Playing you songs. Getting dressed up for no reason. Trainwrecks. Semi's. Minor automobile repair. I do impressions of a handful of people really well. Making strange sounds with my mouth. Making strange sounds with anything. Museums. Opening doors, offering my help. Heyyyy, wait a minute...I am chivalrous. Augusto Cesar Sandino. Fedora's. hookers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Getting off my high horse. National Geographic. Adbusters. Jack Kerouac (we have the same birthday). 808 drums. I can fucking dance. Surfing Mike Boyle's truck (please?). Goddess dressing. Arthur Magazine. Tour Buses. RV's kick ass. Vice Guide to Travel. Fancy shoes, not so fancy shoes. Air rifles. Jamming with strangers. Trying to convince people who have obvious noticeable talent for anything across the artistic spectrum that they should quit their job. Vintage Guitars and effects pedals. elevendy. going to the ima and being really loud on accident. 16mm footage of african ceremonial dancing. blowing up a on steel whistle in a foriegn street parade. Finding instruments at thirft stores. 100 steel drums hitting major chords in 1-4-5 progression while drums made from tree trunks boom like they were supposed to. remembering the time when my friends took off their shirts and fought in the middle of the road for fun, "fuck it dude, this is fountain square, poh-lice aint gowna care." and they didn't. the end.
Dean Martin. THE CLASH (every album, any song). Johnny Cash. My own shit. FOUR TET. FOUR TET REMIXING MADVILLIAN! Muddy Waters. WOLFMOTHER!. Animal Collective. Oneida. The Who. Lou reed. Conway Twitty. The Pixies. The Breeders. Frank Black Francis. Buddy Holly. The Misfits. The refused. Howlin' Wolf. Lady Sovereign. MIA. Bo Diddley. Band of Bees. Curtis Mayfield. Rick James. Billy Childish. T Rex. Woody Guthrie. Wu-Tang Clan. Hank Williams Sr. PJ Harvey. The Game. Leadbelly. America owns the moon. Patsy Cline. Mirah. The New York Dolls. Stevie Wonder. Public Enemy. The Oblivians. Tribe Called Quest. Black Sheep. Bruce Springsteen. People under the stairs. Velvet Underground. Nico. the rapture. Ol' Dirty Bastard. Dr. Alimantado (the best dressed chicken in town, thank you Antonio). Radiohead. Regina Spektor. Ying Yang Twins. Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Odetta. Tom Waits. Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros. The Cure. Big Audio Dynamite. The delfonics. Can. CCR. The Fall. Tom Petty. Lee Perry. Zero Boys. Dillinger. Leonard Cohen. Serge Gainsbourg. Kool Keith/Black Elvis/Dr. Octagon. World inferno friendship society. Motorhead. MC5. N.W.A. Bjork. Modern Lovers. Parliament, Funkadelic, Bootsy and his Rubber Band, and George Clinton solo. INXS. Interpol. The Sex Pistols. Murder on the Dancefloor. Outkast. J Clydes Trio. ELVIS COSTELLO. LCD Soundsystem. Rolling Stones. The Ronettes. Mahalia Jackson. Wes Montgomery. The Supremes. France Gall. OTIS REDDING. Stonelove Sound Clash. Almost any live sound clash from Jamaica. Jeff Buckley. Oingo Boingo. The Fall. David Bowie. U.N.K.L.E. Gang of Four. Ministry. Buju Banton. The Strokes. A lil' bit of Suicide (jus' lil bit). Whiskeytits. The Hives. Broken Social Scene. Afrika Bambatta and the SoulSonic Force. Desmond Dekker. The Specials. Joy Division. James Brown. Billy Joel. Led Zeppelin. Cut Copy. Del the funkee homosapien. Metric. The Bronx. MF Doom. The Cure. Wolf Parade. The Walkmen. Joanna Newsom. The Jackson 5. Wilson Pickett. Chuck Berry. Blackalicious. T.V. on the radio. Bauhaus (actually only Bela Lugosi's dead). I will add as I remember, or until the list is too long for reading.
Gary Numan
Tim and Eric's Awesome Show, Great Job.
All the pretty horses and The Guide to Ayahuasca
Joe Strummer. alan Vega. John Lennon. Lee Scratch Perry. Kim Deal.Stephen Colbert.SISTER ROSETTA THARPE