spicy stories and erudite curries...crosswords and coffee...music that takes you right back to where you started...boys with big noses (for warming behind my ears)...girls with surfboards...trains and bicycles and camera lenses and record players and lots of other circular tools...the perfect cocktail for this weather.
Hobos with hiccups, Adventurous Alices, and anyone who can show me how to work this damn thing...
Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Sparklehorse, Nina Simone, Django Reinhardt, Fuck, Journey,The Dirty Three, Grandaddy, Iron & Wine, Steve Earle, Neutral Milk Hotel, Townes Van Zandt, Doug Martsch, Hank Williams, The Handsome Family, Jolie Holland, Bessie Smith, Howe Gelb, Gillian Welch, Califone, Merle Haggard, Edith Piaf, Matt Ward, The Clash, Leadbelly, Chopin, Elliot Smith, Modest Mouse, Dinosaur Jr, Camper Van Beethoven, Sidney Bichet, Willie Nelson, The Boss, Coco Rosie, Sam Cooke, Willis Allen Ramsay, Emmylou Harris....oh I could go on like this till IPods go out of style...
ohmigod...go rent everything Jean Pierre Jeunet has ever made. Now. Don't forget City of Lost Children...in fact, make that the first one.
Can't afford that shite.
Kundera, Faulkner, Annie Dillard, Anais Nin, Ai, Billy Collins, Foucault, Jean Rhys, Dodie Bellamy, Joan Didion, Marquez, Borges, Emma Goldman, Nabokov, Jeanette Winterson, Billy Burroughs, Joyce Carol Oates, Roddy Doyle, Claude McKay, Tom Robbins, Vonnegut, Aaron Cometbus. holy hell its good to be out of skool and reading whatever I want to.
The canary in the mineshaft.