words. wine.
tattoos. getting tattooed.
friends, known and unknown.
all things unknown.
THE SHORT LIST:
Tom Waits
Sonic Youth
Wilco
Neil Young
Elliott Smith
Neutral Milk Hotel
Guided by Voices
Silver Jews
Lift to Experience / Josh T. Pearson
Velvet Underground / Lou Reed / Nico
Jeff Buckley
Nick Cave
Yo La Tengo
Low
Angels of Light
John Coltrane
Cecil Taylor
Beatles
Stooges / Iggy
Television
Pere Ubu
RIGHT NOW I'M LISTENING TO:
Asobi Seksu "Citrus"
Cold War Kids "Cops and Robbers"
Midlake "Trials of Van Occupanther"
Rosebuds "Rosebuds Make Out"
Wilco "Sky Blue Sky"
The old kind.
Jon Stewart, Colbert Report, Robot Chicken (and adult swim in general), and The Office (BBC version).
FICTION:
Jorge Luis Borges
Jose Saramago
Samuel Beckett
Toni Morrison
E.L. Doctorow
Franz Kafka
Julio Cortazar
Orhan Pamuk
Don Delillo
Paul Auster
Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
Imre Kertesz
Danilo Kis
Jean Genet
Junot Diaz
Milan Kundera
Charles Bukowski
William Burroughs
Henry Miller
Louis Aragon
Denis Johnson
Dagoberto Gilb
James M. Cain
Dashiell Hammett
Albert Camus
Jonathan Safran Foer
POETRY:
Charles Simic
Paul Celan
Anna Akhmatova
Rainer Maria Rilke
Li-Young Lee
Kathleen Peirce
C.D. Wright
Aime Cesaire
Pablo Neruda
Frederico Garcia-Lorca
Anne Carson