---http://jazzyp.livejournal.com/--- Race and American Culture, Hanging out with "women of a certain age," Yoga, Politics, Philanthropic Enterprises, Tennis, Gender, Pilates, Extreme Hospitality, Netflix, Cooking, Le Biciclete, Horticulture, Bargain Hunting, Public Broadcasting, Becoming a morning person, Noro Yarn, Synchronized Swimming, Baked Goods, the Sunday paper, a perfect breakfast, Going Outside
Currently in heavy rotation: Belle and Sebastian, Theivery Corp, Nouvelle Vague, Buddy Holly, Neil Young, Brian Eno's Ambient records and Aphex Twin's remixes, Joni Mitchell, Astrud Gilberto, Four Tet, Lo'Jo, Stereolab
Amelie, Pan's Labryinth, The Lives of Others, My Man Godfrey, Nights of Cabiria, The Godfather, Next Stop Wonderland, Annie Hall, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Party, all 6 hours of Pride and Prejudice, Blue/White/Red tril, The World of Apu, Dirty Dancing
Currently: Recently... Never Let Me Go, The Emperor's Children, Then We Came to the End, The talented Mr. Ripley, Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s; Native Speaker, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marie Antoinette, On Beauty, The Year of Magical Thinking, Howard's End, White Noise Always... Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking, To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, The Hours, Pierre, Absalom, Absalom!, Giovanni's Room, Another Country, When we were orphans, Remains of the Day, Emma, Sister Carrie, The Big Money, The Group, House of Mirth, The Golden Notebook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Democracy, The White Album, The Sun Also Rises, The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye, Appetite For Life: The Biography of Julia Child"Central heating, French rubber goods, and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful." --MFK Fisher