balancing the legitimate expectations of telling an intelligible story without tipping the equipoise.
All that geography you transversed, all the places you've been; it seems all empty and alone without me.
shower radios, state flags, you, armed revolutions, symmetry, dance parties, (peach) Italian sodas, Liverpool FC, 4/4 drumming, relief maps, Eastern Europe, movies/films/cinema, when animals attack, politics, March Madness, hollow body guitars, etc.
a little bit of uh? and a whole lot of oh yeah
The Replacements, Back From The Grave Vol. 1-6, The Thermals, Kings of Convenience, Them, The Charlatans UK, MountainLion!Puma, Neil Young, The Constantines, The Pogues, Mando Diao, The Hi-Fives, Elvis Costello, Lake Trout, Drive Like Jehu, The Gun Club, Television, Superdrag, Possum Dixon, Koufax, British Sea Power, The Rosebuds, Dirty Three, Sebadoh, Chin Up Chin Up, American Analog Set, REM, Dismemberment Plan, Ted Leo, Pulp, The Who, Windsor for the Derby, The Fleshtones, Sea and Cake, Billy Childish, John Cale, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, David Bowie, Swearing at Motorist, Pavement, Mountain Goats, Archers of Loaf, Silver Jews, Magnetic Fields, Art Blakey, The Oblivians, Guided By Voices, Rocket From the Crypt, Metal Hearts, CSS, Neil Diamond, The Masonics, Superchunk, These United States, Velocity Girl, The Oranges Band, The Beatles, Echo and the Bunnymen, Pixies, The Hoodoo Gurus, etc.
Network, Nashville, Wild Strawberries, Videodrome, Notorious, Masculine Feminine, Reds, Bright Young Things, Alien, The Hours and the Times, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, The Last Detail, Flirting, Badlands, Down By Law, Au revoir les enfants, Paths of Glory, Better off Dead, There Will Be Blood, Head, Night of the Iguana, Something Wild, 2001, Bonnie and Clyde, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Exorcist, Open City, The Wild Bunch, Vitelloni I, The Spanish Prisoner, Melvin and Howard, The Big Red One, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, The French Connection, The Science of Sleep, Night of the Hunter, Daises, Europa Europa, The Bourne Identity, The Third Man, Hard Days Night, Swimming to Cambodia, Grand Hotel, Easy Rider, North by Northwest, Good Night and Good Luck, Boogie Nights, His Girl Friday, Five Easy Pieces, Last Picture Show, Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol, Written on the Wind, My Own Private Idaho, Bad Day at Black Rock, The Passion Of Joan of Arc, etc.
TCM
W. Somerset Maugham
Haruki Murakami
Nelson Algren
Jack Kerouac
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Christopher Isherwood
Sinclair Lewis
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
etc.
Peter O'Toole, Peter Sellers and Peter Finch on a pub crawl. Chicks who don't like Ayn Rand.