| Etkilendikleri | Am uncertain about "influences" - but these people, places, and things have made a particularly strong impression: Dante Alighieri, Mose Allison, Johann Sebastian Bach, Samuel Beckett, Leonard Bernstein, Chuck Berry, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Anthony Braxton, James Brown, Lenny Bruce, Tim Buckley, the Buddha, Charles Bukowski, Eric Burdon, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Albert Camus, Can, the Canadian Rockies, Matthew Carl, Southern Fried Carlson, Renato Carosone, Giacomo Casanova, Johnny Cash, Catullus, Geoffrey Chaucer, Noam Chomsky, Leonard Cohen, Ornette Coleman, Paolo Conte, Ray Davies, Miles Davis, Eric Dolphy, John Donne, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, the English Channel, John Fata (1904-1981), Federico Fellini, the Four Seasons, Roger Fouts, the Fugs, Serge Gainsbourg, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Marvin Gaye, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Jane Goodall, the Gospels (even though I'm not religious), the Greco-Roman myths (even though I'm not religious), the Grand Canyon, the Great Salt Lake Desert, El Greco, the Greek temples at Paestum, Thomas Hardy, Ernest Hemingway, Jimi Hendrix, Seymour Hersh, Billy Higgins, Homer, Howlin’ Wolf, Mississippi John Hurt, Los Indios Tabajaras, Robinson Jeffers, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Johnson, Michael Jordan, Juvenal, Franz Kafka, Rodd Keith, Sergei Korolev, Vladimir Komarov, Ernie Kovacs, Fela Kuti, the Lacandon rainforest in Chiapas, Lake Michigan, Lao Tzu, Led Zeppelin, Donovan Leitch, John Lennon, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, Sinclair Lewis, the Lincoln Park Zoo's Great Ape House, Little Richard, Jim Lovell, Graham Maby, Magic Sam, Gustav Mahler, Bob Marley, the Mayan temples at Palenque and Yaxchilan, Curtis Mayfield, Henry Miller, Charles Mingus, the Mojave Desert, Thelonious Monk, Van Morrison, the North Atlantic Ocean as seen from the deck of the R.M.S. Queen Mary, northern Ontario by passenger train, Laura Nyro, George Orwell, Yasujiro Ozu, Thomas Paine, Nicola Paone, Carlos Paredes, Charlie Parker, Plato, Iggy Pop, Ezra Pound, Louis Prima, the 1960s race to the moon, the Rascals, real haiku written by real masters, Jimmy Reed, Lou Reed, Pierre Reverdy, Jonathan Richman, Tabu Ley Rochereau, the ruins at Pompeii, Smokey Robinson, Bertrand Russell, Matteo Salvatore, Sappho, Charles M. Schulz, Gil Scott-Heron, the Sears Tower, Andres Segovia (expression over technique), Dimitri Shostakovich, Shrimp Boat, La Sila, Nina Simone, the six-foot cactus in my living room, John Skelton, Mark E. Smith, Patti Smith, Sophia the budgie, the South Atlantic Ocean as seen from the beach at Florianopolis, southern Italian folksongs, steamed clams in Gloucester, Gertrude Stein, Stendhal, Igor Stravinsky, Sun Ra, spiders, Jonathan Swift, Tacitus, Luciano Tajoli, Thomas Tallis, Studs Terkel, the soft clanking of tin bells hung round the necks of cows grazing in the Swiss Alps, Leo Tolstoy, Gerry Toman, Pete Townshend, Vassilis Tsitsanis, Mark Twain, Don Van Vliet (alias Captain Beefheart), the Velvet Underground, Giuseppe Verdi, Claudio Villa, Kurt Vonnegut, Muddy Waters, Alan Watts, Booker (“Bukka”) White, Brian Wilson, Link Wray, the Wupatki National Monument, Neil Young, and Frank Zappa. |
