Agents. Editors. People from the future. Pomegranates are an underrated fruit. Blonde girls with good souls and hot tattoos. And you!
Ween, Clash .. Prince, Bigelf .. Patti Smith, The Judas Bull, John Frusciante .. Mars Volta, Cure, Queens of the Stone Age .. Sinead O'Connor, Andy Moore .. and Talking Heads .. Talking heads is just cool .. Talking Heads is appropriate in every situation .. Trust me.
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"Wapshot Chronicle" by John Cheever .. "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" by D.F. Wallace .. "Technopoly" by Neil Postman .. Twain stories/sketches .. everything Steinbeck, everything Tolstoy, everything Dostoevsky .. Noah Cicero's blog .. Edmund Wilson essays .. Melville's short stories .. Borges, Camus, Celine, et al. .. Right now I'm reading "Death in Venice," a good book to bring on a bus, a good bus read .. and "Ender's Game" -- that's a good train read .. I also love Stephen King .. In my advanced years, I find myself getting really into Paula Fox and Alice Munro .. when I find something new that blows me away, I'll tell you.