music.
fancy jeans.
anglophilia.
exploring cities on foot.
dead languages.
shoes.
old & obscure stuff.
Barack Obama...
I got sick of all my music. So I'm listening to... Jean Grae, Modest Mouse, Musiq Soulchild, Nas, Amy Winehouse, Joss Stone, the Roots, the Shins, Ladytron, & of course Neutral Milk Hotel (which somehow never ages)
the constant gardener, dave chappelle's block party, brokeback mountain, the philadelphia story, bringing up baby, it happened one night, rear window, clerks, harold and kumar, lagaan, the sound of music, monsoon wedding, anchorman, zoolander... and, okay, the 6-hour BBC Pride and Prejudice miniseries with Colin Firth.
Fullmetal Alchemist!!!, American Idol, Little Britain.
midnight's children, the tin drum, middlemarch, the member of the wedding, the heart is a lonely hunter, white teeth, the white hotel, wuthering heights, mrs. dalloway, ulysses, the bloody chamber, 1984;
ph. D. research: hagiography/ hagiology, cult formation, the relic trade, powerful objects, the 2nd and 3rd crusades, 12th c. east anglia, richard I, saracen romances, chaucer, pilgrimage and women's affective devotion.
e.e. cummings, carson mccullers, eudora welty, amy lowell, julia kristeva, slavoj zizek, lyotard, anything by jocelyn wogan-browne or geraldine heng or elaine scarry.
Sayid.