my better half, odd resonances, art, American literature and culture, London, Colorado, vegetarianism, writing, theory, gender, delay pedals, blah blahartists: Kandinsky, Egon Shiele, Odilon Redon, Matisse, Warhol, Rauschenberg, Peter Blake, Rosenquist, Vasarely, Renoir, Cezanne, Mati Klarwein, Wien Actionissmus Movement
People with similar interests. Fans of Purdy, Herlihy, and Wurlitzer. Shoegaze fans, especially in Oklahoma.
Chimp Rock, Mahogany, Jim Pepper, Lab Partners, Bright Channel, The Smiths, A.R. Kane, Pearls Before Swine/Tom Rapp, Serena-Maneesh, The Minders, Snowglobe, Swirlies, Sun Ra, Television Personalities, Joy Division, Pale Saints, Galaxie 500, Kranky Records, Elephant Stone Records, Factory Records, Clairecords, 4AD Records, Rainbow Quartz records, Robert Wyatt, Aloha, Amusement Parks on Fire, Moose, Kraftwerk, King Tubby, Durutti Column, Windy and Carl, My Bloody Valentine, Talk Talk, Sing-Sing, Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, Flying Saucer Attack, Adventures in Stereo, Stereolab, Kevin Ayres, All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors, Fine China, Lush, Kitchens of Distinction, Felt, Ester Drang, OMD, Eno, Guided by Voices, Lotus Crown, Scritti Politti, Cocteau Twins, Byrds, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Trash Can Sinatras, Morrissey, Ride, Can, Comsat Angels, Jazz Butcher, Mogwai, Rollerskate Skinny, Fuxa, Deerhoof, Mahogany, Doldrums, The Kinks, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Zombies, Beacon Street Union, Robin Guthrie, Mojave 3, Slipstream, Spectrum, Sonic Boom, E.A.R., Cody, AMP, Slowdive, The Telescopes, Robert Pollard, Brian Wilson, Shallow, Boredoms, Mercury Rev, Idaho.Eric Dolphy, Mingus, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, John and Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Elvin Jones, Joe Henderson, Art Blakey, Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Yusef Lateef, Andrew Hill, Cecil Taylor, Sam Rivers, of course Miles.
Twin Peaks, Simpsons, Freaks and Geeks, X-Files, Jeopardy, Max Headroom, Patty Duke Show, Laff-a-lympics, American Experience, Veronica Mars
In a Shallow Grave, Eustace Chisholm and the Works, I am Elijah Thrush, and many others by JAMES PURDY, the essay "I Have a Taste for the Secret" by Jacques Derrida, Sketches of a Secret War by Timothy Snyder, The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp, Drowning in Fire and Red on Red by Craig Womack, Frederick Barthelme, Wild Sheep Chase by Murakami, All Fall Down, Midnight Cowboy, and The Sleep of Baby Filbertson by James Leo Herlihy, Nog, Two-Lane Blacktop, and Slow Fade by Rudolph Wurlitzer, Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, and Slow Learner by Thomas Pynchon, Mumbo Jumbo and Flight to Canada by Ishmael Reed, Narrative Prosthesis by Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell, Sundown by John Joseph Mathews, Winter in the Blood by James Welch, Kurt Vonnegut, Donald Barthelme, Interior Landscapes and others by Gerald Vizenor, Philip Roth, Joan Didion, Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, Richard Farina, William Faulkner, Moby Dick and Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville, A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood, Michael Moon, Michel Foucault, Kicking Tomorrow, Wising Up the Marks: The Amodern William S. Burroughs by Timothy Murphy, W.S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Gerard by Jack Kerouac, The Last of the Ofos by Geary Hobson, Like a Hurricane by Robert Warrior and Paul Chiaat, The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer, Witold Gombrowicz, Don DeLillo, Kafka, Richard Brautigan, William J. Craddock, Nathanael West, Flannery O'Connor, House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday, Joe Orton, Aldous Huxley, Abbie Hoffman, Bob Kaufman, Robert Coover, e e cummings, Philip K. Dick, Ballard, A Pipe for February by Charles Red Corn, Claude McKay: "Banjo", DeQuincey: "Confessions of an English Opium Eater," Sterne: "Tristram Shandy," music writing: Really the Blues by Mezz Mezzrow, Beneath the Underdog by Charles Mingus, Rip it Up and Start Again and Blissed Out by Simon Reynolds, Ralph Meltzer, Lester Bangs. James Kirkwood, Evan Rhodes, Evan H. Rhodes, Walter Starcke, John Van Druten