art, bourbon, music, dogs, travel, cooking, the ocean, bookstores, confessional poetry and poetry of witness, film, politics, kitsch.specifically, and lately: marcel duchamp, dali, jasper johns, man ray, bauhaus; makers mark; son house and the delta blues; american pit bulls and no kill sheltering; baja and the sea of cortez; the perfect roux; frank lehry, antoni gaudi, christo and jean claude, levittown and sears houses; robert lowell's memories of west street and lepke; li po; the umbrellas of cherbourg, antonioni's blow up, magical realism in film, and cinematography in the 1970s; humane certified, biofuels, farmer's markets; the new democrats and the politics of identity; peggy lee, sturgis; our dyna street bob.
barack obama.
elvis, johnny cash, old97s, pete yorn, lucinda williams, modest mouse, rolling stones, zeppelin, fugazi, steely dan, billie holiday, patsy cline, firehose, mike watt, old soul and r&b, robert johnson, son house, lily allen, badfinger, le tigre, devendra banhart, grateful dead, raconteurs, tribe called quest, pharcyde, the soundtrack to xanadu, jazz (vague enough?), bossa nova and RTS! :)
the godfather I & II, blow up, pink panther, blues brothers, the big lebowski, rebel without a cause, big night, east of eden, butterfield 8, secretary, xanadu, disaster films from the 70s, imitation of life, rear window, sideways, elvis movies.
i love television. mostly crap.
authors: john d. macdonald, john steinbeck, robert stone, william faulkner, david sedaris, anne tyler, larry mcmurtry, elizabeth berg, wally lamb, carson mccullers, joyce carol oates, anita shreve, jack kerouac, barbara kingsolver, amy tan, tom robbins, marilyn robinson. i still love poetry.
Dr. King, my grandparents.