Reading, writing, righting myself. Vegetarian who enjoys the vicarious thrills to be had from sharing a table with a red-gummed pack of frenzied omnivores. The Basic Fantastic Four: Family, Friends, Food...
The Press. My Maker. Your Destiny. And Potatoes.
Now Playing: St Vincent, Grizzly Bear, Handsome Furs, The Islands, Wolf Parade, Cat Power, Coco Rosie, The Arcade Fire, The Vells, Psychic Emperor, Built to Spill. From the Archives (birth to present core sample): Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, Patsy Cline, Merl Haggard, Jimi Hendrix, Blue Cheer, Janis Joplin, The Beatles, The Stones, The Kinks, The Velvet Underground, David Bowie, The New York Dolls, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, Blondie, Devo, Kraftwerk, Trio, Yello, The Clash, The Fall, The Ramones, Nina Hagen, Lena Lovich, Frank Zappa, Laurie Anderson, The Selector, The Specials, Let's Go Bowling, Operation Ivy, The Inciters, The Untouchables, The Make-Up, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, James Brown, The Saints, Radio Birdman, The Lyres, The Oblivions, Guitar Wolf, 5-6-7-8s, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Golden Earring, Magnetic Fields, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Bright Eyes, Belle and Sebastian, Cat Power, Little Wings, Devandra Banhart, Elliot Smith, Iron and Wine, Kings of Convenience, Sufjan Stevens.
Recent Releases: Me, You, and Everyone we Know, Palindromes, Thumb Sucker, Broken Flowers, Saw. All-time Favorites: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?, 8 and 1/2, Elephant Man, Eraser Head, Brazil, Dead Man, Wings of Desire, Far Away, So Close, Joe Versus the Volcano, Mulholland Drive, The Five Obstructions, Elephant, The Brown Bunny, The Idiots, Fight Club, Kill Bill, True Stories.
No cable in NYC, so I go on binges of DVD released series: Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Absurdistan, Petropolis, AHWOSG, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Disappointment Artist, The Wind-up Bird Chronicles, The Contortionist's Handbook, Choke, Diary, Nausea, and on, and on..
So, this is people you revere and want to emulate or have some similar qualities, right? So, Chuck Palahniuk, Amy Sedaris, Craig Clevenger, Georges Bataille, Dennis Hollier, Derrida, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, and Haruki Murakami, for the old bean and Emma Smith, Jackie Smith, and Kevin Serra for their creativity and humanity. If we're talking about envy then Helen Bonham Carter, Natalie Portman, Johnny Depp, and David Bowie.