Semiotics, the informatics of domination, deconstruction, Marxist philosophies of language, textual utterances on the internet, Marxist critiques of the body as a cultural sign, queer theories of signification, legal censorship in Canada, self-representation/autobiography studies, Victorian novel-writing as a subversive strategy in the 21st century, critiques of governmentality, infiltrating the CBC and asking a drunken Margaret Atwood to host a talk show Oprah-styles, the great exodus to Montreal, stove top popcorn, The Last Temptation, pool, boys who overwork for free.
People who can teach me about semiotics. People who write. People who overanalyze not only themeslves but nearly everything else. People who lose sleep because of this. People who can get me in at the CBC. People who still like Pavement and miss Kurt Cobain. People who were born in the wrong decade but are committed to trying to make our generation not suck. People who I can write poetry to, or with, or about.
Lately: Pavement, The Weakerthans, French Kicks, The Band, Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young.
Manderlay, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Way We Were, C.R.A.Z.Y., Angels in America, Nashville, The Decline of the American Empire, 2001, The Princess Bride, Annie Hall, The Graduate, Without You I'm Nothing, The Last Waltz.
24, The Mercer Report, Grey's Anatomy, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Weeds, Little Britain.
/authors: Frank O'Hara, Susan Sontag, Jamaica Kincaid, Anne Carson, Italo Calvino, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Valentin Volosinov, Sarah Schulman, Jane Rule, Christopher Marlowe, Laurence Sterne, George Eliot, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Oscar Wilde, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Edward Albee, Thomas Mann, Earle Birney, there's more.