family; the fact that my Mac keeps going; coffee; words, music and pictures; This American Life; things of, by, and tangent to God; dancing about architecture; driving around.
Tom.
Spoon, Ani Difranco, Arvo Part, Sara Groves, Neutral Milk Hotel, Crowded House, Scott Miller, Wilson Pickett, The Good Cheer, The Bad Plus, Happy Apple, Otis Redding, Regina Spektor, Sufjan Stevens, Waterdeep (Don and Lori Chaffer), Iron and Wine, Metric, the Black Keys, the Weepies. Arcade Fire. Stevie Ray Vaughan. Thelonius Monk. The Police. The English Beat. Elvis Costello. Beethoven. blurt, blurt, stammer, blurt.
Crimes and Misdemeanors, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Anchorman, Run Lola Run, The Jerk, Amelie, Waking Life, Little Miss Sunshine, City of God, Oceans 11, Big Night; P.T. Anderson, Wes Anderson, the Coen Bros., Charlie Kaufman, Alexander Payne, Krzysztof Kieslowski.
The Office(s), Upright Citizen's Brigade, Austin City Limits, Arrested Development, Heroes, 30 Rock.
Me Talk Pretty One Day, The Cloister Walk, Ragman, McSweeney's, A Peculiar People, Potok's Asher Lev books, Wisdom Distilled from the Daily, Cat's Cradle, Franny and Zooey. Nouwen. Newbigin. Saliers. Lamott. Ted Nancy. Dinosaur Comics. Most of my reading is assigned.