Artist	Song
Maroon 5	Pure Imagination
Kate Bush	Cloudbusting
Death Cab For Cutie	We Laugh Indoors
Talking Heads	The Book I Read
Modest Mouse	Bukowski
MC Lars	Ahab
The Beatles	I Am The Walrus
The Velvet Underground	Venus In Furs
Eisley	Plenty Of Paper
The Futureheads	A Picture Of Dorian Gray
Jolie Holland	Mad Tom Of Bedlam
Belle & Sebastian	Judy & The Dream Of Horses
Tom Lehrer	Oedipus Rex
Martha Wainwright	Lolita
Allison Crowe	Hallelujah
Go Home Productions	Paperback Believer
T-Rex	Ride A White Swan
Belle & Sebastian	Wrapped Up In Books
Simon & Garfunkel	The Dangling Conversation
The Decemberists	Billy Liar
Bob Dylan	Desolation Row (MTV Unplugged)

Comment:

[June 2007]

01. "Charlie & The Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl. (one of my favourite books! and film, but only really the Gene Wilder version.)
02. "A Book Of Dreams" by Peter Reich.
03. References Arthurian legend.
05. Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)
06. "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville
07. References the walrus in the poem The Walrus & the Carpenter from "Through the Looking-Glass & What Alice Found There" by Lewis Carroll. (another favourite book)
08. "Venus In Furs" by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.
10. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde.
11. (Mad) Tom of Bedlam is whom Edgar diguises himself as in Shakespeare's "King Lear,"
but it's also just a general descriptor for beggars and vagrants.
13. "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles.
14. "Lolita" by Vladimir Nobokov.
15. Various Biblical references.
17. Inspired by "the hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien.
19. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) and Robert Frost (1874-1963)
20. "Billy Liar" by Keith Waterhouse.
21. Reference overload! Cinderella, Ezra Pound, Romeo & Juliet,
Hamlet, T.S. Eliot, the Bible,
the Phantom of the Opera, Robin Hood,
the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Roman mythology...

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