writing, reading, photography, Giliath, good movies, what strangers say, the life that's crazier than fiction
Tom Waits, the Pogues, soundtracks for In The Mood For Love and Taxidriver, Elliot Smith, Guts Pie Earshot, Ramones, Beethoven, Iggy Pop, Submission Hold, X, The Mob, Zounds, Contropotere, Roberta Flack, Gordon Lightfoot, the Beatles, Sedition, Manu Chao, The Germs, the Restarts, Los Crudos, Half Rounded Bastard File, Dillinger Four, the Crucifucks...
Anything by Wong Kar Wai (especially In The Mood For Love and 2046), almost anything by Mira Nair,The coen brothers and Jim Jarmusch (Coffee and Cigarettes, Dead Man etc), the enigma of Kasper Hauser, Blade Runner, Watership Down, The Warriors
kids in the hall, faulty towers, the young ones - all on dvd because I hate watching network tv
Anything by James Baldwin (especially the Fire Next Time and Going To Meet The Man), JRR Tolkien!!, David Sedaris. Almost anything by Phillip K Dick (like a Scanner Darkly and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) and Ursula LeGuin (especially the Dispossessed). Watership Down, To Kill a Mockingbird, Out of the Dust, The Things They Carried, Cider House Rules, all the Harry Potter, Dune, anything by Kurt Vonnegut, Freak the Mighty, Because of Winn Dixie, The Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman, a people's history of the united states, Fahrenheit 451, anything by Steinbeck (like grapes of wrath and east of eden), Brave New World. I love reading plays too and short stories by raymond carver, frank o'conner, amy hempel, etc. oh - and books about writing and reading.
James Baldwin, David Suzuki, JK Rowling, JRR Tolkien, David Sedaris, and my friends John K. and Kerry T.