All things red and most things grey. Ontology. Prescriptive grammar. Passport stamp accumulation. Croquette. Cellophane. Growing things. Marbles. Dice. Poker. Stained glass. Glass blowing. Breaking glass...
Valid passport holders, foreign language speakers, late night drinkers, and someone with access to a portable respirator. ***********************************************************
Stars, Broken Social Scene, Big Star, Tom Waits, The Mekons, The Raveonettes, Gang of 4, Fatima Mansions, The New Pornographers, The Walkmen, The Pogues, The Kinks, Nick Drake, Radiohead, The Pixies, Swans, Blur, The Thin Man, The French Kicks, Cinerama / The Wedding Present, The Velvet Underground, Nada Surf (only the new album), Edith Piaf, PJ Harvey, The Kills, Service Group, Sixteen Horsepower, Nick Cave, Pulp, Suede (and no, I will not say "The London..."), Elvis Costello, Joe Henry, Gavin Friday, The Strokes, Beth Orton, Ian McCulloch, Robyn Hitchcock, Luna, Bowie, Magnetic Fields, the Zombies, Sonic Youth...
Alphaville, Mr. Hollywood, Wings of Desire, Until the End of the World, Twin Falls Idaho, Dead Ringers, Fire Walk With Me, Barcelona, Beautiful Girls, Tom and Viv, Even Dwarves Start Small, The Station Agent, Mod Fuck Explosion, Shallow Grave, The Moderns, The Minx...
Marquee Moon
Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Julien Barnes, Flannery O'Connor, Edward Gorey, Richard Ford, Richard Powers, Nabokov, Dostoyevsky, Hardy, Dickens, John Donne, Brigid Brophy, Alex Shakar...
Gray Davis and my cousin Brian who makes blue nights red.