bedroom dancing, oblivion. ...sitting in movie theaters alone, sleep, food/nourishment, historiography, french colombard, algebra, pearls, forests, lapsang souchoung, my cat, the sea, language, memory, love letters, shyness, libertines, white lights, experimental economics, rollerblading around town at dusk, collecting teapots, driving alone in the dead of night, friendly flirting, critical theory, taking walks, falling on my ass all the time, unrequited everything, spain, 1920s, home, hummingbirds, breakfasting, 1940s, storms, androgyny, consummation, train rides, artful everydays, growing up, the mental and emotional window-dressing involved in seduction/allure, escape artists, paper
I'd like to meet:
a fat cat (or two!) who just doesn't give a damn. secret writers with elaborate catholic guilt. people interested in diner- rather than pub- crawling. dyed in the wool bluestocking feminists. someone to play toy instruments with. someone to collaborate with on children's picture books (hi Bryce). scrabble partners. fellow kingdom of loathing addicts. people to go on twilight picnics or urban hikes with. people who use their hands. house painters. someone who likes involved, feisty, colorful correspondence. andrew kenny. natalie angier. craig thompson. wendy shanker. the lyricist from s prcss. eric bachmann (again). jonathan richman. steve burns. rob pollard. dorks. someone to enjoy tea with at 4 in the afternoon. sad ghosts. a beautiful writer who doesn't act the part.
really? i'd like to have dinner parties and split pitchers of beer and laugh my ass off and swap mix tapes and wander around and visit libraries and just have some good old-fashioned conversation with people near and far. i'm crazy shy but always like making new acquaintances/friends, so feel free to say hi.
Music:
(whoever did the art direction for elephant shoe-era arab strap is my hero. Heather's always talking about those times when you look at someone's art and recognize it instantly as being like all the secret nebulous weird stuff in your head aesthetically. that recognition? i get it when i watch the "cherubs" video, in every sense, and i reeeeally wish they'd make a big poster of the cover of that album:
...yeah!)
early and mid-90s indie rock, old jazz, altcountry, romantic-era classical, SHOEGAZE when it's not wimpy or boring, girly pop, sunny punk, khoomei, flamenco (fun live). but really, there's no rhyme or reason to what i'll fall for... jean sibelius, anton bruckner, HIS NAME IS ALIVE, ROBERT SCHUMANN, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, the scud mountain boys, uncle tupelo, the american analog set, DISCO INFERNO, windsor for the derby, CODEINE, kristin hersh, the durutti column, mission of burma, GALAXIE 500, the dirty three, LIZ PHAIR, lou barlow, the descendents, minor threat, the germs, neko case, heavenly, THE SPINANES, JULIE DOIRON, SPACEMEN 3, jeremy enigk, HOOD, erik satie, claude debussy, DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH, explosions in the sky, kate bush, the zombies, S PRCSS, archers of loaf, edith frost, thalia zedek, HURL and TAKING PICTURES, franz schubert, alma mahler, bill evans, electrelane, joy division, kath bloom and loren connors, the mekons, crowsdell, jenny toomey, woven hand, HELIUM, labradford, califone, the fall, richard buckner, secret shine, eternal, the weepies, joanna newsom, cass mccombs, the field mice, john coltrane, maria callas, scott walker, the mc5, big star, PJ HARVEY, tom waits, GUIDED BY VOICES, bill withers, phil ochs, the hellacopters, afghan whigs, muler, stan getz, tugboat annie, sam cooke, bowery electric, de la soul, prince paul, RED HOUSE PAINTERS, goodnight streetlight, JOHANNES BRAHMS, karlheinz stockhausen, johann sebastian bach, palace, hank williams, blind willie johnson, the carters, etta james, opal, astrud gilberto, sleater-kinney, lee perry, albert ayler, whiskeytown, jonathan richman, the elephant 6 collective, some radiohead, the buzzcocks, marian anderson, fredric chopin, mildred bailey, the notwist, my morning jacket, built to spill, superchunk, leonard cohen, harry nilsson, patti smith, otis redding, gillian welch, slowdive, kaia wilson, gregory paul, the stooges, jay farrar, the boredoms, ned rifle, ornette coleman, poole, the alpha control group, varnaline, pell mell, saxon shore, herbie hancock, blah blah blah sarah records postcard creation factory rocket girl drag city sealed fate bloodshot etc. wber (indie show new wave wednesdays spotlight review), wrct (like most pittsburgh students i sorely miss fear and whiskey), wfmu, rochester's public jazz station at night. i don't have a problem admitting i like music you can dance to, also music you can sleep to. i miss trading mix tapes; i don't have that delicate relationship anymore with anyone. oh, and i could listen to lucky star/cherish/burning up-style madonna all day, so there.
Movies:
romance, LATE SPRING, THREE WOMEN, THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN, loving couples, ERIC ROHMER's, CARL DREYER's, HAL HARTLEY's, todd haynes', terrence malick's, RICHARD LINKLATER's, katharine hepburn's, grey gardens, wild zero, les diaboliques, big night, the last time i committed suicide, trees lounge, who's afraid of virginia woolf?, picnic at hanging rock, the misfits, 2 or 3 things i know about her, the big lebowski, all the real girls, wet hot american summer, vanishing point, bound, y tu mama tambien, network, stiff upper lips, harold and maude, memento, the boondock saints, stealing beauty, brotherhood of the wolf, cold comfort farm, the lady eve, the shop around the corner, leon the professional, portrait d'une jeune fille a la fin des annees 60 aux bruxelles, the city of lost children, the gleaners and i, rashoman, the 39 steps, the lady vanishes, strangers on a train, the trouble with harry, marnie, gaslight, shadow of a doubt, bringing up baby, french kiss (inexplicable and unforgivable of me, i know, but true somehow), legally blonde (shut up it's awesome), martin donovan's, madeline kahn's, ralph fiennes', fritz lang's, marilyn monroe's, clint eastwood's, natalie wood's, hayao miyazaki's, christopher nolan's, jack lemmon's, some of francois truffaut's, audrey hepburn's, gregory peck's, ingmar bergman's, orson welles', most of luc besson's, ang lee's at times, really really hilariously bad and obvious ones like barbarella, flash gordon, tarantula, them, manos, the blob, godzilla versus mothra, etc., ones where sex wreaks havoc on everything and everybody, 80s sunny punk style ones like gleaming the cube and most of christian slater's. i still have to get around to seeing that nick cave/guy pearce movie! if you forced me to choose my favorite movie, it'd be a three way tie (ha) between late spring, SAFE, and three women.
Television:
arrested development, freaks and geeks, ROCKO'S MODERN LIFE, SPACE GHOST COAST TO COAST and the rest, the golden girls, the jon stewart show, fishing with john, that adaptation of THE MAXX, THE AVENGERS, nova reruns, the prisoner, doctor who, late night with conan o'brien, sketch comedy, the adventures of pete and pete, degrassi junior high, amp, sessions at west 54th, 120 minutes back when it was great, junkyard wars when it was good and had that blonde german host, oz, batman the animated series (for real), samurai jack, this old house, six feet under until it got too dramatic, homicide, early episodes of three's company, viva variety, food and regional cuisine/travelogue shows (julia child's, mario baralli's, ina garten's, DAVID ROSENGARTEN's, TONY BOURDAIN's, alton brown's, ming tsai's, ron and nina's, america's test kitchen, pbs specials, iron chef), mystery science theater 3000, ran ma. edie falco makes me smile.
Books:
my profile on librarything sums it up best right now...JOHN ASHBERY, GILLES DELEUZE, larissa szporluk, SLAVOJ ZIZEK, LAURA KIPNIS, GINA BERRIAULT, JEAN GENET, herbert huncke, KOBAYASHI ISSA, hermann hesse, georges bataille, HEINRICH VON KLEIST, WALTER BENJAMIN, HENRY JAMES, yukio mishima, louis-ferdinand celine, ALICE NOTLEY, elizabeth smart, tu fu, EE CUMMINGS, philip roth, wislawa szymborska, dennis nurkse, paul celan, IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN, GERALD STERN, THEODOR ADORNO, tristan tzara, guy debord, THORSTEIN VEBLEN, PAT CALIFIA, clifford geertz, amy hempel, carson mccullers, flannery o'connor, william faulkner, joseph conrad, euripedes, jean racine, FRANCOIS RABELAIS, MIKHAIL BAKHTIN, mary daly, jack london, antonio gramsci, friedrich schleiermacher, robert bellah, ELAINE EQUI, gerard manley hopkins, ryunosuke akutagawa, vladimir nabokov, peter carey, anne sexton, federico garcia lorca, janet frame, violette leduc, grant morrison, GEORGE HERRIMAN, john steinbeck, JAMES JOYCE, hans-georg gadamer, sacvan bercovitch, aimee bender, odysseas elytis, VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY, rabindranath tagore, emily dickinson, WALT WHITMAN, franz kafka, stephen dixon, stuart hall, charles simic, em forster, wh auden, ai, sharon olds, ronald koertge, EDWARD SAPIR, MARCEL PROUST, elizabeth bishop, donna haraway, cynthia voigt, dawn powell, doris lessing, roald dahl, IMMANUEL KANT, DAVID HUME, soren kierkegaard, nikolai gogol, alexander pushkin, jonathan franzen, yusef komunyakaa, da levy, juan ramon jimenez, donald barthelme, HL MENCKEN, john berger, jurgen habermas, franz fanon, edward said, audre lorde, JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER, vs naipaul, lucille clifton, ezra pound, frances hodgson burnett, nancy mitford, penelope fitzgerald, stanley deetz, ISAIAH BERLIN, margery wolf, william labov, richard brautigan, toi dericotte, wilhelm dilthey, marina tsvetaeva, GERMAINE GREER, paul tillich, NATALIE ANGIER, georges perec, julie doucet, kim addonizio, jacques lacan, beth nugent, mary gaitskill, mary wollstonecraft, toni morrison, george orwell, joan scott, baruch spinoza, ludwig wittgenstein, fernando pessoa, david markson, ERIK ERIKSEN, clyde kluckhohn, HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, su tong, adrian tomine, gyorgy lukacs, eugene ionesco, ned o'gorman, debbie drechsler, phoebe gloeckner, deirdre mccloskey, marianne ferber, ray bradbury, aphra behn, edgar allan poe, VICTOR TURNER, lev vigotsky, james salter, carl jung, marshall mcluhan, raymond williams, kazuo ishiguro, nomy lamm, ogai mori, zora neale hurston, aristophanes, renee french, matthea harvey, ovid, jt leroy (yes i know and i don't care), robin mckinley, tanith lee, DAVID ROSENGARTEN, jim harrison's food writing, emile durkheim, katherine anne porter, sarah orne jewett, the romantics, george seferis' notebooks, ondaatje's historiography-themed projects, food writing, CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, the anatomy of melancholy, the tin drum, the dream of the red chamber, THE PLUM IN THE GOLDEN VASE, MASTER TUNG'S WESTERN CHAMBER ROMANCE, SIX RECORDS OF A FLOATING LIFE, salinger's glass family stories, the little sister, a tree grows in brooklyn, the road to serfdom, einstein's dreams, a taste of honey, ARCADIA, HAMLET and the winter's tale, updike's early short stories, the history of luminous motion, an underachiever's diary, myra breckinridge, GERMINAL, lord of the flies, the alice b. toklas cookbook, between meals: an appetite for paris, slaughterhouse-five and jailbird, slouching towards bethlehem and the white album, of human bondage, GOVERNING THE TONGUE, vanity fair, the last temptation, bukowski's letters, THE LETTERS OF ABELARD AND HELOISE, purity and danger, TRISTESSA, all the king's men, the diary of opal whiteley, zuleika dobson, anita loos on occasion for fun, the giant's house, ABSENCES, chimera and lost in the funhouse, petrarch's sonnets to laura, lila says, growing up absurd, paradise lost and SAMSON AGONISTES, goodness had nothing to do with it, stuff with unreliable narration/delusions of grandeur, dactylic rhythm or nested periodic structure, or themes about: how to render "the true and final story"/internal landscapes manifested outward/unrequited feelings or loneliness/secrecy. benjamin and the school of sacred poetry's insistence on the natural and mystical elements of syntax and language makes me oh so happy. my current favorite publishers are THE DALKEY ARCHIVE and NYRB; old standbys include vintage international, black sparrow, sun and moon, and new directions. the next writer i want to investigate is boris vian.
Heroes:
pat califia, walter benjamin, kobayashi issa, the chick in kill your boyfriend (!), my exes, yasujiro ozu, louise nevelson, emma peel, bilinda butcher, katharine hepburn, bella abzug, ee cummings, thorstein veblen, bryce, eloquent defenders of deontology, john rawls, alice notley, androgynes and genderfuckers, nancy folbre, marianne ferber, deirdre mccloskey, germaine greer, elizabeth bishop, natalie angier, yukio mishima, julia child, anne askew, anne boleyn, librarians, bluestockings, tom boys, dorks, my family, gastronomes
