Art, pasting stuff down, glue sticks, artists, history, architecture-rural and urban, politics, thrifting/ junking, popping and freaking........mixing and scratching, driving around small towns, Wisconsin Public Radio, WGN-am 720...... the only reason to listen to am radio.......
Fairfield Porter, Paul Cadmus, Katherine Hepburn, Thomas Eakins, John Cohen, Alan Lomax, Walker Evans, Schubert, Jesus, Madonna, Woody Allen, Maybelle Carter, Robert Frank, Thomas Jefferson, David Sylvian, Brian Eno, my Cosgrove grandparents, greatgrandfather Patrick Cosgrove, Rauschenberg, Kurt Schwitters, Nick Rhodes, Alan Lomax, Patsy Cline, Rusty DeWees, Duane Michals, Mary Boone, Leo Castelle, Ben Franklin, Roscoe Holcomb, Frank O'Hara, Jim James, Dan Whitney.......
The Carter Family, Roscoe Holcomb, DJ Cam, My Morning Jacket, Ahmad Jamal, Mozart, Led Zeppelin,The Smiths Gillian Welch, Brian Eno, Japan, David Sylvian, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Cat Stevens, Pat mAcdonald, The Sea & Cake, The Smiths, The Grateful Dead, Greig, Duran Duran, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Joni Mitchell, Neko Case, Patty Griffin, SMOG, Nat "King" Cole, Vashti Bunyon, George Shearing, Peggy Lee, Stan Getz, Loretta Lynn, Bob Wills, Dolly Parton, Bob Schneider, Folkways Records, Rounder Records, Blue Sky Boys, Bob Weir, Jerry Garcia, Madonna, Herbie Mann, Gerry Mulligan, Doc Watson, Roxy Music, The Dandy Warhols, The Brian Jonestown Massacre The Bee Gees,......... and that's off the top of my head.
Grey Gardens, Manhattan, Room with a View, Paper Moon, Stardust Memories, Andy Goldsworthy's River & Tides, Coal Miner's Daughter, Eraser head, Antwone Fisher, Election, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolfe, Little Foxes, Unzipped, Ordinary People, Sexy Beast, The Misfits, Brokeback Mountain, Sense And Sensibility, The High Lonesome Sound (a portrait of rural Kentucky and musician Roscoe Holcomb), Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory, Knocked Up, Pecker, Freaky Friday (1977),Blues Brothers, National Lampoon's Animal House, Jackass:The Movie,Dancer in the Dark, Amelie, Brother's Keeper, Annie Hall, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Hannah and her Sisters, To kill a Mockingbird etc..............
Hmmmm, this is a tricky one; off the top of my head: Bleak House!!!! best t.v. watching in the last year! Gilmore Girls, Jackass, Charlie Rose, The Maclaughlin Group, P.O.V., Independant Lens, Art21, Dexter, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Austin City Limits, Top Chef, The Red Green Show....... for now
Year of Magical Thinking- Joan Didion, Dark Night of the Soul - Thomas Moore, Down Town- Peter Hamill, Remember-Joe Brainard, Any of the poetic works of Billy Collins.......
Patricia Budelman!, The Budelmans and the Gregorys,Joseph Cornell, JESS, Joe Brainard, Fairfield Porter, John Dugdale, Fred Stonehouse, Lump Lipshitz, Edie Beale, Billy Collins, Rauschenberg, Howard Zinn, Jimmy Carter, Donald Baechler, Sigmar Polke, Joan Didion, Andew Wyeth, Margaret Kilgallon, Jack Kornfield, May Sarton, Ben Marens, Mick Foley, William Eggleston, Duane Michals, Loretta Lynne...... off the top of my head