autumn, wind, flexibility, magazines, moral philosophy, deconstruction and design, liberation, dinner parties, color, texture, bodega plaid corner shop loyalty, particle physics, doing the right thing, radio journalism, emergence, nutrition, sunshine, scruples, sugarfree red bull, gait, grace, revolution, revelation, revelling, bicycles, motorcycles, dancing, brow furrowing, umbrellas - spiders - octopi (and other creatures and objects of eight), motion, magnetism, trains, aural identification, seduction, gregg lake, gender, negotiation, the laying down of arms, laughter, shouting, hard work, skirts, home, this: paris: oh marlene: that which no longer exists
the sad, the brilliant, the fierce, the loyal, the broken, the dying, the hopeless, the infirm, the alive, the unspeakable, the ordinary, the mistaken, the misunderstood, the charming, the depraved, the inspiring, the bold, the selfish, the worn, the temperate, the unnameable, the unknowable. people with unexpected and magical qualities. oh and
The Coup, Joe Henry, John Coltrane, Socalled, Wolf Parade, The Roots, Billie Holiday, Diplo, Jamie Cullum, Ani D., Madeleine Peyroux, RJD2, Daft Punk, Bob Marley, Elliott Smith, Common, Michael Jackson, esp in the context of Prince, Prince, Jackson 5, Fiona Apple, Regina Spektor, Iron and Wine, MIA, Jack Johnson, Feist, Miles Davis, Modest Mouse, Sigur Ros, Van Morrison, Gorrilaz, Sublime, anything I've never heard of but you'll teach me to love like you do.
The Sting, Happy Accidents, The Third Man, Love Actually (because I'm that cheesy), Boiler Room, The Great Debaters, The Girl in the Cafe, The Edukators, The Royal Tenenbaums, Little Women, The Journey of Natty Gann, Flashdance, The Company
one hundred years of solitude, interpreter of maladies, ideas for action, Assata, asian memoirs and... a severe weakness for the book's younger, prettier cousin, the magazine.