Ideas, more ideas, thoughts, refining, editing, writing, composing, figuring it out on my own, making it work, making great music by whatever means necessary, songwriting, music as art, playing in a rocknroll band, bass, pedal steel, lyrics, voice, electric guitar, Theremin, producing, recording; the dark side of pop culture, smart women, hot women, defying authority to the greatest extent possible, a sassy raven-haired bitch, raspberry dessert with Rachel, reading Bukowski, listening to CDs, d.i.y. photography, politics, news, science, style, dancing, skanky hair, overdrive, distortion, fuzz, fuzztone, fuzzbox, superfuzz, square wave, feedback, fuzz through fuzz, the fuzziest fuzz, fuzzy fuzz and scuzzy fuzz, fat nasty bass, the bassiest bass, the cleanest clean, the noisiest noise, saturation, broken speakers, swirliness, shimmer, in tune-ness, analog delay, digital delay, stereo delay, clean sparkly tones drenched in cathedral-sized reverb, tubes, compression, layers of vocal noise, gothic pedal steel, playing pedal steel on other people's records, Moog Etherwave Theremin, rewired guitars, modified amps, stompbox mania, Mazzy Star, Fender Jazz Bass, Fender Jaguar Bass, Fender Jazzmaster, Fender 12 string Jazzmaster, Fender Jaguar, Fender Super Reverb, Vox AC30, indie, shoegaze, fuzz-out, fuzz-psych, psych-fuzz, post-punk, mod/Brit, dreampop, Manchester, 4AD, Factory, words, metaphor, metonymy, irony, allegory, symbolism, sarcasm, understatement, hyperbole, paradox, satire, color, imagery, Absinthe, Ouzo, Patron Tequila, Pernod, Chartreuse, red wine, three-button suits, skinny ties, pins that say things like "your band sucks" and "Fuck Bush", classic literature, rock magazines, the dictionary, instruction manuals, old buildings, Hollywood, New York, Paris, London, Bukowski, Bar Sinister, Perversion, Release The Bats, The Echo, Spaceland, Bats Day, wasting time with friends. The Wussy Goth Gang. Big Sonic Heaven. Shovel. Rodney on the Roq. Record shops, flea markets, Melrose. Deviance, dissension, protest, opposition. Nonsense. Odd occurrences. The unexpected. You name it...
People who are smart, musical, and fun.
Blue Velvet, The Virgin Suicides, Amelie, Northfork, 24 Hour Party People, Born Into This, Repo Man, Killing Zoe, Welcome To The Dollhouse, War of the Roses, Run Lola Run, Glengarry Glen Ross, Reservoir Dogs, River's Edge, Boogie Nights, Wild at Heart, Le Retour de Martin Guerre, Mayor of the Sunset Strip, American Beauty, The Rules of Attraction, Napoleon Dynamite, Being There, Little Caesar, Magnolia, Pulp Fiction, The Red Violin, The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle, Don't Look Back, Dig, Ladies and Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains, After Hours, The Wild Angels, Eyes Wide Shut, Big Fish, Belle de Jour, Rude Boy, SLC Punk, Swingers, Ed Wood, Vanilla Sky, Crash, Fahrenheit 9-11, Amadeus
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