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peace-loving wags with gentle souls and sharp tongues.
Brahms's Liebeslieder Waltzes, Rubinstein playing Chopin's Nocturnes, Martha Argerich playing Ravel, all the top-shelf Silver Age Russian composers, Menotti, Britten, Pinkham, (heaven help me) Wagner, Tuvan throat singing, Bulgarian goose singing.Herb Alpert, Alfred Apaka, The Bags, Bauhaus, The Beatles, The Bears, Adrian Belew, Asha Bhosle, Big Star, The Bourbonaires, The Buzzcocks, Cardinal, Cheap Trick, The Clash (up to and including Sandinista! then I'm outie), Concussion Ensemble, Cords, Crown Electric Company, The Cure (gimme that Faith/Seventeen Seconds era), Curlew, The Cutups, Richard Davies, The Dead Kennedys, Echo and the Bunnymen, Brian Eno, Expando Brain, Flipper, Gang of Four, Godz of Eternity, Sol Hoopii, Tom Jones, King Crimson, Kula Shaker, Kustomized, Laughing Academy, Little Debbie, Live Nude Dead Ants, Love Tractor, Lena Lovitch, Low Powers, Roger Miller Maximum Electric Piano, Mission of Burma, The Moles, Mick Mondo, My Bloody Valentine, Nirvana, Nix Kitchen, NRBQ, Pere Ubu, Pizzicato Five, Robert Pollard, Iggy Pop (with and without The Stooges), The Psychedelic Furs, Public image Limited (esp. the first four records WAHHHHH!), The Ramones, Lalo Schifrin, John Scofield, Raymond Scott, The Sexexecs, Frank Sinatra, The Slits, Sly and the Family Stone, Joe Strummer, Television, Two Subs and a Bud, Volcano Suns, Wall of Voodoo, Gillian Welch, White Stripes, The Who, Willard Grant Conspiracy, The Wipers, X, XTC, The Zulus
Pretty much anything prior to 1928, and MAN could anyone beat the Germans in that game back then? OK, maybe the French - depends on what you're looking for; shorts; Busby Berkely blowouts (WTF?); I really like rock films - particularly recall having my head ripped off and put back on straight when I saw The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization in high school. Dang, there's just so much to love....... Dr. Strangelove, Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster, The Ice Storm, Sin City, Ishtar. I'm going to need more time to think about this.
Rawhide, 24, Beatles Anthology, 24, Vega$, 24, The Dick Van Dyke Show, 24, Batman, 24, Six Feet Under, 24, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Lost, 24, MST3K, Northern Exposure, 24, Monty Python's Flying Circus (non-quoting admirer), The Avengers, Futurama, 24, House, The Uncle Floyd Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, MXC, American Experience, The Six Million Dollar Man, 24, Zoom ca. 1973, Soap, I Claudius, Picket Fences, Don Kirschner's Rock Concert, 24, Super Milk Chan, and all those glorious Bicentennial Minutes nobody ever talks about. Oh, and 24.
Any dictionary; Encyclopoedia Brittanica; Harry the Dirty Dog; The German Lesson; Tale of Two Cities; Anna Karenina; The Tin Drum; Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus; The Beatles A Biography by Spitz; dozens of others that escape me now... oh, just lookit here: ..
Buster Keaton, the Beatles, every woman who died or did hard time so I could vote, my grandmother Adele, Nashville Friends, Hannah Wilke, Velvety Jack.