harpsichords, the history of american music, eliminating poverty, chestnuts roasting on an open fire, jack frost nipping at your door, herb gardens, buying tea in bulk, collecting 50 year-old etiquette books and reading them cover to cover, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, collecting hot air balloon and zeppelin postage stamps, urban planning and development, making music for films.
My ancestors
60s mod and lots of other stuff. Borodin, Chainsaw Kittens, Breeders, Ledbelly, The Carter Family, The Andrews Sisters. I like honest music played by honest people who use instruments made from honest materials. Songs in 3/4 time. I like T-Rex, Magnetic Fields, Sparks, The Kinks, JACKSON FIVE, Brian Eno, David Byrne and the Talking Heads, the Cars, ELO, the Who, Paul McCartney, Louvin Brothers, Stanley Brothers, Beck Mutations, Willie Nelson, King Tubby, Luna, Built to Spill, Elvis Costello (the man who wrote the song that my mother named me by), Paul Simon, Edith Piaf, Ute Lemper, this whole thing makes me sleepy...
Toccata for Toy Trains by the Eames'*Bill Murray*Wes Anderson*Jim Jarmusch*Wong Kar Wai*Masters of Russian Animation*Coffee and Cigarettes, etc.* Fellini*Marcello Mastroiani*Akira Kurisawa* Leni Reifenstal*Tim Burton*Lars Von Trier*Wim Wenders* Werner Hertzog*Friends with Money* Napoleon Dynamite*Malibu's Most Wanted*Woody Allen*Brad Beasley* Potter!*So many movies- thats all I do. I...I simply can't spend all day on this.
Sesame Street, The Office, Ali G, Arrested Development, Pancake Mountain, West Wing, Globe Trekker, Rick Steves!!! Austin City Limits, Jim Lehrer, BBC world news, PBS, WGBH Boston, OETA, Fraggle Rock, Mister Rogers, Square One (especially Mathnet), Antiques Roadshow, and Leslie and Leigh Keno's new show FIND! TWIN PEAKS, King of the Hill, Simpsons, Frontline, NOVA.
books about real things, cookbooks, children's books--The Max series by Maira Kalman, the Selfish Gene, Chomsky, Harry Potter, I like Dwell Magazine and Martha (and Domino and Cookie), Any John Irving novel, Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert, Why Gender Matters by Leonard Sax. You know, fool, popular science 'n' shi'.
Sera McReynolds, David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Ray Davies, Danny Elfman, Thomas Jefferson, Ledbelly, Camille Paglia, John Irving, Noam Chomsky, Umberto Eco(just the linguistics stuff, thanks), any and all Dictionary writers, Rumi, Ray and Charles Eames, Russel Wright, The Wright Brothers, Martin Luther King, Django Reinhardt, All good winemakers, my son Ben. W.B. Yeats, Leonard Sax, Steven Pinker, Leslie and Leigh Keno, DANIEL GILBERT!!!