documentaries, dive bars, pickles, shoes, whiskey, calculus, my enormous TV, taking walks, old people, dogs, small towns, Netflix, my siblings, Saturdays in the fall, ferocity, porch swings
people with charm, shuffleboard masters, film buffs, rednecks, hippies, stoners, the funny pants brigade, Wes Anderson, Paul Simon, Dolly Parton, and anyone who can teach me more about photography or sewing
Paul Simon, Jim Croce, Joni Mitchell, Janis Ian, the Band, Van Morrison, the Beach Boys, Otis Redding, Stevie Wonder, Simon & Garfunkel, Townes Van Zandt, Marvin Gaye, Don Williams, Carole King, Big Star, the Zombies, David Bowie, the Specials, Jackson Browne, Portishead, the Lovin’ Spoonful, Velvet Underground, the Kinks, Iron and Wine, Neil Young, Pavement, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Kings of Convenience, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Bill Withers, most of the stuff Stephen Merritt has done, Tom Waits, Vince Guaraldi, the Pixies, the Flaming Lips, Sam Cooke, Kris Kristofferson, girl groups from the 60s, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, Jimmy Cliff, hip hop and blues that Rhett gives me, KOMA radio
Rosemary's Baby, Annie Hall, Being There, Grey Gardens, The Big Lebowski, The Graduate, Rushmore, Giant, Burden of Dreams, Martin, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Waltz, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, When We Were Kings, Night of the Living Dead, Harold and Maude, Casablanca, The Wild Bunch, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Ali: Fear Eat Soul, Big Business
Golden Girls, PBS, daytime TV
Confederacy of Dunces, All the Pretty Horses, The Tin Drum, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Cry, the Beloved Country, As I Lay Dying, lots of non-fiction books on film
My grandfathers, Val Lewton, Dolly Parton