Mortars & pestles, cedar planks, shoe horns, pesto, colour, space heaters, humidifiers, air purifiers, pitched percussion, music in conversation, art without conversation, naps, days, silence, numbness as a survival tactic, rude wisdom, quiet sensitivity, independance, mobility, apologies, eulogies, effigies, parodies, comedies, tragicomedies, cool or warm breezes, perfume, ancestors, ideas, attributes, dark eye liner, my reflection, scarves, your reflection, foresight, neology, laughs, sparkling water, vanilla soy milk, canons, harmony, static electricity, dress socks, nail files, white sand, argyle, love, making love, missing love, envying love, pining for love, lust
Exotic Cat Breeders, Shadow Puppeteers, Novice Snooker Players, Women with Character
The Beatles, Radiohead, Bob Dylan, Sigur Ros, Triple Cobra, Leonard Cohen, The Kinks, Cat Stevens, Donovan, The Rolling Stones, Pocket Vogt and the Triple C's, Ovian, Bjork, Nick Drake, Pink Floyd, Bob Marley, Noonday Underground, The Notwist, Elliot Smith, Weezer, Fruit Bats, The Postal Service, Martina Topley-Bird, Beck, Stevie Wonder, Neutral Milk Hotel, Jeff Buckley, Neil Young, Keane, Ray Lamontagne, The Shins, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Fiona Apple, Susana Baca, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Chet Baker, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Hartman/John Coltrane, Joao Gilberto/Stan Getz, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Dave Brubeck, Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Jimmy Smith, Gustav Mahler, J.S. Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, W.A.Mozart, Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky, Igor Stravinsky, Henryk Gorecki, Benjamin Britten, John Adams, Claude-Achille Debussy, Astor Piazzolla, Steve Reich, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Ralph Vaughn Williams, and J T-Lake (devotedly),...oh, I almost forgot, 10 years ago I mistook myself for a deadhead.
25 Songs I Like to Hear:
(in no particular order)
1. Walk Away Renee, by Left Banke
2. Eleanor Rigby, The Beatles
3. Baba O'Reilly, The Who
4. Visions of Johanna, Bob Dylan
5. Starálfur, Sigur Rós
6. Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye, Leonard Cohen
7. Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen - performed by Jeff Buckley
8. The Wind, Cat Stevens
9. Exit Music, Radiohead
10.I Believe (When I Fall in Love), Stevie Wonder
11.God Only Knows, The Beach Boys
12.Girl from Ipanema, Joao Gilberto
13.Stand By Me, Ben E. King
14.Jogá, Björk
15.No Woman, No Cry, Bob Marley
16.Space Odditey, David Bowie
17.That's Amore, Dean Martin
18.My Funny Valentine, Lorenze Hart/Richard Rogers - performed by Chet
Baker...and/or Ella Fitzgerald
19.Lola, The Kinks
20.Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd
21.Eternal Flame, The Bangles
22.It Must Have Been Love, Roxette
23.Things Behind the Sun, Nick Drake
24.(Sittin' on the)Dock of the Bay, Otis Redding
25.Saint James Infirmary, Louis Armstrong.
Beautiful Girls, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Princess Bride, Paper Moon, Godfathers 1&2, Amadeus, Braveheart, Glory, Willy Wonka, Ordinary People, Dr. Strangelove, Dan Kaven films, Wes Anderson/Owen Wilson films, Coen Bros. films, Christopher Guest films, and I think I like Donnie Darko also.
The Daily Show, Mr. Show, Fox News - All for a Laugh!
The Moviegoer, Love in the Ruins, Pale Fire, Lord of the Rings, Frannie and Zooey, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Bob Dylan Chronicles, Hornby, Whitman, Keats, whatever.
Ryan Monahan after Jamie Spinello, Yusuf Islam, Morgan Freeman, J.S. Bach, Vincent Van Gogh, Peter Pan, Robin Hood, Jerry Maguire, Prometheus