Wanderlust, mangos, verbal lambasting, brutal honesty- even when sober-fancy that, horticultural theft, etymology, edward gorey, leisure, scribblin, fauxmance, bike rides, yo mama jokes, dr. bronner's soap, oil splotches in parking lots after it rains, giant lightning storms, ghost fish killah- rip, full contact soccer with slide tackling, no-mercy dodgeball, fresh baby coconuts, antebellum plants: hydrangea/magnolias/jack in the pulpit/scottish thistle, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Magritte
Andy Goldsworthy, no mean drunks/drug addicts/opportunists please, people with some sense of morality, and yo mama
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The Cribs, Voxtrot, Love & Rockets, Escape Club, Teenage Fan Club, The Evil Superstars (Belgium), Temporal Guild of Adventures (Kendra Smith), Unrest, Her Space Holiday, Magnetic Fields, Esthero, The Judybats (Pain makes you beautiful), The Cure, LUSH, Cocteau Twins, old 4AD bands, Kanye West, Billie Holiday, The Supremes, Nick Drake, Green Day, Stone Roses, godfather & assault, Depeche Mode- duh, Ivy, Lilys, Stereolab, Tram (Paul Anderson), Goldfrapp, Polvo, Archers of Loaf, Luna, Alice Cooper, Information Society, Ed Rush & Optical, Brahamadia, Grenadine, The Cannanes, Plaid, The Moldy Peaches, The Pastels, s.t.u.n., Uncertain, Suicideclub, The Arcade Fire, Elephant 6 bands, Danielson Family, Manson, Smog, pretty much anything on Merge or Teen Beat Records- midatlantic reprazent, stuff...
Jarmusch is my hero!, and Michel Gondry toasts my muffin, Breakfast on Pluto, Malibu's Most Wanted, anything Cohen Brothers, Farrelly Bros. ok too, Fellini & Fassbinder- duh, Polish Brothers films, Tarantino stuff, Monty Python, Gregg Araki stuff (esp. Doom Generation, Mysterious Skin), Lynch stuff, Christopher Guest stuff, Hal Hartley stuff, HOUSE OF YES (duh- I am from DC and super smart), The Corpse Bride, Natural Born Killers, Everything is Illuminated, The United States of Leland, White Oleander, THE USUAL SUSPECTS, Cocteau's Orpheus & Testament, The Secret of Roan Innish, Me without You, Donnie Darko- Director's cut, Howard's End, Wet Hot American Summer, Ma Vie En Rose, Cemetery Man, Flirting (1991), Heathers, LA Confidential, Funny Farm, Cambridge Spies, Cecil B. Demented, Dead Alive, The Price of Milk, Pretty Persuasion, Photographing Fairies, Ruben & Ed, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, Un Couer En Hiver, La Vie Revee Des Anges, Singles, As the Long Day Closes, THE LOVED ONE (Evelyn Waugh book), the artsy one with yo mama all bent over, Office Space- makes me not go to work or school for a few days everytime I watch it
I have no TV reception..I am on a foothill...
Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut, The Underachievers Diary by Ben Anastas, EM Forster, Martin Amis novels, JT Le Roy novels, LM Montgomery novels too- but don't tell anyone, Philip Larkin short form, Trouser Press, old issues of Spy Magazine fr. Manhattan- not really about spies, Shel Silverstein's The Missing Piece meets The Big O, loads of 'em
the folks, Coleen Rowley- former fbi 9/11 whistleblower running for Minnesota Congress, oh and Noam Murro b/c his work cracks me up, Spud (Anthony) Webb cuz he's the same height as me- went to dad's alma mater and is in the NBA, yo!, Jamie Kennedy and Jenny McCarthy!!