Music:
monarch, heroin, flower traveling band, boredoms, pharaoh overlord, ash ra tempel, slint, sleep, heldon, the monorchid, laddio bolocko, wrangler brutes, the byrds, swing kids, drive like jehu, black dice, 1349, gang of four, unwound, the jesus lizard, will oldham, iron and wine, townes van zandt, jesu
Movies:
barton fink, code unknown, river's edge, fitzcarraldo, stroszek, the last picture show, city of hope, my own private idaho, sherman's march, breaking away, five easy pieces, days of heaven, dead ringers, unforgiven, yi-yi
Books:
The Vine had no jukebox, but a real stereo continually playing tunes of alcoholic self-pity and sentimental divorce. "Nurse," I sobbed. She poured doubles like an angel, right up to the lip of a cocktail glass, no measuring. "You have a lovely pitching arm." You had to go down to them like a hummingbird over a blossom. I saw her much later, not too many years ago, and when I smiled she seemed to believe that I was making advances. But it was only that I remembered. I'll never forget you. Your husband will beat you with an extension cord and the bus will pull away leaving you standing there in tears, but you were my mother.