books, listening to someone spill themselves for hours and hours... mopping up the mess, charcoal (more mess), flowers (and their sweet sentimental cheeseball meanings), the moon, velvet, apples, different voices (spoken or sung, their qualities... or timbres, if you will =)), grey lace stockings, monday night football, soup, snow (and when it "snows" at disneyland in winter), cathedrals, christmas, candles, big families, eyelashes, mashed potatoes, kisses (special ones), teasing, rock climbing, stained glass...blown glass...broken glass, not being a skanky whore, people who sing out true love, deep experienced (though not worn or despairing) eyes, twinkly lights, old records, the fox and the hound (disney movie), mismatched plates/silverware, peacocks, grimms fairy tales, those weeping willow-ish magical curtain fireworks, making out with marshmallows (requires further explanation, i know), fantasy, pumpkin patches, myths, death, destiny, kissing the tips of the corners of the earth and your mouth, poetry (out loud by yourself), ritual, surprises, satin, massive purple panties pinned on the wall, children's literature, making the world a beautiful place framed in my eyelashes... etc.
someone worth cherishing, someone to delight in.
LATELY (this is not an all-inclusive list): A Silver Mount Zion, Air, Al Green, The Album Leaf, Alisdair Roberts, Andrew Bird, Angry Angles, Aretha Franklin, Bay City Rollers, Beach Boys, Belle and Sebastian, Beth Gibbons, Bikini Kill, Billie Holiday, Billy Idol, Bjork, Black Heart Procession, Bonobo, Born Heller, Bowie, The Cardigans, Cat Power, Coachwhips, Damien Rice, Dean Martin, The Dears, Death From Above 1979, Devandra Banhart, Digital Leather, Dismemberment Plan, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, The Exploding Hearts, Explosions in the Sky, Feist, Gang of Four, Inara George, Iron and Wine, Jay Reatard, Joy Division, Julie Doiron, Kings of Convenience, The Kinks, Leadbelly, Leonard Cohen, Louis Armstrong, The Magnetic Fields, Mark Lannegan, Marvin Gaye, Mogwai, Mum, Nancy Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Natalie Cole, Nick Drake, Nico, Nouvelle Vague, Odetta, Peaches, The Perishers, Petula Clark, The Ponys, Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Raincoats, Robert Johnson, Rogue Wave, Rufus Wainwright, Sam Cooke, The Seeds, Sigur Ros, Skeeter Davis, Smog, Sonic Youth, Spoon, Stars, Sun Kil Moon, The Supremes, Turbonegro, Van Morrison, The Vibrators, The Weavers... etc.
Come over. We'll watch one.
no time
Over the past few months, I have read: Miss Lonelyhearts/The Day of the Locust...Nathanael West, Ask the Dust...John Fante, East of Eden...John Steinbeck, White Noise...Don Delillo, The Body Artist...Don Delillo, The Age of Innocence...Edith Wharton, The Shack...William Young, Swanns Way...Marcel Proust, A Girl's Guide To Taking Over The World (feminist zine excerpts, I don't actually study up on taking over the world)...Karen Green (editor), The Drama of The Gifted Child...Alice Miller (a reread), Complete Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, some Ginsberg, Neruda, Bukowski, Homer, Hafiz. etc, etc, etc, etc.
Lullabys and Childrens Books... and yes, Wolfgang Laib ----->