sprezzatura, tacos, reading and writing fiction, traveling, being productive while simultaneously giving in to my hedonistic urges, tennis, adventure, 9-ball, fish and chips
I'd like to meet:
good people
Music:
RECENTLY: Messthetics compilations, Thee Headcoats, Os Mutantes, Spits, Raveonettes, The Clean, Atlas Sound, Mahjongg, Abe Vigoda, Tussle, Charlotte Gainsbourg
ALWAYS: Can, Broadcast, Beatles, Bessie Smith, Kinks, Stranglers, Monks, Glass Candy, Royal Trux, Slits, Black Lips, Serge Gainsbourg, Deerhunter, Coasters, Subsonics, Television Personalities, Teengenerate, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Faust, James Chance, King Tubby, Ornette Coleman, Andres Segovia, Nina Simone, ESG, Ramones, Sly and The Family Stone, Wire, Gram Parsons, Phyllis Dillon, Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson, Pylon, Liquid Liquid, Rock*A*Teens, Velvet Underground, Minutemen, Thelonious Monk, Eric Dolphy, the Clean, Galaxie 500, Raincoats, Hank Williams, Wu Tang
Movies:
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai), Pee Wee's Big Adventure, all of Jim Jarmusch's films, Decline of Western Civilization, Raising Arizona, Crooklyn, Caddyshack, Underground (Kusturica), Annie Hall, Paris Texas, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Volver, Man Bites Dog, Iron Monkey, Darling (Schlesinger), Weekend (Godard), Touch of Evil, City of Lost Children, Fistful of Dollars, Ran, Short Cuts, Farewell My Concubine, Rear Window
Television:
Simpsons, Seinfeld, Metalocalypse, The Wire, sports
Books:
The Outsiders, Ocean of Words, The Sun Also Rises, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World, Invisible Man(Ralph Ellison, not H.G. Wells), As I Lay Dying, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Things They Carried, The History of Love, Life is Elsewhere, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Lolita, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Catcher in the Rye, Banned in DC(Cynthia Connelly), Our Band Could Be Your Life, The Great Gatsby, Fowler's Guide to English Usage
Heroes:
mom, dad, Nisa Asokan, Kathrine Hoover, Ernest Hemingway, Aaron Cometbus
