My thrilling opus THE DIRTY TALK is coming to Center Stage NY, January 2007!
Talking dogs.
Ok, strap yer'self in, it's a long-ass list: Tom Waits, The Ramones, Woody Guthrie, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Howlin' Wolf, The Beatles, The Decemberists, Willie Nelson, Iggy Pop, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Gogol Bordello, Nirvana, Stevie Wonder, Arcade Fire, Johnny Cash, Elvis Costello, Public Enemy, Bjork, Townes Van Zandt, Peter Tosh, John Lennon, The Ink Spots, PJ Harvey, Chuck Berry, Nas, Bob Dylan, Morphine, Nina Simone, A Tribe Called Quest, The New York Dolls, Billy Bragg, The Roots, The White Stripes, Sigur Ros, Serge Gainsbourg, Van Morrison, RUN DMC, The Kinks, Art Brut, Celia Cruz, The Velvet Underground, Digable Planets, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Big Bill Broozy, Chocolate Genius, Loretta Lynn, Thelonious Monk, Antony & the Johnsons, Nick Drake, Dinah Washington, Pavement, Jimmy Cliff, The Buzzcocks, John Coltrane, Toots & the Maytals, Lucinda Williams, Prince, Son House, Ibrahim Ferrer, The Magnetic Fields, Roy Orbison, Manu Chao, Leadbelly, (don't you have work to do?) Earth,Wind & Fire, Fred Astaire, Mos Def, Al Green, Low, Damien Rice, Charles Mingus, Outkast, Burning Spear, Etta James, Madness, Ruben Blades, The Pouges, Elliot Smith, The Flaming Lips, Otis Redding, Nine Inch Nails, Patti Smith, The Hold Steady, Randy Newman, Solomon Burke, TV on the Radio, Beastie Boys, Nancy Griffith, Little Richard, The Pixies, Little Jimmy Scott, Belle & Sebastian, Bo Diddly, Morcheeba, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Carter Family, Culture, Louie Armstrong, Broken Social Scene, Sam Cooke, Emmy Lou Harris, Johnny Thunders, The Walkmen, Miles Davis, Beck, Lyle Lovett, Wilco, The Drive-By Truckers, The Smithereens, (is anybody still reading this?) Cannonball Adderly, David Bowie, The Postal Service, De La Soul, Louis Prima, Radiohead, Youssou N'Dour, Fats Domino, The Fiery Furnaces, Fountains of Wayne, The Police, Black Star, The New Pornographers, Steve Earle, They Might Be Giants, Hank Williams, Bob Marley, Rilo Kiley, Marvin Gaye, Ravi Shankar, Brian Eno, Pulp, Joanna Newsom, (ok, almost done) Oscar Brown Jr, The Clash, Soul Coughing, John Lee Hooker, Brian Wilson, Portishead, The Moldy Peaches, Amadou & Miriam, Kris Kristofferson, Billie Holiday, Sparklehorse, The Soul Stirrers, Sufjan Stevens, Deathcab for Cutie, Flatt & Scruggs, Peter Gabriel and Kermit the Frog
Blue Velvet, Sweet Smell of Success, Godfather, Godfather II, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Bicylce Thief, Being There, Notorious, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Singing in the Rain, Seven Samurai, Doctor Strangelove, The Maltese Falcon, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fanny and Alexander, Zorba the Greek, His Girl Friday, Annie Hall, Do the Right Thing, The Killer, A Woman Under the Influence, Amacord, This is Spinal Tap, Vertigo, La Notte, Mikey and Nicky, Rock n' Roll High School, Freaks, The Conversation, In the Mood for Love, All That Jazz, Ninotchka, Rushmore, Shock Corridor, All the Presidents Men, Paths of Glory, Pulp Fiction, Small Change, On the Waterfront, Wild at Heart, The Blues Brothers, Aguiree, the Wrath of God, The Big Sleep, Talk to Her, Dog Day Afternoon, La Belle et la Bete, Young Frankenstein, Hoop Dreams, Wings of Desire,And Justice for All, Fargo, A Hard Days Night, Marty, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Third Man, Escape from New York, Band of Outsiders, Oldboy, Goodfellas, North by Northwest, Boogie Nights, Badlands, High Fidelity, The Wizard of Oz, A Night at the Opera, Purple Rain, Throne of Blood, When We Were Kings, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Heart is a Lonley Hunter, M, Raging Bull, Brazil, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Babe, Tokyo Story, Office Space, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, A Clockwork Orange, Taxi Driver, City Lights, Harold & Maude, An American Werewolf in London, Casablanca, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Evil Dead 2 and Dumbo
Netflix is like crack. But when pressed I would have to say Twin Peaks & The Honeymooners,
Anything by: Dr. Seuss, Bukowski, Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond Chandler, Knut Hamsun, John Fante, Dostoyevsky, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jonathan Lethem, Kazantzakis, Nabokov, Hunter S. Thompson, William Kennedy, Paul Auster, Kerouac, Nick Hornby, Gogol, Don Dellilo, Paul Bowles, Steinbeck, Mailer, Joe Heller, Michael Chabon, James Joyce and J.D. Salinger
Malcom X and the Amazing Spider Man