Dylan; Penelope; Our Lobster Roll Safari; Jet-Setting for Food; Deciding Between the '28 and '45; All Food, All the Time ("i'm just crackers about cheese!"); Sake Saturation; Wine; Eggs; Butter; Salt; Sexy Flaky Croissants; Oyster Feasts; Writing; Old and New Friendships; Breakdance Fighting; Sticking with It, When Everything Points to the Door; Letting Go with the Right People; Preserving the Summertime Feel – even in May; SFN!; The Alliterative Aesthetic; Reconnecting; The Next Phase (Not to Overwrite the Now); Indulging; Letter-Writing; Feeling Nervous; Love; Hilarity; Driving with the Top Down; Chinese-Delivery-PJ Day; Fancy (Fountain) Penmanship; Mountains and Water; Sundays; Burgundy and the Loire; Puppy-Play; Puppy-Love; Puppy-Spoonage; Spoonage in General; Orchids; Elephants…
Ari. Bear Grylls. Bobby D. People who feel this way: And above all -- friends should possess the rare gift of sitting. They should be able, no eager, to sit for hours - three, four, six - over a meal of soup and wine and cheese, as well as one of twenty fabulous courses. Then, with good friends of such attributes, and good food on the board, and good wine in the pitcher, we may well ask - when shall we live if not now? (mfk fisher.)
akg; Beck; Belle & Sebastian; Billy Bragg; Boss; Brazilian Girls; Carla Bruni; Crowded House; Death Cab; Dylan; Evan Dando; Feist; French Kicks; Garbage; Genesis; Garbage; Gnarls; Hot Chip; Kelly Clarkson; Kings of Convenience; (Neb Jam); Placebo; Rachel Yamagata; Rodrigo y Gabriela; Solomon Burke; Stevie Wonder ..
Annie Hall; Eternal Sunshine; Almost Famous; Five Senses; Love Actually; When Harry Met Sally; Pollock; Antonia's Line; Mostly Martha; Igby Goes Down; Singles; Bye Bye Love; Leaving Las Vegas; Rocky Balboa; OfficeSpace; Royal Tenenbaums; I Heart Huckabees; The Princess Bride; About a Boy; Steve Zissou; Anchorman; Elf; Top Secret!; Totally Awesome; E.T.; Cinderella; NeverEnding Story; Three Amigos; and Dark Crystal (i think)
SNL; The Office(s); Arrested Development; 30 Rock; Conan; Dr. 90210; Iron Chef(s); Posh Nosh; Typical HBO suspects (Ari); Reno911; Crank Yankers; My Life on the D List; Lovespring International; The Class; Chapelle Show; Bear Grylls v. Wild; Anything really, really bad (eg: the Kallissa Productions...)
Writers/Thinkers: Ray L. Hart (especially Unfinished Man and the Imagination); Boehme; Goethe; Lou Salome; Nietzsche; Rilke; Freud; Schopenhaeur; Heidegger; Samuel Johnson (the O.E.D., baby!); Meister Eckhart; Gadamer; Stephen Mitchell; MFK Fisher; Ruth Reichl; Alice Feiring; Kay Redfield Jamison; John Irving (guilty pleasure). Poets: W.H. Auden; Neruda; Rimbaud; Wallace Stevens; Bob Dylan; Hart Crane; Baudelaire; Blake; Holderlin; Bukowski; Cusanus; Richard Kearney. Artists: Giacometti; Johns; Rothko; Kandinsky; Pollock; Rodin; Camille Claudel. Books: Holy Feast, Holy Fast (Bynum); The Shipping News (Proulx); Where the Red Fern Grows (Wilson Rawls); Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster); Autograph Man (Zadie Smith); Anne of Green Gables (LM Montgomery); Tuck Everlasting (Babbitt); Cote d'Or (Clive Coates); Nine Stories (Salinger); Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
Ray L. Hart.