Reading, music, movies.
Someone somewhere asked me, "Is there anything in particular I can help you with?" All I ever wanted help with was you.....The New Pornographers, Myriad Harbour
The Skellingtons, Lee Terry, Jeffrey Dean Foster, Patty Hurst Shifter, Wade Jackson. Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Lindsey Buckingham, Nick Lowe. The New Pornographers. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. Warren Zevon. The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, Brendan Benson, Ed Harcourt. The Shins,The Eels, Bright Eyes, Ben Kweller. Aqualung, Jeff Buckley, The Killers, Seven Nations. REM, The Refreshments, Roxy Music. Steely Dan, The Who, XTC.
Almost Famous, That Thing You Do, School of Rock, Empire Records, The Last Waltz. No Direction Home, Shine a Light. (I like music movies.) Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Gone With the Wind, of course. Back to the Future, all three of them. Walk the Line, Brokeback Mountain.
So I started working, even back then, on a way of re-presenting myself and writing and recording myself, which would take advantage of the fact that I was getting older as opposed to it being a hindrance. So that even youngsters would say, oh, I can't wait to be as old as Nick Lowe. (Quote, in case you can't figure it out, from Nick Lowe)
An inch of snow fell in Sarasota in 1977. I guess it gets cold everywhere. I bet it even snows in hell, although I doubt if it sticks. - Stephen King, Duma Key
Frieda's father had told her most people had secret lives, but usually they were secrets no one wanted to know. - Alice Hoffman, The Third Angel.