music, dada, film noir, peculiar music, fatalist literature, geometric poetry, exotic flowers, penguins, grilled cheese, fur hats, cheap wine, leather boots, clever writing, cinema verité, champagne, folk dancing, dry cider, the bass guitar, rural settings, acoustic music.
These fine woolly characters:
rok, kantri and texwillern, plues, humppa. People you should listen to: Richard Buckner, Rickie Lee Jones, Mark Kozelek, Lucinda Williams, Jason Molina, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Lyndon Morgans, Mark Eitzel, Sandy Bull, Norman and Nancy Blake, Blaze Foley, James McMurtry, Warren Zevon, Elliott Smith, Geoff Berner...
Burt Reynolds and old movies.
I hate television, but watch it daily. News, natural catastrophes, sitcoms and bizarre cooking shows (Iron Chef).
Are You Hungry Tonight: Elvis' Favourite Recipes, The Apocrypha, William Styron "Darkness Visible: A memoir of madness", Helen Dunmore "Love of fat men", Anthony Solomon "The Noonday Demon: Anatomy of Depression", "Four Dada Suicides" Cravan, Rigaut, Torma, Vaché
Henry Chinaski, fat and lonely pill-poppin' Elvis, Richard Nixon, Harvey Pekar