Drawin' and a Ramblin'
Joe Mathlete, to discuss his brilliant blog Marmaduke Explained!http://marmadukeexplained.blogspot.com/
Adam and the Ants, Aztec Camera, Devandra Banhardt, Bauhaus, Beck, Belle and Sebastion, Ben Folds, The Birthday Party, THe Blood Brothers, Bonnie Prince Billy, Bowie, The Brat, Buzzcocks, Cat Power, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Clinic, The Cure, The Dactyls, Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, Dream Syndicate, Elliot Smith, Elvis Costello, Faun Fables, The Flaming Lips, Gen X, The Handsome Family, PJ Harvey, Iron and Wine, Le Tigre, Momus, Morrisey, Outcast, Pancakes, Pizzicata Five, Placebo, Queen, Radiohead, Roxy Music, The Shins, Siouxie and the Banshees, The Smiths, Smashing Pumpkins, T-rex, Travis, Tom Waits, X, Yo La Tengo
Adaptation,Batman!( circa 1950s), Barry Gordi's The Last Dragon, Brazil!, Casablanca, Cracked Actor, Easter Parade, Edward Scissorhands, Election, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ghost World, The Iron Giant,It Happened One Night, Jurassic Park, Lost In Translation, Moonlight Mile, Napoleon Dynamite, Nightmare Before Christmas, Philidelphia Story,Preety in Pink, Pump up the Volume, The Royal Tanenbaums, Rushmore, Seven, Sixth Sense, Some Kinda Wonderful, Spellbound, Stripes, Tadpole, Three Kings, To Catch a Thief, The Triplets of Bellville, Twelve Monkeys, Unbreakable, Velvet Goldmine, Y tu Mama Tambien, ,
The Daily show, The Colbert Report, Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Beebop, and LOST!!!!!. This of course to the heaps of televised shit I watch when I am "taking a break from drawing"
"Hard boiled Wonderland & The End of The World" Haruki Murakami !, "The Subtle Knife" Philip Pullman, "If on a winter's night a traveler" Italo Calvino, "The New York Trilogy" Paul Auster ,"After The Quake" - Murakami ( especially the story "Super Frog Saves Tokyo")"Ragtime" by E.L. Doctrow, "Fraud" David Rakoff, "Love me " Gerrison Keiler, "Old School"- Thomas Wolfe, "Coin Locker Babies" Ryu Murakami, "The Namesake"- Jhumpa Lahiri, "Franny and Zoey" JD Salinger, "Wonder When You'll Miss Me"- Amanda Davies, "Me talk Preety One Day"- David Sedaris, "A Moveable Feast" Ernest Hemingway, "There's Treasure Everywhere: Collected Calvin and Hobbes"- Bill Watterson, "Ghost World"- Dan Clowes, "THe Chained Coffin and Others: Hellboy"- Mike Mignola, "The league of Extroadinary Gentlemen"- Alan Moore & Kevin O'neill, "The Loved One" Evelyn Waugh, "The Toy Collecter"James Gunn", "Middle Sex" Jefferey Eugenidies, "Take the Conolli" - Sarah Vowell
John Hodgeman, Bill Watterson, and of course Mary Blair