This is my space. There are many spaces like it, but this space is mine.
This is my space. There are many spaces like it, but this space is mine.
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My favorite songs these days, updated as they hit me, are: Everything's Everything by Freestyle Fellowship, We Rock Like So by No ID, Suffer by Smashing Pumpkins, Lucky by the Dead Milkmen, I've Got Dreams to Remember by Toots and the Maytals, Walk It Down by Talking Heads, Cadmium by Superchunk, So Long Marianne by Leonard Cohen, Strangers by The Kinks, One Rainy Wish by Jimi Hendrix, Heartbeats by Jose Gonzalez, Ciao Baby by The Cult, Me Myself and I by De La Soul, Check the Rhime by Tribe Called Quest, Different Drum and Rainbow Connection by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Puss in Boots by Adam Ant, Home Sweet Home by Los Pericos, Mal Bicho by Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Lick the Balls by Slick Rick, Chief Rocka by Lords of the Underground, Bottle Rocket by the Go!Team, Velvet Goldmine by David Bowie, and -- always need a little musical cheese in life -- Get Closer by Seals and Croft.
Can you judge people based entirely on which Steve Martin movie they identify as their favorite? That's an easy one: All of Me! Now ask me to pick a favorite Bill Murray movie and I will crumble under the pressure or at least lapse into this Tourettesy moment of shouting out my favorite quotes.
If I were stranded on a desert island (that inexplicably has electricity that inexplicably can't help me become unstranded) and could only bring the DVDs for two television shows, these would be them:AND
Love the short stories -- anything and everything Raymond Carver... James Allan MacPherson... Sandra Cisneros... Ring Lardner... Sherwood Anderson... Jhumpa Lahiri... Lorrie Moore... Ethan Canin... J.D. Salinger (how predictable! but the man was good). And I like the nonfiction that sticks it to the man: America, Fast Food Nation, Nickel and Dimed, Culture of Fear, Under the Banner of Heaven (this one sticks it to the fundamentalist Mormon man... interesting shit!).
Make me laugh till I barf and maybe my hero could be you.