This myspace thing tends to come off a bit like a popularity-contest sometimes. i won't add "your band" unless you're local or unless i know you. i don't really give a shit if you have 10,000 'friends', i don't want to be one of them...(ok sorry, i know that sounds a weeee bit harsh...)
Bright Eyes, Gillian Welch, Tom Waits, Jayhawks, Ron Sexsmith, PJ Harvey, Pedro The Lion, Radiohead, DeathCabForCutie, The ButtlessChaps, Be Good Tanya's, Po Girl, Veda Hille, Emmylou Harris, 16 Horsepower, Woven Hand, Nick Cave, Violent Femmes, Nirvana, Johnny Cash, Willie P Bennett, Fred J Eaglesmith, Harry Manx, Neko Case, Over the Rhine, Linford Detweiler, Bob Dylan, Bruce Cockburn, Pierce Pettis, Stars, Fiest, Radiogram, Innocence Mission, David Grisman, Anything by Grisman/Garcia, Bill Mallonee/VOL, Doc Watson, Graham Parsons, The Birds (Sweetheart of the Rodeo), Mark Heard, Beatles, Led Zepplin, Victoria Williams, Bill Monroe, Del McCoury Band, Mandolirium, Musikas, Lhasa, Django Reinhard, Sam Phillips, TBone Burnett, Daniel Lanois, U2, REM, Iron and Wine, Robert Deeble, Leeroy Stagger, Clay George, Vince Vaccaro, Trainsleeper , Chuck Brodsky, Coldplay, Calexico, Blackie and The Rodeo Kings, Lucinda Williams, Buddy/Julie Miller, Jason Harrod, Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, Sunvolt, Smashing Pumpkins, Bela Fleck, Harold Nix, Nick Drake, Sufjan Stevens, Glenn Gould, Hush Collector, Sarah Harmer, Arcade Fire, Tokyo Police Club, The Decemberists, The Frames
i don't bother
I have recently published my first book, 'Shades of Blood and Mandarin'(Arcane Manners Publishing.) It is poetry. I know, it isn't a big seller, (i mean who reads fucking poetry anyways??) but, if anyone is interested, i can send them a copy.(message me) It's about 60 pages and has an amazing full-colour painting (by Katrinka)entitled 'Crimson Guitars' on the cover. (see blog for more info)Recent reads... Michael Ondaatje (The Collected Works of Billy the Kid), Rory Stewart (The Places In Between), Patrick Lane (There is a Season), Eugene O'Neill (Long Days Journey into Night), John Kennedy Toole (A Confederacy of Dunces), Margaret Lawrence (The Fire Dwellers), Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath), Hemingway (For Whom the Bell Tolls), Alexander Solzhenitsyn (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich), George Orwell (Homage to Catalonia), Art Spiegelman (Maus I and II), George Orwell (Down & Out in Paris & London), Jon Krakauer (Into the Wild), Somerset Maugham (The Razor's Edge), Louis de Bernieres (Birds Without Wings), Irving Layton (A Wild Peculiar Joy), Barbara Kingsolver (Animal Dreams), Christine Bird (Journeys in Kurdistan), Annie Dillard (Holy The Firm), John Vaillant (The Golden Spruce), Al Purdy (Rooms For Rent In The Outer Planets), Kay Redfield Jamison (An Unquiet Mind), Anne Lamott (Plan B), Jonathan Franzen (How To Be Alone; Essays), Alan Paton (Cry, The Beloved Country), Rohinton Mistry (A Fine Balance), Yann Martel (Life of Pi), Barbara Coloroso (kids are worth it!), Jane Urquhart (The Underpainter), Douglas Coupland (Terry), Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment), Patrick Lane (The Bare Plum of Winter Rain), T.E. Lawrence (Seven Pillars of Wisdom), Jason Elliot (An Unexpected Light), Anne Lamott (Traveling Mercies), C.S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters), Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections)
My heros have been all the ordinary people that i'm surounded by. My siblings and my mom and dad, as well as many of our close friends. Katrinka is my everyday hero.