This and that...foreign menus...travelling...Norse culture...beer...record shops...book shops...libraries...Micro/Mela/Polynesian stuff...drums...marine biology (+ film/books on this subject!)...the life stories of pornstars...
Good interesting people who can tell me something I don't already know. People who can turn me onto great records, films, books and stuff I may not already know.Anyone who wants to sell me the Tropical Dandy LP by Haruomi Hosono!I tell you something else...if you're a band, you'd better have magic in your bones otherwise don't bother....I'm fuckin serious too.
Poison Idea - Zeke - Turbonegro - Kiss - Ted Nugent - Cheap Trick - Fucked Up - Career Suicide - Government Warning - Annihilation Time - Three Inches of Blood - Thin Lizzy - Harvey Milk - Black Sabbath - Fu Manchu - Black Flag...that sort of thing
Bleak Eastern-European drama, horror, smart-ass guff, grindhouse + exploitation, art
Seinfeld
Travel books - Bret Easton Ellis - Norse folk tales Icelandic sagas - Martis Amis - Knut Hamsun - Music encyclopedias - "101 Reykjavik" by Hallgrimur Helgason - Jonathan Safran-Foer, Dave Eggers - "A Crack-up at the Race Riots" by Harmony Korine - Photography stuff - a book about old tour t-shirts - Chuck Klosterman - "The Land Where The Blues Began" by Alan Lomax - "The Happy Isles of Oceania" by Paul Theroux - Captain Cook's journals - 1960's/70's British trash/pulp novels - David Shrigley - Crumb - Bukowski - "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole - "May The Northern Lights Erase Your Name" by Vendela Vida - Hunter S. Thompson - Perfume - John Fowles -
Larry David - Donald Fagen