bodywork, chinese medicine, scrabble, board games, reading, shipwrecks, tarot, hotsprings, lakes, camping, tintypes, walking, occult history, diners, UFO's, ghosts & the paranormal, road trips, aurum solis, thriftstores, movies, ethnic veg food, museums, french press coffee, art, making things, writing, silence, dreams, mysteries, old things, flowershop smell, the afterlife, encyclopedias, yard sales, dark beer, convertibles, mountains, a very starry sky, omni magazine, rocks, prose poetry, scavenging, bookstores, free samples, bartering, hotels, roses, panda bears, star trek, alchemy, aleister crowley, lilly e. gray victim of the beast 666, old gates and fences.
play is all that it was:
tom waits, marianne faithfull, the cure, sex pistols, leonard cohen, elvis costello, the ramones, david bowie, mazzy star, the clash, lisa gerrard, jazz, pop old school punk, kate bush, disco, 80's gay bar music, romeo void, ambient, nick cave, that song 'at seventeen' by janis ian, bonnie tyler, siouxsie, and that saint-saens 'aquarium' song.
Annie Hall, Interview with the Vampire, Guy Maddin movies, Reds, Being John Malkovich, Chungking Express, Metropolis, Madame Bovary, My Favorite Year, the Star Trek movies, Paradise Lost: the Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, everything Hitchcock, The Mummy, Italian Gothic Cinema
CSI, X-files, The Unit, History's Mysteries, Sightings, Antiques Roadshow, The Dick van Dyke Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, scientific american frontiers with alan alda, Star Trek TNG, In Search Of, Most Haunted, house, the wire, the adventures of superman, dead like me, twilight zone, perry mason, the lost room, friday the 13th the series--not the movie, the series--with haunted antiques, etc...? that's ok...no one else remembers it either.
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poetry: michael burkard, james tate, norman dubie, ts eliot, russell edson, poe fiction: anne rice's vampire chronicles, dino buzzati, everything sherlock holmes, howard norman, donald barthelme, henry miller, david liss, angela carter, amy hempel
Don Knotts, Melanie Wilkes from Gone with the Wind, the 'tank man' of tiananmen square, the woman who 'accidentally' ran over the Fred Phelps' clan crazies in Gage Park, Barry Goldwater, blatantly open gay people throwing all caution to the wind, Rocky Anderson in his profound, insane, glorious, unending, unapologetic efforts to IMPEACH BUSH. The sublime elephants who whisked people onto their backs using their trunks, and ran to higher ground in a most valiant, instinctual, and undiscriminating effort to save lives during the Tsunami. And I don't care if it's an urban legend--it should be true.