"...and for once I shall beg: keep me in your heart or chase me away, but don't let me cling to love to find out suddenly it is there no more." Simone de Beauvoir to Nelson Algren"Bow down to her on Sunday, Salute her when her birthday comes" -Bob Dylan "She was one of those great cuddly women of the past, wearing those pants they used to wear and those hightop, laced boots."- R.Brautigan I'm only interested in Unicorns
(ok, so I also dig photography, music, boys and booze)
"Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous" -- Anais Nin
I want to find my Otis... Or Bruce Sringsteen, but he's happily married so she can have him. I do, though, know what his girl wears to bed every night. I've sold tons of fancy lingerie to that beautiful gal. Lucky...
or this man...sending chills up and down my spine.. (remember when he was on the cosby show back in the 80's. They went in the studio to see him? Ah! Swoooooooon!)999, 13th floor elevators, adam ant, al green, brian wilson, the beach boys (pet sounds!), the beat, the beatles, belle and sebastian, ben folds five/ben folds, blondie (back when she was super hot), blur, bob dylan, bob segar, Bowie, the breeders,brian eno,bruce springsteen, buddy holly, built to spill,the butchers, buzzcocks, the charlatans, cheap trick, the clash, cockney rejects, the cogburns,crass, the creation,the cure, echo &the bunnymen, elastica, elliot smith, elvis p. , elvis c., the fall, federale, fifteen, gang of four,gene vincent, the go-go's, happy mondays, hickey, husker du, ian brown, iggy & the stooges, the jam, james taylor, jawbreaker, jerry lee lewis, the jesus and mary chain, jets to brazil, jimmy and the teasers, joan jett,john lenon, jonathan richman,johnny cash, joy division, julie doiron, kinks, the langley schools music project, le concorde, link wray, low, macey road,madness, magnetic fields, manic street preachers, marvin gaye,mc5, mike ness,minutemen, mission of burma, the modern lovers, morrissey, the muffs, mojave 3, motown, the mummies, my bloody valentine, nada surf, neil halstead, neil young, new order, nico, otis redding, the parasites, patsy cline, the pixies, pedro the lion, the pogues,the primitives, pulp, ramones, ride, robert gordon, roky erickson,rocket 350, sham 69, the shirelles, simon and garfunkel, sixer, slowdive, the small faces, the smiths, smoking popes, social distortion, sonic youth, spacemen 3, the specials, stevie wonder, stone roses, stray cats, suade, the sundays, the supremes, syd barrett, Talking Heads, television, Tom Waits,three blue teardrops, tombstone brawlers, toy dolls, t rex, two man advantage, tv on the radio, the undertones, velvet underground, warsaw, weezer, the who, william shatner, willie nelson, wire, the woggles,X, x-ray spex, zeke.........
Amelie, Wings of Desire, 24 Hour Party People, Another State of Mind,Delicatessen, Hairspray, All Over Me, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lost in Translation, Garden State,The Nun, Les Enfants terribles, Love Story, The Way We Were, An Affair to Remember, Jim Jarmusch, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Claude Berri, John Waters, Woody Allen, Independent films, foreign cinema (especially French), old movies, documentaries...
simone de beauvoir, jean-paul sartre, jean cocteau, anais nin, albert camus, francisca lia block, invisible man, raymond queneau, sylvia plath, emily dickinson, john fante, charles bukowski, Richard Brautigan, scary stories to tell in the dark(the whole series!)burroughs, guy de maupassant, balzac, marcel pagnol,jean cocteau, diderot (the nun must read), the man who fell in love with the moon, astrid lindgren, zola, colette, henri-pierre roche,Flaubert, the Beat writers, works by philosophers, existentialists, surrealists, feminists, sociologists, psychologists, writings by the working class and the left (politics)....etc. I'll read anything I can get my hands on.