alleviating ennui
you (or someone like you)
my bands FLARE, MOTH WRANGLERS and LD & THE NEW CRITICISM, vintage factory, the carter family, wire, orlando di lasso, portsmith sinfonia, stephin merritt, gesualdo, kiki & herb, chopin, low, apocalyptica, kronos quartet, satie, psych furs, red house painters, orso, penguin cafe orchestra, jo stafford, 30s crooners, 1890s weepies & dead-baby ballads, lord berners, smiths, shaped-note songs, appalachian murder ballads, nick cave, black devil disco club, altered images, blanche klaise, the real tuesday weld, section 25...
i've finally decided that my favorite movie ever is lubitsch's TROUBLE IN PARADISE. they call it screwball, i call it heaven.
tv-free since '83
the woman in white, frisk, elective affinities, cold comfort farm, the leatherman's handbook, a short walk in the hindu kush, the good soldier, the gastronomical me, my idea of fun, conversations with francis bacon, the sorrows of young werther, vile bodies, evelina, people who knock at the door... jane austin, mitford, poe, o'connor, baudelaire, straub...
mfk fisher, william morris, marimekko, ronald firbank, aubrey beardsley, harry partch, billy wilder, edith head, peter straub, mariano fortuny, charles henri ford, andy warhola, tiny tim, and the list goes on and on...