We had a wicked threesome today featuring Youngblood Hawke, Machinehead and Modest Mouse. Here are the literary figures who inspired it.
Here is a little backround on the band whose creative fire was lit by this transformative book about the rise and fall of a writer
The Bush song Machinehead was inspired by HOWL by Allen Ginsberg who was a massive inspiration on Gavin Rossdale.
Modest Mouse's moniker came from a short story by Virginia Woolf called "The Mark on the Wall", the salient portion of which reads, "I wish I could hit upon a pleasant track of thought, a track indirectly reflecting credit upon myself, for those are the pleasantest thoughts, and very frequent even in the minds of modest, mouse-coloured people, who believe genuinely that they dislike to hear their own praises
