:: buy my shit and keep me off the streets ::
bourbon :: writing :: the 15 seconds of bliss nestled between waking up and remembering why you didn't want to :: a six pack of pabst on a hot day while slaving over an overheated engine :: reading :: peace :: music :: motorcycles :: vespas :: reasons to keep fighting :: time :: fate :: karma :: etymology :: doors :: detritus :: small, pretty things :: things that glisten :: hard won battles and the folks that lost them :: passing notes in bed :: holding hands under tables :: the tension before a first anything :: the feel of inner thighs :: poloroids :: stencils :: things that don't need explanations ::
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:: highly recommended ::
breathless
:: queued ::
Hitchcock
:: 25th hour :: ascenseur dans l'echafaud :: the great escape :: barfly :: west side story :: glengary glenross :: carlito's way :: amadaeus :: breakfast @ tiffany's :: an affair to remember :: bring on the john cassevetes :: donnie darko :: sexy beast :: fight club :: la confidential :: la story :: amoros peros :: jesus' son :: north by northwest :: young frankenstien :: jackie brown :: resevoir dogs :: baraka :: double indemnity :: true romance :: le samurai :: blade runner :: wild at heart :: blue velvet :: memento :: the center of the world :: 21 grams :: lone star :: the royal tenanbaums :: matrix :: hurley burley :: the devil's advocate :: run lola run :: annie hall :: new york stories :: basquiat :: the usual suspects :: pulp fiction :: the hard eight :: twelve monkeys :: brazil :: the hudsucker proxy :: john hughes shit :: glory :: being there :: bitter moon :: ghostbusters :: dummy :: ghost dog :: down by law :: rumblefish :: kalifornia :: heathers :: it's a wonderful life :: pale rider :: blackboard jungle :: to sir with love :: amelie :: one flew over the cukoo's nest :: blazing saddles :: ferris :: the wall :: vertigo :: the lion in winter :: short cuts :: the goonies :: the three amigos :: wings of desire :: dead man :: raging bull :: twelve angry men :: queen margot :: coffee and cigarettes :: name of the rose :: lock, stock and two smoking barrels :: the way things go :: raging bull :: chinatown :: pi :: requiem for a dream :: bottle rocket :: serpico :: seven samurai :: naked lunch :: the spanish prisoner :: requiem for a heavyweight :: princess bride :: alien/s :: fisher king :: blue/white/red :: malcolm x :: gattica :: bullets over broadway :: zelig :: 8 1/2 :: city of lost children :: jesus' son :: the machinist :: mystery train :: serpico :: requiem for a heavyweight :: rumble fish :: raging bull ::
buffy :: fat albert :: battlestar gallactica :: charlie rose :: red dwarf :: globe trekker :: samurai jack :: the saint :: the prisoner :: teletubbies (The baby in the sun is wicked) :: courtship of eddie's father :: bewitched :: good times :: jeffersons :: i spy :: simpsons :: family guy :: adult swim :: twin peaks :: old anime ::
:: highly recommended ::
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:: currently reading ::
players :: don delillo
old journals :: mcp ::
back issues of harper's from the toilet tank :: assorted over-educated but well-meaning white folks ::
:: Amis :: Baldwin :: Carver :: DeLillo :: Crouch :: Dostoyevski :: Becket :: Camus :: Bukowski :: Exuperey :: Algren :: Fischer :: Burroughs :: Bowles :: Kant :: Dick :: Sartre :: Voltaire :: Miller :: Nin :: Kerouac :: Fante :: Hughes :: Kennedy :: thompson :: Kandinski :: Gorey :: Wallace :: Dahl :: Mamet :: Salinger :: Saroyan :: O'Connor :: Robeson :: Rand :: Capote :: eco :: stephanson :: murakami :: palahniuk :: kosinski :: kundera :: welsh :: nabokov :: lethem :: auster :: wright :: bellow :: ellison :: baudelaire :: vonnegut ::
squat old chinese ladies who kill live chickens on the steps of the downtown-bound bus :: pops :: lil' man :: bodega guys :: well-liked stoics :: the shithouse :: khara ... whether she likes it or not :: Karolyn :: anyone who has ever put up with my nonsense ::