music, books, antiques, animals, vegetarianism, American history, archaeology, genetics, quantum physics, medical mysteries and anomalies, 18 and 19th C transferware pottery, 19th and early 20th C Italian Pottery, Flow Blue and Irritable Bowel Syndrome and.....
human beings
Picnic at Hanging Rock, post-apocalyptic films with Charleton Heston, Bergman films, Peter Weir, Elvira Madigan, Ladies and Gentlemen...The Fabulous Stains, Smithereens, Secretary, Bringing Up Baby, Les Visiteurs, La Lectrice, La double vie de Veronique, Un coeur en hiver, Vagabond, My Life as a dog, Howard's End, Room with a View, Fight Club, Muriels Wedding, American History X, Apocalypse Now, Red, White and Blue, French Noir, mostly foreign shit.
Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Miller, Updike, Allende, Vargas-Llosa, Marquez, Magical realism, Tolsoy(i), Dostoyevski (y), the Phantom Tollbooth, Chronicles of Narnia, William Carlos Williams, Plath, Peter Hoeg, Far Afield by Susanna Kaysen (one of my all-time favorite books), Bridget Jones Diary, Jemimah J, Howard Zinn, Robin D G Kelly, Sugrue, Faulkner, McCullers, Flannery O'Conner, John Kennedy Toole, Eudora Welty....always adding
Lou Reed, Howard Zinn, Sojourner Truth, Chrissie Hynde, Patti Smith, rockin' women, Moe Tucker, Robin D G Kelly, black women during Reconstruction, Jane Goodall, Australopithecus Afarensis, KOKO, my colon, Hannah my basset.....