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distortion, fresh wine, modernism not post-bloody-modernism, girls with too much makeup, beating the crap out of that Bright Eyes guy, subtropical anything.
Mom!
Dad!
Cricket!
The St Pauli girl. Famous Amos. Karen Black, Karen O, Dorothy Parker. George Smiley, Dock Boggs, Eli Wallach. Mitch Hedberg, Marcel Dzama & Brad Neely. Miyazaki & Murakami. Emil Nolde, Robert Penn Warren, Vladimir Vysotsky. and Iain M Banks.
but not Iain Banks, thanks just the same.
Also:
And:
My Morning Valentine, My Bloody Jacket, Skygreen Leopards, Brian Jonestown, thee Oh Sees, Strange Boys, Velvets circa White Light, Neil Young circa On The Beach, and anything both (a) pre-WW2 & (b) miserably depressing.
Ah, you know, um.
Mrs. Parker. Bladerunner. Capote. Lone Wolf and Cub. Talladega Nights. The Apostle. Buffalo 66. Tender Mercies. Spirited Away. Wait, is that one gay? Strike that last one.
Milch
Blood Meridian, The Tin Drum, The World At NIght, Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight, the Quiet American, I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets, Street of Crocodiles, Genet, Melville, Conrad, Warren, McCarthy.