writing, avoiding writing, getting back to writing, media, intermedia, networks, paranoia, ethics, drama (not games), creativity, cookery, mobility, politics, translation (more metaphorically), avoiding distractions, completion.
complex people w/ issues who appreciate the same.
recent repeated listening: Jackson Brown, Late for the Sky; Bela Bartok/Bela Balazs, Bluebeard's Castle, esp. Door 6; Richard Strauss, Elektra; Kim Jung Mi, Wind; Television Personalities, But Is It Art; Archie Schepp, The Impulse Story; Aki Tsuyuko, Hokane; Bernard Hermann, Vertigo sndtrk; Yoko Ono, Season of Glass; Savage Republic, Tragic Figures; Lara Nyro, Eli and the 13th Confession; Phil Ochs, Rehearsals for Retirement; Stereolab, Serene Velocity; Lee Hazelwood, Requium for an Almost Lady. All time favorite songs (at this moment): Sister Ray, Some Velvet Morning, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.
The Chelsea Girls, Laura, The Shanghai Gesture (anything w/ Gene Tierney), the color sequence from Ivan the Terrible pt. II, Godard w/Karina & w/ Mieville, The President's Analyst, The Parallax View, Sherlock Jr. (any Keaton), Nashville, Barrabas, Spartacus (I've got a soft spot for historical epics), The Testament of Dr Mabuse, Johnny Guitar, Puce Moment, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, Let's Play Prisoners, Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs; anything by Sergei Paradjanov, Tsai Ming-Liang, Claire Denis, Peggy Awesh, Su Friedrich, Isaac Julien; most experiemental film & video; anything emotionally, formally, & politically challenging; and I'm really looking forward to the all-female remake of Deliverance my friend Jennifer Montgomery is making.
not much lately, though when I do I mostly flip compulsively and sequentially through the channels, no more than 1 second on each; and sometimes I'm distracted by Myth Busters, Top Chef, 24, Ugly Betty, Rebelde, Lost, Cheaters, 30 Rock, and America's Test Kitchen. When I was in 4th grade I wrote/drew a fan fiction comic book on Dark Shadows.
at the moment: Rousseau's Confessions, Schreber's Memoirs, Lacan's Seminar, Freud's correspondence, Wilde's aphorisms, and Nin's (unexpurgated) journals. Plus anything on cookery.
Antigone; Philoctetes. Anyone between two deaths and/or betrayed with impunity.