, saying no, saying yes, saying maybe, my truck is amazing, my toaster ♥, making dinner, mermaids, God, love, documentaries, typewriters, trains, walks in nature, getting around the world.
the charismatic 5%
Hank Williams, Leadbelly, Woody Gutherie, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Wilco, The Carter Family, Reverend Gary Davis, Johnny Cash, Greg Brown, Buddy Tabor, Leonard Cohen,Townes Van Zandt, Robert Johnson, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, The Clash, John Lennon, Nirvana, Elliott Smith, Jeff Tweedy, Arcade Fire, Cat Power, C. Scott Fry, Old Crow Medicine Show, Panhandle Crabgrass Revival Band, Elizabeth Cotton, Sufjian Stevens, Fugazi, Pixies, Neutral Milk Hotel, Iron and Wine, Bob Marley, Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, Lost World, Harum Scarum, Bikini Kill, Radiohead, Chris Whitley, Skip James, Lightnin' Hopkins, Hazel Dickens, Chopin, Dolly Parton, Hank Williams III, Neutral Milk Hotel, Loose Fur, Will Oldham, Unwound, Pavement, X
Amacord. If you've never seen a Fellini film it's about goddamn time.
Also, The Big Lebowski means a lot to me.
This is a song called First Girl Born
All images and music Copyright 2007 Patrice Helmar.
How about some fine ass writers: Carson Mc Cullers, Adrian C. Louis, Charles Bukowski, John Kennedy Toole, Richard Brautigan, Jorges Borges, William Faulkner, Lawson Inada, Federico Garcia Lorca, Leo Tolstoy, Harper Lee, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Tom Robbins, Thomas Pynchon, Sherman Alexie, James Joyce, John Steinbeck, J.D. Salinger, Cormac McCarthy, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Virginia Woolf, Stephen Crane, Reinaldo Arenas, Walt Whitman, W.B. Yeats, Kurt Vonnegut.
My papa, my mama, Liz Dodd, both of my grandmas, children, good parents, good teachers, positive role models, sober folks, old folks, novelists, poets, people who cook their families dinner every night and wash the dishes right afterwards, hand trollers.