being with my daughter and husband, making and listening to music, reading, writing, birding, sewing, knitting, crafting, yoga, making soap (soaping?), gardening, worshipping, biking, hiking, cooking, eating, and teaching.
danielson famile, half-handed cloud, cat power, sufjan stevens, deerhoof, iron & wine, palace brothers, the carter family,cryptasize, sea & cake, leonard cohen, kimya dawson, moldy peaches, interview With max reinhardt, mr. quintron, spaceman3, damien jurado, kurt wiel, silver jews, antelope, elliot smith, nick drake, sonic youth, blonde redhead, bright eyes, astrud gilberto, low, the polyphonic spree, flaming lips, nick cave, nick drake, rosie thomas, the shins, radiohead/thom Yorke, pixies, joy division, arvo pert, daniel johnston, deerhoof, guided by voices, black heart procession, the breeders, magnetic fields, the gothic archies, beck, violent femmes, astor piazzolla, tom waits...
Juno, Danielson: a Family Movie {or, Make a Joyful Noise HERE}, The Science of Sleep, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Little Miss Sunshine, Fearless Freaks,An Inconvenient Truth The Sweet Hereafter, Dancer in the Dark, Junebug, Rushmore, Old Joy, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Magnolia, Being John Malkovich, Thumbsucker, Donnie Darko, Matewan, Fahrenheit 9/11...
hopelessly hooked on LOST but tv sucks
The Bible
David Sedaris—Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Sarah Vowell— Assassination Vacation
Anne Lamott—Traveling Mercies
Walker Percy—Love in the Ruins
Donna Tart—The Little Friend
Thomas à Kempis —The Imitation of Christ
C.S. Lewis—Mere Christianity
Agusten Burroughs—Running with Scissors
Flannery O'Connor—A Good Man is Hard to Find
Harper Lee—To Kill a Mockingbird
Eudora Welty—A Worn Path
Mark Strand—Dark Harbor
Michael Cunningham—A Home at the End of the World
Scott Heim—Mysterious Skin
Mark Haddon-The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Walt Whitman—Leaves of Grass
Barbara Kingsolver—The Poisonwood Bible
David Eggers—A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Cormack McCarthy- Suttree
Alice Sebold—The Lovely Bones
Lynda Barry—Cruddy and Ernie Pook’s Comeek
Leif Enger—Peace Like a River
T. Coraghessan Boyle—East is East
Audrey Niffenegger--The Time Traveler's Wife
Dan Savage-- Skipping towards Gomorrah
Carson McCullers—The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Madeleine L’Engle—Wrinkle in Time
and so many, many, many more...