reading, writing, speaking german, speaking english, trains, making things, india, duncan macdougall and the weight of the soul, dodging herpes, rescuing, early phonographs, automata, deleting/discarding things, craigslist free section, copyediting, tarantism, vauxhall and other pleasure gardens, not talking on the phone, automatic writing, spirit photography, paper, overbites, mina crandon, lipstick, spatial deixis, the mystery man with the 21 faces, george lakoff, good posture, ordering the right thing at a restaurant, salting slugs, judging, the word 'judging,' trobrianders, arabic, not knowing when to stop, pining for a kitten, writing suicide notes in limerick form, heirloom tomatoes, victorian spiritualism, watching myself cry in the mirror, obscure words, strange languages, ectoplasm, pre-raphaelite brotherhood, knowing glances, sealing envelopes, trying to perfect things, chocolate soymilk, chocolate breast milk, linguistic aberrations, making sense.
dead people. and other good listeners.
arabic music, older country, depression-era crooners, depressed crooners, anything that was every played on a grammophone.
anything with goldie hawn in it.
arrested development, strangers with candy, wonder showzen, little britain, ali g, six feet under, the league of gentleman, although i watch all these things in bulk on dvd. watching t.v. shows piecemeal is so archaic, man.
authors and my favorite of theirs: george saunders (civilwarland in bad decline), iris murdoch (tough, but: a severed head, under the net), david mitchell (cloud atlas), erving goffman (the presentation of self in everyday life), aldous huxley (point, counterpoint), wolfgang schivelbusch (disenchanted night), jhumpa lahiri (interpreter of maladies), ian mcewan (atonement), julian barnes (england, england), kazuo ishiguro (remains of the day), lorrie moore (birds of america), david rakoff (fraud), will self (cock and bull), george lakoff (metaphors we live by).
i don't really like heroes--i prefer just straight sandwiches, or, better yet, falafel or anything in pita. but heroes always have too much bread.