[alphabetization], baking, bangin' taquerias, batting cages, bicycles, bloopers, brodowns, buffet-style dining, building things, calypso records, coffee tea and cola drinks, cooking, crossword puzzles, dancing, dubious scholarship, eating less meat and dairy, engaging in nerdery, film, grapefruit juice, grocery stores, kayaks, growing my own food, gum, miniature golf, pie, pinball, pizza parties, practicing extreme thrift, roller derby, root beer floats, soul music, super-8 and other small-format film, tight pants, toothpicks, Trader Joe's, Trojan box sets
ANTHONY BOURDAIN:
"Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life. I mean, let's face it: When you're eating simple barbeque under a palm tree, and you feel sand between your toes, samba music is playing softly in the background, waves are lapping at the shore a few yards off, a gentle breeze is cooling the sweat on the back of your neck at the hairline, and looking across the table, past the column of empty Red Stripes at the dreamy expression on your companion's face, and you realize that in half an hour you're probably going to be having sex on clean white hotel sheets, that grilled chicken leg suddenly tastes a hell of a lot better."
Or Alton Brown, Henry Rollins, Tom Arnold, or John Hodgman.
Junior Boys
The Goodnight Loving
Peter Bjorn & John
The Fiery Furnaces
GENERALLY SPEAKING:
reggae soul calypso, rockandroll
Last Ten: Eragon, Sleepaway Camp, Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix, Everything Is Illuminated, Ladybugs, A Prairie Home Companion, Six String Samurai, Let's Go To Prison, Tears of The Black Tiger, 2 Days In Paris
Faves: Jim Jarmusch, Todd Solondz, Guy Maddin, Tarantino, Scorcese, Claire Denis, "Brick", "Project Grizzly", documentaries, westerns, French New Wave, impenetrable art films
30 Rock, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Feasting On Asphalt, Flight of the Conchords, Good Eats, The Office(US and UK), Real Time w/ Bill Maher, Tavis Smiley, Tom Goes To The Mayor
RECENTLY:
"Skinny Dip" by carl Hiaason
"The First Third" by Neal Cassady
"Fragile Things" by Neil Gaiman
"Songbook" by Nick Hornby
"Dead Souls" by Nikolai Gogol