weekend escapes. reading lots. baking pies. vintage shopping. getting out there and seeing art. studio visits. pretty dresses. high heels. sexual sexiness. food food food.
Marc Quinn. Da Vinci. Michaelangelo. Giaccometti. Yves Klein. Manzoni. Faulkner. Ruth Reichl. Hal Hartley. Matisse. James Saulter. Marilyn Monroe. Mr. Darcy. Mike Patton, in all his guises.
beat junkies, rjd2, dj shadow, cut chemist, aesop rock, a tribe called quest, black star, biggie, 2pac, ztrip, prefuse 73, eric b & rakim, ella, nina, billie, sarah vaughan, etta james, esthero, brazilian girls, harry belafonte, frankie lymon, sisters of mercy, debussy, jamie lidell, diplo, kings of leon, the go! team, j dilla, al green, and on and on and on.........
touch of evil, big lebowski, bicycle thief, real genius, la jetee, labyrinth, ghost dog, dead man, blue in the face, secretary, the dark crystal, chungking express, an affair to remember, bringing up baby, annie hall, troop beverly hills, little miss sunshine, the lives of others, the third man...
faulkner's light in august, baudelaire's les fleurs du mal, nabokov's short stories, saulter's short stories, auster's invention of solitude, barthelme's short stories, calvino's invisible cities, bronte's jane eyre, barthes' empire des signes, ba's so long a letter, saramago's blindness, woolf's to the lighthouse, steinbeck's travels with charley, almost anything by murakami but especially hardboiled wonderland at the edge of the world, the wind-up bird chronicle, and kafka on the shore. also love david mitchell (all of them). same goes for john irving (with the exception of the fourth hand, which was awful), and paul auster. oh, and o'brien's the things they carried - broke my heart over and over.
survivors.