records, lime rickeys, acquiring more books than I can read, Trader Joe's, music, crazy travel adventures, dive bars, trenchcoats, religion, thrifting, shoes, Italy, cultural sabotage, margaritas, chopstick-collecting, NPR, Jew bacon, literature, zines, vegan foodstuffs, politics, coffee, art, yoga, serendipity
...someone who's constantly risking absurdity...
Current rotation: A Place to Bury Strangers, Jens Lekman, Thurston Moore, PJ Harvey's White Chalk, Caribou, St. Vincent, Swan Lake, Blitzen Trapper, Marmoset, Black Mother Super Rainbow, the Veils, Nancy Sinatra, the new Spoon album, the Spinanes, Jim White, The Long Blondes, Deerhoof, Tom Waits...also: Sonic Youth, Kraftwerk, Serge Gainsbourg, Stereo Total, Gogogo Airheart, Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, David Bowie, T. Rex, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Suicide, ESG, Aphex Twin, Bjork, The Streets, Coltrane, Nels Cline, Carla Bozulich, Tom Waits, The Stooges, Desert Sessions Vol. 9 & 10, Pere Ubu, Le Tigre, Gang of Four, Interpol, Pavement, Spoon, Of Montreal, Yo La Tengo, Belle and Sebastian, Magnetic Fields, M. Ward, Beirut, Man Man, Can, Faust, The Clash, The Fall, Eagles of Death Metal, Thee Headcoatees, PJ Harvey, Liz Phair (pre-makeover), Neutral Milk Hotel, Cat Power, Elliott Smith, The Unicorns, Islands, Mulatu Astatqe, Mugison, Grizzly Bear, Beach House, Circulatory System, Gogol Bordello, Art Brut, Devendra Banhart, Nouvelle Vague, Lee Hazlewood, Morvern Callar soundtrack, My Bloody Valentine, Enon, Michael Yonkers Band, The Walkmen, Tapes 'n Tapes, Black Lipstick, Modern Lovers, Klaus Nomi, Simply Saucer, Jesus and Mary Chain, Franz Ferdinand...
Noi Albinoi, I Heart Huckabees, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Rosemary's Baby, Annie Hall, Grey Gardens, Billy Liar, Zabriskie Point, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Down By Law, Breathless, Blue Velvet, Donnie Darko, Pumpkin, Bartleby, The Nomi Song, The Triplets of Belleville, American Splendor, Lost in Translation, All the Real Girls, Morvern Callar, Shortbus, Me, You and Everyone We Know, Jules and Jim, Days of Heaven, The Science of Sleep
Twin Peaks...If I had cable: Project Runway and What Not to Wear
Just finished: Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis, Veronica by Mary Gaitskill, Going Solo by Roald Dahl, Dishwasher by Pete Jordan...Also: The Epicure's Lament (Kate Christensen), Bobos in Paradise (David Brooks), Fast Food Nation, Bad Behavior and Because They Wanted To (Mary Gaitskill), The Fuck-Up and Chinese Takeout (Arthur Nersesian), Zhuangzi, Roald Dahl
Patti Smith, Kathleen Hanna. Stephen Malkmus for his cute, sinister grin and heaping doses of articulate irony.