metaphysical conceits. zelda fitzgerald. double features. lavendar infusions. female rockabilly. champagne cocktails. the blank generation. twin peaks (its more than just a tv show). art deco. thom yorke's eye. ear muffs and fur hats. celebrity gossip. having manhattans in the upper east side. kentucky pride. learning to play the accoridan (but I'd settle for banjo). yerba mahte lattes. music with anachronistic atmosphere. crazy german/austrian expressionists. polysyllabic words. french new wave and francophilia in general. absurdism. fresh perfume. typewriters. andy warhol's factory scene. multiple course meals. writing a screenplay about zelda fitzgerald with woody allen.
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currently: any version of "blue moon of kentucky." rose maddox. THEM. marty robbins. lee hazlewood. loretta lynn. dean martin. mimi and richard farina. the small faces. elvis presley's sun days...and the country days near the end (10,000 years old). richard and linda thompson. nancy sinatra. neil young. karen dalton. mama cass. hank williams. pp arnold. neutral milk hotel. wanda jackson. chet baker. ella mae morse. rod stewart. robert mitchum calypso. the dinning sisters. will oldham. betty harris. screamin' jay hawkins. billie holiday. always in my heart: velvet underground. the replacements. david bowie. tom waits. the zombies. a whole lotta bob dylan. echo and the bunnymen. the magnetic fields. the rolling stones. the nerves. the kinks. jacques dutronc and francoise hardy and more 60s french pop. the faces. donovan. the only ones. van morrison. the pretenders. syd barrett. early roxy music. led zepplin. t-rex. the modern lovers. the raincoats. richard hell. the stooges. the pretty things. sam cooke. x. (the strokes)
i can only narrow such cosmic questions into a "currently" category: the furies, rio bravo, the last sunset, the life and death of colonel blimp, the misfits, ninotchka, duel in the sun, in a lonely place, bringing up baby (w/ peter bogdanovich commentary), altman's 3 women and california split, seven men from now, beau travail, the thin man, lord love a duck, the big red one: reconstructed and sam fuller in general, rivette's l'amour fou, trouble in paradise, ball of fire, let's get lost, shampoo, that obscure object of desire, leos carax, holiday, barry lyndon, love streams, l'atalante, a place in the sun and raintree county, tashlin's artists and models, siegel's the killers, anything + judy holliday, charting the world of wes anderson. these days most anything with maurice chevalier, gloria grahame, jack palance, charlie ruggles, barbara stanwyck, richard widmark, dorothy malone or kirk douglas.
freaks and geeks. six feet under (nothing seems to fill the hole in my heart since). project runway. seinfeld. arrested development. and I have finally come to terms with myself and am able to admit that I am hopelessly addicted to LOST. It is gonna be a damn long wait until February 2008.
walker percy's the moviegoer. dawn powell's the golden spur. the love of the last tycoon. jd salinger. my good friend roland (barthes). dean and me by jerry lewis. henry james's "the figure in the carpet". mary mccarthy's the company she keeps. zelda's save me the waltz. film criticism by pauline kael, jonathan rosenbaum, andrew sarris and especially manny farber. roald dahl. joan didion's play it as it lays. luis bunuel's my last sigh. the subterraneans. the philosophy of andy warhol. patricia bosworth's montgomery clift biography. a moveable feast. the lovesong of j. alfred prufrock. tender is the night.
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