margot tenenbaum and hedwig.but they're imaginary.travel cronies for an esl teaching jaunt overseas (i say south korea. but not 'til i have my shit together. south korea 2008.). language / phonetics nerd seeks map readers / roomies. thing is i'm bad with maps and foreign transit systems.gawky booknerds appeal. dorky librarian chicks who say things like paradox and fuckass in the same sentence. and pale lanky dudes with bad knockknee and worse posture. bonus 8 points if you stutter.
belle and sebastian / nina simone / tom waits / decemberists / smiths / morrisey / talking heads / pulp / cure / phyllis dillon / billie holiday / iron and wine / nick drake / joanna newsom / radiohead / bjork / bowie / bob dylan / velvet underground / lou reed / pixies / rem / miles davis / chimchimcheree coltranestyle / neutral milk hotel / sonic youth / rolling stones / ramones / ben folds / blonde redhead / the clash / air / constantines / television / depeche mode / damien rice / elliott smith / buckley hallelujah / lenny cohen / beatles / franz ferdinand / patti smith / xiu xiu / my bloody valentine / libertines / pink floyd / microphones / simon and garf / led zeppelin / zappa / captain beefheart / elvis costello / pet sounds / sufjan stevens / van morrison / moldy peaches
storytelling / palindromes / happiness / welcome to the dollhouse / tenenbaums / rushmore / bottlerocket / life aquatic with steve zissou / before sunrise / before sunset / suspiria / chaplin / blue velvet / pulp fiction / kill bill / rocky horror / baraka / koyaanisqatsi / microcosmos / gambling gods and lsd / breakfast club / hedwig and the angry inch / woody allen / punch-drunk love / godfather tril / la jetee / 12 monkeys / pi / requiem for a dream / virgin suicides / blow up / american beauty / magnolia / jules et jim / graduate / coffee and cigarettes / boys don't cry / elephant / the elephant man / i heart huck / star wars / donnie darko / city of god / trainspotting / stan kubrick / bergman / the girl on the bridge / poltergeist / best in show / taxi driver / the party / but i'm a cheerleader / red balloon / citizen kane / lolita / being john malkovich / adaptation / edward scissorhands / jude / dancer in the dark / jaws / clerks / groundhog day / lost in translation / broken flowers / eternal sunshine of the spotless mind / amelie / delicatesant / morvern callar / venus beauty institute / spun / rosemary's baby / old sci-fi bs / withnail and i / napolean dynamite / cabinet of dr. caligari / big fish / one flew over the cuckoo's nest / high fidelity / the usual suspects / life is beautiful / monty pyth / fear and loathing in las vegas / texas chainsaw massacre ('74) / hitchcock
my may / june read: infinite jest by david foster wallace (yessss) / raymond carver / leonard cohen beautiful losers / hemingway / nabokov / virginia woolf / gertie stein / plath / stoker dracula / james joyce ulysses / kate chopin / alice munro / donald barthelme / eric mccormack / shirley jackson lottery / thoreau / david foster wallace / walt whitman / samuel beckett / germaine greer / eliot / atwood / andrew pyper / vonnegut / jorge luis borges / yeats / ginsberg / bukowski / cummings / willa cather / dostoevsky / anne michaels / julian barnes / kristjana gunnars / hal niedzviecki / frost / brothers grimm / ondaatje / coupland / brian burke / evan munday's amazing challengers of unknown mystery