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Influences circa 1996

Jim Ospenson's influences circa 1996. Need I say they're in no particular order?

John Cage William Burroughs Velvet Underground Hank Williams -isms Situationism Dadaism Post-Modernism Weegee The Ramones Noam Chomsky Diane Arbus Diego Rivera Greacian Goeke Woody Guthrie Greacian M. Ospenson The Nation Lou Reed Howl Gary Lippman Mike Kuetemeyer Requiem for the Media Jack Kerouac Neighborhood Film/Video Project David Hume Bruce Kaiser Timothy Leary Mrs. Van Thomas Kuhn Richard Hell Mr. Estilow The Minutemen Guy Debord Meryl Perlson Elvis Costello Elvis Presley Ned Ludd Peter Greenaway Jim Thompson The Residents Walter Benjamin Fats Waller Raymond Chandler Amok Bookstore Jean Baudrillard Billie Holiday X Robert Palumbo Exene Cervankova Yoko Ono Blind Lemon Jefferson Robert Mapplethorpe Nam June Paik Philadelphia Pennsylvania Patti Smith St. Cloud School Ed Kienholz Ruth Legow Alexandr Solzhenitsyn Howling Wolf Willem deKooning Chris Marker Monty Python Dan Graham Jessie Jane Lewis Thomas Pynchon Wim Wenders Craig Baldwin The Motherfuckers Fyodor Dostoevski Patsy Cline k d lang Robbie Conal Muddy Waters Alan Powell + Connie Coleman Meryl Perlson Meryl Perlson Herb Schiller Harry Mott Jay Seldin Vincent Van Gogh Sex Pistols Albert Camus David Smith Martin Smith Talking Heads Tito Puente Jean-Luc Godard Dizzy Gillespie DA Pennebaker Mick Moloney Paul Cezanne IWW Sergio Leone Don Delillo Pablo Picasso Jonathan Richman Adrienne Ward Paul Swann Tom Ricketts Allen Ginsberg Muddy Waters Julie Gustafson Richard Gordon Carma Hinton David Carnochan Albert Ayler Mitchell Hershone George Clinton The Clash Iggy Pop Victor Thompson MC5 Hazil Adkins Bertolt Brecht Jean Arp Abbie Hoffman Bob Dylan Cecil Taylor George Orwell Louis Massiah John Coltrane Miles Davis Tom Waits Led Zeppelin Louis Armstrong Frank Zappa Eddie Hacksaw Captain Beefheart Los Lobos Linda Blackaby Phineas Trotsky Roger Berkowitz Christopher O'Connell

Mom's Doh

Mom's Doh
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I miss LA. This restaurant (?) is on Glendale Blvd, near my old house. I never ate there.

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