Putting it out there. Clip club. Tennis. Wishing I could surf. Practicing my whatever-face.Pitch n put, crushing it, writing canonical lit...
My future self.
Dead, Sleater-Kinney, Bowie, Deerhoof, Wilco, Neil Young, Costello, Clash, NMH, Le Rev, Lou Reed, Talking Heads, Cat Power, Mates of State, High Speed Scene, James Brown, Walt Mink, Pixies, me singing Billy Joel in the shower..., Danielson Family, Kings of Leon, Fela Kuti and bands that play knockoff shit of his, RL Burnside, Harry Nilson, Replacements, the Bitchtastix--ok i made that up, AC/DC, Bruuuuuuce!!!!, Alpha Blondie, Mission to Burma, crappy bands that myspace me b/c i love elvis costello!!
Taxi Driver, Spinal Tap, Midnight Cowboy, Stripes, Lethal Weapon, Withinail and I, Sunset Boulevard, La Dolce Vita, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The Squid and the Whale, Five Easy Pieces, Hal Ashby's first five movies, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, The King of Comedy, Caddyshack, early to mid Woody flicks, Something Wild, After Hours, Affliction, most C. Kaufman, Bridge Over the River Kwai, Tully, Did I say Taxi Driver, It's a Wonderful Life, most Preston Sturges, Man Bites Dog, The Last Picture Show, Walkabout, Animal House, The Long Goodbye, most Kubrick esp Strangelove, Orange and Paths of Glory, M*A*S*H, Freebie and the Bean, Breaking the Waves, most Tarantino, Network, anything with John Diehl or Stephen Tobolosky, Spanking the Monkey, Series 7, The In-Laws, The Hearbreak Kid, Midnight Run, Dandelion, Beverly Hills Cop, Heat, Unforgiven, Little Murders...
The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, It's Always Sunny in Phildelphia, Frontline, Deadwood, my afternoon stories
too many to name. some favs and thing lying around my place: naked and the dead and the executioner's song, philip roth, infinite jest and all dfw, jesus' son, exley's a fan's notes, fante's ask the dust, dan chaon, kesey, cormac mccarthy, fitzgerald, salinger, thom jones, raymond carver, kafka, nabakov, all the big russkies, delillo, russell banks, john irving, elmore leonard, some irvine welsch, the corrections, tom wolfe, lorrie moore, diaz's drown, stahl's permanent midnight, o'brien's the things they carried, catch-22, something happened, white teeth, the intutionist, richard yates, tobias wolff, greene...open to suggestions...
Still looking.