"Inside, at the heart, is tragedy, the present moment forever stillborn, but going in, each breath is a button coming undone, something terribly nimble-fingered finding all the stops."
Autolux,The Bronx,Mars Volta, The Black Keys,Tom Waits, Jeff Buckley, old Ani DiFranco, Sinead O'Connor (1st, maybe 2nd album),Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Donovan,James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Ma Rainey, Nina Simone ,Beatles,ACDC,Rage,Queen,Bowie,Stooges, old Beck,Elton John,Muddy Waters, Lightening Hopkins, and anything with lots of ass and soul.
Delicatessen, Moulin Rouge,Don't Look Now, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Reds, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,Lost In Translation, all Peter Greenaway, Rosemary's Baby, The Tenant, The Rear Window,Citizen Kane,China Town,All About Eve,Casa Blanca,The One Who Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest,Sex Lies & Videotape, Fargo, American Beauty,The Night of the Blue Iguana, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Color Purple,Kolya,Gas Food & Lodging,Stand By Me,Koyaniskatsi (sp?),Dancer in the Dark, Apocalypse Now & Docu.,Princess Bride, Dark Days,Donnie Darko,When We Were Kings,Spellbound,Fast Cheap & Out of Control, Crumb, Usual Suspects, My Brother's Keeper,Laura, Blue Velvet, The Red Shoes...
Netflix Rules!
BOOKS & SHORT STORIES:John Gardner, Raymond Carver,Italo Calvino,Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, Crime and Punishment, Moby Dick, Frankenstein, To the Lighthouse,Cat's Cradle,Beloved,Their Eyes Were Watching God, Jesus' Son, Sarah,100 Years of Solitude, The Doors of Perception,Play it as it Lays,Ask the Dust, Love the pulp of Jim Thompson,Chandler,Mosley,H.P.Lovecraft, Bukowski; Poe, Kafka,Flannery O'Connor,Henry Miller, Susan Minot (Lust),John Updike(A&P),Charlotte Perkins Gilman(The Yellow Wallpaper),David Schickler(The Smoker),Antonya Nelson(Female Trouble),Saul Bellow,James Thurber,Kate Chopin,In Cold Blood, Bastard out of Carolina,Perfume,Heart of Darkness, Faulkner, Burroughs, Hemmingway is overrated, but I appreciate The Sun Also Rises (fishing scene kicks ass)POETRY: e.e.cummings,Pablo Neruda, Bukowski, Ginsberg,Ferlinghetti,Levertov,Whitman,Plath,Jorie Graham,Blake,Wordsworth,Yeats,Rimbaud(saucy),Oscar Wilde,Langston Hughes,Adrienne Rich,Martin Espada,Doug Anderson,Sebastian Matthews,Dorianne Laux,Jeffrey McDaniel (!!)Dana Levin, Dan Klipp, and Steve.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Mark Twain,Josephine Baker,my husband