I have a great river view from my bed and various assorted random thoughts to accompany it.
Anyone as awesome as Dave K was, someone who knows bossa, samba, Tom Ze, Afro Peruvian and psychedelic argentine, running pardners, dog sitters and bike buddies.
folk punk lately: Coco Rosie-the stuff is blowing my mind, Antony and the Johnstons, Joanna Newsome Defiance Ohio, Tiger Army, the nethers, belle and sebastian, nethers, victor jara, le tour, jay D, 70's and 80's soul funk, 80's and early-mid 90's techno and klezmer punk, andamanda standalone.
White, Office Space, the Wristcutters,
Been replaced by the almighty internet.
Still wading through Moby Dick...Isabelle Allende, W. Someset Maugham "of Human Bondage" Kafka, Black Night White Snow, The Kronsdat Sailors, War and Peace, You Call This Living: A Handbook of Eastern European Humor, The Life of Private Ivan Chonkin, How it All Vegan!, Steppenwolf, Siddartha, The Glass Bead Game, Pablo Neruda's Love Poems, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Borges, Walt Whitman, Kalil Gibran, Omar Kayim, Allen Ginsberg, George Konrad's The City Builder, Edward Lear's Nonsense Poems, David Sedaris, Detroit Perspectives, The Origins of Urban Crisis, Working Detroit and "Made in Detroit (1954), John Barth, The Adventures of Frog and Toad, The Little Prince, The Sneetches, Ayn Rand (my guilty pleasure) Where the Wild Things Are, August, 1914, Brave New World, 1984, Roots, Walden II, The Color Purple, The Snowy Day, The Golden Book Children's Encyclopedias circa 1959. Be Here Now, The Way of Zen, Eduardo Galleano, Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle, Joseph Conrad, Boris Psasterneck, COSMOS IS GOD, JRR Tolkein and Harry Potter, which do you think is better?
Janet Ray, Layla. Jessica L., and Southwesterners by choice.