I'm interested in words like "cleave" and "oversight" because they can mean one thing and the opposite of that thing. To cleave could mean to cling to or divide from. An oversight could be something you overlooked or something you look over.
Poets in the Philadelphia area and beyond; anyone who will let me play with their cats; students interested in cultural sociology; and a guru in need of a good follower.
Willie Nelson, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris, Ryan Adams, Dolly Parton, Crooked Fingers, Johnny Cash, Kathleen Edwards, Union Station, the Minus Five, Wilco, Amy Rigby, Son Volt, Joseph Arthur, Bob Dylan, Billy Bragg, Dar Williams, Janis Joplin, Iron and Wine, Joan Osborne, Postal Service, Daniel Lanois, Leonard Cohen, Leo Kottke, Magnetic Fields, Saul Williams, Tom Waits, Sufjan Stevens
True Romance, Boondock Saints, Tao of Steve, Waking Ned Devine, All or Nothing, Thin Red Line, Donnie Darko, Until the End of The World, the Pillow Book, Shawn of the Dead, Dancer in the Dark, Spring Forward, 28 Days Later, Pi, Memento, North Fork, The Matrix, the Corporation, Stone Reader, Signs, Howl's Moving Castle, Real Women Have Curves.
Weeds, Ugly Betty, 24, West Wing, X-Files, Arrested Development, the Office, the Daily Show.
Song of Solomon, The Things They Carried, Dreamtigers, The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass, The Razor's Edge, Til We Have Faces, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Artist's Way, The Book of Light, Traveling Mercies, The Cloister Walk, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, the Harry Potter novels, the Four Quartets, The Castle of Crossed Destinies, The Da Vinci Code, If the Buddha Got Stuck, The River Why.
What he does when he gets in a boat.