bicycles, chewing nails, dream interpretations, travel, bars in general, various reactions concerning milk products, handwriting analysis, tavern parking lots, secret doors, mix music lists, chilly spring mornings and sunshine, lies and photography, too much caffiene + anxiety disorders, feminist fairytales, antique typewriters, putting an end to all that is bad and evil/smashing imperialism, hugging trees and eating grass, hugging animals and eating leaves, the disturbing and bewildering corrolation between featherless birds and clearcut mountainsides, 50 cent records, cold beers on colder nights, wine and whiskey every night, unexpected postcards, long bus rides with no one to talk to.
extremophiles, acidophiles, and barophiles. and cindy crabb.
Elliott Smith, Joni Mitchell, Andrew Bird, The Clash, Jolie Holland, Iron and Wine, Mary Lou Lord, Haley Bonar, The Green Pajamas, Joan Baez, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, Azure Ray, Okkervil River, Neil Young, Sandy Denny, Over the Rhine, Be Good Tanyas, Nick Drake, Greg Brown, Bikini Kill, Akron Family, Mirah, M Ward, Jeff Buckley, Bob Dylan, Bright Eyes, Quixotic, High Dials, The Shins, Detroit Cobras, Hank Williams, Lucinda Williams, Rage Against the Machine, Patti Smith, Woody Guthrie, Chicks on Speed, Le Tigre, The Distillers, Angels of Light, Leonard Cohen, Ani Difranco, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Tom Waits, Magnetic Fields, Harry Nilsson, Kimya Dawson, Mountain Goats, Crass, Cat Power, Calexico, Songs:Ohia, Bessie Smith, Modest Mouse, Johnny Cash, Karl Blau, Herman's Hermits, Patsy Cline, Propagandhi, Richard Thompson, Ella Fitzgerald, Microphones, The Slackers, Dead Kennedys, Yo La Tengo, CoCo Rosie, Zoe Keating, Velvet Underground, The Blow, Billy Bragg, Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros, Wil Oldham et al, Rocky Votolato,Baby Gramps, Dashel and the Robot, The Polyphonic Spree, etc etc ect.
most anything by-- alejandro gonzales inarritu, emir kusturica, woody allen, jim jarmusch, coen bros, gus van sant, jean-pierre jeunet, jan svankmajer, terry gilliam, todd solondz, bahman ghobadi, the beatles, miranda july (yeah 96% of directors are men). also-- pan's labrynth, children of men, baxter, run lola run, the revolution will not be televised, y tu mama tambien, el crimen de padre amaro, 11'-9"-01 - September 11, the day i became a woman, earthlings, i heart huckabees, jesus' son, bulworth, dancer in the dark, audition, house of fools, life is beautiful, motorcycle diaries, pandaemonium, cinema paradisio, the last unicorn, where the buffalo roam, cradle will rock, born into brothels, death takes a holiday, fight club, barfly, the hours, from the heart of the world, smoke signals, constant gardener, switchblade sisters, pride and prejudice (A&E), and lots of documentaries.
BANG BANG! Uhhh except for Simpsons, Freaks and Geeks, My So-Called Life, Northern Exposure, The Daily Show/Colbert Report.
Currently on the reading list (in no particular order or method of completion except by library due dates)-- Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle by Slavoj Zizek, Antigone's Claim by Judith Butler,Death's Dream Kingdom: The American Psyche Since 9-11 by Walter A. Davis, The Gaze by Elif Shafak, Hannah Arendt by Julia Kristeva, India Divided by Vandana Shiva.
Recently finished and highly reccomend-- Superpatriotism by Michael Parenti, The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak, The Culture Struggle by Michael Parenti, A brief history of camouflage by Thaisa Frank, Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya, Feminism and Foucault ed. by Diamond & Quimby, Darfur: the Ambiguous Genocide by Gerard Prunier, Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya by Anna Politkovskaya,Doris Anthology 1991-2001 by Cindy Crabb, Strands by Keri Hulme, Louder Than Bombs: Interviews from Progressive Magazine,Abolition Democracy by Angela Davis, The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq by Christian Parenti, The Bone People by Keri Hulme, The Goddess Letters, The Myth of Demeter & Persephone Retold by Carol Orlock, Wild Women Short Stories, Bab El-Oued by Merzak Allouache, Mary Shelley by Anne Mellor, Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism by Mary Daly, Collapse by Jared Diamond, Let the Fury Have the Hour: The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer by Antonio D'Ambrosio, All About Love by bell hooks, Gone by Elisabeth Sheffield.
Cindy Crabb, Kurt Vonnegut, Diane Arbus, Joe Strummer, Tina Modotti, bell hooks, Michael Parenti, Angela Davis, Zack de la Rocha, Allen Ginsberg, HD Thoreau, Srini Kumar, Vandana Shiva, Amy Goodman, The Yes Men. And anyone else who's out there counterfrictioning that damn machine.