| Influences | MUSIC
the jazz butcher, the monochrome set, felt, magnetic fields, jonathan richman, robyn hitchcock, the beatles, brian eno, velvet underground, early neil sedaka, syd barrett, hank williams, belle & sebastian, luna, the colour field (that virgins & philistines album, anyway), leonard cohen, elliott smith, nick drake, stockholm monsters, tommy james & the shondells, young marble giants, nick cave, the clientele, momus, billy bragg, yo la tengo, the kinks, david j, the feelies, the fall, the monkees, regia, they might be giants, the durutti column, max eider, epic soundtracks, david sylvian, the go-betweens, serge gainsbourg, joao gilberto, josef k, the zombies, the smiths, lloyd cole, the pastels, 4AD, factory, les disques du crepuscule, creation, etc...BOOKS
richard brautigan, tom robbins, jd salinger, truman capote, ws burroughs, john irving, tennessee williams (short stories), f scott fitzgerald, italo calvino, harry crews, walker percy, terry southern, nick hornby, kurt vonnegut, john fowles, brett easton ellis, vladimir nabokov, patrick suskind, joey madia, johnny roulette, john kennedy toole, etc... MOVIES
how to get ahead in advertising, vampire's kiss, royal tennenbaums, glengarry glenn ross, donnie darko, most any something weird, i <3 huckabee's, nadja, best in show, bela lugosi, hammer productions, david lynch stuff, american psycho, barton fink, dr. strangelove, lolita, forbidden zone, batman begins, fight club, the machinist, 12 monkeys, clay pigeons, memento, rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, eternal sunshine, etc... MISC
kate, hogan (we miss you, buddy!), cosmo & the drake, tuna or chicken salad on raisin bread, the gulf coast, the jersey shore, maui, seinfeld, the office (the US version has topped the UK one in my opinion), curb your enthusiasm, action with jay mohr, arrested development, the colbert report, logic pro, macs, wayne dyer, andy kaufman, auburn tigers football (war eagle!), meditation, cliff's stupendous margaritas, snow when it doesn't have to be shoveled, like-attraction, grilled anago, apple & eve cranberry wild berry juice (no sugar or high fructose corn syrup!)... etc etc and so on.... |
... greetings from Berlin
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