About hillapatra
Just another fan! Perhaps... a ninja too.
Music
Nick Cave & The Badseeds, David Bowie, My Bloody Valentine, the Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Tones on Tail, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, the Eels, Echo & the Bunnymen, the Beatles, Billie Holiday, Brian Jonestown Massacre, the Black Angels, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Chris Issak, the Cramps, the Cure, the Damned, Daft Punk, the Dandy Warhols, Dead Can Dance, Devo, the Doves, the Doors, Eddie Brickell, ELO, Elvis Presley, Explosions in the Sky, Gary Numan, Iggy Pop, Imperial Drag, Japancakes, the Jellyfish, Joanna Newsom, John Spencer's Blues Explosion, Joy Division, Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood, Legendary Pink Dots, Lou Reed, Ambulance LTD, Arty Shaw, Nellie McKay, the Outcrowd, the Psychedelic Furs, the Raveonettes, the Red Elvises, Robyn Hitchcock, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Screamin' Lord Sutch, the Secret Machines, Siouxsie Sioux, the Slits, the Sex Pistols, Spacemen 3, the Sparks, Stina Nordenstam, Sufjan Stevens, Suicide, T Bone Burnett, the Toadies, the Velvet Underground, the Warlocks, the Who, Brightblack Morning Light
Films
So much... anything B-rated, cultish, glam rock, or french... you can't go too wrong.
Books
George Saunders has some good reads for the mind, Sherman Alexie for the soul... can't think up any more now.
Comments
Some great bands in your Music list. First time I've seen Screamin' Jay Hawkins listed. I saw him perform in Chicago many years ago. How are things in Dallas?