Why I Take Good Care Of My Macintosh ComputerBecause it broods under its hood like a perched falcon Because it jumps like a skittish horse and sometimes throws me Because it is pokey when coldBecause plastic is a sad, strong material that is charming to rodentsBecause it is flighty Because my mind flies into it trough my fingers Because it leaps forward and backward, is an endless sniffer and searcherBecause its keys click like hale on a rock and it winks when it goes out and puts word heaps in hordes for me dozens of pockets of gold under boulders and stream beds identical seed pods strong on a wine or it stores bins of boltsand I loose them or find themBecause whole worlds of writing can be boldly laid out and then highlighted and vanish in a flash at delete so it teaches of impermanence and painAnd because my computer and me are both brief in this world both foolish and we have earthly fatesBecause I have let it move in with me right inside the tent and it goes with me out every morning we fill up our baskets get back home feel rich, relax I throw it a scrapand it hums-Gary Snyder-
Long lost old friends and those not lost. And then never ever lose any of them again.
Stars, Death Cab For Cutie, Ryan Adams,Tori Amos,Björk, Kate Bush, Rainer Maria, The Smiths,Rilo Kiley, Kings Of Convenience, The Decemberists, The Long Winters, The Sugarcubes,Beth Orton, Ani DiFranco,The Shins, Lamb,Imogen Heap,The Weepies, Au Revoir Simone, Frou Frou, Maria Taylor,Regina Spektor, Sufjan Stevens,Cocorosie, Iron & Wine,Espers, Arcade Fire, Azure Ray, Bright Eyes, Tegan & Sarah,Joanna Newsom, Vetiver, Grizzly Bear, Ryan Adams, Palace, Bonnie Prince Billy, Arcade Fire, Aimee Mann, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Pixies,The Smashing Pumpkins, The Postal Service,Weezer, Gregory & The Hawk, White Lodge, Husky Rescue, Feist, Mariee Sioux, The Acorn, Beirut, Great Lake Swimmers, Hem, Okkervil River, Basia Bulat, The Wooden Stars, Gogol Bordello(thanks to Russ!), mixtapes made by friends, whiny country music...
Can't wait to see Also: Happy Together, A New Waterford Girl, Chungking Express, Twin Falls Idaho, Ghost Dog, The Virgin Suicides, My Own Private Idaho, Garden State,Station Agent, The Ice Storm, Gattaca,Rushmore, Marie Antoinette, Lost In Translation, Finding Forrester, eXistenZ, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Seventh Seal, Old Joy, The Claim The Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Subway,The Big Blue, Brokeback Mountain, East Of Eden, Beautiful Girls, Leon, The Big Sleep, The Treasure Of Sierra Madre, Rashomon,To Have And Have Not, Dead Man,Wings Of Desire,Badlands, Donnie Darko,Lovers Of The Arctic Circle, Ride With The Devil, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Stalker,Wonder Boys, Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle, Paris,Texas, Amelie,The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink,the list goes on.And on.
"Damn Good Coffee!"PASILA
Books? Those rectangular objects du jour? Must shorten endless list... The History Of Love (read it and weep), Breakfast At Tiffany's, Capote's short stories, Lathe of Heaven, The Day It Rained Forever, Norveigian Wood,Gilead, The Dharma Bums(Thanks to Shaun), On This Day, Sweethearts, A Sudden Country, Not The End OF The World, The Shipping News, Flower Children, Our Lady Of The Forest, Number9Dream and their authors. Also Rudyard Kipling, Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, T.S Eliot, Dorothy Parker, Anais Nin,Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver, Gary Snyder, John Sayles (yes he writes books too! is in fact a national book award nominee and a winner of the o henry award! so there...) Carson McCullers, Lauren Groff & Karen Russell's short stories, David Guterson, Alice Munro, Palahniuk, Melville, Myla, Goldberg, Nabokov etc.etc... Am also impartial to literary reviews and fashion magazines. Sew You, The Joy Of Cooking, The Herbal Health and Beauty Book, The Golden Bow, Walden and The Three Pillars Of Zen come in handy too. RIGHT NOW I'M READING: ALSO, EVERYONE SHOULD, NO MUST, READ:
Mom.John Sayles.Nicole Krauss.Truman Capote.Lots of Feminist and suffragette types.