painting, trash picking, rusty metal, sculpture, found objects, installation art, urban walking, forest hiking, texture, decay, breakfast that takes a long time, coffee, food, books, tape, glue, sharpies, books, manual typewriters, documentation, asian grocery stores, skeletons, human behaviour
prophets and prisoners new years day in phila-ma-delphia
Beth Orton, Billie Holiday, Bill Withers, Billy Bragg, Birdie Busch, Bjork, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Cat Power, Calexico, Coco Rosie, Devin Greenwood, Ella Fitzgerald, Elliot Smith, Feist, Gillian Welch, Hildegard Von Bingen, Iron and Wine, James Brown, Jimmy Smith, Johnny Cash, John Francis, Kathleen Edwards, Leadbelly, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Mazarin, Mary Jane Lamond, Modest Mouse, Nina Simone, Neutral Milk Hotel, Radiohead, Rufus Wainwright, Sigur Ros, Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Be Good Tanyas, The Tragically Hip, Tom Waits, Voix Bulgares, Wilco
Dancer in the Dark, City of the Lost Children, Black Cat White Cat, Down By Law, No Country for Old Men, Orpheus
I hereby change this category to "Quote That Makes Me Happy":Zu: Auntie Alison, do you know what is a lie? A lie is when I say, 'Auntie Alison, come here!' And you come. And there's no cake.
Murakami, Dostoevsky, Irving, Alistair MacLeod (No Great Mischief), Susan Holbrook, some Kundera (esp. The Unbearable Lightness of Being) , ee cummings, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Watership Down, The Little Prince, A Good House, Grimm fairytales (esp. the Robber Bridegroom), the ongoing saga and performance of TANDEM POEMS, Tom Wolfe, The Secret Life of Bees, A Lover's Discourse, Magical Thinking, The Giving Tree, Dubliners, In The Night Kitchen, Straight Man, God of Small Things, The Reader, White Teeth, The Painted Bird, Mating (Norman Rush), Anais Nin, Four Ages of Man (Jay Macpherson)
saints and sinners, lovers and fighters, people willing to be vulnerable and strong at the same time