impossibility; inevitability; the unbearable lightness of being; gravity; collaborative efforts; elaborate comforts; famous blue rain coats; velvet blazers; the Satan's Lipgloss Sewing Circle; guerilla art; insomnia; my parrots; my cats; other peoples' cats; cats who belong to no one; electric sitars; foreign films; bygone eras of in a sense; dirty phrases in French; poppies; cognac hot toddies; eight-hour dance parties; skipping through fields of allergens and post-apocalyptic waste hand in hand; finding the other side of despair; trying to exhaust all poisons in the self and keep only their quintessences; obscurity and obfuscation; commie lovin' freedom hatin'; biting my tongue; ubergetrank; the ghosts you draw on my back; and this:
Some day I will have my own gang of menacing little kids, just like Donovan.
People who like to stop at fruit stands. The overly ambitious. The just passing sane. People who dislike the word "irregardless". Another bottle of 1957 port. Richard Dawkins. Nietzsche. Donovan. Someone to tell me how and why and what the @%#&? Someone to tell me whether or not higher education is a luxury and a scam. Angel investors. People who want to watch my Wholphin dvds with me (Miranda July? The Turkish Jeffersons? The Power of Nightmares?). A sitar instructor. Revolutionaries. The words that linger at the tip of my tongue and retreat into my stomach.
DONOVAN, July, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The Beatles, other 60s psychedelia, Pulp, David Bowie, Legendary Pink Dots, American Analog Set, Leonard Cohen, Figurine, air, Neutral Milk Hotel, Animal Collective, Panda Bear, Saturday Looks Good to Me, DONOVAN, Blonde Redhead, Calexico, The Cure, mum, Serge Gainsbourg, The Monochrome Set, DONOVAN, T. Rex, Queen, all the classic Motown artists, Ennio Morricone, Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra, Ann Margret and Elvis, The Faint, Audio Wreck / Eureka Garbage Co., Deric Mendes, The Great Salvation, Ian Fays, The Monster Women, The Signals, Broken Hearts, DONOVAN, and my legendary bands 50% Amy, The Mystical Myst, and The Gaysians. And in case I forgot to mention it:
Brazil, Head, The Trial (Orson Welles version), Harold & Maude, Solaris (original Russian), The Shining, Soylent Green, Night of the Hunter, Suddenly Last Summer (Tennessee Williams), Repulsion, The American Astronaut, Weekend, Pierrot Le Fou, Once Upon a Time in the West, Youth of the Beast (and other Seijun Suzuki films), City of Lost Children, The Saddest Music in the World, Dogville, 2046, The Cranes are Flying, Blade Runner, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Buffalo '66, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Requiem for a Dream, Amelie, James Bond films w/ Roger Moore, Jon Olsen's zombie videos, other no-budget ventures...
Twin Peaks, The Office (BBC version), Da Ali G Show, Sea Lab 2021, MST3K (Mystery Science Theatre 3000), and I seriously love the original Star Trek, although to be quite honest I haven't actually watched television for over 2 years, and I hadn't really noticed until now.
Franny and Zooey (Salinger), The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (Hurakami), Nausea (Sartre), The Elementary Particles (Houellebecq), The Crying of Lot 49 (Pynchon), A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole), Breaking the Spell (Dennett), You Shall Know Our Velocity (Eggers), The Trial (Kafka), The Stranger (Camus), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series (Adams), Breakfast of Champions (Vonnegut), A Clockwork Orange (Burgess), the Griffin and Sabine series, popular science magazines.