Ending up at The Nice Nice
I'm looking for the kind of posse who knows the value of happy hour, the fearlessness to go to the desert for trouble at the drop of a hat, the loyalty of brothers, the ability to fight when needed, and the wisdom of drinking beer and doing tight shit.Also Tom Verlaine.
999, !!!, 2Pac, 90 Day Men, A Certain Ratio, AC/DC, Aesop Rock, Afghan Whigs, Against Me!, Animals, Art Brut, At Drive-In, Bad Religion, Band Of Horses, Bauhaus, Beach Boys, Beatles, Beck, Bill Withers, Black Flag, Black Mountain, Black Sabbath, Black Sheep, Blonde Redhead, Blondie, Boris, Boston, Breeders, Brian Eno, Broadcast, Broken Social Scene, Bruce Springsteen, Built To Spill, Cage, Cannonball Adderly, Cansei De Ser Sexy, Can't See, Caribou, Cars, Cat Power, Charlie Parker, Chavez, Christian Death, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Clash, Constantines, Cure, Damned, Danzig, David Bowie, De La Soul, Dead Kennedys, Dead Milkmen, Death From Above 1979, Dengen, Depeche Mode, Descendents, Desmond Dekker, Devo, Dismemberment Plan, Divorce, DJ Shadow, DJ Z-Trip, Donovan, Dr Dre, Drive Like Jehu, Duran Duran, Elliott Smith, Elvis Costello, English Beat, EPMD, Eric B & Rakim, Faith No More, Fall, Fear, Fiery Furnaces, Fischerspooner, Form of Rocket, Front 242, Fugazi, Fujiya & Miyagi, Gang Of Four, Germs, Geto Boyz, Go! Team, Gossip, Gun Club, Guns 'N Roses, Hall & Oates, Heart, Hold Steady, Holy Fuck, Husker Du, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, Ice Cube, Iggy Pop & Stooges, Iron Maiden, Jam, James, James Chance, Jamie Lidell, Jane's Addiction, Jason Forrest, Joe Jackson, John Vanderslice, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, Junior Boys, Killer Mike, Kind Of Like Spitting, Kinks, Knife, Kool Keith, Kraftwerk, KRS One, Lady Sovereign, Ladytron, LCD Soundsystem, Le Tigre, Led Zeppelin, Les Savy Fav, Liars, Lifter Puller, Longwave, Lou Reed, Love As Laughter, Ludacris, Luna, Max Roach, MC 900FT Jesus, Mclusky, Meat Beat Manifesto, Metallica (Cliff Burton era), Miles Davis, Minor Threat, Minus Bear, Misfits, Mission Of Burma, Modern Lovers, Modest Mouse, Mommy And Daddy, Morrissey, Motorhead, Mountain Goats, Murder City Devils, Murs, My Bloody Valentine, My Life With Thrill Kill Kult, Nails, Nas, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Mexicans, New Order, New Pornographers, New York Dolls, Nitzer Ebb, Notorious B.I.G., Notwist, Numbers, Of Montreal, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Operation Ivy, Otis Redding, Patti Smith, Peter Murphy, Pharcyde, Pixies, Police, Pretenders, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Public Image Limited, Q And Not U, Q Lazzarus, Queen, Queens Of Stone Age, R.E.M., Radio 4, Ramones, Rapture, Ratatat, Replacements, Richard Hell & Voidoids, Rolling Stones, Run-DMC, Satisfact, Secret Machines, Sex Pistols, Shins, Shudder To Think, Siouxsie & Banshees, Sisters Of Mercy, Skinny Puppy, Skywave, Sleater-Kinney, Sly & Family Stone, Smiths, Snoop Dogg, Spank Rock, Spoon, Steely Dan, Stone Roses, Stranglers, Sufjan Stevens, Suicide, Sunburned Hand Of Man, SUNN 0))), T Rex, Talking Heads, Tapes n' Tapes, Ted Leo and Pharmacists, Television, The The, Thelonious Monk, Thermals, These Arms Are Snakes, Thin Lizzy, Three Dog Night, Tight Bros From Way Back When, Tom Waits, Tones On Tail, Trans Am, Treepeople, Turbonegro, Van Halen, Vaselines, Violent Femmes, Viva Voce, Warlock Pinchers, Ween, The Who, Wilderness, Will Oldham, Wire, Wrens, Wu-Tang Clan, X, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Young Bloodz
I sure hope there's a Martin Lawrence / Will Smith of To Kill A Mockingbird made soon. Then I can open the seventh seal and bring it all down in the eternal fires of repentance.
Lost, USA Night Flight, BSG, History Channel
Vonnegut, Kennedy O'Toole, Manifestos of Parisian revolutionary students in 1968
My grandfather, Bryan Wilson Middleton. Rest in peace.