Carmelized shallots, making spirographs, kale, mashed potatoes, bookbinding, drinky-drinks, temperate climates, quietly worrying, suddenly winning lots and lots of money (!) and the most peace in the world ever.
I'd like to meet:
Apes-ma.
Music:
All Things Considered Weekend edition theme song, Beefhart, Big Star, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Slits, Bowie, Death Vessel, Deer Hoof, Devo, Tall Dwarfs, Jolie Holland, Ghost, Antony, Kinks, Os Mutantes, Thee Headcoatees, Lightning Bolt, Wire, Wizardzz, the Fall, Feelies, Tiny Hawks, MC5, MIA, Minutemen, Olivia Tremor Control, Galaxie 500, Barnacled, Figgs, Micah Blue Smaldone, Pharoah Sanders, Popol Vuh, Schoolhouse Rock, Low, Love, String Builder, Lavender Diamond, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Tom Waits, VU, Eyesores, Wedding Present, Will Oldham, Sun City Girls
Movies:
Dogs with Jobs, Withnail and I, Juliet of the Spirits, Tarnation, Midnight Cowboy, Joan D'Arc, Willy Wonka, Dogfight, Buffalo 66, All the Real Girls, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Wings of Desire, Crooklyn, Paper Moon, Yellow Submarine, Fargo, Frida, Svankmajer, Waiting for Guffman, Dr. Strangelove, Wes Anderson
... But mostly I have movie amnesia - filmnesia if you will - so I'm a good person with whom to watch a movie. If I've seen it before, most likely I won't give away the ending because I probably don't remember it. Except in Titanic the boat totally sinks - haha - now you don't want to watch it, do you? No, you don't.
Television:
If it turns out that the revolution will indeed be televised, then: Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Animal Planet, PBS documentaries not about WWII, Electric Company, Afterschool Specials, Square Pegs, Pete & Pete, and duh, My So-Called Life. Plus, Chief Meteorologist Tony Petrarca.
Books:
If'n Books , Middlesex, As I Lay Dying, The Tin Drum, The Waves, Sheltering Sky, Another Country, Non-Adhesive Binding Vol. I, The Idiot, Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Catcher in the Rye, The Giant's House, Mr. T the Man With the Gold by Mr. T, Ooh Lala Max in Love, all Lynda Barry
..
Heroes:
Amended to CHILDHOOD CRUSHES:
Muhammed Ali, John (not Ponch), Luke (not Bo), all of the Harlem Globetrotters, Barney Miller, Isaac on the Loveboat, Ringo, and Kristy MacNichol.
