not losing my wallet, taco bars, gulls & buoys, whisky, the stl cards, contax g lenses, dabbawallas, recalling tv themes, target (especially bedding basics/decorative accessories/sleepwear/greeting cards), tag team contra, triple-word scores with the q, la nuit blanche, elephants, ventriloquism, migraine auras, mumok, tennis, hyper-capitalist board games (hotels, monopoly, mall madness), pangaea, pop shops, giving fleece a chance, chumleys, leftovers, alamo drafthouse, the cliffs of moher, railroads all the live long day, pedicures, james mercer, rococo, cocoa, co-narcissism, getting the office dog out of my trashcan, the placebo effect, composing required viewing lists for my future children, life savers, the winter wardrobe of michael spear, genealogy, jean grey, jean teasdale, gene parmesan, vaclav havel, baguettes, derridettes, ending wealth, spooning, organic peanut butter, oversized diner menus, fake indian accents, the dutch word for popcorn, my bag, singing in elevators, red, emulsification, zoetropes, pressure cookers, the manhattan bridge, wiffle ball, montauk, rube goldberg projects, marxist feminism, arkham asylum, joseph cornell, effective characterizations, ugliness, awkwardness, boredom, & margaritas fortnightly.
I'd like to meet:
the three kids who were harmonizing the chorus to eleanor rigby to a car full of folks on the 6 train, the kid who was using an umbrella as a pogo stick in the rain.
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anyone who has seen all 100 of these .
Music:
the wrens & the charles bissell institution !11peat!, aimee mann[thology], amy millan, amy winehouse, the new pornographers, liz phair (before), 10000 maniacs, the pixies, the pogues, the pipettes, the walkmen, the rapture, menomena, the delgados, nellie mckay, kelly clarkson, the faint, jesse sykes & the sweet hereafter, devendra banhart, robyn hitchcock, the frames, broken social scene, the dixie chicks, beck, wilco, pearl jam, stone temple pilots, duran duran (minus thank you), r.e.m., missy elliot, m.i.a., the roots, de la soul, visionaries, the jackson five, prince, stevie wonder, the zombies, the velvet underground, the talking heads, joni mitchell, beatles, bowie, dylan, a.r. rahman, cello suites, "waterloo sunset," "a case of you," & anything you can skate in your socks on the kitchen floor to (eg. boy george).
Movies:
films where a youth develops undue intimacy with a wild animal & then tenderly deals with letting it back into the wild, the theatrical trailer for frenzy, the uncertainty principle scene in the man who wasn't there, films featuring but not titled coffee & cigarettes, gary oldman ad infinitum, rushmore, half nelson, 3 women, ordinary people, head on, our daily bread, persona, earth, nora, ghost world, do the right thing, all the real girls, the umbrellas of cherbourg, dil se, you can count on me, qayamat se qayamat tak, best in show, miami vice, the king of kong, the outsiders, army of shadows, nayakan, dead man, code 46, downtown 81, buffalo 66, michael madhana kamarajan, pather panchali, meshes in the afternoon, edward scissorhands, city of lost children, the empire strikes back, jo jeeta wohi sikander, punch drunk love, the double life of veronique, valerie & her week of wonders, batman begins, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, texas chainsaw massacre, badlands, notorious, manhattan, poison, chungking express, mean girls, safe, woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown, hudsucker proxy, daybreak express, nightmare on elm street 2, labyrinth, koyaanisqatsi, a fistful of dollars, better off dead.
Television:
conan (feat. walker texas ranger), arratai arangam, the office, my so-called life, indian idol, no reservations, veronica mars, cspan book tv, fawlty towers, twin peaks, freaks and geeks, arrested development, saved by the bell, the scripps-howard spelling bee championships, shark week, square one tv.
Books:
the joke, love is a mix tape, the omnivore's dilemma, three nights in august, the story of my experiments with truth, against the day, a decade of curious people & dangerous ideas, the areas of my expertise, the awakening, the new sins, maximum city, from reel to real, the partly cloudy patriot, sontag & kael, transmetropolitan graphic novels, the wind-up bird chronicle, hero with a thousand faces, one hundred years of solitude, villages, the vox, sex drugs & cocoa puffs, the monster at the end of this book, do you know what i'm going to do next saturday?, encyclopedia brown takes the cake, franny & zooey, the accidental masterpiece: on the art of life & vice versa, gotham: a history of new york city to 1898, life is elsewhere, a confederacy of dunces, the namesake, feelings by aliki, mahabharata, giovanni's room, midnight's children, a heartbreaking work..., letters to a young poet, the mezzanine, room temperature.
Heroes:
me & you & everyone we know. particularly canadians & mom.
