Learning other languages (portuguese right now) Spinning yarns, playing music, people who keep me up all night, cooking, arguing, surprising passions, wasted youth. Summarizing my complex self ineptly for the casual perusal of others. Figuring out how to be a cool teacher without becoming/developing a huge ass in the process.
Know what? I was able to take one hero off this list. Seriously.Do you know how to use an electric stove? Because I sure don't. Canada, I love you man, it's great to be back, but this shit sucks.Compatriots to storm the dancefloor when conversation is stilted at parties. A little money so I could work more on what I love. That bartender who complimented my whole family's fros one night. People who will teach me things. Like: bass lines, jokes, science, handshakes, car tricks. Other people in a state of flux. Gilberto Gil in 1969, but now would be fine too. Graduate students. Puppeteers. People with questioning eyebrows and/or curly hair. Anyone in Brazil. And, of course, anyone who harbors a secret crush but would never post anything in that column in the classified section.
Tropicalia, rocksteady, dust-encrusted 45s, Neil Young's top 3 records, Simply Saucer, psychedelic soul, anything with organ that manages the mournful to funky divide, Oneida, Special Ed, Prince, Savath & Savalas This tells you what I'm listening to that's not records: http://www.last.fm/user/jjlookalso
Lately: Everything Michael Winterbottom and Almodovar, The Third Man, the Apartment, & Waiting for Guffman once left me in actual pain.
A wiser person than I used this space for artists, and i will too: Arbus, Rothko, graffiti kids in Rio, that room in the Meniil... Oh, I am not too fancy for TV either: Arrested Development, 6 feet Under, 30 Rock, Weeds
Augusto Boal, Nabokov, Bruno Schulz, theater theory crap