Mr. Waits, Decemberists, Lhasa, Bjork, Nick Cave, Iron & Wine, Fanfare Ciocarla, Goran Bregovic, White Stripes, Iggy, Louis Armstrong, Muddy Waters, PJ Harvey, Kurt Weill, Leadbelly, Marc Ribot, Django Reinhardt, Bird, Charles Mingus, Serge Gainsbourg, Jacques Brel, Cat Power, ExtraActionMarchingBand, Rube Waddell, Carlos Gardel, Mistinguette, 20's & 30's hot jazz such as Sydney Bechet, Bessie Smith, Bing Crosby, King Oliver, Duke Ellington, Charles Trenet, Son House, Black Keys, Sean Hayes, Jolie Holland, Blonde Redhead, The Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, The Birthday Party, !!!, Prince, Bowie, The Magnetic Fields, Portishead, Modern Lovers, F'n Zeppelin, R. Crumb, too much more!
Movies
Rembetiko, Dangerous Liasons, Betty Blue, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, Barton Fink, All Kusterica esp. Underground & Black Cat White Cat, Lotcha Drom / Gadjo Dillo, Henry and June, In the Mood for Love, 8 1/2, Royal Tannenbaums, Top Secret, Henry Fool & Truth, All About My Mother, The Thin Red Line, ALL LYNCH, Amelie, Cabaret, Jacob's Ladder, Big Fish, Sin City, Edward Scrissorhands, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, The Corporation, Down By Law & Mystery Train, The Big Sleep, Delicatesson, Les Enfants Du Paradise, Night of the Iguana, on a bit of a noir kick now
Television
Books
Delillo, Fonseca, Miller & Nin, James Baldwin, Kafka, Raymond Chandler, Shakespeare, Foucalt, Neil Postman, Marquez, Brecht, Voluptous Panic, Herbert Asbury, Rimbaud, P.K. Dick, Nabokov, Carver, Paul Auster, the OED, Dostoesvsky, anything with paintings by Egon Schiele will do
these days and months and you were away and far and here you are again and there you go again and it was it is lovely to know to love your friendship to dance with you my friend
Come see the horniest brassy-est music festival anywhere! 35 bands, 20 shows 10 venues! The Hornucopia Festival!
Taking place September 4th – 14th at multiple Bay Area venues, The Hornucopia Festival will feature over 30+ mostly local, totally eclectic bands with strong horn and brass elements in mind blowing soul-shaking concerts playing everything from Gypsy Brass to Afrobeat, Marching Bands to Cartoon Bands, rounding up Jazz Cats, Soul Stirrers and Salseros alike, with Punk rock marching bands, New Orleans Brass, jazz hip hop symphonies and more thrown in for good measure. Plus a DIY parade! Without a doubt, this is the horniest festival anywhere.
If you want the info right now, here is the rocking full festival lineup; September 4 – 14! The Realistic Orchestra • Frank London's SF Klezmer Brass Allstars • The Yard Dogs Road Show • Shotgun Wedding Quintet • Aphrodesia • Extra Action Marching Band • Brass Menazeri • Rube Waddell • Iron + the Albatross • Todd Sickafoose • Marcus Shelby • Orgone • Mitch Marcus Quintet • Lord Loves A Working Man • Polkacide • The Bayonics • Manicato • Sara Wilson's Brass Tonic • The Monophonics • Kapakahi • Edmund Welles • Kugelplex • Dan Cantrell's Megaband • The Japonize Elephants • The Brass Mafia • Gaucho • Tin Cup Serenade • Blue Bone Express • Franco Nero • The Amulettes • Du Uy Quintet • Gommorran Social Aid + Pleasure Club • Zoyres • Brass Liberation Orchestra • The Cottontails • The Nice Guy Trio • Spaceheater • Hot Pocket • The Wylde Bunch
More than anything sunday night, your compliment on my drumming made my night, as I know you have witnessed my evolution as a musician in your small red soul shack of a bar.
Thank you Sol for constantly encouraging, supporting and inspiring!
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