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oh; God, music, guitars,photography, skating, books, writing,poetry, then more skating...
"isolate yourself and do your work and if you must mix, then do it with those who have no interest at all in what you consider so important"Bukowski
Not all, but a lot of my Ipod; these are important to me for one reason or another:Marvin Gaye...Minor Threat...Silversun Pickups...Stevie Wonder...Revolution Mother...Papercranes...Radiant...My Morning Jacket...Walkmen...the Velvet Underground...Bob Marley...King Tubby...The Band...my Dad...Larry Norman...Head_Space...The Beach Boys (Pet Sounds)...Brian Wilson...Elbow...John Lennon...Paul McCartney...George Harrison...Coldplay...Counting Crows...Simon & Garfunkel...Van Morrison...Them...the Minus 5...Talk Demonic...Crystal Skulls...Sigur Ros...Earlimart...Ryan Adams...Buck Owens...The Buckaroos...Don Rich...Wynn Stewart...Dwight Yoakam...George Jones...Daniel Lanois...R.E.M. ...Patti Smith...Bob Dylan...Leonard Cohen...Smog...Elvis "plus tax" Presley...Big Mama Thorton...Little Richard...Roy Orbison...James Taylor...Dillard & Clark...The Flying Burrito Bros. ...Gram Parsons...Hank Williams,Sr...Jimmie Rogers...Johnny Cash...the Carter Family...where would the guitar be without Link Wray...Buddy Holly (possibly the most important to the modern concept of rock/pop songwriting)...Eddie Cochran...James "nothing's wrong" Brown...Sly Stone...the Jackson 5...Pylon...Big Star...Alex Chilton...Posies...AC/DC...KISS...Van Halen...Radiohead...Tim Buckley...Jeff Buckley...Iron Maiden... International Submarine Band...Merle Haggard...Emmylou Harris...Rodney Crowell...Whiskeytown...Gene Autry...Willie Nelson...Patsy Cline...Loretta Lynn...Dolly Parton...Son Volt...Tom Petty...the Byrds...the Kinks...the Beatles...Bright Eyes...Neil Young...Jackson Browne...Dave Matthews...Wings...Plastic Ono Band...Yoko Ono...Wilco...Buffalo Springfield...CSN&Y...Poco...SRV...Stevie Wonder...Sam and Dave...Cass Elliot...Frank Sinatra...the Doors...Gene Vincent...The Everly Brothers...Pearl Jam (since the beginning and straight on through)...Vic Chesnut...Kings of Leon...Sonic Youth...Public Enemy...the Red Hot Chili Peppers...the Rolling Stones...Brian Jones...John Fogerty (the Hank Williams of rock music)...Miles Davis...Billie Holiday...Muddy Waters...John Lee Hooker... (early) Elton John... Terry Melcher... Sneaky Pete... Ed Harcourt...Brenton Brown...Mr.A-Z...Bruce Springsteen... Steve Earle...the Netherlands (yeah!)...other...Air...Dr. John...Flaming Lips...Tilly & the Wall...Beck...Sneaker Pimps...James (the band)...Kevin Max...B-52's...B.R.M.C. ...the Mamas and the Papas...the Finger...Snoop Dogg...Travis Taylor...Luna Halo...Endochine...Dr.Dre...Iggy Pop...Yeah Yeah Yeahs...Regina Spektor...the Strokes...the Shins...Run DMC...Notorious BIG...Led Zeppelin...Guns 'N Roses (86-89)...Blur...Who...Weezer...the Game...U2...the Ramones...the Smiths...Morrissey...Alice Cooper...Wire...Gang of Four...Television...Joy Division...Oasis...the La's...Travis...the Cure...the Killers...Keane...LOVE...Arthur Lee...the Glove...the Troggs...the Thrills...The Hollies...Love Tractor...the Method Actors...Clarence White & the Kentucky Colonels...Chet Atkins...Dock Boggs...Joe Walsh with the James Gang...Angela McCluskey...Elliott Smith...Red House Painters...The Arcade Fire...ABBA...Queen...David Bowie (some)...Brian Eno...Adrian Belew...Lou Reed...Death Cab for Cutie... Interpol...Rufus Wainwright...Richard Swift...Edith Piaf...Joseph Arthur...Sufjan Stevens...Jesse Malin...Steve Taylor...Stryper...Now It's Overhead...New Order...Zwan...Underworld...Ray Charles...Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions...Keith Green...Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys...Bill Withers...Smashing Pumpkins...Lefty Frizzell...Charlie Parker...John Coltrane...Johnny Hartman...Luke the Drifter...Leona Naess...the Who...Poe...Peter Bjorn and John...Muse...The Monkees...Moby...Mazzy Star...Karen Elson...Josh Rouse...Beth Orton...Jane's Addiction...Gillian Welch...Ours...Faultline...Woody Guthrie...Talking Heads...Chagall Guevara...Sugar Hill Gang...Primus...Violent Femmes...the Choir...Starsailor...Robert Johnson...Doyle Dykes...Buddy Miller...Legendary Shack Shakers... Levon Helm...oh, did i say The Netherlands...Black Flag...Al Jolson...Amelia June...T.Rex...Baby Gramps...Twisted Sister...Pink Floyd...Feist...
i don't see a lot, although i like them usually...can't remember the last movie i saw...Dear Mr. Cash (watch for it, i worked on it!)...my favorite movie as a child was "The Right Stuff" ...The Big Lebowski, Grizzly Man, Old School,Team America, anything James Dean...the Band-Last Waltz...Fallen Angel-A Gram Parsons Documentary...Running with Scissors...Bobby... the Queen...Talledega Nights!...Music and Lyrics (about 10 times on flights)...In The Shadow Of The Moon... Dogtown and Z-Boys (great)...Little Miss Sunshine...The Mayor Of Sunset Strip...U23D (must see)...
mmm...not very often..i usually watch when i need a lot of misinformation and other points of view...CNN...Fox News...History Channel...HGTV...sometimes VH-1...Sundance...Austin City Limits...Weather Channel...TV Land...Fuse...the Rock of Love 1 & 2...
... everything Bukowski..."The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott (not hard to do driving from Montreal to Boston,or was it Toronto to Montreal...me no know)...also, read "Old Man and the Sea" by Hemingway, on the drive from Pittsburgh to Bloomington...read "Run With The Hunted (A Charles Bukowski Reader) on the way back west...then i read "Dreams From Bunker Hill" by John Fante...go buy John Fante's "Ask the Dust"...finished two good books about the influence of So Cal on pop music in the 60's and 70's, and both were worth reading: "Hotel California" and "Laurel Canyon"... o.k.,it's mid October 2006 and I'm reading "The Autobiography of Johnny Cash"...last book of 06 was "Notes of a Dirty Old Man", Bukowski...J.D. Salinger is a fave, Joyce's "Dubliners"... check out Robinson Jeffers poetry...W.B. Yeats of course, and Seamus Heaney's "Seeing Things"...Dan Fante's,"Short Dog";good,lacks depth of John Fante's work..."Straight Whiskey",great book on the history of the Whiskey A Go Go, Roxy, and Rainbow Bar and Grill...April 07, "Pomes All Sizes", Kerouac, a must..."Running with Scissors", a very interesting read..."Raise High The Roof Beam and Seymour an introduction", Salinger, good but not his best...January 08,finished the Bible, finally,and..."Full of Life", John Fante, very good...
most of my heroes don't appear on a stamp...Jesus...my sister...Ellis Kaye Shyamji...my great-grandmother Effie...Mom...Dad... Mamaw...Dd...Mama Cass...the city of Lancaster, PA...Claremont, CA...the City Of Angels...Nashville...Bakersfield,CA...NYC...Seattle, WA (it's my city)...Portland, OR...Boston, MA... JP2... Earthquakes...Trees...Gardenias & Tuberose...the Nachos at Viva Madrid...Lisa the bartender at Tutti Mangia...Joshua Trees...my guitars... 42d St. Bagels...Fred 62...Meatball...Stella Artois...Kettle One Vodka...Barney's Beanery...Wendy P... Sam P... Birthday Suit... Vanners... 800mg motrin...my jump rope...running shoes... cleaning supplies... The Jupiter Hotel & Doug Fir Lounge...the artistic stitching of Dr. Porcelli putting my finger back...the City of Grand Rapids, MI...Caribou Coffee (white lite berry)...Marc Jacobs...the Boundry (nashville)...Ti-Goo (bff)...Ray (claremont)...Tony Franklin (gretsch guitars)...Griffith Park...James Dean...Lighthouses...the Pacific Ocean...San Diego...Apple Computers...the Republic of Ireland...Scotland... Athens, GA...the Gap...Z-Boys...The Bones Brigade... Animal Chin...Tony Hawk...Birdhouse Skateboards...Montclair Skatepark...The Back Abbey (amazing)...