The Ramones, The Velvet Underground, Guided By Voices, Television Personalities, The Mountain Goats, The Kinks, Neutral Milk Hotel, Maureen Tucker, Roky Erickson / 13th Floor Elevators, Greg Ashley / The Gris Gris, Jim Shepard / Vertical Slit, Tommy Jay, Swell Maps, T. Rex, The Zeros, Dead Moon, Syd Barrett, The Comet Gain, that one really awesome Elf Power early demos album, The Mekons, Husker Du, The Red Krayola, The Marine Girls, The Ramones, Arthur Russell, Night People, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The Oblivians, Skip Spence, Grant, Bikini Kill, Jeffrey Lewis, The Raincoats, Alex Chilton, anybody else who played so much as a note on Third/Sister Lovers, Michael Hurley's first record, Jeff Lint, The Gentrys, Los Shakers, Ennio Morricone, Beat Happening/Calvin Johnson, Pris & The Replicants, Gem & The Holograms, early Flaming Lips, Love, H. P. Lovecraft, The Del Aires, The Shangri-Las, Jimmy Reed, The Ronettes, The Clean, Black Sabbath, Graffiti Island, Space Age Thrills, The Dicks, The Gories, Ray Dennis Steckler, Tall Dwarfs, The Sinful Dwarfs, The Shaggs, Venom, Pentagram, Shivvers, The Space Lady, Electric Wizard, David Lynch, The Dishrags, Henry Miller, Sixto Rodriquez, Birchville Cat Motel, The Pleasure Seekers, Bob B. Sox & The Blue Jeans, Witchhoney, Michael Moorcock, The Nils, Dum Dum Girls, Stevie Smith, Jean Luc Godard, Jean Rollin, George Franju, Hang On The Box, Baby Huey, Ellie Girl & The Seven Beat Sulks, Mike Rep & The Quotas, ? & The Mysterians, Edgar Broughton Band, Lindsay Anderson, The Rolling Stones, The Carrie Nations, The Stains, The Verlaines, Circuit Des Yeux, Ricky & The Replicators, The One Way Streets, Charalambides, The Traits, Roger Corman, The New Bangs, Mario Bava, The Teenage Mice, The Jacks, The Testors, Mr. Airplane Man, Simply Saucer, Rocket From The Tombs, Ramona Kleff, Del Tenney, Breakfast Inside The Skull, The Whyte Boots, Party Of One, coffee, Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars, Bobbie Gentry, Exuma, Joan Jett, JOAN JETT!, Les Rallizes Denudes, The Ramones, The Ramones and the fucking Beatles.
During 2009, I am going to set about recording The Starry Wisdoms' psychedelic masterwork, "Thaumaturgical Prodigies In The New England Canaan". It is going to feature songs about juvenile delinquents, beatnik sculptors, evil teenage witches who live in the woods, the end of the world and dream-visions of popular rock n' roll singers. It is going to be fucking awesome. And now that I've publicly said I'm going to record it, I'll have to actually get on with it.
