magic tricks, telepathy, vision experiments, the names of groups of animals (such as a parliament of owls, or a murder of crows), polaroid photographs, color photography, painting,orange cats, books with diagrams, Ernst Haeckle, The Hideaway, drinking bourbon, tea, reading the back of cereal boxes, reading wine label descriptions, crossword puzzles, the ocean, the CBC, topographic maps, sailing in small boats, islands, kentucky countryside, lexington cemetary in the spring (especially the weeping cherries), greenhouses, long letters, mix tapes, farmer's market.
people who know secret things, people who look at life with a microscope in one hand and a telescope in the other.
the dirty projectors, david thomas broughton, marissa nadler, pulp, antony and the johnsons, ali farka toure, james brown, ray charles, otis redding, ella fitzgerald, irma thomas, edith piaf, cesaria evora, iron & wine, vetiver, tom waits, talkingheads, songs:ohia, magnolia electric company, rolling stones, bob dylan, nilsson's the point, billie holiday, the beatles, rolling stones, darcy clay, devendra bandhart, donovan, beck's sea change, cat stevens, flying burrito brothers, taj mahal, paul simon, nick drake, muddy waters, micheal jackson's off the wall, george harrison's all things must pass.
Performance, Susperia, American Astronaut, Brazil, Brothers Quay, Fellini, Life Aquatic, City of Lost Children, Delicatessen, True Stories, New York Stories, Annie Hall, Deconstructing Harry, Amelie, High Fidelity, Harold and Maude
Law and Order or any crime solving show. The Travel Channel and Descovery when Im around cable.
my favorites: orlando, slaughterhouse five, the god of small things, the shipping news, t.s elliot, e.e cummings, the total light process, one hundred years of solitude, the secret history, middlesex, billy collins, c.k williams, the time travelers wife, atonement, les enfant terribles, housekeeping by marilynne robinson, Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Hours
obsessive artists, Turn Around Norman and the old man basket stacker at Kroger