collecting failed experiments. campaigning to abolish "LOL." tracking down all of e. hopper's paintings and writing short stories based on them. secret glances that meet. letters & letter writers. pocketa-pocketa-pocketa. twilight. supporting the local poet. coffee and pie. breakfast. forcing friends to read articles. evening walks. saying things too softly but being heard by the one person meant to hear it. dragging friends to shows and poetry readings. light rain. watching two to three films at a time. mixed cds. cheerleading for progressive political changes. dennis kucinich.
GOOD POETRY.HARMONICAS. BANJOS. UKULELES. PEDAL STEEL GUITARS. GLOCKENSPIELS.
HALF& HALF and THE DOT DOT DOTS...also, beulah, d. bowie, j. buckley, n. cole, j. denver, n. drake, b. dylan, hem, the incredible moses leroy (or the soft lightes., i guess), iron and wine, ivy, e. john, r. lamontagne, f. lionheart, magnetic fields, metric, w. nelson, the real tuesday weld, satisfaction, c. simon, s & g, stars, c. stevens, telecast, r. wainwright, wilco, yo la tengo, etc. FAVORITE SONG OF THE WEEK: voxtrot's long haul and nmh's king of carrot flowers part 1
after life, amadeus, being john malkovich, capote, control room, capturing the friedmans, dr. strangelove, end of the affair, happy accidents, in the mood for love, in the realms of the unreal, no man's land, the pillow book, the shining, the science of sleep, truly madly deeply, 3-iron, 21 grams, 2046... and of course, woody allen mutterings.
america's test kitchen, are you being served?, boomtown, father ted, flight of the conchords, frontline, northern exposure, p.o.v., the twilight zone
s. beckett, c. bukowski, d. chaon, j.m. coetzee, e.e. cummings, e. dickinson, g. eliot, t.s. eliot, j.s. foer, l. hughes, z. n. hurston, f. kafka, c. lee, b. malamud, v. nabakov, e. perlman, j.d. salinger, j. thurber, g. vidal, v. woolf, h. zinn and closet writers...finished memories of my melancholy whores -- yawn, except a few nice parts. now reading: d. handler's adverbs. silly and funny but am questioning his overuse of the word "what's-it."
the person i overheard saying, "there is no such thing as a perfect synonym." ...and folks who stay visible.