painting. watercolors. reading. old toy cameras. art and design books. (trying to learn) languages. jigsaw puzzles. italy. oakland. san francisco. my creative friends. mentors. sketching and painting drunks, awkward girls, old people, and the clinically insane. meeting creative people. drawing people when they aren't looking. not getting drunk. watching drunks. maps.
Artists Cherry Hood and Ed Ruscha.
Storytellers, beatniks, artists, poets, writers, comic book illustrators, painters, other designers, other organizational people who keep to-do lists.
and you.
spacey country folky indie stuff. shoegazey stuff, mid 60s uk stuff, 60s northern soul and jazz. feist, mogwai, and kelley stoltz. old movie soundtracks with jazzy scores. the zombies are king. the beautiful nara leao and other bossa stuff. i can listen to bossa all day long.
superbad, il posto, le samouraï, little murders, the loved one, masculin et féminin, in the mood for love, big lebowski, what time is it there?, lawrence of arabia, fishing with john, the thin man, the third man, delicatessen, ratcatcher, vivre sa vie, goonies, lost in translation, talk to her, documentaries, lots of documentaries.
LOST (always), Deadwood, The History Channel, Nip/Tuck, Daily Show, Freaks & Geeks, Bob Ross reruns, Arrested Development.
haruki murakami anything, paul bowles anything, d. powell, jon. carroll, koestler, david mitchell anything, a.m. holmes, mcewan, biographies and histories, mid century design, art, and photo folios, first editions, print, communication arts, grafik, watercolor magic, meathaus. i love books and i love book recommendations.
truman capote, garry winogrand, chris killip, lenny bruce, robert bechtle, gerhard richter, myrna loy, bruce davidson, bill owens, ed ruscha, joan brown, paul bowles, alice prin.