I like to write about things.
Melvins, Shellac, New Brutalism, This Moment in Black History, Ho-Ag, Rye Coalition, My Disco, Die! Die! Die!, Leatherface, Fugazi, Hoover, Murder City Devils, Times New Viking, Minutemen, Big Business, Karp, The Mountain Goats, Sonic Youth, Hot Snakes, Drive Like Jehu, Big Black, Turing Machine, Mclusky, Slint, Jesus Lizard, Scratch Acid, Uzeda, Black Flag, Don Caballero, Gang of Four, Wire, Bluetip, Chinese Stars, Arab on Radar, Liars, Unsane, Mission of Burma, Hasil Adkins, The Cramps, Billy Childish, Devo, Miles Davis, Guided by Voices, Bad Brains, Goblin, CCR, Ex-Models, The Fall, Gil Mantera, Leonard Cohen, John Coltrane, Johnny Cash, Man or Astroman?, Minor Threat, Bob Dylan, The Smiths, The Small Faces, Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, Faith No More, Circle Jerks, Arcade Fire, The Clash, Thelonius Monk, 9 Shocks Terror, Husker Du, Weezer, Magnetic Fields, Dead Kennedys, Sex Pistols, Roy Orbison, Ramones, Misfits, High on Fire, Rites of Spring, Quicksand, Discharge, MC5, The Stooges, Can, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pere Ubu, Slayer, Fantomas, Tom Waits, PiL, The Who, The Thermals, Buzzcocks, Cro-Mags, Poison Idea, Toxic Narcotic, Converge, Velvet Underground, Nico, X, John Prine, Mercyful Fate, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Mastodon, Megadeth, Motorhead, Converge, Iron Maiden, Bruce Springsteen, Willy Nelson, Hank Williams.
Kubrick, Hitchcock, Lynch, Godard, Bergman, Fellini, Scorsese, Billy Wilder, Kurosawa, Aronofsky, Herzog, Cronenberg, Polanski, Fritz Lang, John Waters, Coppola, Bunuel, Argento, Peter Jackson, Coen Brothers, Terry Gilliam, De Palma, Sidney Lumet, Robert Altman, John Huston, Howard Hawks, Michael Cimino, Wes Anderson, Robert Rodriguez, Tim Burton, Guy Ritchie, Woody Allen, Elia Kazan, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Seijun Suzuki, William Castle, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Ed Wood.
Strangers with Candy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Reno 9/11, Family Guy, The Sopranos, King of the Hill, The Office.
Kafka, Raymond Carver, J.G. Ballard, Haruki Murakami, E.L. Doctorow, Truman Capote, John Kennedy Toole, Hubert Selby Jr., Angela Carter, Jose Saramago, Phillip Roth, Thom Jones, Jim Thompson, Nathaniel West, Phillip K. Dick, Mikail Bulgakov, Raymond Chandler, Joseph Conrad, Ralph Ellison, Borges, Burroughs, Vladamir Nabokov, Saul Bellow, Don DeLillo, Paul Auster, Dorothy Parker, James Ellroy, Russell Banks, David Foster Wallace, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Brent Easton Ellis, Thomas Pynchon, Will Self, William Faulkner, John Hawkes, Hemmingway, James Joyce, James Agee, Dostoevsky, Eco, Joseph Heller, Dashiell Hammet, Salinger, Steinbeck...and just about anything by Dan Clowes, Frank Miller, and Rick Altergott.