[poetry] [prose] [music] [painting] [drawing] [sculpture] [film] [photography] [ceramics] [drama] [dance] [thinking]
[if you understood everything i said, you'd be me--miles davis]
[bob dylan] [the band] [nick drake] [gram parsons] [neil young] [tom waits] [jeff buckley] [jackson browne] [john coltrane] [philip glass] [johnny cash] [radiohead] [tegan and sara] [wilco] [sun kil moon] [leonard cohen] [van morrison] [iron and wine] [laura nyro] [kings of convenience] [postal service] [the flying burrito brothers] [modest mouse] [big star] [hope sandoval and the warm inventions] [belle and sebastian] [the cranberries] [granddaddy] [loudon wainwright] [john lee hooker] [pink floyd] [john prine] [bee gees] [bonnie 'prince' billy] [jim white] [donald fagen] [steely dan] [charley patton] [ani difranco] [bob marley] [beck] [love spirals downwards] [american analog set] [pj harvey] [rufus wainwright] [the flatlanders] [jimmie dale gilmore] [morphine] [the flaming lips] [natalie merchant] [miles davis] [jimmy cliff] [csny] [simon and garfunkel] [joni mitchell] [george harrison] [stevie wonder] [galaxie 500] [john frusciante] [lisa loeb] [al green] [willie nelson] [beach boys] [david gray] [badfinger] [neil finn] [talking heads] [elvis] [crowded house] [the monkees] [grateful dead] [robert johnson] [nirvana] [belly] [sade] [the beatles] [cocteau twins] [elliot smith] [elo] [sly and the family stone] [the delfonics] [hank williams, sr] [eels] [olivia tremor control] [mazzy star] [small faces] [jose gonzalez] [thom yorke] [sufjan stevens] [elvis costello] [cat power] [syd barrett] [luna] [moby grape] [mc5] [brian wilson] [john lee hooker] [desmond dekker] [the melodians] [mark kozelek] [ravi shankar] [brian eno] [robert wyatt] [ben harper] [the maytals] [cowboy junkies] [marvin gaye] [the sleepy jackson] [ryan adams] [alexander skip spence] [the clash] [bessie smith] [roy orbison] [leadbelly] [greg allman] [coheed and cambria] [the doves] [woody guthrie] [t-rex] [fred neil] [wu-tang clan] [david bowie] [jimi hendrix] [matisyahu] [david byrne] [peter gabriel] [spider john koerner and willie murphy] [beastie boys] [ornette coleman]
[dr. strangelove] [eternal sunshine of the spotless mind] [the royal tenenbaums] [lost in translation] [adaptation] [eraserhead] [the fog of war] [garden state] [koyaanisqatsi] [naqoyqatsi] [powaqqatsi] [don't look back] [the thin red line] [love liza] [brazil] [amelie] [the big lebowski] [the conversation] [i heart huckabees] [interiors] [dancer in the dark] [the fisher king] [the king of comedy] [mean streets] [ghost dog] [wild at heart] [spirited away] [wonder boys] [apocalypse now] [requiem for a dream] [donnie darko] [taxi driver] [the last waltz] [lost highway] [the killing fields] [rushmore] [metropolis] [un chien andalou] [a great day in harlem] [2001: a space odyssey] [paris, texas] [born into brothels] [the last picture show] [basquiat] [american splendor] [citizen kane] [touch of evil] [elephant man] [time bandits] [mulholland drive] [grave of the fireflies] [hard day's night] [baraka] [the triplets of belleville] [rivers and tides] [straight, no chaser]
[pablo neruda]
[jd salinger] [gerald stern] [william s. burroughs] [franz wright] [cesar vallejo] [david sedaris] [robert bly] [jonathan safron foer] [allen ginsberg] [albert camus] [raphael alberti] [arundati roy] [yehuda amichai] [jorge luis borges] [herman hesse] [anton chekov] [james joyce] [stephen dobyns] [russell edson] [jack gilbert] [sylvia plath] [richard hugo] [tomas transtromer] [mirabai] [kabir] [william blake] [john donne] [jim carroll] [ee cummings] [john milton] [antonio machado] [denise levertov] [federico garcia lorca] [juan ramon jimenez] [william carlos williams] [francis ponge] [georg trakl] [rainer maria rilke] [william butler yeats] [miguel hernandez] [rumi] [ghalib] [hafez] [daniil kharms] [david ignatow] [galway kinnell] [anne sexton] [w.s. merwin] [jack myers] [gregory orr] [gabriela mistral] [charles simic] [tomaz salamun] [james tate] [james wright] [flannery o'connor] [jack kerouac] [mark haddon] [salman rushdie] [chitra divakaruni] [chinua achebe] [c.s. lewis] [george orwell] [aldous huxley] [william faulkner] [francis schaeffer] [yukio mishima] [joseph conrad] [dave eggers] [anthony burgess] [tim o'brien]
[for one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation--rainer maria rilke]