nomadic living, guitar, banjo, pedal steel, mandolin, drums, recording and writing music, travel, making pictures, film editing, some art, books and the people who still read them, growing up in the south experiences, citrus, sunlight, vineyards, wine-making, adventures, epic conversations, whatever gary busey's on, documentaries, whaling disasters, navigational skills, reading on porches, cowboylyrics.com, road trips.
new places, new adventure partners, eventually tour, more of the beach, my future best friend amy winehouse, more musicians who would make good collaborators, visual artists with whom to discuss and make art, fellow multi-instrumentalists, the secrets of inexpensive trans-continental travel.
manu chao, prince, the rolling stones (only specific years and not recently), gram parsons, the byrds, the velvet underground, os mutantes, johnny cash, leonard cohen, emmylou harris, dock boggs, david bowie, amy winehouse, willie nelson, the pine hill haints, the carter family, healing feeling, trollin withdrawal, bruce springsteen, the chiffons, waylon jennings, patsy cline, the buzzcocks, billie holiday, langley school music project, the band, carole king, the ikettes, hank williams sr, beulah, television, the feelies, john cale, the watson family, james fucking brown, sparks, roscoe holcomb, outkast, neil young, daft punk, the velvelettes, the plantasia record, joni mitchell, the shangri-las, and dolly parton.
anything john waters has ever done; santiago alvarez's short films, in particular, "LBJ"; paris is burning; the holy mountain; harold and maude; y tu mama tambien; purple rain; christo and jeanne-claude making-of documentaries, especially "running fence;"raging bull; grizzly man; fear and loathing in las vegas; ed wood; mika rottenberg's "julie" and "tropical breeze."
six feet under, TCM, and that batshit insane british guy on the discovery channel who throws himself into freezing ponds on purpose.
anything by hunter s. thompson or flannery o'connor; midnight in the garden of good and evil by john berendt; on photography by susan sontag; guns, germs, and steel by jared diamond; the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald; random family by adrian nicole leblanc; to kill a mockingbird by harper lee; the divine comedy; carnet de voyage by craig thompson; 1968: the year that rocked the world by mark kurlansky; feminism is for everybody: passionate politics by bell hooks; the stranger by albert camus; gender trouble by judith butler; a people's history of science: miners, midwives, and "low mechaniks" by clifford d. conner; sophie calle: did you see me?; gee's bend: the women and their quilts; on the poverty of student life; that's revolting! queer strategies for resisting assimilation.