Things I like: Wandering the streets, walking through the city at night and looking in people's windows, unexpected correspondence, lomography, fancy restaurants I can't afford, thrifting, my volvo 240, vintage fashion, faded elegance, watching HUAC trials, the Oakland A's, lost kitties, sketch comedy, travel, roadside antique shops of Michigan, This American Life, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, and ReSound, old things, soft things, funny things, strange things.
Gordon Lish.
Yeah, records are cool. I guess. I like torch songs, sad songs, songs that tell stories. Also, klezmer.
Annie Hall, Wet Hot American Summer, 2 Days in Paris, Manhattan, The House of Yes, Barfly, Brick, Look Both Ways, Paris Je T'aime, All the Real Girls, Before Sunset, Kicking and Screaming (Baumbach), Interiors, Play it Again Sam, Cool Hand Luke, Bullitt, Shortcuts, the Colors Trilogy, etc, etc.
Simpsons, Arrested Development, The Wire, Flight of the Conchords, Bob Newhart, Dick Van Dyke.
The Botany of Desire, Post Office, Moon Palace, Valencia, The Master and Margarita, Ask the Dust, Play it as it Lays, 9 Stories, The Washington Story, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, How We Are Hungry, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, 1000 Vegetarian Recipes from Around the World. I like short stories, collections of essays, and sociology texts. Right now my top 5 favorite short story authors are: Amy Hempel, Flannery O'Connor, Hemingway, Chekhov, and Cheever. Also, Carver. I have a serious magazine habit, a daily NY Times online addiction, and a disturbing fetish for McSweeney's Lists.
Anne Sexton, Dinah Washington, Jenny Holzer, Amy Hempel, Nan Goldin, Genora Dollinger and the women of the W.E.B., Chavela Vargas, Joan Berezin (amazing professor), Alice Waters, Barbara Kruger (I understand the irony here), Julia Morgan, Peter Camejo, Michael Pollan, anonymous people who do good things for no recognition at all.