my son, art, music, poetry, laughter,social justice, feminism, Attaturk, art attacks, banter, banners, barter, billy barty, birthday party,The Birthday Party, going and coming, dancing, Dirty Dancing (the movie) challenging and being challenged, long winding philosophical discussions, feeling things intensely, overcoming adversity, pilates, peace, friendship, joy. Humor, politics, the world, travel, skewed perspectives and weird juxtapositions, uneasiness, awkwardness, strange acculturations and agglomerations, cosmologies and syncretism, people who look like their pets, fodder for laughter, the body and body art/changes/etc.
Passionate people, authentic people, curious people, funny people, people that are genuinely interested in things, people who are not completey insane or into power-tripping.
the Pogues. Nick Cave, Fugazi. Dresden Dolls. Ann Magnusson. Neutral Milk Hotel. Husker Du. Wilco. Flaming Lips. Billly Bragg. Bongwater. Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, Rufus Wainwright,Belle and Sebastian, Laibach,
Yes, Wings of Desire, Room with a View, Careful, Forbidden Zone, Dr. Phibes, Dead Alive, The Thin Man, musicals from busby berkeley to chicago, The Lives of Others, Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Saddest Music in the World, Donnie Darko, The Apartment, Days of Wine and Roses, Dirty Dancing, Moulin Rouge, Trainspotting, The Field, Hammer Horror, Troma,
Danny Phantom (and I will miss him), The Wire, Six Feet Under, pathetic addictions to Bravo reality shows
A.S. Byatt, Louis de Bernieres, Nick Hornby, Roddy Doyle, James Joyce, Eugene O'Neil, Michael Chabin Poets-- Michael Blumenthal,e.e. cummings, W.B. Yeats, Shelley, Keats, Poe, Carl Sandberg, Leonard Cohen, Tony Hoagland, Barbara Hamby, Wallace Stevens, Jonathan Lehmen,
Emma Goldman, Shirley Jackson, Bella Abzug, Victoria Woodhull, Elizabeth Cady Stanton,