cooking (particularly french); reading; taking snapshots; crocheting and knitting; staring off into space; balancing the high and low in both art and my daily life; gardening; watching old films; going for walks; sunday's spent devouring the new york times; having dinner parties when friends come 'round; discussing existentialist thought and the like.
seekers of truth and believers in beauty.
velvet underground; john coltrane; walkmen; nina simone; sigur ros; sparklehorse; modern lovers; air; can; talking heads; radiohead; fugazi;josephine baker; joy division; dave brubeck; ride; franz liszt; bjork; the stooges; pixies; massive attack; astrud gilberto and bossa nova in general; miles davis; the make-up; yo la tengo; simon & garfunkel; sonic youth; mogwai; django reinhardt; "pee wee" russell; tortoise; edith piaf; spiritualized; stereolab; pavement; blonde redhead; serge gainsbourg; elvis costello; the kinks; the clash; portishead. currently listening to- love.
Interiors, Woody Allen; Faces, John Cassavetes; Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock; Blue Velvet, David Lynch; The Exterminating Angel, Luis Bunuel; Pink Flamingos, John Waters; Swimming Pool, Francois Ozon; The Lady from Shanghai, Orson Welles; Mystery Train, Jim Jarmusch; Run Lola Run, Tom Tykwer; La Strada, Frederico Fellini Jules et Jim, Francois Truffaut; Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola; Fanny och Alexander, Ingmar Bergman; Lolita, Stanley Kubrick; French New Wave Cinema; old films i.e.:the Thin Man series, all Marx Brothers,Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe, Oskar Werner, Sophia Loren,Jacques Cousteau and Peter Sellers. Recently watched- finally saw Kossovitz's "La Haine". c'est un film tres intense. merde!
Notes from Underground, Dostoyevsky; Existentialism and Human Emotions, Sartre; Experience, Amis; Civil Disobedience, Thoreau; Red and the Black, Stendhal; Doubt and Belief in Painting, Gerhard Richter; On Certainty, Wittgenstein; L'Etranger, Camus; Writing and Difference, Jacques Derrida; Madame Bovary, Flaubert; Mrs. Dalloway, Woolfe; Poetry- Dickinson,Ginsberg, Neruda, Cummings, Whitman, O'Hara, Verlaine,Levertov, W.C. Williams and Shelley. Currently reading: Martin Amis's latest, "House of Meetings".
rfk, paul klee, emily dickinson, golda meier, michel foucault, stan brakhage and simone de beauvoir.