| General | skeeball, cats, fire, derangement of the senses | | Music | Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Quinta Feira, Abacaxi, Brazilian pop, Joanna Newsom, T. Rex, Caroliner, French Ye Ye, Roscoe Gordon, Anonymous 4, Cat Power, Beatles, Calexico, Creanth's Jazz-O-Matics, Devotchka, old scratchy Harry Smith type hill music, old scratchy Dada records, Rom brass bands, Tragic Mulatto, Meredith Monk, Numbers Stations | | Movies | Time of the Gypsies; Pan's Labyrinth; Spaghetti Westerns; I am Cuba; Dead Man; Tideland; Atomic Cafe; Fellini. | | Television | a band from the 80s. | | Books | Joseph Mitchell, Rimbaud, Dante, Wm. Shakespeare, Wm. Blake, Ed Abbey, Les Murray, Lorca, Neruda, Brodsky, Merwin, Yeats, Joyce, K. Curtis Lyle, Bishop, Ahkmatova, Moore, Dickinson, the old beard-tugging Russian dudes, Zola, Berryman, Plath, Sinclair, Studs Terkel, Vonnegut ... okay, I could go on and on. I read compulsively ... | | Heroes | K. Curtis Lyle, J. Preston Truman, Shirley Chishom, Rev. Wade Blank, Edward Abbey, Job Matusow, Sergio Leone, Rachel Carson, Kit Carson, Ken Sleight, Voltarine DeCleyre, Lenny Bruce, Kent Bonar, John Muir, Groucho Marx, Father Carl Kabat, Mario Savio, Wassily Kandinsky, Bill Mollinson, Anna Akhmatova |
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