consumed by summer.
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the new house. kitten alice, when she is not yelling her head off. unendingly throwing that damn tennis ball for henry. trying very, very hard not to kill my tomatoes, peppers, squash, cucumbers, and herbs. cookingcookingcooking. reading on the front porch. reading on the back patio. barbecues and cornhole. camping. I am really into this video right now (thanks, duder). also: playing my vintage MELODICA (I suppose it's technically 'playing'), playing scrabble--or its red-headed bastard child, Ultra Late Night Phonetic Scrabble. helping to write songs at ridiculous hours. last minute roadtrips. 60's roadside motels. animals who love other animals! like this!:
and this!:
also! this video. this blog. narcoleptic weinerdogs . spiral staircases. making up new and preferably wildly inappropriate lyrics to the songs I get stuck in my head. late night talks that go down in history. the sound of breaking glass. waking up to summer sunlight. sinking into warm water. reading a book/watching anything that makes me cry/laugh/leaves me dazed. speaking kindergarten french. cake. chouquettes. looking for old cars that I might, but probably won't, buy. crepes. wine. headphones. compartmentalization. pets named after professional boxers. and SORTING SHIT OUT. who has time for anything else?
“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "awww!†~ jack kerouac.
also! eddie izzard (again), fiver , and jonsi .
steve mcqueen and montgomery clift .
and! eugene hutz .
and
kurt vonnegut
november 11, 1922-april 11, 2007
'I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.'
currently: feist. beach house. ryan adams. amy winehouse. wilco. david vandervelde. peter bjorn & john. the good, the bad, and the queen. charlotte gainsbourg. neko case. sparklehorse. viva voce. the polyphonic spree. also: SIGUR EFFING ROS, radiohead, brian eno, thom yorke, bjork, nina simone, mickey avalon, sufjan stevens, languis, autolux (RELEASE YOUR ALBUM ALREADY), pj harvey, johnny cash, lift to experience, air, broken social scene, stars, eels, nada surf, pernice brothers, secret machines, the kinks, the zombies... and approximately 2.87 million more which I won't mention. that would be boring.
found film reels. you can't be neutral on a moving train (a documentary about howard zinn). millions. little miss sunshine. amores perros. casino royale. stranger than fiction. the science of sleep. buffalo '66. lost in translation. amelie. royal tenenbaums. to sir, with love. 28 days later (and its goofy younger brother, shaun of the dead). sucker for the humanizing of animals (or the animalizing of humans...?) in microcosmos, winged migration, and march of the penguins. dancer in the dark and everything is illuminated made me cry my eyes out. project grizzly. monsters inc. the big lebowski. the life aquatic. anything steve mc(manliest-ever)queen, and all the movies I get from netflix and DON'T WATCH for weeks, just sitting on them indefinitely, BECAUSE I CAN.
currently ass-over-teakettle in love with simon schama's the power of art . the office. lost. aqua teen hunger force. opb.
and! geoff, shaun and I have decided to do a rip-off of 'monster garage', called 'muenster garage'. the intro will be by kraftwerk, it will take place in a stark white garage, and shaun and geoff will shout about straight lines, more straight lines, and right angles, in their finest german-accented voices while they produce various creations out of cheese. I will be dancing in my finest german-techno way in the background. it will be awesome*
*if you are not geoff, shaun, or I, you may or may not get the humor in this at all.
gabriel garcia marquez. haruki murakami. salman rushdie. jonathan safran foer. jeffrey eugenides. howard zinn. david sedaris. dave eggers. paul auster. f. scott fitzgerald. dorothy parker. richard adams. richard yates. alice sebold.
howard zinn and simon schama.
whoever did *THIS* :hahahahahahahahaha. ahem. also! troy hurtubise. and anyone who makes/sends/brings me cake. because, boy, do I ever love cake.