Architecture and French female pop singers of the 1960s. Old airports. Typewriters. Texas. The Space Program. Hip-hop culture of the late 1970s. Wraparound porches and/or sunglasses. Chrome Fenders. Hairdos. Pinball. Match Game. The Boston Red Sox. Beekeeping. Licorice. Bill Belichick. People who don't apologize for liking Prince.
Sexy Farfisa organs
Spring Chicken playlist 4/1/08: "Circus Lady," The Beard. "Roman Shoulder," Kathy and the Landlines. "(One More of These and) I'm Flying," Paul Wilt. "Violet Underpants," Sitar Heroes. "Sternum Police," Kuul. "(I'm Gonna Train My Cougar to Eat) Republicans," The Heyduke Lives. "Earwax Wiggle," The Hipbones. "Black Snake the Ripper," The Four Honkies. "Stephanie's Golden Handbrake," The Pimiento Circuit. "Zipping (Down the 405)," The Paul Wilt Orchestra.
Suburbia, the one by Penelope Spheeris. Don't Look Back. Decline of Western Civilization, pt. 1. Gimme Shelter. A Bout de Souffle. Hiroshima Mon Amour. Ciao, Manhattan. Paris, Texas. Texasville. The Last Picture Show. Hard Day's Night. Help! Rude Boy. Repo Man. Being There. Harold and Maude. Broadcast News. Badlands. Performance. Notorious. Goldfinger. Rushmore. Darling. The Hustler. The Man Who Fell to Earth. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Days of Heaven. Smithereens. Shampoo. The Girl Can't Help It. High Art. Mystery Train. Mean Streets. American Splendor. The Big Lebowski. Nashville. Bad News Bears. Buckaroo Banzai. Top Pix: The Last Waltz, BARBARELLA, Rock and Roll High School, Five Easy Pieces, anything by Cassavetes and/or starring Gena Rowlands
WKRP in Cincinnati, What's Happening!!, The Odd Couple, Twin Peaks, X-Files, Happy Days, Simpsons, ATHF, MST3K, VH-1 Classic, Charlie Rose, Dick Cavett, The Adventures of Pete and Pete
Take yer pick from these folks: Flannery O'Connor, Kerouac, Ray Bradbury, Berke Breathed, Joan Didion, Sam Shepard, Stanley Booth, Poe Ballantine, Jim Carroll, Hunter S Thompson, Larry McMurtry, Anne Sexton, Eileen Myles, Patti Smith, Jackie Sheeler, Francesca Lia Block, Bill Watterson, John Irving, Tom Robbins, Aaron McGruder, Lorrie Moore, Walter Tevis, Bobbie Ann Mason, Camille Paglia, Carson McCullers, Lester Bangs, Charles Schultz, JD Salinger, Frank O'Hara, Annie Proulx, Kurt Vonnegut, Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Hart, Breece DJ Pancake, Madeleine L'Engle, S.E. Hinton, Laura Ingalls Wilder. Or, nerd out on this: my 'read' shelf:
Jimmy Carter, Molly Ivins, and my grandmas.