Bicycling around my 'hood after dark, blueberries in the morning, still slightly wet from washing and cold, film, cultural/art/literary theory, Quakerism, fooood, good wine/beer, old friends, public art, revolution, radio, travel, reviving the flaneur, all things French and the francophiles who love them, walking along the proverbial beach, driving, silly television shows, growing things, queer-ness.
For general conversation, art-making, do-gooding, gossip, etc.: anyone who is interested in the world and how it's changing, who cares about their own mind and feelings, who is engaged and creative and reasonably happy with themselves.
Connections on higher planes are also welcome.
If you need an editor for fiction or nonfiction, long or short, clean or dirty--real editing or just proofing--drop me a line because I am always looking for new work.
****Unless you represent a group with a progressive political cause, DO NOT send me a friend request without sending me a message first.****
Autour de Lucie (especially "immobile"), Le Tigre, Yo La Tengo, Django Reinhardt, Gustav Mahler, The Sundays, Camera Obscura, Butterfly Boucher, Peaches, k. d. lang, Stereolab, Bert Jansch, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Keren Ann, Jolie Holland, A Girl Called Eddy, Robinella, M. Ward, Wild Strawberries, The Ditty Bops, The Be Good Tanyas, The Turtles, Sun Kil Moon, Joni Mitchell, Cat Power, The Beatles, Charles Trenet, Iron & Wine, Merrick, Gwen Farrar and Norah Blaney (if you've heard of them you'd better drop me a line), Maria Taylor, Joan Baez, The Lovin' Spoonful, Gillian Welch, Rachel Yamagata, Melissa Ferrick, Luna, Jens Lekman, Thelonius Monk, Jim White, Charlie Parker, Jill Sobule, Nellie Mckay, Moby, Emiliana Torrini, George Jones, Laura Nyro, Rilo Kiley, Teitur, Blossom Dearie, Air, Johnny Cash, Nick Drake, Judy Garland, Ane Brun, Handsome Boy Modeling School, The Indigo Girls, Ani Difranco, Peggy Lee, Nicola Hitchcock, Hazel Dickens--obviously, these are in no particular order, and there are lots more, and many embarrassing choices I am too cool to reveal on the internet.
The Incredibles, Rivers and Tides, The Corporation, The Sticky Fingers of Time, Afterlife, School of Rock, Spellbound (the documentary and the Hitchcock), Addams Family Values, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Babette's Feast, Goodbye Lenin, Mildred Pierce, The Hanging Garden, Entre Nous, Ma Vie en Rose, Big Eden, All About Eve, L.A. Story, Wings of Desire, In the Mood for Love, secretary (near the top of the list, if there is such a thing), Best in Show, Harold and Maude, The Graduate, Waking Ned Devine, Supersize Me, Far From Heaven, I'm the One That I Want, Psycho, Marnie, Rear Window, Waking Life, Sunset Boulevard, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise, One or Two Things I Know About Her, Belle de Jour, Being John Malkovich, The Virgin Suicides, I Heart Huckabees, Bowling for Columbine, The Celluloid Closet, Chocolat, Mostly Martha, Amelie, Some Like It Hot, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Secrets & Lies, Strait-Jacket, Possessed, The Big Lebowski, The Five Obstructions, My Father is Coming, What's Cooking?, Northfork--so many more where these came from!
Dawn Finley's Random Movie Quote:
'I feel like the floor of a taxi cab.'
- Dr. Egon Spengler, Ghostbusters
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Guilty--sometimes very guilty--pleasures: The Simpsons, American Dad, South Park, Rosemary & Thyme, Dharma & Greg, R.R., French & Saunders, Frontline, The French Chef, Jacques Pépin's "Fast Food My Way," America's Test Kitchen, Grey's Anatomy, Roseanne, Desperate Housewives, King of the Hill, Keeping Up Appearances, Waiting for God, Are You Being Served?. Six Feet Under (when it comes out on DVD), The Sopranos (same thing), Golden Girls. And I will admit to the occassional indulgence in the outrageous but moderately amusing episodes of any one of the Law & Order franchises.
Brief sampling of authors: Jeanette Winterson, Virginia Woolf, Michael Cunningham, David Sedaris, Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, Rosalin Deutsche, Anne Sexton, Italo Calvino, Jeffrey Eugenides, Milan Kundera, Haruki Murakami, Flannery O'connor, Adrienne Rich, Gerald Stern, Aimee Bender, bell hooks, Steve Martin (yes, *that* Steve Martin), David Markson, Kurt Vonnegut, Marion Nestle, Robert Hass, Lucy Lippard, Angela Carter, Maxine Hong Kingston, Margaret Atwood, Katha Pollit, Gore Vidal
People who can walk and talk like grown-ups but retain their sense of humor, of the absurd and fragile nature of things.