reading everything despoiling plundering listening to pretty music
albert einstein (he's dead silly!)
jeff buckley, elliott smith, they might be giants, smiths, le tigre,tom waits, mazzy starr, god speed you black emperor, sigur rus, the weakerthans, the eels, bob dylan, john lennon, ella fitzgerald, the cure, the descendents, fionna apple, ani difranco, tracy chapman, the indigo girls
suddenly last summer, the snakepit, bottle rockets, the royal tannenbaums, best in show, cat on a hot tin roof, the long hot summer, sense and sensibility, splendour in the grass...love black and white movies, have a taste for foreign films, Seen some really great indies... most recently lonesome jim. Don't like senseless violence or sex in films Oh, loved the songcatcher...made me appreciate bluegrass
I don't really watch that much
anything by Virginia Woolf but especially The Waves...Jane Austin, Toni Morrison, Charles Dickens, Jasper Fforde, Magaret Atwood, The Brontes, Joseph Conrad...Love Heart of Darkness... Edith Wharton, Thoureau, Robert Jordan, Neil Gaiman, Shakespeare(I'm not pretentious...he's just beautiful),Melville's poetry, Tennessee Williams,E.M. Forster Kurt Vonnegut, Rainer Maria Rilke(Letters to a Young Poet) Thomas Mann, (A Death in Venice)Gregory Maguire...Read some Mark Helprin and Ian McEwen that I really liked, Edna St. Vincent Millay, e.e.cummings, John Donne, Baudelaire, Novalis, Robert Frost sometimes(when he's especially dark), Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman(especially the sexy stuff) Sylvia Plath, John Keats, Tennyson,Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot(even though they were anti semites),Wilfrid Owens...I really will read about anything with power and craft. But I love a good storyteller.
Viginia Woolf for her crazy genius, Emily Dickinson for maling people believe she was crazy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Vincent Van Gogh, Albert Einstein, Gail Orgelfinger and Jessica Berman( they were my college professors and they changed my life)