Anything with a banjo.
Will Oldham, Motorhead, Damien Jurado (lyrics), Simple Kid, Mr. Dan, Dolly Parton, Buck65, Randy Newman, Pantera, Hot Chip, Metallica, Kenny Rogers (when he is telling stories), Bruce Springsteen (when the sax isn't involved).
Movies
My Dinner with Andre, The Big Lebowski, Elephant, Jaws, Jesus Christ Superstar (the 70s one by Norman Jewison), South of Wawa, Tender Mercies, Fletch.
Television
The Weather channel -- specifically Storm Stories.
Books
Raymond Carver, David Mitchell, Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Atwood, Claudia Dey, Haruki Murakami, Ian McEwan (mostly).
Currently reading: GOD IS DEAD by Ron Currie Jr
About me:
My first book, THE LINE PAINTER, is published by HarperCollins Canada. I used to want to be a rock star. Some days I still do.
I think I wanted to be a rock star because I have this recurring dream where I am on stage in front of thousands. I wind up (like Eddie Van Halen) and hit the strings and a huge noise comes out. The lights blare up. My fans roar.
I tried my hand at being a rock star for a while. I bought a few guitars. I screamed enough to get my voice scratchy. I set up a home studio and distorted the guitar bits and figured out to play the bass. I almost made an album.
I had one decent song for the album. It was about a guy who paints lines on the highway for a job. I wrote that song because it looked to me like painting lines was a simpler way to go about making a living.
I nearly finished my album. I was recording my painting lines song, but I kept messing it up (because I can't sing or play). I got so frustrated, I ended up smashing my guitar around. This is the only rock star-ish thing I've ever done.
After the smashing, all I had left was a half decent idea about painting lines. I'm better at typing than I am at guitar, so I sat down and started to write.
What they are saying about THE LINE PAINTER"...a masterful balancing act of suspense and relief, a dance between expectation and surprise that steadily increases the tension to an almost unbearable point...It's a bravura performance."
—The Globe & MailWhere Cameron truly excels is in creating a mood—the text is efficient and not unnecessarily descriptive, yet the setting and characters are crystal-clear. With her serviceable style and page-one-hook, the book is likely to become—and mostly deserves to be—a hit.
—The Torontoist"An old B-movie premise—Car Breaks Down in the Middle of Nowhere—is given a fresh, distinctly Canadian twist in this wicked little first novel. The Line Painter fires along on its lean language and propulsive suspense, the kind of story you could swallow whole once you're past the first page. I certainly did."
—ANDREW PYPER, author of The Wildfire Season
“The Line Painter is a straightforward look at denial and the ways in which we seek forgiveness. Suspenseful, evocative, and well-paced, this road trip story of guilt and love offers glimpses into tragically human characters who inhabit the margins of redemption. There are no easy endings for Carrie or Frank as they discover, together, that some actions are unforgivable.”
—IBI KASLIK, author of Skinny
More on my website http://www.claire-cameron.com.
My book is now for sale:
**** NEW SONG**** NEW VIDEO**** NEW PICS **** NEW HAIR ****
please drop by & comment me some feedback on my debut video, which was shot on the north east coast of england where i grew up, i'd love to know what u think!
Come check out some huge shows this year and get free tickets check here for info http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/WRN-Entertainment-Promotions/78657622345?ref=mf
We just finished our video for this year's Thrillerfest conference and would love your feedback: http://livingjacket.com/2009/05/26/video-for-thrillerfest-2009/
"By all intents & purposes I shouldn't be here. I should be a forlorn figment of nobody's imagination; the impossible secret dream of my mother's troubled heart. By all outward appearances I should have been swimmin' in the load she swallowed; swirling about in that milky glob that flew in her eye. I should have been the one who always got away. If the devil did care, he would have assigned me to a permanent post in the realm of sweet possibility. But did any of this honkey tonk bullshit happen? Noooooooooooooo. That would have been way too fucking easy for everybody. Instead, by the apparent (miraculous) intervention of unseen forces, what began as an innocuous nipping of the nuggets would become the baddest little bitch that could."
-excerpt from my blog, 'her tumor had a heart of glass' come check it out!
hey claire, thanks so much for being our friend. i'm really glad you gave us a shot :) keep on rockin!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />muchlove<br />D
Hey Claire!! how are you?? Thank you so much for your comment... I hope that your week is amazing!! So, did you have a cool birthday?? you probably have tons of dreams and aspirations to come??
Give me some news!! it's cool to have you around!! and I really hope to hear from you again!! take care... -jeff
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I want to give you my music as a gift! Go to my page and see the player at the top of my page.... that's your present...it takes a couple of seconds to get the ALBUM FREE of MP3's you can play anywhere! HAPPY BIRTHDAY and MANY more to come!
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