Guided by Voices, Elvis Costello, Sebadoh, the Breeders, Rolling Stones, Radiohead, Sonic Youth, Superchunk, Brainiac, Swearing at Motorists, Smug Brothers, Portishead, Neil Young, the Ramones, 84 Nash, Yo La Tengo, Pavement, Land of Talk, Jay Reatard, the Caribbean, Helio Sequence, DJ Shadow, Quasi, Neko Case, Devo, Dinosaur Jr., the Gossip, PJ Harvey, Neutral Milk Hotel, Aphex Twin, Bob Dylan, Enon, Dr. Octagon, Elliott Smith, the Arcade Fire, the Flaming Lips, Ween, Built to Spill, the Shins, Sleater-Kinney, Beck, Velvet Underground, Morrissey, Gang Starr, Pinback, the Who, Modest Mouse, Giant Sand, Pixies, the Underwoods, Magnetic Fields, Talking Heads, John Cale, Blind Faith, Helium, Neil Cleary, Nirvana, MF Doom, the Kinks, Spoon, Television, Ella Fitzgerald, Hot IQs, early Liz Phair, Palace, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, David Bowie, My Morning Jacket, the Grifters, Tchaikovsky, Husker Du, Belle and Sebastian, Beethoven, Miranda Sound, Low, Mr. Pacman, The Planet The, Beatles, Elephant Micah, Smog, Zappa, Apples in Stereo, Blur, Cat Power, Nick Drake, the M's, Red House Painters, Lambchop, Vivaldi, Tortoise, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kid Dakota, Dead Kennedys, Jim O'Rourke, Daniel Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Joe Jackson, John Vanderslice, Stravinsky, Of Montreal, Interpol, Trans Am, LCD Soundsystem, the Smiths, DeVotchKa, Buddy Holly, matt pond PA, R.E.M., Iron and Wine, Mink, OutKast, the Rosebuds, Pretty and Nice, Rachel's, Heartless Bastards, Mozart, the National, Lou Barlow, Blusom, Songs: Ohia, Centro-matic, Lou Reed, Golden Lake Diner, Mountain Goats, Everything Absent or Distorted, Traffic, TV on the Radio, Stooges, Thee More Shallows, the Unicorns, Chavez, Archers of Loaf, Band of Horses
Movies
Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Mel Brooks, the Coen Brothers, David Cronenberg, Billy Wilder, Jim Jarmusch, Woody Allen, Howard Hawkes, George Romero, Wes Anderson, Werner Herzog, John Huston, Terry Gilliam, Alexander Payne, Peter Jackson
Television
Mr. Show, Tom Goes to the Mayor, Arrested Development, Charlie Rose, The Simpsons, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Daily Show, BBC World News, Human Giant, SNL, SCTV, Deutsche Welle International News, Monty Python, Sealab 2021, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Seinfeld, Kids in the Hall, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, Colbert Report, Get a Life, Frontline, The State
Books
Breakfast of Champions, In Watermelon Sugar, White Noise, Cat's Cradle, Frankenstein, Frannie and Zoe, Salem's Lot, Canterbury Tales, Galapagos, You Shall Know Our Velocity!, A Confederacy of Dunces, Trouser Press, Reefer Madness, Slaughterhouse Five, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Howl, Our Band Could Be Your Life, Siddhartha, Welcome to the Monkey House, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Black Elk Speaks, Lord of the Rings, Trout Fishing in America, 33/3's Let's Talk About Love, The Penal Colony, The Masque of the Red Death, Mother Night, The Prophet, I Killed, The Shining, Fast Food Nation, The Doors of Perception, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
About me: Rock, comedy, film, Latin and Asian foods, hiking and camping, T-shirts, guitar, cologne-hating, mule-baiting, the like
Formerly edited Sponic zine and have freelanced for Aversion.com, Shredding Paper, Rockpile, Nude as the News, Erasing Clouds, The Donnybrook Writing Academy, Dayton Daily News, Dayton Voice/Impact Weekly, and others
Currently writing A&E for The Denver Post and just finished a book about indie comedy
I also post absurdist song titles on my Twitter feed.
Superheroes of Philanthropy: Comic Book Silent Auction & Exhibition to benefit Bands for Lands FREE and ALL AGES!! Sat Sept 5th, 3pm-9pm The Oriental Theater 4335 44th Ave.
i remember wild oats. i also remember being fired from there. they called me mighty mouse, cos i always came to save the day. but they still fired me. and the lady that did it still works there. at whole foods. really.. i remember when it was alfalfa's. what the hell happened to alfalfa's?? i loved that place. i'm going to a show at the hi-dive on the 22nd. you dig?
The book looks (and reads) great so far, author man. I'll give you an in-depth critique when I'm done with it (...as if I'm even remotely qualified to do something like that)
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