music, photography, knitting, reading & writing, movies, talking on the phone with my momma, yoga, cupcake royale, snail-mail, hiking & biking & camping, french pop, theater history (dadaism, surrealism, etc.), good whiskey/wine/beer, bookshelves & bookstores, records & record stores, tea & teapots, a fucking good cup of coffee, thrifting, baking, vegetarianism, oversized sweaters, stealing my boyfriend's socks, aimless wandering, beluga whales and kitty-cats (animals in general, really).
in no particular order: joy division, stereolab, tom waits, built to spill, the clash, apples in stereo, of montreal, the violent femmes, the stone roses, arcade fire, the olivia tremor control, devendra banhart, fleetwood mac, electric light orchestra, leonard cohen, radiohead/thom yorke, the durutti column, the magnetic fields, silver jews, neutral milk hotel, joni mitchell, broadcast, francoise hardy, devotchka, echo & the bunnymen, sonic youth, bat for lashes, beach house, grizzly bear, pwrfl power, wire, pixies, the cure, love & rockets, neil young, bauhaus, the cure, david bowie, the velvet underground, bob dylan, siouxsie & the banshees, my bloody valentine, the decemberists, beirut, elvis costello, blonde redhead, the knife, lydia lunch, bjork, joanna newsom, air, tegan and sara, pj harvey, animal collective, talking heads, deerhoof, cat power, mum, belle & sebastian, elliott smith, pavement, and more!
top ten: brazil, the royal tenenbaums (and every other wes anderson movie), annie hall, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the big lebowski (and every other coen brothers movie), punch-drunk love, delicatessen, dr. strangelove: or how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, true romance, blue velvet, frenzy most recent favorite(s): burn after reading, there will be blood, the pineapple express, no country for old men, wall-e, the dark knight most anticipated: where the wild things are, milk, frost/nixon.
weeds.
haruki murakami, mcsweeney's, richard brautigan, vladimir nabokov, william s. burroughs, chuck klosterman, mark z. danielewski, carlos castaneda, j.d. salinger, walt whitman, jonathan franzen, don delillo, ernest hemingway, gabriel garcia marquez, sylvia plath, jon krakauer, miranda july. currently reading: the diary of anais nin & 'ada, or ardor' by vladimir nabokov
lauren greenfield, kim deal, sarah silverman, sebastiao salgado, the dalai lama, my mom.