Just a boy influenced by the South, fiction, crooked roads, and good music.
Lykke Li "Breaking It Up"
Fujiya & Miyagi "Knickerbocker"
Fiction, short stories, music music music, Fornasetti, cooking, Iceland, candlelight, shadows, Pad Thai, magical realism, American Apparel underwear, literary theory, Earl Grey tea, chocolate, cronies of the Grapevine, Southern Gothicism, love, honey, shame, keys and keyholes
In no particular order, these are some of the artists I have been listening to as of late: Sebastien Tellier, Cut Copy, The Presets, Santogold, Vetiver, Sam Sparro, Saloon, Misty Dixon, Memory Cassette, Laika & The Cosmonauts, Deerhoof, GIRLS, Zombie-Zombie The Juan McLean, Selda, Ersen, Bat for Lashes, Bjork, Radiohead, Hot Chip, Lykke Li, Emiliani Torrini, Under Byen, The Divine Comedy, Cat Power, Animal Collective, Flight of the Conchords, Hercules & Love Affair The Raveonettes, Jose Gonzalez, Midnight Juggernauts, Poni Hoax, Beck, Ratatat, Allez Allez, ADELE, Crystal Castles, Beach House, Deerhunter, Brendan Canning, Neko Case, The Walkmen, Bajofondo, Au Revoir Simone, Foals, Bjork, VEGA, Merz, Land of Talk, Invisible Conga People Styrofoam, The Emperor Machine, Fujiya & Miyagi, Fan Death, Benoit Pioulard, Juliana Hatfield, Black Kids, Stereolab, Dolle Jolle, Nightmares on Wax, Juana Molina, Emilie Simon, Janelle Monae
The Orphanage, Beetlejuice, The Dreamers, Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon, Hellboy and Hellboy 2, The City of Lost Children, Once, Delicatessen, Amelie, A Very Long Engagement, Dans Paris, The Fall 300, Requiem for a Dream, Videodrome, Suspiria, Mirrormask, Gosford Park, Lars and the Real Girl, Eagle vs. Shark, Grindhouse, the films of Jeunet & Caro, Lars von Trier, Tom Tykwer's Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Darren Aronofsky, Guillermo del Toro, Almodovar, Kubrick, John Waters, Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Dreams of Akira Kurosawa, Brokeback Mountain, The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, Brazil, Speed Racer, Saving Grace, Lord of the Rings series, Orlando, Francois Ozon, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, anything with Isabelle Adjani, Camille Claudel, Run Lola Run, Water Drops on Burning Rocks, Bertolucci, Araki, Scorsese, The Ice Storm, Stealing Beauty, Wallace & Gromit, The Sweet Hereafter, The Doom Generation
Weeds, Flight of the Conchords, 30 Rock, Brothers & Sisters, Lost, Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, Project Runway, Top Chef, FoodTV network, Little Britain
Toni Morrison, A Confederacy of Dunces, Michael Chabon, Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Woolf, Kafka, Nietzsche, Shirley Jackson, David Foster Wallace, Russell Banks, Annie Proulx-Close Range-"Brokeback Mountain," Jhumpa Lahiri, Borges, Roberto Bolano Kevin Brockmeier, Angela Carter, Anthony Doerr, Philip Pullman, ZZ Packer, Garcia Marquez, Calvino, Landolfi, Saramago-"Blindness" Thomas Pynchon, Cristina Henriquez, Judy Budnitz, Dan Chaon Mark Merlis, Alan Hollinghurst, Hanif Kureishi, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, Samuel Beckett, JT Leroy, Sedaris, Flaunt magazine, "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
Annie Proulx, Jose Saramago, and Ciriaco Lopez