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Sam Heaton

California wine tastes fine

About Me

"The details of my exploits are only a pretext for a far more expansive consideration of general truths."

My Interests

being cool

Music:

hank ballard, cliff bennett, chuck berry, johnny burnette trio, john cale, alex chilton, bo diddley, pino donaggio, bob dylan, john fahey, kinky friedman, merle haggard, slim harpo, lightning hopkins, husker du, jorgen inmann, terry jacks, wanda jackson, waylon jennings, johnny & the hurricanes, freddy koella, nick lowe, frankie lymon & the teenagers, lyres, harpo marx, joe meek, minutemen, ennio morricone, motorhead, buck owens, rachel's, reigning sound, jonathan richman, ronettes, doug sahm, santo & johnny, shangri-las, sonic youth, supremes, rufus thomas, tinariwen, the tornadoes, paul westerberg, speedy west, bob wills, and anything irrelevant or insignificant.

Movies:

almost human, the american astronaut, the big sleep, california split, demonlover, don't look now, friends forever, gates of heaven, george washington, the great silence, henry fool, horse feathers, irma vep, keoma, the long goodbye, the loveless, monkey business, mr. death, shoot the piano player, simple men, strange vice of mrs. wardh, strip nude for your killer, treasure of the sierra madre, the unbelievable truth, the vanishing, vernon florida,

Television:

first person

Books:

it came from memphis, essa on the muel by josh billings, the newtys of pike by clarence king. the american realist movement in the 1800's.

Heroes:

werner herzog, harpo marx, erroll morris, franco nero