Adam Albright

Seeking God, Jesus Christ, walking on the treadmill, living in a stone cottage in the country, trying to avoid meat for the summer- except fish, making special compilation cd's for special friends, Barry Bonds!, Shakespeare, Bob Dylan, The "J" writer ("Jahwist"), Marlon Brando, Robert Anton Wilson, Diego Maradona, Muhammed Ali, Norman Mailer, Albert Einstein, Simone Weil, Woody Allen, Smedley Butler ("The Fighting Quaker"), Elvis Presley, Noam Chomsky, Gertrude Stein, The Carter Family, Nietzsche, Coach Wooden, Diogenes, Howard William Cosell, Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, Eugene Debs, Karl Marx, Bill Hicks, Sigmund Freud, Charles Darwin, John Prine, Westerns, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Charlie Chaplin, Colin Wilson, Patti Smith Group, Jerry Lee Lewis, Susan Sontag, Hans Bethe, Dick Dale, Oswald Spengler, Mexican Wrestlers, Wobblies, watching for U.F.O.'s in the Joshua Tree Forest at three a.m., Andy Kaufman, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Butthole Surfers, Goethe, Liberation Theologists, Jim Morrison, Bill Walton, Harry Dean Stanton, Lee Marvin, Gus Van Sant, Van Morrison, Flipper, Joe Lewis, Gang of Four, Dr. Sanguinary, Funkadelic, Charlie Feathers, Blue Oyster Cult, Gnostic Mass, Jackie Robinson, Jim Brown, Bill Russell, Rosie Grier, roustabouts of the world, Socrates, Harold Lloyd, Sangri-las, John Dee, Jack Johnson, Pythagoras, Paul Klee, egg creams, The day of the dead, "Captain" Alfred Matthew Hubbard, Magic Johnson, Richard Edson, The Germs, Fear, Mother Bloor, Raw Magazine, Bill Murray, Funky Donnie Fritts (Leaning Man of Alabama), Jim Jarmusch, Andy Kaufman, Mean Gene Vincent, Plato, David Lynch, Max Schmeling, Robert Smigel, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Amon Duul, Xhol Caravan, Flannery O'Connor, Eddie Cochran, Larry Bird, Otto Dix, Billie Holiday, Waylon Jennings, Ghoulardi, The Minutemen, Buddy Holly, Daniel Johnston, Dinosaur jr., Charles Barkley, John Lee Hooker, Elmore James, The Prophet Muhammed, The Byrds, Jack Niztche, The Faces, The Boredoms, J.R.R. Tolkien, Royal Trux, The Gories, Flesheaters, Half Japanese, Amazing Ralph Gean, Simone De Bouviour, Jack London, Ghandi, Anne Frank, Victor Frankl, Robert Mitchum, Phil Spector, Al Green, Joan Didion, Destroy All Monsters, Sparks, Max Ernst, Permaculture, Royal Trux, Byron Coley, Chicago 8, James Agee, Dorothy Day, Mott the Hoople, The Dictators, Tex Ritter, Isaac Hayes, Joy Division, Freddy Fender, Loretta Lynn, Pere Ubu, sustainable Farming, Jodorowsky, Diane Arbus, Beat Happening, Waylon Jennings, Lord Buckley, Ken Kesey, Thomas Wolfe, Thomas Mann, James Joyce, Thomas Pinchon, Harold Bloom, Lionel Trilling, Lee Hazlewood, Maddox Brothers and Rose, Delmore Brothers, Clint Eastwood, Daniel Johnston, Roky Erickson, Lieber and Stoller, Louvin Brothers, Lenny Kaye's "Nuggets", Will Oldham, Janis Martin (The Female Elvis), Albert Ayler, Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Black Flag, Steve Buscemi, Steve Earle, Donald Cammel, Warren Zevon, Gore Vidal, Dennis Hopper, Budd Budd Boetticher, Charlie Rich, Robert Mitchum, The Wrecking Crew, Beach Boys, Eric B. and Rakim, Glen Campbell, Albert Hoffman, Norman Mailer, Noam Chomsky, The Gun Club, American Soul Spiders, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, Oblivions, Jack Smith, Kitty Wells, reading the Bible at my mom's when she is sitting in the same room, Sitting Bull, Paul Krassner, Pancho Villa, The Doors, Alfred Jarry, Robert Motherwell, Jack Kerouac, Jerry Garcia (the person), Neal Casady, The Band, The Germs, The Screamers, John Wayne, The Weirdos, The Byrds, Uncle Tupelo, Alan Turin, Ho Chi Minh, Souled America, being with my wonderful friends, absurdly strong, expensive coffee, Ultramagnetic M.C.'s, Rod Stewart, AC/DC, Lightnin' Hopkins, Ken Kesey, Greenpeace, Tom Waits, Ryan Adams, Thai Iced-tea, making the perfect Tom-Ka-Gai soup, vintage Rt. 66 ephemera, N.W.A., John Huston, lost trace roads not on current maps, spirit photography, Jodorowsky, Springsteen, Mayakovsky, Replacements, Pixies, Husker Du, arcane mathematics, John Ford, Picasso, Hugo Chavez, Max Roach, Miles Davis, Spade Coolie, Nina Simone, The Ramones, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Melvin Van Peebles, Mexico, homemade vegetarian tamales, Emiliano Zapata Salazar, church girls who like cool stuff, Chuck Taylor shoes, Coen Bros., Hawkwind, Bruce Lee, The Stooges, punk rock, watching the sunset, mid-century modern architecture, Elvis Costello, The Kinks, Washington Phillips, Steven Hawking, The Fugs, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Talking Heads, Television, The Three Stooges, Hunter S. Thompson, fresh lemons in my water, my wonderful friends, Christ's dialog with St. Peter at the end of the Gospel of John, Steven Wolfram, Sonic Youth, Mother Theresa, rare dusty obscure rockabilly 45's, Crazy Horse, vanity-label early seventies Jesus Rock, Hasil Adkins, The Cramps, Jimmy Smith, Chet Baker, Dave Goldberg's bands (all of them), Quentin Crisp, sixties UHF stations, Pere Ubu, James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Brown, fifties sci-fi art, C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, Greil Marcus, Stevie Wonder, Lester Bangs, Dirtbombs, The King Brothers, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, Emmet Grogan and the Diggers, Carlos Casteneda, Richard Meltzer, Miles Davis, The King Brothers, Charlie Parker, James Coburn, Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Spanish Civil War, Fernando Arrabal Terán, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, studying the Viet Nam War, Mark Twain, Jonathan Swift, Isiah Thomas, H.L. Menken, Walt Whitman, Gavin Arthur, Oracle Magazine, Gertrude Stein, Roland Torpor, Muddy Waters, W.C. Fields, Howlin' Wolf, Dr.John, The Berkeley Barb, Charlie Chaplin, Archie Shepp, Antonin Artaud, Man Ray, Edward Carpenter, Surrealism, Robin Williams, Bergman films, homemade ice cream, opiates, Chilean president Michelle Bachelet, Ram Dass, George and Ira Gershwin, Bjork, Trazadone, Neil Casady, King of the Hill, Gabriele d'Annunzio, Death Valley, CA, PJ Harvey, Sarah Silverman, "numbers stations", Debris, Pere Ubu, Koryzbski, Charlie Rich, Sacco and Vanzetti, Panic Movement, Charlie Feathers, string theory, Monte Hellman, Westerns, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, all the "Blind Willies", country blues, Fat Possum artists, Junior Kimbrough, Kris Kristofferson, rare funk collections, Dick Contino, Bo Diddley, Muhammed Ali, Dick Cavett show, Kerouac, San Francisco, Fernwood Tonight, The Simpsons, Deadwood, Modern Lovers, Tim Leary, Steven Colbert, Ezra Pound, Artaud, Kafka, Poe, Melville, Doestoevsky, Emily Dickinson, Slim Pickens, T Rex, Tav Falco, Half Japanese, Timothy Carey, Velvet Underground, Christopher Isherwood, Rabelais, De Kooning, Francis Bacon, George Grosz, family-sized hammocks, Man or Astroman, grits and butter, hummus, Indian food, injera bread, Paul Krassner, The Doors, Johnny Burnett Trio, The Trashmen, Charles Ives, RFD Vegan resturant in Santa Monica, Axe Axe in Venice, The Living Theater, Stax-Volt, Duane Eddy, mopeds, a perfectly executed "option play", Howard Zinn, remembering My Dad and Uncle Bill, transformational vocabulary, Thelonious Monster, Thelonious Monk, Flying Burrito Brothers, Blaise Pascal, Celia Farber, NLP, benign California Communes, Death Valley, Gram Parsons, Lee Hazelwood, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Aristotle, Doug Kershaw, Link Wray, Pavement, r.e.m., The Beatles, Legs McNeil, Blue Cheer, Black Sabbath, Amon Duul, Jim Jarmusch, Ambrose Bierce, Krautrock, Sex Pistols, Clash, Buzzcocks, St. John Climacus, Milton, Dante, Frida Kahlo, Brian Wilson, Nick Tosches, Mojo and Uncut Magazines, Saint John of the Cross, St. Vincent de Paul, Peter Kropotkin, Pancho Villa, Gil Scott-Heron, homemade bread, a celler full of the world's most expensive cheeses, Gary Snyder, Howard Zinn, Malcom X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Phillip Whalen, meteor showers, $100 bottles of wine, the mercy of Christ, Townes Van Zandt, The Bloomsbury Group, Neil Young, Santo and Johnny, Psycho Daisies, William Blake, Aldous Huxley, Colin Wilson, Hank Williams, B Traven, "Flowers of Evil", Roland Barthe, Hoagy Carmichael, William Carlos Williams, Pynchon, "Maldoror", Tom Robbins, the weird confluence of rock, country and baroque pop from the early seventies, "Against Nature", Kitty Wells, Robert Altman, Wim Wenders, The Marx Brothers, Neil Casady, Tuskeegee Airmen, the sound of an amplified saw, Pussy Galore, Chrome Cranks, kaleidoscopes, Mozart, looking at things in mirrors so they seem new and unusual, William Blake, Cochise, Southern Culture on the Skids, Chuck Berry, Lee Miller photos, John Milton, Anais Nin, Simone De Bouviour, Sartre, Beckett, Harry Dean Stanton, Beethoven, Camper Van Beethoven, Hunter S. Thompson, Oliver Stone, St. Paul, Leo Fender, Bo Diddley, Geronimo, Warren Oates, In the Red Records, Fat Possum (likely the only blues artists worth a damn), Lee Marvin, Forrest Ackerman, James Coburn, Sam Peckinpah, Jerry Lee Lewis, Genet, Breton, Lamantia, LaMonte Young, early Jimmy Swiggart gospel records, vintage Halloween postcards, glow-in-the-dark stickers and vintage toys, Opal, Dadists, Big Daddy Ed Roth, Oscar Wilde, Mark Ryden, John Climacus, Gene Autry, Palm Springs at night, desert floods, organic vegetables, Disneyland, John Ford, Primo Levi, Mark Twain, The Realist Magazine, Ambrose Bierce, Jonathan Swift, H.L. Mencken, Omaha's Antiquarium, chess, Aaron Burr, Whiskeytown, Uncle Tupelo, Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley, Faust, Richard Pryor, Can, Moondog, Roy Orbison, Dylan's Christian records, Firesign Theater, buttermilk, Justo Rufino Barrios,Fernwood Tonight, New Wave Theater, Fear, Aleister Crowley, Germs, X, L.A. punk in the late seventies/early eighties, Peter Ivers, King Curtis, Hasil Adkins, Harley Earl, No Wave scene in N.Y., Joe Coleman, Merton, Jack Black, Lao Tzu, Jim Jarmusch, El Topo, underground cinema, ghosts in the machine, Cagliostro, John Prine, Jesco White, Stravisky, Varese, Tom T. Hall, Acuff-Rose, Israel, Jarry, Walt Whitman, Austin Osman Spare, Karl Marx, Thomas Paine, Jon Stewart, blowing bubbles in sub-zero weather, gardening, polyphasic sleep, Buddha, Steve Buscemi, Merton, MC5, Howlin' Wolf (especially the "leakage" on his records), Led Zeppelin, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Woody Guthrie, Thora Birch, viewmaster reels- particularly Western States, Elvis, Loretta Lynn, Samuel Adams, John the Baptist, Pavement, Guided by Voices, Jimmie Rodgers, Carter Family, Maddox Brothers and Rose, William (Big Bill)Dudley Haywood, Last Poets, The White Stripes, Earth Ships, Watts Prophets, Franz Kafka, ghost towns, the strange juxtapositioning of the La Brea tarpits, Dinosaur Jr., Nick Drake, early Pink Floyd, Muhammed, Kenneth Patchen, Crowley, Robert Anton Wilson, riding the Vincent Black Shadow across the Salt Flats, every project Charles Lieurance creates, takes part in, or associates with, zero gravity, Nicola Tesla, black holes, J.G. Ballard, Frank Frazetta, The Saints, anti-matter, W.H. Auden, levitation, The Saint, Johnny Knoxville, Chris Marker, Peter Greenaway, Ben Franklin, Mark Twain, Noel Coward, Holocaust histories, Radio Birdmen, R Crumb, a world with no fences, Melies' Trip to the Moon, holograms, making forts as a child, Robert Frank, Lorca, Run DMC, Public Enemy, Beck, Cuba's intrepidness, 47' Mercury's, Scottsboro Boys, Tommie Smith, John Carlos, Beach Boys weird mid-period, Ayn Rand, James Ellroy, Yeats, Wordsworth, New York Dolls, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, perfect apples, Kenneth Rexroth, The Coasters, Diane Di Prima, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Black Panthers, the wild hills of L.A., the Sea, Kesey, people not afraid to tell the truth, the vein that pops out on Dirt's forehead when he laughs, Bill Justice, Katelman Power, Prometheus, Lucian Carr, Jonathan Winters, Walker Brothers, Serge Gainsbourg, midwestern thunderstorms, Beck, Prince, Harry Smith, common grey mice, Suicide, foot massages, hiking, camping, the peace of God, immortality, William Burroughs and you, WENDY!