I read, I write, I edit, I sing, I act, I make y'all laugh.
All knowledge, reading, writing, art, acting, music, good food, driving far. AKA KIDD KOBRA--I do a lot of writing. I'm in a band called the
Horsepainters (www.thehorsepainters.com) and I really dig
experience, whether it's
jumping on a plane to Dublin or deciding one day to
drive
from LA to Denver or LA to Virginia. I have an enormous
affinity for the desert and all things Old West. I
like flowers a lot. And good food. But not fast food
anymore! Read Fast Food Nation!
I've been to about 40 of the States and various parts of
Europe and the Carribean...I also used to spend a lot of
my
time in Mexico...
The short list:
music, writing, film, literature, history, green issues, philosophy, this one girl from Portland.... I like being the best-dressed guy you know.
People who read. Taylor Negron. Steinbeck. The Child Moon.
The Band, Muddy Waters, Richard Manuel, Johnny, Willie, Suzi Quatro, Sweet, Mud, The Neighboorhood Bullys, the Byrds, Lucinda Williams, Peter Case, the Plimsoles, The Chambers Brothers, Otis Redding, Allen Toussaint, Aretha Franklin, Jackie Wilson, Alejandro Escovedo, LOVE, the VU, John Lee Hooker, Bob Wills, Marty Robbins, Loretta Lynn, Townes Van Zandt, Sam and Dave, Whiskeytown and all its spinoffs, the Stones, the Jayhawks, Victoria Williams, The Creekdippers, Lucinda Williams, the Old 97s, the Replacements, Willie, The Band, Johnny, the Carter Family, Wilco, Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo, John Denver, Michael Penn, Matthew Sweet, Soundgarden, Lone Justice, Marvin Etzioni, U2, Junior Wells, the Black Crowes, the Caroline Movement, the Lemonheads, Sabbath, Jim Croce, Zep, Elvis Costello, The Band, the Neighborhood Bullys, the Beach Boys, Stevie Wonder, the Cure, Tom T. Hall, Prince, Husker Du, Gene Edwards, Emmylou Harris, X, Joy Division, New Order, the Jam, GP, the Buzzcocks, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Jimmy Cliff, Pete Droge, Miles Davis, Phaeroh Sanders, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, John Coltrane, the Cult, CCR, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, Steve Earle, the Everly Brothers, GnR, Pete Ham, Van Dyke Parks, Badfinger, Neil Diamond, Moby Grape, Grateful Dead, Dave Alvin, Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, Sam and Dave, Booker T. and the MGs, T.Rex, Woody Guthrie, Otis Redding, Richard Buckner, Carole King, Golden Smog, Big Star, the Stooges, Michael Jackson, Lisa Loeb, Joni Mitchell, Metallica, Mudhoney, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, John Steinbeck, Cormac McCarthy, Willa Cather, Bob Dylan, Steve Martin, DAN CLUCAS, The Band, The Band, The Band, THE BAND...
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Take the Money and Run, Cannibal! The Musical, Amadeus, The Godfather, Easy Rider, The Jerk, the Graduate, Rushmore, Basquiat, Bottle Rocket, Safemen, The Last Waltz, Sixteen Candles, The Three Amigos, Endless Summer, Big Wednesday, The Thin Red Line, Dr. Strangelove, The Dollar Trilogy, The Royal Tenenbaums, Almost Famous, Dead Man, Dogtown & Z-Boys, Alexander, anything with Robert Redford, Paul Newman, James Stewart, Catherine Ross, Sean Penn, Johnny Depp or P.S. Hoffman. Most WWII flicks. Blow Up, The Wages of Death; hip foreign shit like that.
Anything and everything Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, and company have created. It shouldn't be possible to be that good.
The Office (British), Anything on the History Channel, KCET, or IFC, Seinfeld, That 70's Show, Scrubs, Extras, motherfuckin' Lost.
Steinbeck. Cormac McCarthy. Capote. Hank C. (that's C. Bukowski, dumbfucks), Camus. Raymond Carver. Tim O'Brien, Roald Dahl. Anything hardboiled. Don't try.
Okay, here's the short list:
Cannery Row, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, The Twits, Tortilla Flat, The Things They Carried, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Princess Bride
Every single member of my family, Steinbeck, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, John Denver, Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Cathrine O'Hara, Bob Balaban, Fred Willard, Ed Begley Jr., John Michael Higgens, Parker Posey, Michael Hitchcock, Jennifer Coolidge, John Muir, Edward Gorey, Cormac McCarthy, Sam Shepard, Emma Goldman, Quinten Blake, Keith Richards, Van Morrison, Townes VanZant, Jay Adams, Bearden Coleman, Carlos Delgado, Jaycob VanAuken, Dave Meshell, Gene Edwards, Andy Baker. Ian Curtis, Richard Manuel. Especially Richard Manuel.