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talking about...thinking about...but never actually writing
fantasizing about a love affair with sigmund freud
magical realism at the mall
leisurely strolls through the park, or the beach
feeling nostalgic for a time i've never lived
erotica
listening to people talk about their problems
wine tasting, sipping, chugging
david's mock hick voice
drunken pilates
camp, satire, irony
mediterranean food
jesus' giant phallus
psychoanalysis for dummies
analyzing everything yet always ending up more confused than ever
We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?
- David Foster Wallace
this is hard to sum up but generally speaking,
film buffs
wine connoisseurs
creators of useless art
a single sebastian koch
psychoanalysts, therapists and social workers
chess and scrabble masters
self-appointed gurus
a fiddler, violinist and cellist to follow me around
courageous women
sophisticated men who still believe in chivalry
people who don't take themselves too seriously
nico
tori amos
morrissey
edith piaf
beirut
francoise hardy
yo-yo ma
ella fitzgerald
broken social scene
madeleine peyroux
brian eno
carly simon
susumu yokota
colleen
joni mitchell
neutral milk hotel
bach
sleater-kinney
patti smith
neko case
arcade fire
yann tiersen
paul simon
josephine foster
the beatles
otis redding
serge gainsbourg
wilco
nina simone
david bowie
camille
julie doiron
tom waits
eric satie
talkdemonic
django reinhardt
califone
feist
jason webley
pj harvey
gilberto
velvet underground
happy vagina folk
russian folk
30s-60s jazz
balkan brass
indie rock & pop
french 60s pop
classical
80s hair band rock
bossa nova
i love film and lots of it.
most notably,
french new wave
1940-60s american
melodrama
dark comedies
satire & parody
period pieces
documentaries
film noir
psychological thrillers
japanese horror
rom coms for rainy days
auteurs that do it for me:
woody allen
godard
hitchcock
almodovar
lars von trier
jarmusch
kurosawa
bunuel
herzog
carpenter
douglas sirk
bergman
kieslowski
orson welles
but really, i'm oriented towards movies that have themes like unrequited love, superheroes, space travel, a hero's journey into the unknown, midgets, zombies, random absurdity, philosophical rambling, multiple vinettes and dragqueens.
Yeah, I read alot, too.
flannery o'connor
pablo neruda
patricia highsmith
cloud atlas, ghostwritten
the onion
ask the dust
fairy tales
m.l. von franz
magical realism-
j.l. borges, cortazar, fuentes, kundera, gogol
lewis carroll
rousseau
thoughts without a thinker
confederacy of dunces
upanishads
the paris review
nabokov
adorno
r. girard
joseph campbell
psychoanalysis-
freud, jung, horney, kristeva, yalom
john gottman
candide
virginia woolf
eros and civilization
pin-up and film poster collections
looking awry
mythologies, lover's discourse
the bronte sisters
existentialism-
kierkegaard,
kafka,
camus,
nietzsche
vonnegut
taschen art publications
jonathan evison
"Writing does not fully express words, and words do not fully express ideas." Confucius
I'll pass on listing heroes but how about some quotes:
"Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation .." -Freud
"Sexual pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken."- de Beauvoir
"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe - the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."
"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." ~ Immanual Kant
"If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life." -Camus
"Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; - they are the life, the soul of reading; - take them out of this book for instance, - you might as well take the book along with them."
Laurence Sterne
"I think it is always a tremendously good formula in any art form to admit the limitations of the form."
-orson welles
and my favorite:
"Better to have liberty fraught with danger than servitude in peace."
-Rousseau