Influences. Seems people at this site are obsessed with influences:
Who are you influenced by?
What influences you to do art?
What music influences you to write?
When are you most influenced?
How do you find influences?
God, shut the fuck UP already you fucking boring howler monkeys.
But tonight I actually thought about mine. I never think about them. I don't see the point. Here's a list in order of what pops to mind at the moment and with no particular reason why (but if you read what I write, you might be able to pick up on some things):
Quentin Tarantino
Hunter S. Thompson
Dime novels
Bukowski
Whiskey
Texas (Austin, specifically)
Marco Pierre White
Eggs and Chocolate
Cocaine and Trucker's crank
Loss
Madonna
Strip clubs
Reckless abandon
The Coen Brothers
Sex
Apathy
Violence
Cadillacs
David Mamet
The X-Files
Love
Dive bars/Bartenders
Questions
Control
Steve McQueen
Fear
Experience
Ex-Boyfriends
Humor
Regret
The internet
Being dirty
Mexican food
Reality TV
Playing in the Trash
This list only contains what I have peeled off the top of my head just now. Maybe I'll add to it as time goes on. Or not, who cares. I like the list. It allows me to write the stuff I do and always be satisfied with the results.
I was watching Kill Bill 1 & 2 the other night on cable and went to Amazon and promptly bought them both. I watched the Making of Kill Bill 2 and thought about all of Quentin Tarantino's movies, the ones I've seen and liked so much. I think these two are his most perfect movies; I actually think it's all downhill for that sumbitch now. He needs to work more with Benicio Del Toro and soon or else it is all over for his ass.
Anyway, I remember back in 1993 seeing Reservoir Dogs for the first time in the theater back in Austin. I was struck by it. I still am, to this day. I think Quentin Tarantino taught me how to write dialogue... well, him and one other source that I will never, EVER name (I need to retain some mystery in my life). I used to feel, when I was writing my nouveau Pulp Fiction stories, that I was really biting off Quentin, and it made me feel like a poser. Now, watching these movies of his, I don't feel so bad. Some of his stuff doesn't sound authentic, like I would never imagine two people having some of the conversations he's written in his movies, but some of it is pure genius.
Maybe that is why he's at the top of the list. I almost met him once. Long story. It was an interesting time.
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