Illusionistic realism and the postwar abstraction. The big cock of American art. Inventing delicious sandwiches with limited ingredients. Trying not to sleep in class. Trying to say something really good soon in case I become an isolationist or forget about contribution. Traveling in the fourth dimension but only seeing it in three-dimensional cross sections. Researching extensively, but only very specific subjects, so I don't actually know much of anything.
nice kids
Animal Collective, The Bad Plus, Donovan, Fat History Month, Frank Zappa, Fugazi, Joanna Newsom, The Magnetic Fields, Marilyn Monroe, Mates of State, MC Paul Barman, Modest Mouse, Mountain Goats, Nancy Sinatra, Neutral Milk Hotel, Peggy Lee, The Pixies, Schumann, Scissor Sisters, Smashing Pumpkins, Why Twist the HairAnd especially Elvis Costello.
Anything Jewish!I wrote that during the Boston Jewish Film Festival when I was feeling resentful, but I'm still not up for this question yet. I watch a lot of movies.
This is an amorphous confusion of some things that seem important:Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins, Walden Two by B. F. Skinner, Cat's Cradle and Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut, The Godfather by Mario Puzo, Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth, Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ovid's Metamorphoses, The Origin of Satan by Elaine Pagels, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, ANYTHING by David Sedaris, Edward Albee, Eugene Ionesco, Pippi Longstocking, The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, Samuel Beckett, The House of Blue Leaves by John Guare, Ginsberg
Boston