bicycles with wicker baskets, Sweden and anything Swedish, Hollywood Hills hikes, music, vintage and antique anything, baking, "This American Life" with Ira Glass, wine, books, gardening, painting, Dean, Miles, Linus, garlic, coffee, shoes, my family, rosemary, linen, teaching, food, decorating, NPR, warm French bread, old buildings, foreign accents, letterpress stationary, tweed coats and cardigans with elbow patches and debating politics, religion and philosophy with Dean (or anyone else who will listen) on a stoop in the late evening hours with a glass of vino in hand!
Our little bun, Ira Glass, Michel Foucault, Joni Mitchell . . . AND people who will bring happiness to my life--and those who I can give it to in return.
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Serge Gainsbourg, Ane Brune, Grizzly Bear, Alpha, Neko Case, Sufjan Stevens, Arcade Fire, Stereolab, Kings of Convenience, Erland Oye, Glen Hansard, The Frames, Of Montreal, Whitest Boy Alive, Joni Mitchell, The Shins, Elbow, Band of Horses, Blonde Redhead, Beirut, Mouse On Mars, The Bird and the Bee, Tori Amos, Talking Heads, Paul Simon, Emmy Lou Harris, Bright Eyes, My Morning Jacket, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Jose Gonzalez, Feist, Inara George, Belle and Sebastian, MGMT, Priscilla Ahn, James Brown, Peter Bjorn and John, Gomez, Sigur Ros, Turin Brakes, The Flaming Lips, Neil Young, The Magic Numbers, TV on the Radio, Air, Bebel Gilberto, Devotchka, Radiohead, Nina Simone, The Polyphonic Spree, Josh Rouse, Death Cab for Cutie, Joseph Arthur, Broken Social Scene, Tori Amos, Postal Service, Beck, Doves, Bob Dylan, Iron and Wine, Bill Frisell, Sea and Cake, The Ditty Bops, Caribou, Travis, The Decemberists, Pink Floyd, My Brightest Diamond, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Sun Ra . . .
GENRES: Indie, Foreign, Documentary, Biography and anything historical or based on a true story--I'm a sucker for a true tale.
MOVIES: If, Dr. Strangelove, The Science of Sleep, You Me & Everyone We Know, Once, Following Sean, Amadeus, Funny Face, The Lives of Others, Junebug, The Squid and the Whale, La Vie En Rose, Only Human, Thumbsucker, Sophie Scholl, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, Maria Full of Grace, Amélie, Shawshank Redemption, Clockwork Orange, No Country for Old Men, The Wizard of Oz, Little Miss Sunshine, It's a Wonderful Life, Sunset Boulevard, The Sound of Music, Crash, Naked Lunch, The Corporation, Elephant, Blood Simple, Into the Wild, Midnight Cowboy
T.V. is pretty boring. We only subscribe to basic cable on purpose because it naturally inhibits any inclination to become couch potatoes. But, here is a slim list of a few winners. . . Law and Order, Brothers and Sisters, Cold Case, Without A Trace and Super Nanny (Yes!--regardless of the fact that Dean makes fun of me, I am not embarrassed to say that I LOVE Super Nanny! Jo rocks.)
WRITERS: Flannery O'Connor, David Sedaris, Michel Foucault, Marquis de Sade, Albert Camus, Joyce Carol Oats, William Blake
BOOKS: The Killer Inside Me, The Glass Castle, The Dress Lodger, Paradise Alley, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, The Fall, Disgrace, Oyster, Naked, We Were the Mulvaneys, Five Quarters of the Orange, Lucky, Animal Farm, The Tattooed Girl, White Oleander, The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Girl With a Pearl Earring, The Metamorphosis, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Suite Française