In general: postmodern urban theory; cheese. Lately: photography of the built environment; inquiring after my friends with lives of leisure; sneaking reading time at work while photoshop is "saving"; picking at the little knots of hair on my dog's legs until she gets annoyed at me; eating lunch at IKEA ($2.13, seriously); cooking southern-style vegetarian; reasons to drive to LA, good or otherwise; celebrating the retreat of the ants from my kitchen; riding my bike to Trader Joe's; that little mirror I installed on my left handlebar; reading all of the urban planning books I never had time for in grad school; reading outside at the Orange Plaza; wearing loud, feminine shoes; new social environments; non-oily moisturizers; aerobics at the Orange Senior Center; existential crises; absurdity; teaching myself AutoCAD and finding ways to integrate the color [teal blue] into my daily experience.
NOW: Andrew Bird; Panda Bear; Field Music; The Besnard Lakes; Cold War Kids; Benjy Ferree; The Black Keys; Black Lipstick; The Byrds; Camera Obscura; The Clientele; Destroyer; Horace Andy; Mazarin; Blood Feathers; Sun Kil Moon; Yo La Tengo; The Animals with Sonny Boy Williams; Monade; Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings; Sparklehorse; The Rosebuds
ENDURING: The Band; The Beach Boys; The Beatles; Beck; Belle & Sebastian; Bob Dylan; Circulatory System; David Bowie; Galaxie 500; Grandaddy; James; anything John Lennon; Joni Mitchell; The Kinks; Komeda; Le Mans; Led Zeppelin; Lou Reed; Luna; M. Ward; Mercury Rev; The Minus 5; Neil Young; Neko Case; Neutral Milk Hotel; The New Pornographers; Of Montreal; The Olivia Tremor Control; Otis Redding; anything Paul McCartney; Pavement; The Pretenders; R.E.M.; Radar Bros.; Robyn Hitchcock; The Rolling Stones; Sam Prekop; The Sea and Cake; Sloan; The Soft Boys; Stereo Total; Stereolab; Sufjan Stevens; Summer Hymns; Talking Heads; Television; The Walkmen; The Wedding Present; Wilco; Will Oldham and his many incarnations; World PartyI try to get out when I can. Bill Murray tends to work fairly often. I have an intense unconditional positive regard for Jim Jarmusch. Wim Wenders has my heart. My all time favorite movie ever is The Big Lebowski. I guess I sorta identify with the Nihilists.
Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Sopranos, Southpark, Deadwood, Chapelle's Show
postmodern urban theory; suburbia/postsuburbia; urban design for the everyday; photography of the built environment
Jimmy Carter; Mahatma Ghandi; Van Smith