reading, cooking, drinking, cats, squirrels, walking everywhere, smoking, piano soundboards, cheesemaking, breadmaking, shit analogies, bubbles from trailer park boys, easychair in the kitchen, old lady hats, leafy green vegetables because they are pretty, first editions of books I really like, good pens, wearing skirts.
My Bloody Valentine, The Cure, The Ramones, The Clash, the Jesus and Mary Chain, David Bowie, Will Oldham, Iron and Wine, Neutral Milk Hotel, Detachment Kit, Bauhaus, Rhapsody, Black Sabbath, Spiros Antonopolous and the Baklavas, Twilight Sheep , Ether Bunnies, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, ruraltone.com, Elvis Costello, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, Handsome Family, Hank Williams the senior, The Body of John the Babtist, Kate Bush, Devo, Joanne Newsome, Johnny Cash, Big Black, Steve Albini, Neil Young, early Sonic Youth, The Pixies, the Fall.
Happiness, Grizzly Man, any Werner Herzog, Crazy Lips, Ju-on, Nausicaa, Metropolis (anime), Shamed to say Lord of the Rings, Blade Runner, Realms of the Unreal, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Mary Poppins, Secretary.
Only watch TV in dvd form. Battlestar Galactica-the new series, Trailer Park Boys, Mr. Show, The Simpsons, Home Movies, The Family Guy, Invader Zim, Strangers with Candy.
Where to start? Lately I've been reading Winter Tale by Mark Helprin who reminds me of John Crowley at least in this book. David Mitchell- everything he wrote, especially Cloud Atlas. Ursula LeGuin-everything she wrote, Charles Dickens-especially David Copperfield, Simone de Beauvoir, Haruki Murakami, Salmon Rushdie- especially early stuff, Jared Diamond, Jane Austen, the Brontes, Orson Scott Card-Ender's Game Series, Phillip Pullman- His Dark Materials, Mervyn Peake- Gormenghast Trilogy, C.S. Lewis-Chronicles of Narnia, Jonathan Lethem, John Crowley, Alan Moore comics (the Watchmen, V For Vendetta, From Hell), Daniel Clowes comics, Lynda Barry, Joe Sacco, Dave Cooper, Love and Rockets, Chris Ware. Also Jonathan Lethem- especially Amnesia Moon and Motherless Brooklyn. Neil Stephenson- The Diamond Age. Jonathan Carroll- especially Sleeping in Flames and The Land of Laughs. Also the Doris zine and Cometbus as well as comics by Tom Herpich- Cusp and Gongwanadon. Edward Gorey. Lewis Carroll- Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (of course).
Alexander Berkman, Ursula LeGuin