Scarves!
-luxury suites
- not going insane
-not dying
-courting mild depravity
-the j&j flea market
-improving my galaga score
-hoarding the new buffalo nickles that have dicks on them
-insulting and subsequently getting dressed down by hustlers in Manhattan
-people who obsessively catalogue and collect, or who display freaky monkish devotion toward one thing
-naked women in high heels
-non-human mammals
-lycanthropy
-the excessively verbal
-guys with neat handwriting
the music to Silsila will instantly calm me
I almost choked to death listening to "get low" on the radio, so I suppose that deserves some respect
mystery train
the bank scene in mary poppins
glitter starring mariah carey
et tu mama...
career girls
the rope (Jimmy Stewart Ring of Fire: an Indonesian Odyssey
Gimme Shelter, Gray Gardens, Salesman
Tougher Than Leather (Run Style Wars
Salaam, Bombay!
amateur porn in the afternoon where you can hear birds or cars in the background
what everyone likes: Curb
Arrested Development
Six Feet Under
competitive dating shows
the Knifethrower (Steven Millhauser)
Self Help (Lorrie Moore)
the Elephant Vanishes (Haruki Murakami)
the Chelsea Whistle (Michelle Tea)
Eightball comics (Dan Clowes)
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Milan Kundera)
Everything That Rises Must Converge (Flannery O'Connor)
Foxfire (Joyce Carol Oates)
Jeanette Winterson
Bastard Out of Carolina (Dorothy Allison)
Ray (Barry Hannah)
Rollerderby magazine (Lisa Crystal Carver and friends)
gentleman's magazines of the 60s, particularly Adam
short stories in the New Yorker, though writers are frequently maligned for kissing ass to the house style
I had a dream that I added Charles Dickens to this list, so I will, even though it's not true
Fortress of Solitude, but fuck the third section
Love and Longing in Bombay (Vikram Chandra)
--I'm ashamed my profile mentions Bombay twice, but it is really the best collection of short stories I think I've read, ever
my maw