Being a better person.
I'd like to meet:
People who like garage sales. Anyone who thinks they have the answers. People who love Jeopardy! as much as I do. And Mr. Wainwright and Björk:
(Rufus Wainwright covering Chelsea Hotel No. 2, from I'm Your Man)
(Björk's Generous Palmstroke)
Music:
Ours, Bjork, Johnny Cash, Pleasure Club, Jeff Buckley, Deadboy & The Elephanmen, The Everly Brothers, Cottonmouth, Texas, Dorsey Burnette, Gun Club, Blonde Redhead, Beck, Fiona Apple, Regina Spektor, The Veils, AFI, Daniel Johnston, Leonard Cohen, People in Planes, Joseph King, Joy Division, Billie Holiday, New Order, The Reverend Horton Heat, The Legendary Pink Dots, Loretta Lynn, Bob Dylan, Dwight Yokum, Jimmy Gnecco, James Hall, VNV Nation, Bonnie Raitt, Burden Brothers, Micheal Jerome, Depeche Mode, Misfits, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Social Distortion, The Cure, Tenacious D, mrnorth, Etta James, Dax Riggs, Rufus Wainwright, Nina Simone, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Tiger Army, Placebo, Lyle Lovett, The Killers, She Wants Revenge, Failure, Radiohead, The Pretenders, Joan Jett, The Smiths, 16 Horsepower, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Mars Volta, Johnny Goudie, The Julia Dream, The Beatles, Catatonia, Peach Garden Ministry, The Fiery Furnaces, Manic Street Preachers, Charline Arthur, The Cure, Wanda Jackson, The Tear Garden, Muse
And here are some bits and pieces that I love:
(Ours doing The Cure's Lovesong at Maxwell's.)
(Radiohead doing There, There on BBC.)
(Murder By Death's Brother.)
(Jeff Buckley doing Last Goodbye in 1995 on Chicago's public access channel, JBTV. I love Matt Johnson in this.)
(Regina Spektor's Fidelity.)
(Fantasia Barrio doing Summertime from Porgy and Bess.)
(A clip from Every Night is Saturday Night, a documentary about the amazing Wanda Jackson.)
Movies:
Anything with James Spader, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, American Splendor, Stevie, Buffalo 66, Boondock Saints, The Last Record Store, Pulp Fiction, Crumb, Reality Bites, May, Ghost World, Beauty and the Beast, Love, Ludlow, Goodfellas, Dream Lover, Unfaithful, a short film I saw on IFC about videotaping the last day of a break-up, which I can't remember the name of and have been searching for ever since, Donnie Darko, SLC Punk, From Hell, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Simon Birch, Drop Dead Fred, Secretary, The Other Sister, Junebug, Boys of Baraka, The Squid & the Whale, Crash (older Spader, not the new one), Me and You and Everyone We Know, Thumbsucker, Stevie, Velvet Goldmine, Moonlight Mile, Eternal Sunshine, Seven, Little Monsters, Crash, The Hugga Bunch movie
(The tap dance sequence from Vincent Gallo's Buffalo 66)
(The mud pie scene from Drop Dead Fred)
Wicked Little Town from (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
(From Mary Gaitskill's Secretary)
(From Breakfast on Pluto)
(The philistine scene from The Squid and the Whale)
(The ending scene from Garden State)
Television:
Law and Order (esp. SVU), Nip/Tuck, Six Feet Under, The History Channel, Degrassi, My So-Called Life, The Commish, Picket Fences, ZoobaleeZoo, The Young Ones, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, King of the Hill, Beavis and Butthead, Without a Trace, The Practice, Boston Legal, Welcome Freshman, Project Runway (Daniel Vosovich and Malan, my faves!), Top Chef, Salute Your Shorts, The Real World (esp. Boston), Dog the Bounty Hunter, HGTV, Flash Forward, Even Stevens, Maniac Mansion, Third Watch
Books:
In the City of Shy Hunters, Choke and everything else by Chuck Palahniuk, anything J.M. Barrie, Prozac Nation, Mary Gaitskill, Denis Johnson, I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb, White Oleander, Janet Fitch, Garden of Eden, Augusten Burroughs' Running with Scissors, Hemmingway, Anne Sexton anything, Slyvia Plath, metaphysical poets, Sappho, Pablo Neruda, Anne Rice, Equus, anything melodramatic, Stephen King, Anais Nin, anything Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, Peter Shaffer's Equus, Surrender the Pink, Carrie Fisher, L. Frank Baum
Heroes:
Buckley. Bjork. Gnecco. Mayall. Apple. Hedy. Spader. Mia. Barrie. Momma.
