Animals, music, plants, marshes, birds, storms, back bays, high tides, the ocean, the beach, the woods, novels, poems, decaying resorts, boardwalks, city planning, street names, maps, boats, leather bars, Joni Mitchell, kindness and decency, wackiness and sass, a good laugh, and my friends.
I'd like to meet:
Joni Mitchell, Jane Bowles, Frank O'Hara, Flannery O'Connor, Mary Robison, Joan of Arc, St. John of the Cross, Montgomery Clift, William J. Levitt, Eve Arden, Cookie Mueller, Karen Carpenter, Todd Haynes, James Baldwin, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, Jimi Hendrix, Pedro Almodovar, Jean Cocteau, Charles and Rae Eames, Gena Rowlands, Frances McDormand, Lauren Ambrose, Chloe Sevigny, Brandon Flowers, Wayne Coyne, Paul Rubens, Al Parker
Music:
Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Milton Nascimento, Bjork, Judee Sill, Nina Simone, Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley, Kate Bush, Dusty Springfield, Joan as Police Woman, Rufus Wainwright, Miles Davis, Stravinsky, Poulenc, Fiona Apple, Rickie Lee Jones, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, John Legend, Sufjan Stevens, Nick Drake, Casey Dienel, Bekah Hayes, Regina Spektor, Me'shell Ndegeocello, Sia, Feist, Bat for Lashes, Elliott Smith, Andrew Bird, The Smiths, Radiohead, Sonic Youth, Jaco Pastorius, Martin Sexton, Owen Duff, The Flaming Lips, The Shins, Tori Amos, Wendy Waldman, Joanna Newsom, Faun Fables, Floetry, Kanye West, Mary J. Blige, Stevie Wonder, Burt Bacharach, Judee Sill, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Antony and the Johnsons, old school soul
Movies:
Volver, The New World, Badlands, When the Levees Broke, Half Nelson, Grey Gardens, The Beales of Grey Gardens, Kansas City Trucking Company, Mildred Pierce, Me and You and Everyone You Know, You Can Count on Me, The Station Agent, Central Station, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Happy Endings, Happiness, In the Mood for Love, Being John Malkovich, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Raspberry Reich, Babette's Feast, Butterfield 8, A Woman Under the Influence, Iris, Ma Vie en Rose, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Female Trouble, Desperate Living, Polyester, The Ice Storm, Sense and Sensibility, Brokeback Mountain, Tarnation, The Night of the Hunter, Nights of Cabiria, La Dolce Vita, Eight and a Half, Juliet of the Spirits, Superstar, Dottie Gets Spanked, Safe, Far From Heaven, Laurel Canyon, The Last Waltz, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Smiles of a Summer Night, Persona, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Mysterious Skin, The Living End, Paris is Burning, Hellboy, The Devil's Backbone, Jarhead, I Want to Live, A Streetcar Named Desire, Dolores Claiborne, Carrie, Edward Scissorhands, The Host, The Bride of Frankenstein, Monster, Gods and Monsters, Kinsey, Carnival of Souls, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Grizzly Man
Television:
The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Comeback, Big Love, The Office
Books:
Mark Doty, Virginia Woolf, Joy Williams, Flannery O'Connor, Denis Johnson, Kathryn Davis, Jane Bowles, Flaubert, Marie Howe, Dorianne Laux, Lydia Davis, James Tate, Sigrid Nunez, Mary Gaitskill, Whitman, Blake, Elizabeth McCracken, Edward Carey, Ann Patchett, Richard Hughes, Matthew Zapruder, Amy Hempel, David Leavitt, Matthew Klam, Carol Muske Dukes, Tim O'Brien, Heather McHugh, Denise Gess, Katrina Roberts, Michael Cunningham, Bernard Cooper, Richard McCann, Clifford Chase, Mike Albo, Terrance Hayes, Victor LaValle, George Saunders, Mary Robison, Alexander Chee, Rebecca Brown, Scott Heim, Michael Lowenthal, Patrick Ryan, Louise Gluck, Linda Gregerson, Frank Bidart, Frank O'Hara, Li-Young Lee, Huub Oosterhuis, Jeffrey Eugenides, Joan Didion, Nick Flynn, Evan S. Connell, Dan Chaon, Susan Wheeler, Lucie Brock-Broido, Lucy Grealy, Victoria Redel, Linda Gregg, Donna Masini, Tracy K. Smith, Jill Ciment, David Shields, ZZ Packer, Adam Haslett, Chris Offutt, Richard Ford, Edmund White, Andrew Holleran, Lorrie Moore, Mona Simpson, Andrea Barrett, Anne Carson, Toi Derricotte, Cookie Mueller, Tama Janowitz, Robert Leleux, James Hall, Ann Beattie, Alice Munro, Elizabeth Bishop, Claudia Rankine, Jean Valentine, Brenda Hillman, Amy Gerstler, Alex Lemon, Tina Chang, Reetika Vazirani, Richard Powers, Jayne Anne Phillips, D.J. Waldie, Grace Paley, Gish Jen, Michelle Huneven, Christine Schutt, Christopher Davis, Susan Stinson, Rose Tremain, Kathleen Graber, Gregory Pardlo, Stephen Dunn, Alan Shapiro, Matthew Rohrer, Robert Hill, Lia Purpura, Brenda Shaughnessy, Major Jackson, Lynda Hull, Karen Brennan, Alice Fulton, Deborah Lott, Karen E. Bender, Robert Anthony Siegel, Sarah Messer, Rebecca Lee, Brad Land, Anne Waldman, Donald Barthelme, Jaimy Gordon, Eileen Myles, Gary Lutz, Yannick Murphy, Brighde Mullins, Damon Krukowski, Cynthia Macdonald, Pimone Triplett, Andrew Feld, Oni Buchanan, Tim Dlugos, Jennifer Egan, Bret Anthony Johnston, John Weir, Maria Flook, Helen Schulman, Jo Ann Beard, Wesley Gibson, Frank Conroy, Salvatore Scibona, Tao Lin, Daniel Mueller, Ander Monson, Alicia Erian, Junot Diaz, Steve Almond, Robert Olen Butler, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Yiyun Li
Heroes:
Writers, Poets, Musicians, Artists, People who love animals, Dogs!
