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Even with such a busy schedule, however, Moore makes time to discover new artists--or at least those who are new to him. "I've been really getting into reading a lot about Ted Barrigan recently," Moore says. "He was this writer from the 1960s and 1970s. When I first moved here, I remember this big, cigarette-smoking guy with this coterie of young people that always hung out when he was talking. I knew he was somebody that was always around, but I didn't know who this freak was, and I later found out he was Ted Barrigan. He died in 1983, and just recently I've really become interested in his work. He was really connected to the sort of downtown culture of the '60s. He had a really interesting take on everything, and he was a guy that Andy Warhol liked early on, always on the fringe. There's not that much historical information on him, but I've been reading memoirs by other people about him. He was a guy who did some of those really underground, mimeograph zines of writing and stuff, like with [Peace Eye Bookstore owner, writer-poet and Fugs member] Ed Sanders. But as far as music is concerned, I don't know. I listen to a little bit of everything."