THE LIVER LIST

Individuals and groups commonly referred to here for their artistic ability and are inspiring in the collective's creative efforts.

WORK IN PROGRESS. SHIT PROBABLY LOOKS JANK AS FUCK AT THE MOMENT. SORRY.

THE SHORTLIST:

Music

Animal Collective: Their stabilized mania
Anthony Braxton: His fearlessness
Black Eyes: Their rhythm
Cardiacs: Their quirkiness
Charles Hayward: His cyclical songs
Coil: Their darkness
Countdown to Putsch: Their academics and literature
Dan Bejar: His gentleness
Fred Frith: His relentlessness
Fucking Werewolf Asso: Their gall
Gang of Four: Their politics and sick beats
Harvey Danger: Their pop grunge prowess
Ian Mackeye: His commmitment
James Chance: His wrecklessness
Jamie Stewart: Their honesty
Jeff Rosenstock: Their leadership and songwriting
John Zorn: His prolifacy
Le Aids: His time travel
Lou Reed: His truth
NoMeansNo: Their tightness
Ornette Coleman: His nature
Patrick Flegel: Their restraint
Patti Smith: Her unrestraint
Sparks: Their glam
Steve Albini: Their grime
Steve Reich: His repitition
Sun City Girls: Their fuckall
Terry Riley: His procession
The Blood Brothers: Their sass
The Dismemberment Plan: Their progressiveness
The Plot to Blow Up The Eiffel Tower: Their jazz punk mania
They Might Be Giants: Their fun
Todd Rundgren: Their 1972
Ween: Their oneness
Zach Hill: His insanity

Film

Charlie Kaufman: His desperation
David Lynch: Him utmost
Don Hertzfeldt: His absurdity
Francis Ford Coppola: His reality
Harmony Korine: His hyper-reality
Henri-Georges Clouzot: His suspense
Mick Jackson: His wasteland
Ralph Bakshi: His arrogance

Writing

Cormac McCarthy: His modernism
David Foster Wallace: His regrets and fears
Jacques Derrida: His destruction
James Joyce: His long-windedness
Jean Baudrilliard: His hyperreality (different)
Kurt Vonnegut: His spirit
Langston Hughes: His rumination
Mark Fisher: His doom
Ralph Ellison: His dark reality
Robert Crumb: His sexual reality
Simon Hanselmann: Her portrayals
Sylvia Plath: Her characters
Thomas Pynchon: His Post-Modernism
William Borroughs: His beatness (the fuck out you)

Miscellaneous

Austen Jorgensen: His normality
Edmund McMillen: His abnormality
Horses: Their strength
Jesus Christ: His forgiveness
Kikiyama: Their eostericism
Paper Rad: Their hope
Siddhartha Gautama: His inspiration
Steve-O: His balls
Tom Green: His balls (x2)
The CCRU: Their adaptation