maurice sendak, anything beat generation, japanese cats, too-big earrings, kona coffee, intoxicated choreography, potato painting, fraggles, unapologetic geeks, eating shellfish, my Korg DW-8000, salt & vinegar chips, astrology/sexology, progressive jazz, saucony kicks, spider plants, telling people to talk to my lawyer, and
these two pickles:
jazz me up, scotty: charlie parker, pucho and his latin soul brothers, cannonball adderly, red garland, pepper adams, errol garner, billy taylor, addison groove project, afro-cuban all-stars, marlena shaw, toshiko akiyoshi, ahmad jamal, weather report, spyro gyra, yellowjackets, chet baker, isabelle antena, hiroshima, milt jackson, chick corea, oscar peterson, freddie hubbard, booker irvin, louis, art tatum, bob james, sonny rollins, ornette coleman, monk, vince guarldi, dexter gordon, julie london, jeff coffin, the crusaders, lonnie liston smith, dave brubeck, pat methany, pharoah sanders, ronnie laws, mccoy tyner, art blakey, count basie, wayne shorter, miles, bela fleck and the flecktones, monty alexander, fats navarro, stan getz, coleman hawkins, benny goodman, soulive, duke, lester young, mingus, teddy wilson, vinyl, wynton and branford marsalis, medeski, martin and wood, coltrane, dizzy, herbie, bobby mcferrin ['circle songs' -- incredible]; all the ladies in the house: ella, dinah, ms. carter, billie, astrud, madeleine peyroux, nina, cassandra wilson, bebel, dee dee bridgewater, ms. vaughn
i sweat horn sections, steel guitars, and the rhodes piano. and maybe you, if you play any of them.
o yeah, i have an undying love for michael jackson . if you're not capable of separating his highly publicized eccentricity from a comprehensive career marked by revolution and innovation, then you're an ignoramus.
et al: unabashed 80s pseudo fag/drag metal..
white boy hammond b3-accompanied falsetto..old-school hip-hop synchronized deliveries with jazz sensibilities..the piano break in the black crowes 'thorn in my pride'..
raw voices of wassoulou..ambient nuances of avant rock/electronica..stevie wonder [and stevie wonder inspired] resonance..some punk, lots of funk, rock steady..roots reggae, mon..the melancholy of morrissey..over-the-top operatic rock..vintage velvet back-up vocals of old soul heartbreak..progressive rock [yes, neil peart]..female sex-laden lyricism that feeds an appetite for seduction..'1984'-style melodramatic synth..theatrical industrial..kettle drums.. maybe something you're making in your basement on your pink casio.
radio - 88.9 WERS [rockers, 88.9 @ night, jazz oasis], Sirius tir-tee-two, 101.7 FNX (new england product) and on demand with D-Tiddy -- doh!]
200 cigarettes, high fidelity, dazed and confused, almost famous, big, any john hughes production of the 80s, coming to america, ken burns jazz series, stage door, say anything.
anything with skilled physical comedy, biting sarcasm, or being broke as fuck as the central theme.
"i made a list of the men i'd slept with to try and shock myself. i couldn't."
jones, hettie (1990), how i became hettie jones, e.p. dutton, new york
My book catalog @ library thing
lloyd dobler. the rain on his car is a baptism, the new him... and his assault on the world begins now.