Whale ears.
Please draw something for me:
October Faves So Far:
I'll keep adding more as I remember them.
A Certain Ratio
A Cloud Mireya
A Grape Dope
A Hawk and a Hacksaw
A Minor Forest
Josh Abrams
AC/DC
Acid House Kings
Adult.
A-Ha
The Album Leaf
The Alps
American Analog Set
American Football
Fred Anderson
Antony And The Johnsons
Arcade Fire
Atmosphere
Autechre
Devendra Banhart
Robert Barry
Janet Bean
Beans
Beastie Boys
The Beatles
Beck
Beirut
Belle And Sebastian
Beneath Autumn Sky
Big Black
Birds Of America
Björk
Mars Black
Black Sabbath
Blonde Redhead
Bloc Party
Boards Of Canada
Simon Bookish
The Books
Boom Bip
David Bowie
Granville Bowlin
The Boy Least Likely To
Braid
Braniac
The Bravery
Bright Eyes
Jon Brion
British Sea Power
Brokeback
Broken Social Scene
Dave Brubeck
Jeff Buckley
Built To Spill
Bundy K. Brown
David Byrne
Calexico
Califone
Maria Callas
Camera Obscura
Isobel Campbell
Cap’n Jazz
The Cars
Derrick Carter
Wayne Carter
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone
Cat Power
Celebration
Willie Chapman
Cheap Trick
Chin Up Chin Up
Chisel.Drill.Hammer
!!!
Chromeo
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
The Cloud Room
Clouddead
Coco Rosie
Philip Cohran
Andrew Coleman
John Coltrane
Comets On Fire
Alice Cooper
Bill Cornett
J.D. Cornett
Elizabeth Cotten
James Crase
Cream
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Cure
Cursive
Dabrye
Daedelus
Miles Davis
De La Soul
The Dears
Death Cab For Cutie
Death From Above 1979
The Decemberists
Deep Puddle Dynamics
Del
Delarosa And Asora
Denali
Depeche Mode
Devo
Dianogah
Hazel Dickens
Digable Planets
Directions
Dntel
Julie Doiron
Dokken
Donovan
Dramarama
Drive Like Jehu
Dry Hustle
Dü
Dungen
Early Man
8 Bold Souls
El P
Elbow
The Elected
Electric Light Orchestra
Eleventh Dream Day
Missy Elliott
EMF
Eskimo Kisses
The Eternals
Euphone
Explosions In The Sky
The Faint
Feist
The Fiery Furnaces
Figurine
Final Fantasy
The Finches
The Flaming Lips
Ben Folds
Freakwater
Fridge
Fucking Am
The Fucking Champs
Fugazi
Serge Gainsbourg
Alice Gerrard
Stan Getz
Ghosts And Vodka
Ben Gibbard
Beth Gibbons
Astrud Gilberto
Bebel Gilberto
Joao Gilberto
Texas Gladden
The Go! Team
Grigsby And Young
Grizzly Bear
Guns N’ Roses
Martha Hall
Handsome Boy Modeling School
PJ Harvey
Helium
Sid Hemphill
Her Space Holiday
Hidden Cameras
Hieroglyphics
Roscoe Holcomb
Jolie Holland
Billie Holiday
The Homosexuals
Hot Chip
Hovercraft
Hu Vibrational
John Hughes
Idyll Swords
Ilium
Interpol
Iron And Wine
Iron Maiden
Catherine Irwin
Jawbreaker
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Jan Jelinek
Jet Black Crayon
Robert Johnson
Blind Willie Johnson
Compton Jones
Joy Division
Judas Priest
Andrew Kenny
The Kills
Kings Of Leon
Kraftwerk
Lali Puna
L'altra
Mark Lanegan
Daniel Lanois
Q Lazzarus
Led Zeppelin
Jenny Lewis
Liars
Lithops
Love
Love Is All
Luna
M83
Aimee Mann
Bob Marley
Jimmy Martin
Maserati
Willy Mason
Material Issue
Matmos
Mates Of State
John Matthias
Mazzy Star
MC Solaar
MC5
Cass McCombs
John McEntire
Sergio Mendes
The Mercury Program
Metallica
Metric
Mice Parade
Microstoria
Midnight Movies
Milemarker
Charles Mingus
Mobius Band
Modest Mouse
Mogwai
Jason Molina
Juana Molina
Mondii
Morrissey
Motorhead
The Mountain Goats
Mouse On Mars
Múm
Naked Raygun
Neutral Milk Hotel
Will Oldham
New Order
Joanna Newsom
Nico
NightFist
90 Day Men
Of Montreal
Oh No! Oh My!
OKR
Jim O’Rourke
Out Hud
Oval
Owen
Owls
Dave Pajo
John Parish
Charlie Parker
Jeff Parker
The Party Of Helicopters
Pavement
Pelican
Peter Bjorn & John
Pinback
The Pixies
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The Pogues
Polvo
The Polyphonic Spree
Port O'Brien
Portishead
The Postal Service
Poster Children
Prefuse 73
Sam Prekop
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Archer Prewitt
Primus
Prince
Psychedelic Furs
Public Enemy
Pullman
Rachel’s
Radiohead
Rainer Maria
Phil Ranelin
Dizzee Rascal
Red Shirt Brigade
Rex
Otis Redding
Damien Rice
Rilo Kiley
Rocket From The Crypt
Rogue Wave
The Rolling Stones
Rome
The Roots Of Orchis
Run_Return
Sade
Mr. and Mrs. Sams
Hope Sandoval
Saturday Looks Good To Me
Savath + Savalas
Ulrich Schnauss
Scratch Pet Land
The Sea And Cake
Seam
Lee Sexton
Shellac
Shout Out Louds
Shudder To Think
Sigur Rós
Sirhan Duran
Six Organs Of Admittance
Sleepytime Trio
Slicker
Slowreader
Sly And The Family Stone
Elliott Smith
The Smiths
Smoking Popes
Sonic Youth
The Specials
Squeak E. Clean
Stars
Stereo Total
Stereolab
Cat Stevens
Sufjan Stevens
The Streets
The Sugarcubes
Marion Sumner
Sun Kil Moon
Sunday’s Best
The Sundays
Sunny Day Real Estate
Super E.S.P.
Nobukazu Takemura
Tapes 'n Tapes
Tarentel
Telefon Tel Aviv
Themselves
The Thermals
Rosie Thomas
Tilly And The Wall
Mia Doi Todd
Tortoise
Trans Am
Trans Champs
Tristeza
Truxton
Tussle
Othar Turner
TV On The Radio
Ui
The Unicorns
Utah
Sarah Vaughan
The Velvet Underground
Vert
Vetiver
Via Tania
Violent Femmes
Tom Waits
M. Ward
Doc Watson
We Are Wolves
Weezer
The White Stripes
Why
Wesley Willis
Windsor For The Derby
Wire
Patrick Wolf
Wolf Parade
Xiu Xiu
Frank Zappa
Zero Zero
....and many more not mentioned. I'm always forgetting something.
If you want a copy of anything, just ask. I like to share. ♥
I seem to like a lot of art books that are way out of my price range.
FICTION / MEMOIR / POETRY:
Jean Ariss
Jorge Luis Borges
Michael Chabon
Paulo Coelho
Dave Eggers
Jonathan Safran Foer
James Joyce
Barbara Kingsolver
Jhumpa Lahiri
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
McSweeney's-related items
Anais Nin
Mary Oliver
Michael Ondaatje
Sylvia Plath
E. Annie Proulx
Thomas Pynchon
Salman Rushdie
David Sedaris
Zadie Smith
Susan Sontag
Kurt Vonnegut
David Foster Wallace
Virginia Woolf
...too many to list!
POLITICS / SOCIOLOGY / HISTORY / SCIENCE:
Noam Chomsky
Jared Diamond
Al Franken
Molly Ivins
James Loewen
Greg Palast
Michael Pollan
Arundhati Roy
Ben Schott
Howard Zinn...
RECENTLY READ (OR REREAD):
English As She Is Spoke
by Jose Da Fonseca and Pedro Carolino
The Mind's Eye
by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Everything Is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
Snake 'n' Bacon's Cartoon Cabaret
by Michael Kupperman
On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
Eats, Shoots, And Leaves
by Lynne Truss
Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back Again
by Norah Vincent
CURRENTLY READING:
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
You Shall Know Our Velocity
by Dave Eggers
Lady Into Fox
by David Garnett
McSweeney's #22
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
To Ruhleben--And Back
by Geoffrey Pyke
The End of Poverty
by Jeffrey Sachs
NEXT ON MY LIST:
Diet For A Dead Planet
by Christopher D. Cook
Authentic Business
by Neil Crofts
The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins
How We Are Hungry
by Dave Eggers
Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification
by Thomas J. Elpel
The Truth (with jokes)
by Al Franken
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
Strange Piece of Paradise
by Terri Jentz
Molecular Gastronomy : Exploring the Science of Flavor
by Hervé This
Consider the Lobster
by David Foster Wallace
PERIODICALS:
Aperture
The Believer
Big Brother
Black And White
Blind Spot
DoubleTake
Eight
In These Times
Lenswork
Maisonneuve
McSweeney's
Ode
The Onion
The Progressive
World Watch
Zoom