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Sam

Bread and Roses

About Me

I enjoy long romantic walks on the beach, dinner by candlelight, sugary drinks with names like Fuzzy Navel and Diamond Fizz, and riding elevators with a glassy-eyed expression while I stare at the buttons and think "what floor am I on again?"

My Interests

95.7 The Wolf, the Point Reyes National Seashore, Marcel Duchamp, archives, US foreign policy during the Cold War, mushroom hunting, St. Bernards, Berlin/Cologne/Basel Dada, found photographs, cooking, traveling in California, beer gardens, the Basque Cultural Center, collecting seashells, Doctors Without Borders, flags, clouds and sky watching, sheep and cows, Fluxus, riding Muni, small towns, Dim Sum, color theory, the works and life of Marcel Proust, plant conciousness, Slow Food, animal archtecture, archtecture without architects

I'd like to meet:

Serge Gainsburg

Music:

Thelonious Monk; Bartok; Sun Ra; Belle and Sebastian; Young Marble Giants; Fiery Furnaces; Tony Conrad; ESG; The Beach Boys; Terry Riley; Movietone; Ornette Colman; Destroyer; Brahms; Bonnie Prince Billy; Junior Kimbrough; Smog; Joni Mitchell; Erik Satie; Bill Evans; Serge Gainsbourg; Oren Ambarchi; Gary Higgins; Dirty Three; Os Mutantes; Black Sabbath; Bill Withers; Miles Davis; The Beatles; Neil Young; The Clientele; Neutral Milk Hotel; Faust; Bob Dylan; Can; Charlie Mingus

Movies:

Dogville; Weekend; The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie; Five Easy Pieces; American Splendor; Killer of Sheep; the films of Stan Brakhage; Being John Malkovich; Jeremiah Johnson; Day For Night; Mulholland Drive; 2001: A Space Odyessy; Before Night Falls; Rear Window; Cat On A Hot Tin Roof; Talk To Her; Old Joy; Before Sunset; The Conversation; Easy Rider; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Ghost World; Harold And Maude; Ma Vie En Rose; Happiness; North By Northwest; Notes On A Scandal; The Pianist; The Royal Tenenbaums; The Sound Of Music; The Triplets Of Belleville; Why We Fight; Burn; Brazil; The Graduate; La Jetee; The King of Marvin Gardens; War Made Easy.

Books:

The Life and Art of Albrecht Durer by Erwin Panosky; Things: A Story of the Sixties by George Perec; Germs of Mind In Plants by R.H. France; The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendal; Night Studio by Musa Mayer; Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust; Dirty Snow by George Simenon; Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine; Wrinkles by Charles Simmons; To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson; Nadja by Andre Breton; Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara; Animals of the Seashore by Muriel Guberlet; The Poetics Of Space by Gaston Bachelard; Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau; The Flowers Of Evil by Charles Baudelaire; The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil; The Temporary Autonomous Zone by Hakim Bey; the Narina series of C.S. Lewis; Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore; Day of the Locust by Nathanial West; Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh; The Abortion by Richard Brautigan; The Man With The Golden Arm by Nelson Algren; Orlando by Virginia Woolfe; Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon; How It Is by Samuel Beckett; the poetry of William Wordsworth; Historical Capitalism and Capitalist Civilization by Immanuel Wallerstein; Orientalism by Edward Said; The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy; Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote; K by Robert Calasso; Pale Fire by Vladmir Nabokov; the Selected Poems of Mark Strand; Laughing and Screaming by William Paul; Daniel Ladinsky's translation of Hafiz; the memories of Elias Cannetti; Shadows, Fire, Snow by Patricia Albers; Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac; Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style by Virginia Tufte; The Overcoat (and other stories) by Gogol; the essays of M. Montaigne