Big Star, Kinks, Fleet Foxes, Little Ones, American Music Club, Brian Wilson, Sonic Youth, Detroit Cobras, Terry Reid, You Am I, Miles Davis, Nilsson, CCR, GBV, Pixies, Beatles, VU, Spinners, Andre Williams, Husker Du, Lee Hazlewood, Loquat, Who, Ronnie Lane, Erik Satie, George Harrison, Strokes, Stan Getz, X, Arthur Alexander, Bernard Herrmann, Stooges, Magic Sam, Gram Parsons, Chuck Berry, James Gang, Uncle Tupelo, Neil Young, Gene Clark, Stones, Buffalo Tom, anything off of Nuggets, John Coltrane, Lambchop, DKs, Tom Waits, Otis, Dylan, Leaving Trains, Minutemen, Buddy Holly, Dirtbombs, Faces, Supergrass, Flamin' Groovies, Martin Newell, Irma Thomas, Giant Sand, Replacements, Pavement, Jam, Clash, Zombies
Movies
Badlands, Fitzcarraldo, Miller's Crossing, The T.A.M.I. Show, North By Northwest, Gun Crazy, Local Hero, Children of Men, The In-Laws, Hard Boiled, Midnight Cowboy, Stranger Than Paradise, Rushmore, Manhattan, Stax/Volt Revue Live in Norway 1967, Charley Varrick, Les Blanks's docs, The Big Lebowski, American Movie, Marathon Man, Don't Look Back, After Hours, Cure, The Thing, Wings of Desire, The Great Escape, Dogfight, The Straight Story, A Hard Day's Night, The French Connection, 70's Coppola, The Usual Suspects, Jaws, Sweet Smell of Success, Citizen Kane, Masculin/Feminin, The Seven Samurai
Television
Python, Old SNL, I'm Alan Partridge, Fernwood Tonight, Bottom, The Prisoner, Fishing With John, Twilight Zone, Sgt. Bilko, Later with Jools Holland, Dean Martin roasts
Books
Farewell My Lovely, any Steinbeck, Catch-22, The Odyssey, Don Quixote - but let's be honest, I usually browse Mojo until the clerk yells at me
About me: Remember that moment in many westerns where there's a brawl in the local saloon. The Sheriff is punching the Villain, the Hooker is breaking a glass over the Henchman's head, the Piano Player has stopped playing, the Bartender is ducking a thrown chair that shatters the mirror behind him. And amidst the chaos, there is a Man with a Funny Hat wearing a nice suit who is trying to walk across the room with a mug of beer that's filled to the top. Bottles and chairs and punches are being thrown everywhere, but he manages to steadily dodge all of it. All he wants to do is make his way through without spilling his beer.
Let's face it, life is better when you're the Man with the Funny Hat.
Who I'd like to meet: The interesting friend or stranger who just opened the saloon door and spilled beer over my nice suit and funny hat.
You're right, the mural does look different, initials missing, cleaner lines, etc. Me thinks that it prolly had to be touched up or cleaned up, maybe due to grafitti? I know there was a preservation when the building switched hands.
Hey Kevin, Thanks for the reminder about those shakes. We'll find that place today. Got our last show at 6, and then we need to see some shows and drink a ton of Red Bulls and drive to the Houston (yes, not Austin...long story) airport at 4 a.m. I'm not particularly looking forward to that part.... Kylee
