Satellite photography of other people's homes, loose ends, mutual appreciation, dismantling antique stores, drinking gourmet coffee your mother left in your house after she stormed away that one Christmas when everyone strived and fell short, elaborate lies, smothering the gun beneath the teddy bear, comparing racism to facial lesions, ornamental lighters, sewing stylish and pointless bits into American tapestries.
This girl I once knew in fourth grade whose name escapes me.Visit my antics, add me on MSN: mrgoldsoft at hotmail dot com
Happybag music for sadsack people:
oh! map records
NEW MUSIC LIST!
(BUT YOU SHOULD STILL LISTEN TO Herman Düne and Langhorne Slim)
Soda Fountain Rag, Lily Allen, Solomon Burke, Howard Tate, Truckstop Honeymoon, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Legendary Shack Shakers, Blitzen Trapper, Pelle Carlberg, The High Llamas, Paleo, Slaid Cleaves, Tex Williams, Andrew Jackson Jihad, and James Rabbit
And more, and more, always more. Most of it involving me trying to convince my mother that Neutral Milk Hotel is better for you than James Taylor. Like avocados versus toast.
I never remember their names. I like solid acting. Movies where people scrunch their faces and convey a lot of meaning.
Spanish jokes. Span this, Joe!
Current favorite authors that tickle and fizz and visit salt upon my eyes:
Prose:
Thomas Pynchon
Martin Amis
Denis Johnson
Raymond Carver
J.G. Ballard
Lorrie Moore
Thom Jones
D'J Pancake
Barry Hannah
Ron Carlson
Robert Coover
Robert Musil
Poetry:
Ange Mlinko
Frank Stanford
Jim Gustafson
Frank O'Friggin Hara
Lisa Jarnot
Jen Tynes
Clark Coolidge
Robert Creeley
James Tate
David Berman
Dorianne Laux
Jack Gilbert
Terrance Hayes
Sean Thomas Dougherty
Ron Padgett
Will Bennet
Jennifer Knox
Conrad Aiken
Tony Tost
Julia Story
Litmags: Opium Magazine, Pindeldyboz, Monkeybicycle, Ballyhoo Stories, Zyzzyva, Small Spiral Notebook, The Southern Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, 2River View, scads of them!
Also my friends, in alphabetical order: Chuck Adams, Alex Burford, Dave Clapper, Bryan Coffelt, Ricky Garni, Sean Kilpatrick, Tao Lin, Jordaan Mason, Timber Masterson, Davy Rothbart, Jessica Rowan, Joseph Young, + you, you doeeyed but reluctant savior, you.