I'm a sucker for books, music, film, art, expression, train rides, boat rides, jazz, I like it when it rains at the same time the sun shines on you during a partly stormy day, I devour books and documentaries on the Vietnam war with an insatiable thirst, I am a sucker for documentaries and useless information.
anyone who takes the time to check out my page. Joan Didion, Kofi Annan. Fela Kuti. Bayard Rustin. Jane Birkin.
Fela Kuti, Nina Simone, Bad Brains, Fugazi, Sham 69, Coldplay, The Stranglers, The Ruts, The Damned, Blind lemon Jefferson, Rashid Ali, Sonny Rollins, Albert Ayler, The OJays, Fern Jones, Bandit Records, The Delfonics, The Spinners, The Nation of Ulysses, Harlod Melvin and the Blue Notes, The Shirelles, Death Cab, Brian Eno, THe Beauty Pill, 4AD, Smart Went Crazy, Young Jeezy, Blonde Redhead, Rites of Spring, The Buzzcocks, The Clash, 7 Seconds, The Minutemen, The Gun Club, The Platters, The Spaniels, The Coasters, Mary Wells, Betty Wright, Gladys Knight and the Pips, anything with the blood and fire logo, The Bar Kays, Everything on Teen Beat, Everything on Ipecac, Rounder Records, Arhoolie Records,Isaac Hayes, Old doo-wop, pre elvis rock and roll, Dischord bands, Robert Pete Williams, Capsoul Records, The Make Up, Leadbelly, Frank Black and the Catholics, The pixies, ABC, Sonny Boy Williamson, THe Fall, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Guy Picciotto, Die Haut, Einsturzende Neubauten, Capitol years Sinatra, The Black Eyes, Q and not U, Tom Waits, Etta James, Sabbath, Coltrane, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Miles, melt bananna, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Bright Eyes, Bud Powell, Bubber Miley, Lightnin Hopkins, Lemon, Blind willie Johnson, Gang of Four, MC5, Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, John Lee Hooker, Pj Harvey, Swans, Queens of the stone age, James Chance, Lee morgan, Rollins Band, Tomahawk, the boredoms, Eno, King Crimson, Hendrix, Hardcore is weak. Metal is weak. We are all in a James Brown cover band.
Kurosawa, fincher, Soderberg, Sofia Coppola (I watch Lost in Translation just about once a month), Zedd, felinni, Argento, Polanski, Stone, Cronenberg, Scorsase, Burton, Ford coppola, Penn, Allen, Almost everything on the criterion collection. I didn't like Napolean Dynamite, Donnie Darko or Amalie. Aim for the head.
Selby, Dostoyevsky, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, kafka, Abe, Didion, Tosches, Fante, Algren, Nin, Camus, Hamsun, Nietzsche, Baudalaire, Wilde, Bill Shields, Rollins, Bukowski, Celine, Rimbaud, Catullus, Henry Miller, Thomas Wolfe, Billy Childish, Nietzsche, Russell, Jim Corbett, Faulkner, Mann, DH Lawerence, Iceberg, Conrad, Steve Martin, Senecca, Hesse, Tolstoy, Checkov, Gogol, andreyev, Lorca, Nick Cave, Pushkin, Kuprin, Gorky, Saltykov, Maupassant, Gide, Faulkner, Mishima, Max Frisch. there are more good books out there than there is life time so I'm not going to spend what prescious little time I do have on
Lenny Bruce, Bayard Rustin, Ian Mackaye, Fela Kuti, Bill Hicks, Che Guevara, Jesus Christ, Jack Johnson, John Coltrane, John Peel, Alan Lomax.