Words, music, movies, running, being someone to speak with.
You. And your sister, Debra.
Yo La Tengo, The Magnetic Fields, The Flaming Lips, Wilco, Nina Simone, Broadcast, The Beatles, David Bowie, T-Rex, The Rosebuds, The Walkmen, M. Ward, The Pixies, Jay-Z, MIA, Arcade Fire, Animal Collective, Beach House, Manitoba, Okkervil River, The Velvet Underground, and Bob Dylan.
Little Miss Sunshine, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lost in Translation. Wet Hot American Summer. Everything Wes Anderson. The Good Girl. The Princess Bride. Most things Almodovar, Sex and Lucia, L'auberge Espanole, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Lucia Lucia, and Amores Perros. Dreams, Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring. The Silence of the Lambs. Documentaries: Hands on a Hard Body, Crumb, Bowling for Columbine, and American Movie. Favorite Movies from the 60s: The Graduate and Bonnie and Clyde.
Deadwood, Weeds, The Wire, Veronica Mars, Queer as Folk, The L Word, Daria, Seinfeld, Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, The Simpsons, Home Movies, Arrested Development.
Carson McCullers, Vladimir Nabokov, Jonathan Safran Foer, Mary Robison, Mary Gaitskill, Peter Handke, Lawrence Durrell, Graham Swift, Jeffrey Eugenides. Poetry: James Wright, Larry Levis, Thom Gunn, Philip Larkin, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Matthew Arnold, Marie Howe, Rilke, Yeats, Robert Hass, Louise Gluck, Terrance Hayes, Alan Shapiro, Carl Phillips.
Ma and Pa.