| Influences | Rick White is my hero. Forever again. Rick White, Eric's Trip, Elevator, The Unintended, Moonsocket, Mark Gaudet, Purple Knight, Julie Doiron, Tara S'Appart, Orange Glass, Smog, Bill Callahan, Wil Oldham, Palace, Palace Brothers, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Elliot Smith, Slint, Papa M, Aerial M, Pajo, Iron & Wine, M. Ward, Fuck, The Sadies, Kitty Wells, Rose Maddox, George Jones, Merle Haggard, Bob Wills, Doc Watson, Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, Loretta Lynn, Bobbie Gentry, Dusty Springfield, Hank Williams, Tom Waits, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carolyn Mark, Tolan McNeil, Neko Case, Hank Pine and Lily Fawn, Chet, Himalayan Bear, Ron Sexsmith, Feist, Lucinda Williams, Gillian Welch, Iris DeMent, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, Leadbelly, Ry Cooder, The Replacements, X, Blondie, Joan Jett, Neil Young, The Kinks, Mission Of Burma, Kinski, The Besnard Lakes, Johnny and the Moon, The Gruesomes, Deja VooDoo, The Gore Gore Girls, Sonic Youth, The Breeders, Cibo Matto, Hole, Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, Babes In Toyland, PJ Harvey, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Slayer, Bad Religion, The Ramones, Agent Orange, Circle Jerks, The Misfits, The Cramps, Tom Petty, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Neutral Milk Hotel, Patsy Cline, Nick Lowe, Jonathan Richman, Chicks On Speed, David Bowie, Peaches, Sixtoo, Buck 65, Hank Williams III, Jon Rae Fletcher, Baby Gramps Trio, The Gossip, Dungen, Yamasuki, The Detroit Cobras, No Means No, The Doers, LCD Soundsytem, Stereo Total, M.I.A., Tocotronic, Erase Errata, Al Tuck, The Fleshtones, The Handsome Family, Wanda Jackson, The Rezillos, X, Excene Cervanka, Junior Major, Xray Specs, BJ Snowden, Edith Piaf, Blossom Dearie, Rosemary Clooney, Nina Simone, Black Mountain, The Pink Mountaintops, Belle and Sebastian, The Soft Boys, Cat Power, You Say Party! We Say Die!, The Organ, Dandi Wind, e.s.l., Calexico, Shout Out Out Out, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Ghost House, Quasi, Fun 100, The Silversun Pickups, The Black Angels, Pequod, All My Friends, The Brigadier, Tom Heinl, Holy Fuck, The Acorn and bazillions more that i'm forgetting to write right now...
CBC, National Geographic, Canadian Geographic, Chunklet, Pitchfork, PopMatters, sceneandheard, Dusted, Bust, N.E.E.T., Venus, The Only, Exclaim, Discorder, Nardwuar the Human Serviette, sometimes the New York Times, Google News, The Smoking Gun, The Onion, The Believer, The Superficial, Flickr, Twitter, various blogs and good old fashioned gossip
Books about living in the woods, books about bears, books about musicians, books about pop culture, books about Montparnasse in the 20's, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Muir, Walt Whitman, James Oliver Curwood, Emily Carr, Willa Cather, Farley Mowat, Wallace Stegner, W. Somerset Maugham, John Steinbeck, Jack London, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, Aldous Huxley, Philip K. Dick, Raymond Carver, Kenneth Patchen, Emma Goldman, Djuna Barnes, Myrna Loy, Gertude Stein, Stevie Smith, Vladamir Nabokov, Friederich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Schopenhauer, Cintra Wilson, Julie Doucet, Lynda Barry, Walden, Leaves Of Grass, White Fang, The Incredible Journey, Island Of The Blue Dolphins, Bear, O Pioneers!, Memoirs Of Montparnasse, Please Kill Me, Sonic Cool, Have Not Been The Same, Our Band Could Be Your Life, In The Country Of Country |
