sitting on my ass (stationary); sitting on my ass (mobile); driving on Goshen Road and other "back" roads; bowling; planning my roadtrip to Kansas; Cosmi's Deli at 8th and Dickinson; most plays, but not musicals; This American Life and its femmy host; Dr. Brown's Black Cherry soda; overcast days, especially the humid ones; weather that makes you comiserate with people
STEVE COOGAN 'cause he's a dreamboat with scraggly bottom teeth, my mormor and morfar, my doppelganger, and…I don't know, some nice people who can play chunky bass maybe?
TV on the Radio, De La Soul, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Yo La Tengo, Fishbone, the Delgados, MC Solaar, Modest Mouse, Menomena, Jimmy Cliff, Alton Ellis, Junior Murvin, Toots and the Maytals, A.C. Newman, The New Pornographers, James Brown in small doses, Stravinsky, Debussy, Gorecki's 3rd (only thing of his I know), The Smiths, The Shins, Flake Music, XTC, The Jam, Cat Stevens, Belle and Sebastian, Television, The Talking Heads, The Handsome Rewards (not an actual band, but should be), The Isles are pretty good, Miles Davis before he got into fusion, A Tribe Called Quest, some Blackstar, Thelonious Monk, The Thermals, The Clash, Jimi Hendrix in small doses, the bands on "Sounds of Kinshasa," Clifford Brown, Wolf Parade, Art Blakey's "Ugetsu", Fela Kuti, Les Savy Fav rocks the party that rocks the body…body, Band of Horses, The Band
Brazil, Rushmore, Royal Tennenbaums, Ghost Dog, Time Bandits, Das Boot, The Last Picture Show, LA Confidential, Rear Window, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness, Black Cat/White Cat, The Wood, Okie Noodling, People Like Us, Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer, Fear of a Black Hat, Capturing the Friedmans, La Gloire de Mon Père, the Dutch version of The Vanishing (damn creepy), Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (I really ought to read that book), Afterlife, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Sea Inside, The Station Agent, Straw Dogs, The Killing, Fighter, Solaris (1972)
old Simpsons, The Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, NOW with David Brancacchio, Strangers with Candy, Six Feet Under, the Cosby Show, THE OFFICE (BBC), The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Frontline, Undeclared, Freaks and Geeks, The Prisoner, Reading Rainbow, Mr. Roger's episodes when he uses Picture Picture, Lost, some Twilight Zone, Errol Morris' First Person, Drive
The Hunger of Memory, Travels with Charley, The Angel on the Roof, Sophie's World, The Polar Express, PrairyErth, Outside Lies Magic, Noodling for Flatheads, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the essays of E.B. White that I've read, John McPhee's stuff, The Grapes of Wrath, Lord of the Flies, Einstein's Dreams
As I said above, those chunky-bass-playing people and people who call upon those chunky-bass players for their services …CHUNKY BASS!To quote an interview with Kurt Vonnegut, "[…]life is no way to treat an animal. It hurts too much." So, to those of you who are alive, I salute you.