big fat headphones, personal myth, choreographing, the repeat function on the stereo, studying body language, swimming in rivers, refinding albums, revisionist memory, the menil collection, journalling, ruby my kitty(my furry raison d'etre), reading anais nin in the laundromat, chopping hair, chopping basil, staying awake on public transportation, walking everywhere, those moments I am impelled to dance, vinyl, dusk, found black and whites, vintage aprons, drinking soy milk straight out of the carton, wrestling for clarity
unsatisfied types, people who tear napkins to fluff at all-night diners over coffee and conversation, pugs, disgruntled fluffy kitty cats, ugly girls that don't make graves, dandies, artists, intellectuals, lushes, and born-again hedonists. Combinations of any attributes listed a plus; Ted Bundys, cheating musicians, and Peter Pan complexes need not apply.
wonky music boxes, the rare ruby purr...
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hiroshima mon amour, the prisoner of 2nd ave. (according to my old roommate -- "an unrecognized classic, criterion should have picked that one up, they have a lot of shit..."), withnail and i (another gracie pick, strangely a recognized criterion classic), metropolis, and they shoot horses don't they, blue velvet, little miss sunshine, best in show, l'eau d'artifice, gegen die wand, waking life, hedwig and the angry inch, bandits, anne of green gables, harold and maude, contempt, the beat that my heart skipped, breathless, eighties dance films, erotikon (not stiller's but machaty's), anything almodovar, rushmore, royal tenenbaums, intermission, brat pack movies, city of god, blow up, valentin, goodbye lenin, gone with the wind, the parent trap (the 1961 Haley Mills version), douglas gordon's video work, felix in exile
prescription drug commercials with people running merrily in fields with puppy dogs or hugging their spouse while a narrator warns of 4 hr long erections, dry mouth, nausea, and the runs
Third Factory, Call It Sleep, Play It As It Lays, Hopscotch, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Fragments of Archilochus, 1933 Was a Bad Year, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Ariel, Das Buch der Bilder, Their Eyes Were Watching God, "The Cubs," The Bell Jar, "The Scarlet Ibis," To The Lighthouse, Labyrinths, Mrs. Dalloway, Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life, Crime and Punishment, The Chronicles of Narnia, Delta of Venus, Picture of Dorian Gray, Great Gatsby, Nausea, The Stranger, Explosion in a Cathedral
Mary Wigman: .. Pina Bausch: .. Karen Finley: .. Sasha Waltz, Kiki Smith, Paula Rego, my improv teacher from Austin Darla, and my mother