speaking out of turn; making Republicans uncomfortable; travel; short film; all things art and design; MC Escher, Hannah Höch, Marc Chagall, Paul Klee, René Magritte, Wassily Kandinsky; animal/human rights; political wrongs; writing; reading; cookin'; collecting/making (hopefully selling) strange jewelry; tree-hugging; vampiric folklore; foreign and/or ancient culture; hats; old stuff; really old stuff; weird stuff; really weird stuff.
Music
Indie Bands/Musicians: The New Jerseys, not an Airplane, Jeremy Fisher, Sapo Sueño, Kunek, The Northstar Session, Stop Motion Poetry, Darkpark, Get Back Loretta, The Panderers, Funky Nashville, Electric Mystical Soul Vibration, Robboland, Happy Orange Balloon, La Fleur Fatale, Stampead, Truckee Brothers, Limbeck, Flipron, Messer Chups, Death Valley Pizza, Thomas Lunch, Billy's Comet, and the very promising Tyler Baker. Check him out. He's a great kid.
Mainstream: R.E.M., Danny Elfman, Mozart, Brahms, Greig, Schubert, Beethoven, Debussy, Wilco, Radiohead, Nick Drake, Paul Simon, U2, The Posies, Green Day, Sparklehorse, Ray Charles, Tom Waits, Tom Petty, Brandi Carlile, Ken Stringfellow, Guster, The Hollies, Cowboy Junkies, Philip Glass, Rani Shankar, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Indigo Girls, Jackson Browne, Roy Orbison, Vince Guaraldi Trio, Henry Mancini, Etta James, Taj Mahal, Benny Goodman, Glen Miller, Gene Krupa, Duke Ellington, Edith Piaf, Frank Sinatra, The Beatles (George Harrison's the favorite here), The Red Hot Chili Peppers, CAKE, The Flaming Lips, The White Stripes, Violent Femmes, Iggy Pop, Calexico, The Sleepy Jackson (thanks, Carl), The Ramones, Johnny Cash, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Black Crowes, NIN, Primus, Deftones,Nirvana, Gin Blossoms, Blind Melon, the B-52's, Beck, Los Straightjackets, Weezer, They Might Be Giants, pleasing sounds from strung dumpsters, and of course: Slim Dusty (thanks again, Carl)! and much, much more!
Movies
the entire Tim Burton collection; Terry Gilliam, Jim Jarmusch, Kevin Smith, Alfred Hitchcock, Blake Edwards and Woody Allen in general; The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, Dr. Strangelove, Metropolis, M, Frailty, Arsenic and Old Lace, Freaks, The Man Who Cried, The Illusionist, Amelie, As Good As It Gets, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Squid and the Whale, Finding Neverland, A Scanner Darkly, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, All of Me, The Blues Brothers, The Big Lebowski, Wonder Boys (Why's he calling you Vernon?) Animal House.
Television
Flight of the Conchords, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Real Time With Bill Maher, Extras, The Office, The Soup.
Books
Authors:Kurt Vonnegut! Hunter S. Thompson, Julio Cortázar, Franz Kafka, James Joyce, J.P. Donleavy, Dr. Seuss, Ron Currie Jr., Ishmael Beah, Joseph Heller, Tim Dorsey, Charles Bukowski, Oscar Wilde, Saul Bellow, Mark Twain, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, John Kennedy Toole, Ambrose Bierce, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Ayn Rand, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, Flannery O'Connor, Ray Bradbury, Lewis Carroll, Shel Silverstein, Alan Ginsberg, Philip Larkin, Sylvia Plath, Kahlil Gibran, Sarah Vowel, Jen Lancaster, Laurie Notaro (and her Candy-Apple Freak Show), John Connolly, Dave Barry... I've probably forgotten some.
I am a short story fiend.
Who I'd like to meet:
Hippies, hedonists, anarchists, antichrists, outcasts, underdogs... Musicians, artists and writers (in other words, hippies, hedonists, anarchists, etc.)...
Vampires, eccentric chocolate factory owners, nice folks and banner clickers...
But wait : order now and I'll throw in masters of ennui, pastry chefs and ghost
hunters! No *'s, please.
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. --- Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right!
Happy Birthday, Michele! (I know it's a couple hours shy of the 19th, but I always have to be first.)
"Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it's not to be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched, pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably; happy birthday? No such thing." - Jerry Seinfeld
September 1:st La Fleur Fatale's 1:st single, Dare To Lick (Hunter's Red Sleeve), from the upcoming album SILENT REVOLUTION, is released and available on iTunes, Spotify and whatnot!
The album will be released October 1:st and later that month they go on tour in Germany with The Movements.
Hey Hi Hello...
Been daydreaming about getting over to rawk your side of the country, but the piggy bank is looking pretty sad lately. So, we'll just give you a virtual cruise till we can get an east coast thing happening (hopefully in the next year). Have a kickass weekend.
Punk Rock!
-Obedient Waves
Hi Hi Hi...
Just wanted to let you know that you still have a couple of weeks to download our new EP, "We Never Like You Anyway", for free off our myspace page. Hope your having a nice chill monday.
Peace...
Obedient Waves
Thanks for being my friend! I hope you have a wonderful week!! I just wanted to let you know that I have re-released my Cowley Road E.P. on itunes, so if you were trying to get it, it's back up! Also, check me out on www.reverbnation.com/gayleskidmore for fan exclusives and more! Xo, GS
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