i am moved by fancies that are curled
around these images, and cling;
the notion of some infinitely gentle
infinitely suffering thing.
"preludes" ~ t.s. eliot
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acquiring more books than i can possibly read and trying anyway; selling books to people; brooklyn; supporting local business and local everything else; the modernist movement; graphic design, particularly stuff from the 50s-60s and especially alvin lustig; music, music and music--in bars and in headphones on my ears; subways; trees; aesthetics and minutiae; simplicity; photographic slides and photography in general; walking down neighborhood sidewalks; reading interviews with writers; sitting by myself and reading in public places, especially coffee houses, summertime restaurant patios and warm little bars; watching film; enjoying the restaurant industry and carefully crafted food and beverage; bartending as a craft; i'm tirelessly captured by many, many fine things--for better or worse.
people with ideas in their brains, thoughts in their minds, passion and kindness in their little hearts.
essentially anyone in any way connected with that whole beautifully incestuous music scene in canada i'm down with. those in perpetual goodstanding: beirut, animal collective, panda bear, midlake, autolux, phoenix, guided by voices, starling electric, big star, chris bathgate, hot chip, grizzly bear, m. ward, lcd soundsystem, peter bjorn and john, the besnard lakes, deerhunter, aesop rock, joanna newsom, sunset rubdown, okkervil river, jose gonzelez, the kinks, swan lake, tv on the radio, the decemberists, the new pornographers, sufjan stevens, devendra banhart, band of horses, wolf parade, yo la tengo, sean lennon, kaki king, mogwai, radiohead, destroyer, jens lekman, danger doom, madvillain, sharon jones and the dap-kings, antony and the johnsons, a.c. newman, stars, broken social scene, mirah, blonde redhead, david bowie, the shins, deerhoof, wilco, the arcade fire, spoon, the cardigans, the clientele, death from above 1979, the black keys, the white stripes, eagles of death metal, fiona apple, andrew bird, mark kozelek, sun kil moon, stereolab, the lost in translation, marie antoinette, royal tenenbaums and merry christmas charlie brown soundtracks, stephen malkmus, interpol, al green, billie holliday, marvin gaye, elloitt smith, the concretes, blue album and pinkerton weezer, camera obscura, belle and sebastian, modest mouse, nickel creek, american analog set, death cab for cutie, pinback, sigur ros, black rebel motorcycle club...sundry others
anything by kubrick, tarantino, wes anderson, christopher guest and the coen brothers. also, me and you and everyone we know, brick, the new world, the graduate, american psycho, brokeback mountain, ghost world, broken flowers, secretary, love actually, mystic river, the hours, apocalypse now, amelie, requiem for a dream, love liza, lost in translation, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, american beauty, spaceballs, wayne's world, crash, elizabeth, amores perros, the aviator, willy wonka and the chocolate factory, batman, alice in wonderland, M, metropolis, adaptation, boogie nights, punch drunk love, citizen kane...
detroit pistons basketball, arrested development, the bbc office, 30 rock, friday night lights and top chef
woolf, joyce, dostoyevsky, conrad, dickens, faulkner, shakespeare, dante, dave eggers, michael chabon, delillo, graham greene, vonnegut, chuck klosterman, ann enright, john banville, melville, david mitchell's cloud atlas, nabokov, cormac mccarthy, eliot, hemingway, pynchon.
human achievement by david shrigley and encyclopedia of an ordinary life by amy krouse rosenthal. how to behave and why by munro leaf.
i tend to prefer darker authors that write with a sort of beauty that makes your bones ache. it helps if they're irish.
currently reading: samedi the deafness by jesse ball
my parents
the modernists
tina fey