- I'm starting a collection of children's books with bleak titles, such as "My Dad is Definitely Not a Drunk!" I bake a lot of bread and home-made pastries. I just painted my living room in yellow houndstooth. I have too much time on my hands.
Poetry, board games, making pies, the dramatic monologue, ogling, European melancholy, exotic hand gestures, the subjunctive and conditional.
People who ask questions. People with interesting fears . People.
Andrew Bird, Anna Oxygen, Beth Gibbons, Blonde Redhead, The Blow, Bonnie Tyler, Chad VanGaalen, Corrina Repp, The Delgados, Ed Harcourt, The Hidden Cameras, Hot Chip, Kate Bush, The Knife, Magnetic Fields, Neko Case, The Organ, Parenthetical Girls, PJ Harvey, Sodastream, Tom Waits, Tracy + the Plastics, Xiu Xiu.
Children of Men, Clue, Gaslight, House of Yes, The Manchurian Candidate, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Mysterious Skin, Party Girl, Pennies from Heaven, The Saddest Music in the World.
Murder, She Wrote.
Of No Country I Know -David Ferry, Velocities -Stephen Dobyns, Bleak House -Charles Dickens, Practical Gods -Carl Dennis, The Muse of Distance -Alan Williamson, Mother Love -Rita Dove, The Boys at Twilight -Glyn Maxwell, Carl Phillips, William Butler Yeats, Robinson Jeffers, Lorine Niedecker, Henry James -- oh god, Henry James.
Jessica Fletcher and Linda Granger.