story hour, happy hour, naptime, flea markets and thrifts, manners, maker's mark, photo, bacon, bauhaus, budweiser, braun, buzz & beard combos, design, crafts, craftiness, candlelight, reflected light, flora, fauna, frisson, camping, camp, federalism, ornamentation, NPR, NY & BBG, patina, puppies, potagers, proportion, symmetry, sewing, stars, scruff, sleeping porches, thunder, vocabulary, penmanship, v-necks, light eyes, bedroom eyes, bloody marys, precious moments, prussian blue, fountain soda, looking up, alpenglow, good deeds, good hearts, the art of context, leather, feu de bois, vetiver, silver mountain water
Darcel Wynne, beards
Winter 2007 soundtrack includes but is not limited to Snowden, Loney,Dear, The Postmarks, Mahogany, Imogen Heap, Patrick Wolf, My Brightest Diamond, The Bird & The Bee, Menomena, Buildings Breeding, Au Revoir Simone, The Blow, Midlake, El Perro del Mar, Vietnam, Espers, Jenny Lewis, Grizzly Bear, Peter Bjorn and John, Jim Noir, CSNY and all associated solo/duo/trios, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Silver Apples, Big Mama Thornton, Bill Evans, The Hidden Cameras, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Roxy Music, TTC, Brian Eno, Siouxie, DeVotchka
SWC, OZ, Family Guy, Golden Girls, Arrested Development via DVD, Barefoot C, Nigella, P. Runway bien sur. AMC, TCM, History channels are all reliable standbys. All that other reality shit makes you dumb, although NTM is kinda fun dumb.
Murakami, Hemingway, Whitman, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Specimen Days, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Atlas Shrugged, Great Expectations, Love in the Time of Cholera, To Kill a Mockingbird, Family Creative Workshop, MS's New Old House, vintage home, Everything's Better With Bacon, 1000 Lights: 1879-1959, Bricks & Brownstone, old auction catalogs, WOI, Casa Vogue, ED, DNR, Cook's Illustrated
where I come from we call them grinders