filthy, dirty, cloudy, muddy, messy, mucky, crystal clear
Pavement, Jicks, Spoon, Beatles, REM, Nirvana, Jawbreaker, Robyn Hitchcock, Eminem, Dinosaur Jr, Bob Dylan, Smashing Pumpkins, Nas, Tom Petty, Chisel, Stone Temple Pilots, Monorchid, Nation of Ulysses, Simon and Garfunkel, Jesus Lizard, Girls Against Boys, Bright Eyes, Notorious BIG, Elliott Smith, Zombies, New Pornographers, Slick Rick, Radiohead, the National, Weezer, Guided By Voices, Cheap Trick, Rolling Stones, Superchunk, Wu Tang Clan, Sloan, Laughing Hyenas, Mudhoney, Pixies, the Doors, the Cure, Buffalo Tom, Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix, Modest Mouse, New Order, Aaliyah, Ludacris, U2, the Thermals, a lot of bands I kept secret over the years like Everclear, Third Eye Blind, Sugar Ray, Bush, Kalamazoo bands like Rollinghead, Vine, twitch, Deconstruction, Fletcher, So This is Outer Space, Broken Hearts Are Blue, Inourselves, Hornet, many more
The Graduate, Half Nelson, Five Easy Pieces, Fast Times, Just One of the Guys, The Terminator, Dawn of the Dead, Badlands, Days of Heaven, Thin Red Line, No Country for Old Men, What About Bob?, The Departed, Rushmore, Kramer vs. Kramer, Factotum, My Own Private Idaho, Brick, Elephant, Last Days, A Simple Plan, Miller's Crossing, Groundhog Day, Back to School, No Retreat No Surrender, Ordinary People, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Doors, Cape Fear, many more
Recently I went on YouTube and watched the big transformation scene in American Werewolf in London. On the side, in the related videos section, there was a clip from the old TV show Manimal. I clicked on that. It showed the main guy turning into a panther. It was weird to see that because I remember watching Manimal when it was on for real when I was a kid. I hadn't thought of it in a long time. The special effects were shitty. Manimal was only on for eight weeks and I watched it every one of those damn weeks. If you're bored and looking for something to see on YouTube, search for Manimal and watch the dude become a panther, watch his hands bubble into paws. As far as modern-day shows I really like The Sopranos, but that feels more like a really great movie played out over eight years. A couple of months ago my girlfriend and I drove out to New Jersey and went to Pizzaland, which you can see in the opening credits of the show. It's a small place, about the size of my kitchen, but the pizza is good.
Some writers I like are: Mary Gaitskill, Charles Bukowski, George Pelecanos, Barry Hannah, Ross Macdonald, John D. MacDonald, Raymond Chandler, Don DeLillo, Jack Kerouac and Beats, NY School poets, Elmore Leonard, James M. Cain, Thom Jones, PG Wodehouse, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John O'Hara, Charles Portis, Scott Smith, Joy Williams, Richard Yates, Patricia Highsmith, Wallace Stevens, Irini Spanidou, Thomas McGuane, Nathanael West, Walker Percy, JD Salinger, Stephen King, Joan Silber. And here is every book I read in 2006 in the order that I read them: Call It Sleep by Henry Roth; The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro; Darling by Honor Moore; The Man With the Getaway Face by Richard Stark; The Golden Spur by Dawn Powell; The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac; Ideas of Heaven by Joan Silber; On the Natural History of Destruction by WG Sebald; Big Sur by Jack Kerouac; 361 by Donald Westlake; Lucky Us by Joan Silber; The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac; Maggie Cassidy by Jack Kerouac; The Dog of the South by Charles Portis; Honored Guest by Joy Williams; Home Land by Sam Lipsyte; Kerouac by Ann Charters; The Ruins by Scott Smith; Visions of Gerard by Jack Kerouac; Lonesone Traveler by Jack Kerouac; Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith; Playback by Raymond Chandler; In Cold Blood by Truman Capote; Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote; Tristessa by Jack Kerouac; The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown; The First Hurt by Rachel Sherman; Love Me Hate Me by Jeff Pearlman; The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith; Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman; A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley; Angels and Demons by Dan Brown; Collected Poems by Philip Larkin; Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham; King Dork by Frank Portman; Norwood by Charles Portis; Gringos by Charles Portis; Contempt by Alberto Moravia; The Drowning Pool by Ross Macdonald; The Getaway by Jim Thompson; Factotum by Charles Bukowski; Human Oddities by Noria Jablonski; The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett; Post Office by Charles Bukowski; The Known World by Edward P. Jones; In Utero by Gillian G. Gaar; The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills by Charles Bukowski; Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow; Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson; Warlock by Oakley Hall; Hot Water Music by Charles Bukowski; Veronica by Mary Gaitskill; True Grit by Charles Portis; Birds of Los Angeles by Wendy S. Walters; Misery by Stephen King; Burning in Water Drowning in Flame by Charles Bukowski. Some books I read recently that I like a lot are: Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson; Voodoo Heart by Scott Snyder; Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy; The Road by Cormac McCarthy; Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier; Citizen Vince by Jess Walter; Gargoyles by Thomas Bernhard; Youth by J.M. Coetzee; The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright; What's the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank; The Deep Blue Good-by and Nightmare in Pink by John D. MacDonald; The Night Gardener, Drama City and Shoedog by George Pelecanos
A.C. Newman