I can levitate. I'm feeling nostalgic. I love attention.
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
--Anais Nin
defragmenting myself, learning to be nice, good food, late-night discussions with the help of good wine, samadhi, high literature, dark poems, film, music, love; lucha libre; SomaFM; Ensenada’s dark alleys; the yoga sutras; the history of opium, Rainer Maria Rilke; vacations on the osa peninsula with secret agents; shakti’s revenge and the kundalini aftermath; ariel and anima and apocalypse now redux; women who have found themselves and men who aren’t afraid of them; erudite rockstars; fashionistas; absinthe recipes; yoga nidra; German forests; daydreaming; writing novels that will never get published; my lovely friends and family; mostly, though, people: what makes them tick???
Nithyananda, Jonathan Meese, Iggy Pop... most people are dead: Susan Sonntag, Alfred Chester, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Anais Nin, Coco Chanel, Salvador Dali, F Scott Fitzgerald...
six organs of admittance, olivia tremor control, dataq rock, ladytron, electrolane, elliot smith, sonic youth, kings of convenience, wolfmother, cut copy, dead meadow, she wants revenge, white stripes, fraudots, iggy pop, the stones, my bloody valentine, joy division, depeche mode, nirvana, belle and sebastian, film school, stereolab, brian jonestown massacre, primal scream, verve, blur, kasabian, the evens, suede, happily ever after, la fin du monde, new order, the cure, clinic, air, superfurry animals, david bowie, brian eno, gang of four, MIA, dead can dance, nikil banerjee, beethoven, john coltrane, billy holiday, sizzla, klaus nomi, tool, velvet underground, nico, serge gainsbourg, oz mutantes, beatles, can, franz ferdinand, killers, yellow, bauhaus, black rebel motorcycle club, t-rex, autolux, low, flotilla, flaming lips, bela bartok
We Children from Bahnhof Zoo, The Shining, Blowup, Zabriskie Point, Repulsion, Jules and Jim, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Mama Roma, Suspiria, Napoleon Dynamite, Cisco Pike, Aguirre and the Wrath of God, Dune, Amores Perros, Day of the Locust, Point Blank, Motorcycle Diaries, 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, Belle de Jour, Nosferatu, The Hunger, Harold and Maude, The Seventh Seal, Annie Hall, Team America, Once Upon a Time in the West, A Fistful of Dollars, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Santa Sangre, High Noon, Space Odyssey 2001, The Man Who Loved Women, Clockwork Orange, Breathless, 400 Blows, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Requiem for a Dream, Mulholland Drive, Fire Walk with Me, Blue Velvet, Dancer in the Dark, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Vampyros Lesbos, Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill, La Caduta degli dei (die Vedammten), Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum, Die Brücke, Dance of the Vampires, Les Biches, Betty and Betty Blue, The Stendhal Syndrome, Cremaster, Walkabout, Last Year in Marienbad, Hiroshima, mon amour, Scenes from a Marriage, Wild Strawberries, Deconstructing Harry, Radio Days
nothing at the moment
the author Louis Bromfield; Kite Runner, Running with Scissors, everything by Jon Krakauer, chick lit by Bushnell, Arundhati Roy, The Corrections, Donna Tartt, Jonathan Safran Foer, Ian McKeown...Tropic of Cancer, Quiet Days in Clichy, Sexus, Plexus, Nexus, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare and pretty much everything else written by Henry Miller. Ditto for Ernest Hemingway (fave is Garden of Eden, Sun Also Rises, The Snows of Kilimanjaro). Other favorite writers: Thomas Mann, Marcel Proust, F. Scott Fitzgerald, André Gide, Boris Vian, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Anais Nin (only her diaries), Salinger (naturally), Sylvia Plath, Haruki Murakami, the brilliant Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Franz Kafa, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Phillip K. Dick, Fran Herbert (Dune!!), Anchee Min, Marquis de Sade, Jacqueline Susan, Colette, Vrginia Wolf, Camus, Daudet, Burgess, Rilke, Louis Bromfield!!, Hesse, CG Jung, Maslow...
have not/never had the time to read: Cecil Beaton's Diaries, A League of Gentlemen, Alienist, Demonology, Moon Palace, Death Kit, A Fistful of Gitanes, Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne, Quantum Questions and the Spectrum of Consciosusness, Self and Other, The Politics of Experience, Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon, Drop City...