Watching Captain selling Hushpuppies' out of date vinyl records to credulous fifteen year-old kids, beating the shit out of my drums with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Fishermoon, saving money to buy a pair of Repetto Zizi which would match my pimp outfit (just like Massimo Gargia).
A wealthy / reliable record label manager... I already met Pascal Nègre, but as my friend Stéphane aka Captain would say in French: "je m en fous..."
The Rolling Stones, The Meters, Ornette Coleman, Tim Buckley, DJ Spooky, Moondog, Sonic Youth, Sly & The Family Stone, Ghostface Killah, Claude Debussy, Cat Power, Sun Ra, Lee Scratch Perry, DEVO...DEVO...DEVO, Lee Hazlewood, Soulwax, RL Burnside, Love, Black Flag, Anton Webern, Aphex Twin, Method Man, Ju Ju Banton, RZA, Led Zeppelin, Robert Johnson, Francis Poulenc, Archie Shepp, Keith Hudson, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Beastie Boys, Richard Wagner, Blur, Joe Mansano, Cut Chemist, William Hooker, Albert Roussel, Yo La Tengo, Johnny Cash, John Coltrane, John Cage, Peter Tosh...and the list goes on...
Méliès, Murnau, Lang, Griffith, Dreyer (yep, vintage classics, sorry to all indie-minded-three dollar budget-postmodern cinema freakies...), but also Bresson, Tatie...
Blake, Burroughs, Bukowski, Breton, Büchner, Brautigan, Boulgakov, Borges, Baudelaire, Bataille, Beckett, Bradbury, and I'm only on the B's...
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