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words, synesthesia, smooching, mixtapes,
contemplating my demise, 3am, fools, changing my mind.
a place to live.
neutral milk hotel, bob dylan, the velvet underground, bright eyes, t.rex, rilo kiley, arcade fire, the yeah yeah yeahs, iggy & the stooges, sabbath, broken social scene, big brother & the holding company, kevin devine, emily haines & the soft skeleton, death cab for cutie, elliott smith, the elected, metric, jenny lewis and the watson twins, slayer, cocorosie, camera obscura, the duke spirit, clap your hands say yeah, the decemberists, david bowie, mirah, martha wainwright, jimi hendrix, hank williams, robert johnson, minor threat, the magnetic fields, gregory and the hawk, bikini kill, electric light orchestra
the science of sleep, ghost world, buffalo '66, lost in translation, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the royal tennenbaums, manhattan, amelie, being john malkovich, the life aquatic, la dolce vita, garden state, mulholland drive, it's a wonderful life, rushmore, 8 1/2, casablanca, almost famous, rashomon, i ♥ huckabees, my summer of love, donnie darko, labyrinth, empire records, alice in wonderland, star wars
depletes brain cells.
yes, please. allen ginsberg, jack kerouac, anne sexton, louise gluck, sylvia plath, kurt vonnegut, walt whitman, charles bukowski, albert camus, lord byron, charles baudelaire, oscar wilde, ezra pound, william carlos williams, t.s. eliot, vladimir nabokov, w.b. yeats, charlotte bronte, jane austen, jostein gaarder, emily dickinson, franz kafka, milan kundera, lewis carroll, jean paul sartre, f. scott fitzgerald, erin belieu, alison carter, jan richman, etc, etc, etc.
So I grabbed up the skeleton thick sunflower and stuck
it at my side like a scepter,
and deliver my sermon to my soul, and Jack's soul
too, and anyone who'll listen,
--We're not our skin of grime, we're not our dread
bleak dusty imageless locomotive, we're all
beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we're blessed
by our own seed & golden hairy naked
accomplishment-bodies growing into mad black
formal sunflowers in the sunset, spied on by our
eyes under the shadow of the mad locomotive
riverbank sunset Frisco hilly tincan evening
sitdown vision.
-Allen Ginsburg