pianos, adjectives, baby carrots, foreign films + films/filming, broken glass, paint by number, window shopping for antiques, existentialism, the "what if" game, hitting the road, catholic school, square breathing & pressure points, awkward moments, tambourines, banjos, checking p.o. boxes compulsively, laughing too much, hardwood floors, picking up things off the sidewalk, TEA PARTIES, getting punched, adventures,on and off board the quit smoking train, clothes found in the attic, shh the octopus, bikes from trash heaps, furniture and life size kanye west cardboard cutouts from dumpsters, antique birdcages, russian nesting dolls, severe knick knack addiction, severe packrat disorder.
an owl. craig finn.
hand claps, egg shakers, violins, out of tune pianos, oldies but goodies, whatever gets loose.
waking life, buffalo 66, welcome to the dollhouse, american beauty (just for the scene with the plastic bag), amelie, lost in translation, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, ZOMBIE MOVIES ALL OF THEM, y tu mama tambien, wes anderson/noah baumbach projects, nowhere, i heart huckabees, science of sleep, pal joey, better ones.
infomercials.
nine stories, cress delahanty, anything and everything francesca lia block because she got me writing awful prose when i was 14, slaughterhouse five, the little prince, glamorama, franny and zooey, breakfast of champions, house of leaves, interpreter of maladies, the stranger, the virgin suicides, the wind-up bird chronicle, the time traveler's wife (not gonna lie), the fountainhead, short stories of f. scott fitzgerald, plenty of poetry collections no one else really care about but i love: rilke, o'hara, etc.
currently, the glass family.