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Jimmy The Pickpocket

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About Me

Writer, singer, accordionist, alcoholic.

My Interests

Music:

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, The Tiger Lillies, Tarafs De Haidouks, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Johnny Cash, Lee Hazlewood, The Pogues, Neko Case, The Clash, DeVotchKa, Denver Gentlemen, Clifton Chenier, The Residents, Townes Van Zandt, Iggy Pop, The Fall, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Jacques Brel, Bob Dylan, Old 97's, Hank Williams, Loretta Lynn, Neil Diamond, 16 Horsepower, Slim Cessna's Autoclub, Edith PIaf, Astor Piazolla, Sam Cooke, Big Joe Turner, Howlin' Wolf, The Mekons, Baby Gramps, Prince Buster, Dion, The Velvet Underground, The Upsetters, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Booker T and the MG's, The Sonics, The Ronettes, Goran Bregovic, Bob Marley, Flaco Jiminez, Belle and Sebastian, Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Specials, Duke Ellington, Gogol Bordello, Scott Walker, The Birthday Party, Yann Tiersen, Scratch Acid, Debout Sur Le Zinc, U Roy, The Minutemen, Calexico, Stuff Smith, James Brown, Fats Waller, Patsy Cline, The Carter Family, The Flatlander, Django Reinhardt, Jimmie Rodgers.

Movies:

The Harder They Come, The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb, Delicatessan, Elephant Man, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Polyester, Amelie, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Wizard of Oz, The Bad Seed, The Blue Angel, Night of the Hunter, Clockwork Orange, Five Easy Pieces, East of Eden, The Last Detail, Freaks, Latcho Drom, Rude Boy, Quadrophenia, Midnight Cowboy, The Exorcist, Pink Flamingos.

Books:

Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger), And the Ass Saw the Angel (Nick Cave), On the Road (Jack Kerouac), The Memory of the Forest (Charles T. Powers), The Illuminatus Trilogy (Robert Anton Wilson), For Whom the Bells Toll (Ernest Hemingway), Nine Stories (JD Salinger), The Rats in the Walls (HP Lovecraft), Junkie (William S. Burroughs), Post Office (Charles Bukowski), Accordion Crimes (Annie Proulx), Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain), Please Kill Me (Legs McNeil), The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien), Song of the Silent Snow (Hubert Selby Jr.), Tropic of Capricorn (Henry Miller)

Heroes:

Joe Strummer, Nick Cave, Jack Kerouac, Tom Waits, Henry Miller, Edward Gorey, Martyn Jacques, Clifton Chenier, Charles Bukowski, Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash, Louis Armstrong.