Gilbert&Sullivan, Cameron House..Crooked Star..'shoe, flaneuring, streetcar spotting, antiquarian bookshops, Kandinsky look-alikes, erratic spelling, being perfectly pressed, the American Pavillion on Ile-Ste-Helene, history lessons at the Cote-des-Neiges cemetery...
Firecrackers...Movers and Shakers; strong Coffee Makers...Sylvia Beach characters...Clive Owen in Gosford Park...Chris Hitchens (I messed up my first meeting with him - need to save face)...King Kapisi and Ron Sexsmith, together, at the Cameron...
Astrud Gilberto, Lonesome Organist, the Fall, all of the Wainwrights, Jolie Holland, Velvet Underground (truly, madly, deeply), Dirty Three, the The, Pernice Brothers, Angry Young Men music, Great Lake Swimmers, British Sea Power, Heavy Trash, the Handsome Family, Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive, "Squirrely Nut Peepers", Last Days of Disco soundtrack, Tindersticks, Little Voice soundtrack, Sondre Lerche, Mick Harvey's Serge Gainsbourg remakes, Gerswhin tunes, Wings of Desire soundtrack, Sam Cooke, Housemartins, Marc Bolan, G&S, Andrew Bird (I hate he's so popular. Everybody and their mother is in love with him now), Cole Porter, Buddy Holly, Magnetic Fields, P:ANO, Sadies, Split Enz, the Cars, Jean LeLoup, Ella Live in Berlin, The Boss.
Current Theme Song:
'Birthday' - Sugarcubes (live version makes me weepy)
Anything Brian Connelly touches. Ancient Chinese Secret nights with Thunder Road playing as the backdrop.
Certain actors in Little Children blew me away. A little bit weak in plot sometimes; however, the actor who played Ronnie was amazing. That's why it's getting my vote as current movie favourite.
Billy Wilder flicks, The Chorus, Vera Drake, Topsy-Turvy, Going Down the Road, Patch of Blue, Daytrippers, Watership Down, Dancer in the Dark, the WonderBoys, Dead Poets Society, Election, MASH, Paths of Glory, Gosford Park, Angel at My Table, Grapes of Wrath, Run Lola Run, Capote, Pink Panther, Marty, Spartacus, Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner,The Station Agent, Exotica. Anything with Robert Lepage in it.
Bette Davis bitch movies.
Despite 95 percent of those artsy chicks, I quite like television. Currently watching: Big Love, Carnivale, Huff, all things on TVO, news programs, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Cash in the Attic, the cartoon Jacob Two Two, Gilmore Girls [I don't care what the cantankerous t.v. snobs say...]
Currently Rah-Rahing About: All things Janet Frame, George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London...James Purdy...
Christopher Hitchens.
Radcliffe Hall has *thee* best name.
Sylvia Beach, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Janet Frame always and forever and ever, people featured in Walker Evans photographs, Bjork's character in Dancer in the Dark, Tom Joad, Mathieu - the teacher in the Chorus..etc.