thinking, reading, writing, listening, watching
whoever
Strong recommendation: the amazing poetry+music collaboration by Bobby Byrd and Jim Ward .
Newest discovery: As Tall as Lions . Very beautiful, very fun.
Love always to The Beatles and The Police. Loads of props to Nine Inch Nails, Cafe Tacuba, Underworld, Sigur Ros, Gang of Four, Django Reinhardt, Sparta, Kinky, Thelonius Monk, The Mars Volta, Johnny Cash, Nina Simone, U2, Elbow, the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, and Ravel's "Bolero".
Most recent films I've loved: Once , A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints , Stranger Than Fiction, FUR: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, Sweet Land,, My Country, My Country. Please give them a shot.
Everlasting devotion to A Hard Day's Night, Amadeus and Velvet Goldmine; everything Pedro Almodóvar, Werner Herzog, and Julio Medem have ever done; also Chungking Express, The Quiet Man, Like Water for Chocolate, Henry V, Dancer Upstairs, Abre los ojos, The English Patient, 24 Hour Party People, El Mariachi, The Motorcycle Diaries, Hero, and Cary Grant's career.
My TV died.
I've finally gotten around to picking up Shantaram...just in time to have to put it down for the last Harry Potter book.Lifetime literary influences: The Once and Future King, The Fountainhead, One Hundred Years of Solitude, anything by Jeanette Winterson, most Haruki Murakami, Guevara's Diarios de motocicleta, all Gogol and Dostoevsky, The Agony and the Ecstasy, life histories like Caramelo and A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, John Rechy's early stuff, The White Hotel, Richard Rodriguez's "Late Victorians" essay, Christopher Coe's Such Times, and the inimitable, impossible Catch 22.
John Lennon, Jeanette Winterson, Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, Pedro Almodóvar, Yoko Ono, and my crazy awesome family.