astrology. only the necessary. feminism. obsession in general. space/time. performance art. dance. activism. word origins. sushi. playing pretend. dreams. memory. buddhism. warmth. trying harder. synchronicity. personal responsibility. community. falling apart. complexity and ambiguity.
a small, dark den of spirits.
listening to these days: joanna newsom. avey tare and kria brekken. diane cluck. lavender diamond. neko case. arvo part. animal collective. sufjan stevens. beach house. listening to over and over right now: neil young, live at massey hall 1971 and patty griffin, living with ghosts. twice in the last two weeks i've gotten embarrassingly excited about hearing cat stevens' "peace train" on the radio...i'm a dork. it's okay.
who's afraid of virginia woolfe, what's eating gilbert grape, kill bill vol. 2, back to the future's I and II, the cutting edge, you and me and everyone we know, old yeller, pollyanna, mary poppins, brokeback mountain, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, jackson 5 made for tv movie, waiting for guffman, murmur of the heart, downtown '81, city of god, the neverending story, tess, savannah smiles, synthetic pleasures...
okay, so i watch gray's anatomy and cry EVERY SINGLE time. and yes i do have an opinion about all the american idol contestants and i speak that opinion loudly, to the screen every week... but it's only because i have to see how the enemy lives in order to truly overpower them someday...
the unbearable lightness of being, everything is illuminated, the fountainhead, the book of laughter and forgetting, love signs, the house of the spirits, woman/native/other, cornell west, bell hooks, flow my tears the policeman said, the giver, the long fatal love chase, tuck everlasting, one hundred years of solitude, the mists of avalon, house of leaves, a natural history of the senses, the wind-up bird chronicle, anais nin
artists who don't compromise. who don't buy into ideas of success and security. and right now: edgar cayce.