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One of the best parts of live performance is getting to meet your audience. If you enjoy a show of mine, enjoy something I've written, laughed at a video I made, I want to meet you, or at least hear from you. Feedback. Lots and lots of feedback.
Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Marty Robbins, Peggy Lee, Smashmouth, Bob Dylan, Robert Earl Keen, Billie Holliday, John Prine, Nat King Cole, Groucho Marx, The Ramones, They Might Be Giants, The Hamilton County All Star Remedial Marching Band, Nina Simone, Lucinda Williams, Robert Johnson, George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Bobby Darrin, The Muppets, Violent Femmes, The Pogues, Bare Naked Ladies, Brave Combo, Tom Jones, Frank Sinatra, Mozart, Ray Charles, Queen, Simon and Garfunkel, Leo Kotke, Johnny Cash, Mr. Freddie, Harry Belafonte, Hank Williams, Ethel Merman, Elvis, Kurt Weil, Dave Brubeck, Buddy Holly, Boiled in Lead, Vince Guaraldi, Folk Uke (singing their hit "Motherf***** Got F***** Up"... check it out!), Texas Rubies, The 88, The White Ghost Shivers, Bix Beiderbecke, Cantiga (with Malcolm on violin), Thomas Nyunendel, The Biscuit Brothers, Allen Robertson, Jason Connor, Meredith McCall, Lyova Rosenthal, Arnie Yanez, Tracy Tucker, Will Taylor, Toni Price, Jim Hancock, Rio Blue, Ky Hote and Owl, Oliver Steck, Baby Gramps, The Flying Karamozov Brothers, Corb Lund Band, Tom Russel, The Polyphonic Spree, The Partridge Family, Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Doc Watson, Puerto Muerto, Rhinestone Cowboy, Neil Diamond, Franz Ferdinand
Casablanca, all the Marx Brothers, Hope and Crosby road movies, most of Woody Allen, Dr. Strangelove, all of Quentin Tarantino, Delicatessan, Amelie, all of Akira Kurosawa, all of Werner Herzog, American Splendor, American Beauty, Dogtown and Z-Boys, The Matrix, The Blues Brothers, The Muppet Movie, Moulin Rouge, Roxanne, The Godfather, Hands on a Hard Body, Night of the Hunter, Billy Jack, Comedian, To Kill A Mockingbird, Twelve Angry Men, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Bowling for Columbine, Roger and Me, Fahrenheit 9/11, Austin Powers, Taxi Driver, Forrest Gump. Yeah, I said it, Forrest Gump, so sue me, Cary Grant flicks, It's A Wonderful Life, Freaks, Elf, South Park, And Justice For All, Groundhog Day, Groundhog Day, Waiting for Guffman (and the rest of Guest), The Maltese Falcon, Born into Brothels, Frank Capra films, Strangers with Candy, Being John Malkovitch, Robert Rodriguez films, Boobie Girl by the amazing Brooke Keesling, Meat Clown by the astounding Brooke Keesling, Little Miss Sunshine, Midnight Cowboy, The Matrix, Comedian, Night of the Hunter, The Wizard of Oz, The Shining, On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, Full Metal Jacket, The Gods Must be Crazy, All of Wallace and Grommit, the rest of Nick Parks work, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Anchorman, most all the silver screen legends- Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Hitchcock, Ingrid Bergman
The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, South Park, Frontline, Bill Maher, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Extras, The Office, Saturday Night Live, Mad TV, The Simpsons, Seinfeld, 30 Rock, My Name is Earl, BBC World News, The News Hour with Jim Leher, Washington Week, The Sorpanos, Sesame Street, Spongebob Squarepants, Globe Trekker, No Reservation, Iron Chef, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Kids in the Hall, Mystery Science Theater 3000, POV, American Masters, Charlie Rose, Letterman, Strangers With Candy,
All of David Sedaris, Mark Twain, Roddy Doyle, Nick Hornby, Kurt Vonnegut, John Irving, Geek Love, Charles Bukowski, Charles Dickens, Tom Friedman, Al Franken, Tom Robbins, Harvey Pekar, R. Crumb, Cormac McCarthy, Molly Ivins, Michael Moore, Chuck Palahniuk, Life of Pi, Spalding Gray(performances too), Henry Miller, Bruce Chatwin, T. C. Boyle, Anthony Boudrain, Frank Baum, Michael Chabon, Harper Lee, Mark Frauenfelder, David Pogue, Michelle Bates,
My mom, Bill Hicks, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mahtma Gandhi, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ben Franklin, Mark Twain, Buckminster Fuller, Albert Einstein, Jim Henson, people who make a contribution to the world through service or creation, and anyone going broke because they refuse to give up on their dream.