Myspace Layouts - Myspace Editor
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These days I'm shutting between Los Angeles and my new home in Cool, California--that's really the name of the town--where my husband (www.jimmycamp.com) and I do a lot of chores and eat a lot of BBQ. Things that get to me in a good way: Horses, books, baby goats, big dogs and a love of latin dancing I just can't shake
Earnest Hemingway, Mata Hari and Lucille Ball...Fellow writers, aritsts, publishing denizen and professionals of all stripes would be nice, too
Jimmy Camp; Lucinda Williams; Tom Waits; Joe Ely; Midnight Oil; Jimmy Sabater; Spanish Harlem Orchestra; Los Van Van; Albita; the Rev. Al Greene; Marvin Gaye; Willie Nelson; Johnny Cash; Mary J. Blige; Bruce Springsteen; T. Rex; Mojo Nixon; Earth, Wind & Fire; White Stripes; P.J. Harvey; Black Crowes; Soundgarden; Mike Miller and Sandra Tsing Loh on the fiddle; Elvis, Frankie Sinatra and Peggy Lee...and many more
Y Tu Mama Tambien; Habla Con Ella; Amor es Perros; Casablanca; It Happened One Night; Little Miss Sunshine; Pulp Fiction; Best in Show and Waiting for Guffman; The Exorcist; Unforgiven; The Magnificent Seven; The Wizard of Oz; Muriel's Wedding; Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; Strictly Ballroom; Juno.
Walter Mercado's two-minute spot on Univision's "Primier Impacto"; Jeopardy!; Project Runway (we all have our weaknesses); Big Love
Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers; Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison; Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and The Road; Roddy Doyle's A Star Called Henry; Affliction by Russell Banks; All Things, All At Once by Lee K. Abbott; The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros; Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje; Postcards by Annie Proulx and the Complete Works of Flannery O'Connor; The Sportswriter by Richard Ford; Fugitive Pieces by Ann Michaels and The Hours by Michael Cunningham; V.S. Naipaul's Among the Believers; A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; Binnie Kirshenbaum's An Almost Perfect Moment...not enough space for all the mighty works of the world
Deanne Harris (my mom); Edward Albert; Joan Didion; Calamity Jane; librarians and indie bookstore owners the world over