Poetry, writing, text-as-[blank], teaching, tiaras, nostalgia + nostalgio, award shows, fuzzy things, pattern-weaving, shiraz-grenache blends, creamy havarti, inner + outer weather, cheese plates. Contessa and and and Andy.
I'd like to meet:
Do you have a poetics of joy?
Music:
In reverse chronological order: Andy K (Shall we dance in snowflake shoes!), Lee Hazlewood & Ann-Margret (victims of the night!), Gillian Welch (as if by a wrecking ball, I am broken!), Jolie Holland (inflection! warble!), Cat Power (finally! I lived in bars, too! And second-rate video stores!), The Hold Steady (epic catholic sagas!), Destroyer (personal mythology!), The New Pornographers (as super as groups come!), Andrew Bird (a Thanksgiving fixture here in Logan Square! Tho I liked it better when he was a Righteous Babe!), Rilo Kiley and Jenny Lewis (feel-good pop anthems and a country twang!), The Decemberists (tho when I remember how CM was the king of the indiefreshkids at Pitchfork 2005 and got everyone to crouch down to the ground, I shudder a little!), The Mountain Goats (Southern California Gothic -- get ready 2012, here comes my dissertation!), Pavement (Wowee Zowee!), Neko Case (red wine is fast at the lip of your glass!), The Magnetic Fields (why can't we all have such a soundtrack to our lives!), Hem (livin' it up when the rent was due!), Lucinda Williams (except when she reads her lyrics off a music stand!), Silver Jews (DCB is totally allowed to read his lyrics off a music stand!), Belle & Sebastian (I always cry at endings, too! But even more at the anticipation of endings!), Roxette (the true soundtrack to my life! You think I'm being ironic!), Yo La Tengo (I dream of autumn sweaters 10 months a year!), Liz Phair (Lord, grant me polyester bride status!), Ani DiFranco (who else gets a standing ovation for being pregnant!), Bob Dylan (Like A Rolling Stone, Best Song of All Time, got me through so many high school study halls, sitting in the stall with headphones on!), Roxette (the soundtrack to my life means EVERY CHAPTER!), Joni Mitchell (strong women = hip to yr tricks!), Oasis (please don't put your life in the hands of a rock and roll band unless they promise to be bigger than the Beatles!), Dar Williams (a goddess from the cult of beautiful pain!). NKOTB, Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul, and the TEMPS.
Movies:
Small Change, Me and You and Everyone We Know, The Squid and the Whale, Lost in Translation, Talk to Her, The Hours, Donnie Darko, The Station Agent, Punch Drunk Love, The Amateurist, The Royal Tenenbaums, Waking Life, Todo Sobre Mi Madre, You Can Count on Me, The Virgin Suicides, Wayne's World.
Television:
Weeds, Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Six Feet Under, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Gilmore Girls, Felicity, Conan, Boston Legal, America's Next Top Model, The Office, Check, Please!
Books:
Adrienne Rich, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Lisel Mueller, Louise Gluck, Anne Carson, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Brenda Shaughnessy, Matthea Harvey, Cate Marvin, Noelle Kocot, Kathleen Ossip, Arielle Greenberg, Denise Duhamel, Dorothea Tanning, Andrew Koszewski, Tony Hoagland, Dean Young, Mary Ruefle, David Berman, Lydia Davis, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Christina Rossetti, Marina Tsvetaeva, Wislawa Szymborska, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, Anais Nin, J.D. Salinger, Joan Didion, Jeanette Winterson, Jamaica Kincaid. Greek mythology, fairy tales. Wuthering Heights, The Great Gatsby, The Hours.Switchback Books on GoodReads!
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Heroes:
Scott and Zelda, Anaïs and Henry, Alice and Ted, David and Cassie, Lou and Laurie.
