stuff. stfu.
good huggers and bad dancers.
defiance, ohio. neutral milk hotel. rosa. the mountain goats. the smiths. the microphones. bobby birdman. andrew jackson jihad. pedro the lion. smog. built to spill. kickball. kimya dawson. will oldham. woodpile guthrie. magnetic fields. plus other stuff.
me and you and everyone we know. secretary. lost in translation. harold and maude. movies that feel like a punch in the gut.
bell hooks. andrea smith. incite! collective. south end press everything. dorothy roberts. rickie solinger. richard brautigan. james baldwin. milan kundera. salvador plascencia. raymond carver. gabriel garcia marquez. book of longing. doris, cometbus, zines. mr. fishsticks. love letters. things clever people write.
"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? ... We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into the forest far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us." - Kafka