(Dorothy Sayers on her character Lord Peter Wimsey)
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-- James Kochalka
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-- James Kochalka
Notebooks, my apartment, Eva cat, non-snooty smartypantses, baseball, gossip (pop sociology), people-watching, summer, sweetpeas, bourbon, coffee, camping, crushes, webcomics, cast-iron frying pans, thinking about the past, the New York Times, crossword puzzles, cell phone photos, hosting parties, sock yarn, mandolins, No Depression , psychologizing, Theories, dancing, crabby people, schadenfreude, olives, plain yogurt, the couch, wasting time on the internet , yammering to Anna over IM, biographies, Nickledean, walking down Mass. Ave., Rte. 2A, road trips, Austin TX, farm shares, bluegrass festivals, shiny paper, making lists, writing and getting email, kicking imaginary samurai ass , the Manchester-by-the-Sea/Clam Box/Dairy Queen warm-weather trifecta, hippie artist alternative communities, Providence warehouse parties, Appalachia, Cape Breton, hot stoves, Steve G.'s recipes page, cobbler.
Eager editors. People with stories. The three hours of sleep I lost last night. . The scientist who can press pause on the VCR of life. Anyone who won't think I'm insufferable for realizing, three years after I signed up, that this section header should read "Whom I'd like to meet."
Week's playlist:
At some point I will update this section... Okkervil River, Hallelujah the Hills, Mission of Burma, Devin Davis, Hooray for Earth, Blur, Spoon, Shearwater, Voxtrot, Ho-Ag, Lady of Spain, Death from Above 1979 (when I'm aggravated), Damien Jurado, Built to Spill, Jens Lekman, the Blank Tapes, Neko Case, Mark Erelli, Of Montreal, The Figgs, Frank Smith, Cat Power gone Memphis, Phantom Buffalo, the Johnny Cash "Unearthed" box set, Jason Molina, Dennis Brennan, Tim O'Brien, The Benders (still), Fred Eaglesmith, Old Crow Medicine Show, the Drive-By Truckers, Emergency Music, Campaign for Real-Time, Sarah Borges, what the hell the Brett Rosenberg Problem, The Rudds, Vetiver, The Gentlemen when they're not in super-jammy mode, Sebadoh, Jake Brennan and the Confidence Men + anything with Binky, Vinal Ave. String Band, Richard Buckner, Eric Merrill, Phosphorescent, the everybodyfields, Joe Mahoney's fiendish basement experiments, Uncle Tupelo, James McMurtry esp. "Choctaw Bingo," edited Ryan Adams, Bonnie Prince Billy, Okkervil River again again
Kill Bill 2, Shakespeare shtuff, Poison Ivy, Dazed and Confused, Secretary, Lone Star, Evil Dead 2, that old Liv Tyler Tuscany film because I love pasta and Jeremy Irons, Trust. I should watch more movies. I have said this for at least ten years.
Twin Peaks, Iron Chef, Project Runway and its ilk, Psychic Detective, Grey's Anatomy, 24, Freaks and Geeks, The Third Eye or whatever that labyrinth show was called on Nickelodeon in the eighties. WBUR, North Country Public Radio, country stations, WEEI.
David Foster Wallace, Margaret Atwood's Power Politics, A.S. Byatt's Frederica tetralogy, Christopher Isherwood, modernists, Drew Weing , Kelefa Sanneh, Bill Friskics-Warren, the Yarn Harlot , escape lit about how rough it is moving to Ireland these days, Virginia Woolf, Diane DiPrima, James Kochalka, Paris in the 20s, NYC 50s-80s, the NYT food section, !John Thorne.
And especially