art, politics, culture, nature, things, stuff, grumble, [hiccough] frghhlp.
The Beatles, Dolly Parton, Bob Dylan, Wilco, Sufjan Stevens, Badly Drawn Boy, Blackalicious, Stravinsky, Beethoven, The Flaming Lips, Noam Dagger, Regina Spektor, Radiohead, Fela Kuti, Beastie Boys, Tribe Called Quest, Harry Connick, Jr. (for some reason, the only fan club I ever joined).
Ferris Buehler’s Day Off, About Schmidt, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The History Boys, Manhattan, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Edward Scissorhands, Rushmore, Spellbound, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Strictly Ballroom, The Fast Runner, The Good Girl, The Incredibles, The Jerk, Wayne’s World, The English Patient, The Sound of Music.
The Dharma Bums, The Corrections, Elements of Style Illustrated, Siddhartha, Mortified, Saul Bellow, Amee Bender, Nathanael West, Tom Stoppard, Shakespeare, Chekhov, Nabokov, the Ubu plays, Donald Richie, Edward Gorey, Victoria Roberts, Destined for Dizziness, Kramer’s Ergot, Optic Nerve, The Talent Family, William Saroyan, poetry in magazines, Judy Blume during my formative years.
City bus drivers and geriatricians.