pre-1975 country, blues, R&B, soul, jazz, the rock and the
roll, big band, Tom Waits, Noel Coward, Bob Dylan, Jimmie Rodgers,
The Ink Spots, Gene Austin, The Swan Silvertones, The Beatles,
Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies, The Five Royales, Johnny
Cash, Nick Lowe, Big Star, Daniel Johnston, Raymond Scott,
Pretenders, Howlin' Wolf, Everly Bros., Benny Goodman, Pixies,
Woody Guthrie, X, Faron Young, Mickey & Sylvia, The Gun Club,
The Kinks, Percy Mayfield, Eddie Lang, Nick Lucas, Louis Jordan,
Mingus, VU, Babs Gonzalez, Buzzcocks, Golden Gate Quartet, Waylon,
The Clash, Dean Martin, Django, Elvis P. and Elvis C., Thelonius
Monk, Thelonius Monster, The Hold Steady, White Stripes, Captain
Beefheart, Louvin Brothers, The Cramps, Television, Desmond Dekker,
Slim Smith, Dock Boggs, Eddie Cochran, Iggy & The Stooges,
Jerry Lee Lewis, Ray Charles, Cowboy Jack Clement, Don Gibson,
Ricky Nelson, Dexter Romweber, Blossom Dearie, Hoagy Carmichael,
Del Shannon, The Blasters, Arthur Alexander, Jim Jones Revue, John
Paul Keith, Bob Luman, Charlie Feathers....
Jacques Tati, Robert Bresson, Preston Sturges, The Criminal Life of
Archibaldo de la Cruz by Luis Bunuel, Luis Bunuel in general, Le
Trou by Jacques Becker, Fellini, Orson Welles, Hitchcock, Kurasawa,
Keaton, Kubrick, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Lee Marvin, Peter
Sellers, W.C. Fields, Diabolique by Henri-Georges Clouzot, anything
with Buddy Hackett, Jim Backus, Jim Jarmusch, Robert Mitchum,
Werner Herzog, Robert Newton as Long John Silver in Treasure
Island, The Party, Sterling Hayden, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter
by the great Frank Tashlin, Sam Peckinpah, anything with Walter
Matthau, David Lean's Oliver Twist, David Lean movies in general,
Jerry Lewis - especially The Errand Boy, The House of Yes, Face in
the Crowd, Elia Kazan, Night of the Hunter, I Am Cuba, Pecker by
John Waters, Russ Meyers, Errol Morris....
Yasunari Kawabata, Black Ajax by George MacDonald Fraser, Twenty
Thousand Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton, John Fante,
Denis Johnson, Nelly Reifler, James M. Cain, Joan Didion, Jim
Thompson, every syllable of S.J. Perelman, Nathanael West, Low Life
by Luc Sante, James Agee, Lolita, The White Spider by Heinrich
Harrer, Saul Bellow, O. Henry, James Ellroy, Dorothy Parker, Never
a Normal Man by Daniel Farson, Henry Miller, Charles Dickens,
Dashiell Hammett, John Muir, The Total Film-Maker by Jerry Lewis,
Cormac McCarthy, My Last Sigh by Luis Bunuel, Brassai when he
writes about Paris...
