Hanging out in bars with sinister red lighting, old lovey couples, and a bad, bad juke box selection. Dancing hard to 80's pop hits. Reading or writing til I'm sick of the activity altogether. 2nd hand smoke. Arguing about things that don't really matter. Great humanitarian endeavors. Coca Cola. Shaggy hair. Hand fulls of shaggy hair. Rocking chairs. Exploration. My family. Late Night Kazakhsdance Parties.
Woody Guthrie. Sam Beam. Michael Landon. Jack White. Charlie Chaplin. Wes Anderson. Thom Yorke. Atticus Finch. Jay Gatsby. The Warrior Atreyu. Love Me Tender Elvis, Viva Las Vegas Elvis, Blue Hawaii Elvis, but not Suspicious Minds Elvis (well, maybe).
drawn by yours truely (thank you very much)
In no particular order: Woody Guthrie. Iron and Wine. Neutral Milk Hotel. The White Stripes. Radiohead. Johnny Cash. Ray Charles. Elliott Smith. My Morning Jacket. The Beatles. Van Morrison. The Decemberists. The Shins. Sufjan Stevens. Elvis Presley. Bob Dylan. The Pixies. Dwight Yoakam. Mississippi John Hurt. And David Bowie. I've got it bad for David Bowie these days...
To Kill A Mockingbird. What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Billy Elliot. Life is Beautiful. Edward Scissorhands. The Royal Tennenbaums. The Kid. City Lights. Gold Rush. Modern Times. Amelie. Field of Dreams. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Sense and Sensibility. Goonies. The Labyrinth. The Wizard of Oz. Return to Oz. Being John Malcovich. Born on the Fourth of July. About Schmidt. American Movie. O Brother Where Art Thou. So I Married An Ax Murderer. No Direction Home. Corpse Bride. The Triplets of Belleville.
Six Feet Under. Sex in the City. FLCL. The Office (BBC). The Daily Show. Pride and Prejudice (BBC series).
The latest really cool book I've read- Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World by Sarah Vowell
Favorites:
Lonesome Dove. The Diary of Anne Frank. Autobiography of Red. The Great Gatsby. Harry Potter I-VI. The Vampire Lestat. Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha. Life of Pi. Peter Pan. Lolita. To Kill A Mockingbird. Leaves of Grass. "The Dead" from Dubliners (but not so much Dubliners). The Neverending Story. All Over but the Shoutin'. The Last Unicorn. The Secret Garden. Everything Jane Austen. Bound For Glory. Phantom of the Opera. Flowers of Evil (thank you, Noah).
Poets: Sharon Olds, William Carlos Williams, Billy Collins, Walt Whitman, Lee Young Li, Plath, Sexton, Dylan Thomas, Carolyn Forche.