articulation, satire, parody, irony, Naturalism, postmodernism, beat poetry, bad puns, general tomfoolery, trees, quiet places, noisy places, flappers, city rooftops, Dr. Pepper ... John Keats, Wassily Kandinsky, Nathanael West ... writing, reading, sketching, wandering, solitude...
Music:
Air, Radiohead, The Velvet Underground, Brazilian Girls, Tally Hall, Fujiya & Miyagi, Lotus, The Doors, Modest Mouse, The Decemberists, New Deal, Belle and Sebastian, Elliot Smith, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Steely Dan, Hall & Oates, The Brakes, Weezer, A-ha, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Falco, Madness, Toto, Murray Head, The Clash, Stevie Wonder, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Fifth Dimension, ELO, Average White Band, Al Green, Live, The Verve, Jamiroquai, Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Shins, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pink Floyd, The Turtles, Smashing Pumpkins, Sufjan Stevens, The Dust Brothers, Danny Elfman, John Williams, Phillip Glass, Del the Funky Homosapien, Nas, Talib Kweli, Beau Sai, RJD2, Muse, Chemical Brothers, Gotan Project, Bebel Gilberto, Mongo Santamaria, Trio Da Paz, Chiquinho Timoteo, Astrud Gilberto, Paula Lima, Fats Waller, Skip James, Gina Sicilia, Lightnin' Hopkins, Les Triplettes de Belleville, Buddha Bar, Jon Brion, Alexandre Desplat, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Sergei Prokofiev.
Movies:
American Beauty, Requiem for a Dream, Edward Scissorhands, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Alice in Wonderland, The Hours, Fight Club, Punch-Drunk Love, Rushmore, Taxi Driver.
Television:
I like PBS documentaries [particularly the ones featuring aquatic life.]
Books:
White Noise, The Lathe of Heaven, Through the Looking Glass, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Tender is the Night, Promiscuities, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Catch-22, HOWL [and most poetry by Allen Ginsberg, ] The Phantom Tollbooth, Orwellian essays [not so much novels, ] Salinger's "Nine Stories, " everything by Paul Auster, David Sedaris, Roald Dahl, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Diane di Prima, Abraham Cahan, Nathanael West, and Dr. Seuss. I also enjoy reading the diaries/memoirs/autobiographies of eccentric folks, like Andy Warhol, Sylvia Plath, Zelda Fitzgerald, Joan Crawford, and so on.
