I'd be crazy not to follow where you lead

In my last post, I spoke of the impact "The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford" has had on me. During the early days of meditating on this idea, I had a lot of additional influences and inspirations working their way through my skull, and most of them found their way into the story. Here's a partial list:

The films of Terrence Malick

Jean-Luc Godard's "Contempt"

"Taxi Driver"

The music of Tim Hecker and Arvo Part

The opera "Das Rheingold" by Richard Wagner

Radiohead's "Arpeggi"

Baseball

My childhood, specifically the 7th and 8th grades

My family

Homer

Books about cult leaders and gurus. 

Later on, I'll go through and try to tie this rather random list together, if that's at all possible. 

For the classically inclined, here's Stars of the Lid's cover of Arvo Part's "Fratres (For String Quartet)."

And for those who are not, here's something on the lighter side: the sequel to the internet sensation "Cars."