delayed adolesence, starting over, music, books, reading, writing, school, art, film, collaborative efforts and lonely pursuits, philosophy, food and beverages, conversation, long walks, visiting points of interest and disinterest, travel, friends and family, culture, escapism, present/past/future events, jogging, casinos, carnivals, circuses, the I.D., vacations, waking up without an alarm clock, naps, hover-plates, giving props, high-fives and semi-complicated handshakes
"I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the same question over and again: Is this the truth, or not? I begin this letter to you, then, in the western tradition. If I understand it, the western tradition is: Put your cards on the table." Amy Hempel
R.I.P.
Tampopo, Spinal Tap, Wild at Heart, True Romance, Amelie, Alien/s, the Evil Dead's, Army of Darkness, The Princess Bride, Triplets of Belleville, Branded to Kill, Ginger Snaps (the 1st one, the other 2 get pity love), Woman in the Dunes, the Kill Bill's, Seven Samuri, Heathers, Ang Pagdadalaga Mi Maximo Oliveros, Fellini, Christopher Guest, Julie Taymor, Totoro and Miyazaki stuff, Kurosawa, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Tim Burton, David Lynch (sometimes), Sophia Coppolla, Wong Kar Wai, Todd Solondz, Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, Don Hertzfeldt, Steven Chow. Current (now-playing) favorite--Little Children--go now, run, go!
Why WHY does Boomer have to be a CYLON!?
I like the kind with notes in the columns that smell like attic- or the ones that have that new born baby book scent. Lorrie Moore, Raymond Carver, Lydia Davis, Murakami, Sam Shepard, Steven Almond, Jessica Hagedorn, Jesus' Son, Our Bodies Ourselves, 1984, Brave New World, Geek Love, The Middle Stories, short story & flash fiction, Adrian Tomine, something that William Gass wrote about all things blue, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O. David Eggers. new yorker's short fiction. Black Hole by Charles Burns, George Saunders! Stories from "The Dubliners" by James Joyce, Aimee Bender. The Power of Myth. the religious right's "Chick" publications, The Middle Stories. Rachel Sherman. I Love You More Than You Know.
Sister Turkey