sleeping, beautiful round calico cats as pillows, tea and bacon at diners, reading books on tape, procrastinating- friends and serendipity save me, learning new languages so i can nervously overtalk in new places like Thailand, painting and mumbling, drunkenly leaning on fellas, getting mail, larding around watching movies, old man bars stocked with old men and rolling rock, stupid paintings, quilting very badly. growing things and playing in the garden. really tall shoes.
people who have great hearts, people who like life, people who are only insane in good ways, people who are forgiving, people whose darkness doesn't suck out all the light in a room. people who have a way with magical moments. oh, and willem dafoe. and bring some ripe pomegranates.
tom waits, elvis costello, otis redding, johnny cash, al green, bob dylan, bruce springsteen, buddy holly, john lee hooker, coco rosie, nina simone, prince,neko case, biz markie, beth orton, a tribe called quest, ac/dc, jonathan richman, joanna newsom, rachmaninov, sam and dave, neutral milk hotel, de la soul, modern lovers, the new pornographers, rolling stones, big band music, james brown, david bowie, dan bern, sam cooke, elvis presley, tegan and sara
tuvalu, clue, lost in translation, strictly ballroom, the jerk, the shawshank redemption, big bad love, moonstruck, it happened one night, the vertical ray of the sun, roman holiday, city of lost children, say anything, bing crosby and/or fred astaire movies, the closet, barefoot in the park, amelie, shall we dance?, an affair to remember, pee wee's big adventure, eat drink man woman, the piano, groundhog day. isn't bill murray a sexy bastard.
M*A*S*H, baretta, buffy, all the death shows like Forensic Files that i cant get to watch because i don't have cable. jeremy brett as sherlock holmes. rar. the pride and prejudice bbc mini series. star trek. all of them. the state was funny. kids in the hall on ron's dvds. which i had to give back. bastard.
if on a winters night a traveler, invisible cities, skinny legs and all, half asleep in frog pajamas, the color purple, galapagos, bluebeard, breakfast of champions, a wrinkle in time, the godfather, cyrano debergerac, dandelion wine, whats not to love?, pride and prejudice, sense and sensibility, jane eyre, the kitchen god's wife, the number one ladies detective series. i still fondly remember standing on a ladder in a school library in the third grade pulling an olive green nondescript hardback copy of the hobbit off the shelf, and starting to read it while standing on the ladder. i've always loved books.
i don't know. some artists i enjoy in no particular order: phillip guston, terry winters, henri rousseau, ida applebroog, charles burchfield, bill traylor, tim hawkinson, albert pinkham ryder, lari pittman, henry darger, stuart davis, ellen gallagher, tom friedman, howard finster, amy cutler, fra angelico