i hate sports, tv, fast food, and making bullshit banter with folks i can't be straight with. besides that, i'm good for a go.
astronauts, terrorists, cowboys, prostitutes, priests who don't believe in god, street kids and the interior monolgue of just about everyone i know.
dark city sisters & the flying jazz queens, chopin's berceuce, tom waits (especially early years vol. 2 and mule variations), bach, the pixies, stella chiwese, prince, hank williams, tricky, kronos quartet, fugees, mingus & monk, ali farke toure, violent femmes, mbuti pygmy music, johnny cash, billie holliday, opera-live or on scratchy records, dylan, iron&wine, jeff buckley & van morrison (astral weeks can save your life), talking heads, elvis, amon tobin, django, mahler s10 (yes & beethoven too, every time, yes) gamelan music, cuban music, screaminj hawkins, nina simone is a goddess, and always the police. I have to stop listing things now.
baz lurhmann, wes anderson, john sayles, jim jarmusch, coen bros, ang lee, terry gilliam, tim burton, woody allen. some of my favorite movies: brazil, short cuts, moulin rouge, time bandits, i tu mambien, dead man, joe versus the volcano, american beauty, the royal tannebaums, dust, romeo+juliet, beetlejuice, rushmore, men with guns, i heart huckabees, normal,the usual suspects,i love you to death, lone star, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind & being john malcovich, a fish called wanda, star wars (the old versions of the old ones),buffalo 66, hystericalblindness, other peoples money,dancerinthedark, rosencrantz & guilderstern are dead,when harry met sally,the princessbride, closer, monty python, amelie, amores perros, the anniversary party, dogville, birth, the shining (but i'm too scared to watch it) true romance & i-forgot-what-its-called-the-one-with-mr white-and-mr-pink.
the muppets, northern exposure, x-files, animal kingdom, bugs bunny et al., lost. i'm sorry to say that i kinda like commercials: does anyone remember the one for fig newtons with the chimpanzees? with that song, remember? "we have no bananas to-day" that was better than dukes of hazzard.
on my bedside table: richard taylor (how-to-raise beautiful comb honey), rupert sheldrake (the sensation of being stared at), mary roach (spook), bruce chatwin (songlines), frans de waal (chimpanzee politics), jared diamond (collapse).
jackie palmer