poetry, prose, theater, music, travel, booze, travelling with booze, boozing while travelling. oh, and thunderstorms--i like'em.
Folks, I'm telling you, / birthing is hard / and dying is mean -- / so get yourself / a little loving / in between. -L. Hughes
Dylan, Wilco, Jayhawks, The Concretes, Jim White, A.C. Newman/New Porn, Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter, Magnetic Fields, Edie Brickell, Beatles, Neil Young, Gillian Welch, Greg Brown, Beta Band, Ralph Stanley, U2, Jeb Loy Nichols, r.e.m, Tim Hardin, Leonard Cohen, Franz Ferdinand, Death Cab for Cutie, Rachael Yamagata, Neko, Velvet Underground, Beatles (of course), Radiohead, balls parmesan, Bright Eyes, Beth Orton, Daniel Lanois, Rickie Lee Jones, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Tom Waits, Laura B ...blah blah blah
Igby Goes Down was great...The Dreamers (brilliance), Secretary, Sideways, The Departed, Children of Men (anything that keeps you talking two hours--hell, two days--beyond its finish is fucking good), American Beauty, The Last Waltz, Traffic, We Don't Live Here Anymore, You Can Count On Me, Garden State, Hurly Burly, Tadpole, Amelie, The Road to Perdition, In the Bedroom, Pulp Fiction, Memento, The Hours, 25th Hour, Lovely and Amazing, Raising Victor Vargas, Dead Man Walking, 21 Grams (!), Monty Python, Bull Durham, The Great Escape, Spellbound, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mystic River, Station Agent, Pieces of April, Swimming Pool, Lost in Translation, Before Sunset, In America, The Terminal, Good Night & Good Luck, The Weatherman, Capturing the Friedmans, Italian for Beginners, The Wonder Boys, Talk to Her (!), Four Weddings and a Funeral (minus andie macdowell, greatest comedy of all time)...was obsessed with The Navigator when i was eight...
West Wing, Scrubs, West Wing repeats on Bravo. HBO. Showtime. Commercials be damned, dammit!
Middlesex, Blindness, Book of Daniel, Lolita, Geek Love, Life of Pi, Atonement, The White Hotel (read it!), Plainsong (a gem!), The Inferno, Disgrace by Coetzee, Garp, The Beach, Paradise Lost, The Drifters, Capote, Drop City, Vonnegut, short stories of Douglas Glover, Unbearable Lightness of Being, The March, Refuge, The End of Alice, The Rules of Attraction, American Pastoral, The Hours, A Home at the End of the World, Love in the Time of Cholera, Dog Soldiers, Feast of Love, Rats, A Farewell to Arms, Youth in Revolt; plays by Shepard, Ives, Sartre, Wright, Dresser, Mamet, Hare, Durang, Blessing, Strelich, Kushner, Wright, Churchill, Martin, Letts; poetry of Li-Young Lee, Jeffrey McDaniel, Eliot, Williams, Sandburg, Ashbery, Dorianne Laux, Bukowski, Hughes, cummings, Owen, Copper Canyon Press, Neruda, you.
peaceful people. whiskey drinkers. jeff tweedy.