Art, poetry, broadsides, music, making art to poetry and music. History, how we can't escape it despite numerous evasive maneuvers. "Maneuver" looks weird.
Harpies, followed in close second by someone who will never be attracted to me.
I've been known to like music. organized cacophony of sound, also nick cave
Noir-ing it up.
I don't own one of these. But I hear that people spend up to 7 hours a day with theirs. Makes me wish I had a pet of my own.
The History of Love! CA Conrad's Deviant Propulsion, and Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. Mark Strand's "Reasons for Moving", undoubtedly. Milan Kundera; Yukio Mishima; Nietzche; Frank O'Hara; Virginia Woolfe; Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Salman Rushdie... too many others to name at present. I'm indebted to Hailey and Joey for introducing me to a number of truly excellent poets also, aside from themselves.
Patti Smith, Richard D James. I stand by these choices. Helen Frankenthaller; she's intimidating.