interesting art, Iceland, good beer, Indian miniatures, neuroses, baseball, puns, the Blue Lagoon, Niels Bohr, wiffle ball, asking questions, ghost stories, early American quilts, cool shoes, spatial organization, cognac, Robert Irwin, boats, Montreal, the cosmos, aesthetics
Emiliana Torrini. Or people who people I know. Or a ballroom and swing dance partner. Or just fun people to start a dialogue with. Someone who knows where to find live funk in Philadelphia. People to be in my think tank.
Blur, Smog, Kronos Quartet, Talking Heads, Radiohead, Gus Gus, Lake Trout, Magnetic Fields, Boards of Canada, Concrete Blonde, Elvis, Sigur Ros, Mose Allison, Matthew Sweet, Mum, Elf Power, Jacques Brel, Mia Doi Todd, Bjork, Elvis
Delicatessan, Bottle Rocket, Yojimbo, Remote Control (the Icelandic one), Raising Arizona, The Thin Man, Wonderboys, Double Indemnity
Fawlty Towers, American Choppers
Pale Fire, Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, White Noise, Flatland, Tracy's Tiger, Fifth Business, Beowulf, The Drowned and the Saved, The Pine Barrens, Egil Skallagrimsson's Saga