Check out my new little venture:
Tam-Raconteur Ts
the arts (musical, visual, literary, etc.)
comedy (stand-up, improv, sketch)
guitar
bass
movies
books
frisbee
thai food
ice cream
breakdancing
playing the fool
musicians, photographers, painters, actors, writers, sculptors, filmmakers, teachers, thinkers, poets, comedians, madrenaissancepeople, and nonviolentrevolutionaries
I suppose I could have said "artists", but that would not have been nearly as much fun.
Artist of the Week: Francine Reed (singing with Lyle Lovett)
In rotation:
the bird and the bee--the bird and the bee
4hero--Les Fleur
Lisa Shaw--Cherry
Stevie Wonder--Songs in the Key of Life
Goldfrapp--Supernature
Amy Winehouse--Frank
Mahogany--Connectivity
Aya--Strange Flower
Jurassic 5--Quality Control
Josh Rouse--1972
Cortney Tidwell--Don't Let the Stars Keep Us Tangled Up
Paul Simon--Rhythm of the Saints
Madlib--Shades of Blue
Mika--Life in Cartoon Motion (It's my guilty pleasure. Don't even pretend that you don't have one.)
most recently:
little miss sunshine
the departed
old standbys:
anything that involves christopher guest
princess bride
monty python and the holy grail
drop dead gorgeous
being john malkovich
kill bill (1 and 2)
napoleon dynamite
standing in the shadows of motown
six feet under (RIP)
sex and the city(RIP)
sopranos
24
so you think you can dance
project runway
grey's anatomy
the catherine tate show.
Authors:
david sedaris
tom robbins
dave eggers
herman hesse
milan kundera
john kennedy toole
shakespeare
magazines:
paste
the believer
the new yorker
mother jones
magazines/blogs:
pitchfork media
pop matters
crazytalk.org
salon.com
sxsw daily chord
Just finished Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. Fantastic.
Also chipping away at The Long Tail, The Successful Business Plan, and The Anatomy of Buzz.
My family, both given and chosen.