Art, books, blue jeans, turtlenecks, red wine, elegies, fire escapes, postcards, potted plants, pop art, Alan Alda, horror movies, eating cheese, magazines, sketchbooks, music, dogs, disco, dingy corner bars, the city, books that fit into my shoulder bag, coffee breaks, Sunday brunch, Bloody Marys, peculiar people, passenger trains, digital television, drag queens, Woody Allen, vegetables, allegory, peppermint gum, iPod, posting mail, lead paragraphs, a good hunch, long drives, naps, the Sunday Times, gesso, abnormal psych, Rittenhouse Square, chronicles, tea dances, art museums, journals, cultural history, beer, used book stores, Anne Bancroft, city walks, candle light, photography and Cape Cod any time at all.
People with dogs.Cafe sitters.
Currently on iPod heavy rotation: Antony and the Johnsons, Arctic Monkeys, Ann-Margaret, The Band, Animal Collective, Aluminum Group, The Ditty Bops, The 6th, Ben Kweller, Ben Lee, The Bee Gees, Belle & Sebastian, Rainbow Brown, Bessie Smith, Beulah, Billie Holiday, Blur, Berlin, Blondie, Blur, Bryan Ferry, British Sea Power, Castanets, Chet Baker, The Clientele, Coco Rosie, Count Basie, Cujo,Chopin, Death Cab for Cutie, The Delays, Bobby Darin, David Bowie, The Divine Comedy, Dolly Parton, Damien Rice, David Usher, The Decemberists, Della Reese, Diana Ross, Dinah Washington, Doc Watson, Donna Summer, Dusty Springfield, Donovan, The Dresden Dolls, Dr. Dre, Duran Duran, Edith Piaf, Enon, Franz Ferdinand, George Gershwin, George Michael, Ed Harcourt, Elaine Stritch, Elvis, Eno, Enon, Espers, Etta James, The Exotics, Frank Black, Frou Frou, Gorillaz, The Gossip, Green Day, Herb Alpert, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Hall & Oates, Iron & Wine, Jack Jones, Judy Garland, Kanye West, Kokomo Arnold, Leadbelly, Nancy Sinatra, Jack Kerouac, Jeff Buckley, Jet, John Coltrane, John Cale, Sylvester, John Lee Hooker, Josephine Baker, Kelis, The Killers, Ladytron, Laurel Canyon, Led Zeppelin, Leonard Cohen, Loretta Lynn, Louis Prima, Lucinda Williams, Luna, M.Ward, Ma Rainey, Muddy Waters, Madonna, Marvin Gaye, Matmos, Melanie, Missy Elliot, Leslie and the Ly's, Lionel Richie, Liza Minnelli, L.L. Cool J., Lou Reed, Luna, Magnetic Fields, Maria Callas, Mamas and the Papas, New Order, Nilsson, Nina Hagen, Nina Simone, The Orange Peels, of Montreal, Oasis, Papa M., Morrissey, The Mountain Goats, Natalie Merchant, Nico, Nilsson, Paper Lace, Peaches, Peggy Lee, Pet Shop Boys, Pernice Brothers, Pogues, The Postal Service, Public Enemy, Pete Yorn, Peter Allen, Pink Floyd, P.J. Harvey, The Postal Service, Prince, Pulp, Radiohead, Rainbow Brown, Robert Johnson, Memphis Minnie, The Raveonettes, Rolling Stones, Rufus Wainwright, Ryan Adams, Saint Etienne, Scissor Sisters, Solomon Burke, Space, Spoon, Sammy Davis, Jr., Simon & Garfunkel, Sondre Lerche, Space, St. Germain, Stephen Merritt, Stereolab, The Streets, Shortbus, The Thrills, Tom Waits, Velvet Underground, Mika, Shotbus, Paradise Garage, Studio 54, The Verve, The Ark, Waylon Jennings, The White Stripes, Wilco, Willie Nelson, Whiskeytown...
Interiors, Pieces of April, Frida, Paris is Burning, The Ice Storm, anything by Almodovar, Wonder Boys, Carrington, The Last Emperor, Scarlett Street, Tree's Lounge, 84 Charing Cross Road, Torch Song Trilogy, Cabaret, old Woody Allen flicks, Home For the Holidays, The Four Seasons, Mommy Dearest, Barefoot in the Park, Picnic, All About Eve, Basquiat, High Art, Reality Bites, Gia, Where Angels Go Trouble Follows, 200 Cigarettes, Laurel Canyon, Pillow Talk, Straight Jacket, The Winter Guest, Great Expectations, Pecker, Pauline and Paulette, Before Night Falls, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, Longtime Companion, Mildred Pierce, Garbo Talks, The Godfather, and movies found on IFC, Bravo and the foreign film department at your local video store.
Huff, Law & Order, Brotherhood, Meadowlands, Cold Case, Golden Girls, Queer as Folk, The L Word, Arrested Development, All in the Family, Dexter, Maude, CBS This Morning, The Simpsons, Divine Design, Ab Fab and anything on LOGO.
Philip Roth, Jack Kerouac, Marcel Proust, Milan Kundera, Harold Brodkey, Joseph Brodsky, Thomas Mann, Susan Sontag, Rilke, Ted Hughes, Capote, M. Duras, Sartre, Camus, Rushdie, Baudelaire, Mailer, Cheever, Didion, Nabokov, Donald Barthelme, Barthes, Edna St. Vincent Millay, 'Pedro Paramo,' Genet, Samuel Beckett, Christopher Isherwood, Anais Nin, Henry Miller, May Sarton, Camille Paglia, Frank O'Hara, Dylan Thomas, Michael Cunningham, Edmund White, Douglas Coupland, Tony Kushner, Allen Ginsberg, Garcia Lorca, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Djuna Barnes, Simone de Beauvoir, Augusten Burroughs, Paul Monette, Toni Morrisson, William Burroughs, 'City of Night,' Quentin Crisp, John Berryman, Lytton Strachey, Dorothy Parker, Roethke, Andre Gide, Reynolds Price, James Joyce, Dave Eggers, Neal Pollack, Violette Leduc, Virginia Woolf, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 'Headed for the Blues,' Auden, Hart Crane, Italo Calvino, Harvey Fierstein, Ayn Rand, Bukowski, Bret Easton Ellis, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Lowell, Reinaldo Arenas, 'The Journal of Eugene Delacroix,' Isak Dinesen, Walt Whitman, Paul Auster, Xaviera Hollander, Neil Simon, Hemingway's short stories, 'Go,' Granta, Gertrude Stein, 'Land's End,' Armistead Maupin...
Crazy people and the people who don't think they're crazy.And Susan Sontag