My son. My husband. AIDS research and advocacy. Conductive disorders. Changing inner city schools. Prions. Books. Records. Playing music.
Kevin Benson. Va va va voom. Touch the radar again! (www.wpxi.com)
The Magnificent Golden Curtains, Frontslumper, LIMES,Kate Bush, HOME, John Fahey, Nico, Gillian Welch, CCR, Velvet Underground, Van Morrisson, Lefty Frizell, Ernest Tubb,Luna, Jim O'Rourke, Tortoise, Stanley Brothers, Billy Bragg, the Smiths, Fennesz, Thee Headcoatees, Edith Frost, The Wedding Present, Lloyd Cole, Townes Van Zandt, Charlie Feathers, LOW, Elvis Costello, Gram Parsons, Whiskeytown, NOT Ryan Adams. Elliott Smith, The Magnetic Fields, Galaxie 500, Holly Golightly, El-P, Television Personalities, Slim Smith, the Heptones, Serge Gainsbourg, Erik Satie, the Kinks, Tom Waits, Aimee Mann, Nanci Griffith, Dean and Britta, Morrissey,John Prine, Brian Eno, Donovan, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Queen, Richard Buckner, Hazel Dickens, Dusty Spingfield, etc.
Glengarry Glenross, the Jerk, Days of Heaven, There Will Be Blood, Wizard of Oz, Office Space, Badlands, Thin Red Line, 3 Women, The Women, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother, Xanadu, Unforgiven, Strangers on a Train, Sunset Boulevard, Mullholland Drive, East is East, etc.
PASSIONS, Buffy, 6 Feet Under, Father Ted, Brass Eye, anything involving Steve Coogan, Miss Marple, The Golden Girls,Project Runway, Law and Order(s).
Anne Carson, Anne Bronte, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Nancy Mitford, Dawn Powell, Joan Didion, Truman Capote, George Singleton, Claire Bateman, Alice Munro, The Book Of Imaginary Beings, David Sedaris, Victorian mysteries where people get killed at tea parties, Mark Strand, Paul Muldoon,Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, Wheelocks, Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Shirley Jackson, George Eliot, Marilynne Robinson, Flaubert, Edith Wharton, Richard Yates, Tell Me That You Love Me Junie Moon, etc.
Nancy Mitford and Emily Bronte.