I'd like to meet:
People who know the ropes. (see below)
Music:
John Cale
Run With The Kittens
Kevin Quain.
The first album I ever bought was Paul Revere & The Raiders ' Spirit of '67 in, you guessed it, 1967.
The last one was Lucinda Williams' West. Right before that I got Beck's new album, and Say Ah's debut.
The next one I buy will be Kevin Quain's new album "Winter In Babylon", and then the new Run with the Kittens . Really.
Bob Wills. It'd be cool to make a movie about him.
The best rock 'n' roll band in the world? The Ramones , of course.
All I still like all the bands from The Last Pogo: The Scenics, Teenage Head, The Viletones, Cardboard Brains, The Mods, The Secrets and The Ugly. And I'm not just saying that 'cause I'm making a feature punk rock doc on 'em. It was a way-fun period of music.
That Jandek guy is one of the most interesting artists of the last several decades, but you can't dance to him. Not that I dance.
The Kinks, Oscar Peterson, Exile on Main Street,; Sex Pistols and The Clash; Roxy Music, Van Morrison, old Little Feat; Elvis (pre-drugs). The Gun Club (post drugs) for sure. Decent.
? and The Mysterians, the soundtracks to A Clockwork Orange
Apocalypse Now!; Suicide, Television, Talking Heads, Gorillaz, that Beck fella, old dead guys like Beethoven and Mozart and Bach, young dead guys like Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix, and middle-aged dead guys like Lowell George and Joey Ramone. And one day, let's face it, Keith Richards.
Kinks and John Lee Hooker and Mississippi Fred McDowell and Son House; Rubber SoulParis 1919 and Fear by John Cale. Louis Jordan.
The Lovin' Spoonful, The Velvet Underground, Alice Cooper, Johnny Winter, Jethro Tull, the British Invasion in general, and a weird period in high school when I really liked Yes.
Bob Dylan, Blind Boys of Alabama, Sun Ra Arkestra, Captain Beefheart, Dan Hicks, Frank Sinatra, Hedwig & The Angry Inch, Lucinda Williams, Kathleen Edwards, Neil Young, and Public Enemy, and Chuck D.
Movies:
The Last Pogo Jumps Again, Chacha Cha Cha!
Duality of Self
Television:
T-Bag & Bonkers' Half-Hour of Power!!!
Little Mosque on the Prairie
The Grim Sweeper
Books:
Anything by David McFadden or Hunter S. Thompson or just lately, Bill Bryson. That guy's funny, and if you like him, try your hardest to find stuff by McFadden. I hereby give you a money-back guarantee. It's like Bryson is the U.K/U.S. version of McFadden.
Catch-22;
Dylan Thomas;
the first ten books by John Barth;
the middle five books by Stephen Hunter;
that Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance book;
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.;
Jonathan Ames;
Either of the Sedaris', Amy or David -- Amy's new book is a laff-riot, and full of neat tips;
all kinds of book type things.
Heroes:
Straight shooters.
