"Johnnie was a typical knight of the road. He believed that beds were for sick people in hospitals, that room rent was wild extravagance, and paying fare on the railroad nothing but ostentatious spending. He protested."
"Johnnie was a typical knight of the road. He believed that beds were for sick people in hospitals, that room rent was wild extravagance, and paying fare on the railroad nothing but ostentatious spending. He protested."
literature, music, vinyl, bicycling, reading, writing, being a grammar junkie, the new york times dictionary of usage, libraries, travel, foreign policy, book tv, french new wave, anything hand made, pressure points, documentaries, jackets, flats, fake sparkly bling, lipglosses of various colors, south american revolutionaries, 1960's harlem, the algerian resistance, honesty, accents, evening walks with good company, good produce, being a hater, flitting about, tall thin boys with book smarts, tidiness, sharp tongue, intelligent conversation, bubblemint orbitz, barack obama, i do what i want, being way cuter, replacing "car" with "airplane", beaches and mountains, dreamers, realists, my friends,
People who don't want to waste a minute of their lives, not limited to but including: Grounded urbanites, travelers, entrepreneurs, grammarians, smarty pants individuals with child like sensibilities, folks with something to say, vegetarians and vegans, old friends, new friends, old hollywood leading men in their prime (yes, I'm fully aware this requires time travel), enlightened individuals, people who aren't kidding themselves, Guy Maddin, Alice B. Toklas, Johnnie.
New Order, Joy Division, Broadcast, Yo La Tengo, Depeche Mode, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Blonde Redhead, David Bowie, The Pretenders, T. Rex/Marc Bolan, Cocteau Twins, Stereo Total, Deerhoof, Gang of Four, My Bloody Valentine, Ride, The Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Pavement, The Kinks, The Stones, Clinic, Air, Johnny Cash, Wanda Jackson, Mum, Franciose Hardy, Metric/Emily Haines, Fugazi, American Analog Set, Brazilian bossa nova and psyche records, The Fall, Ex Models, The Cramps, French pop music, Psychedelic Furs,Charlie Feathers, Tracy + The Plastics, Small Faces, Neko Case, Them, The Make Up, Enon, Dead Can Dance, The Adorable, The Smiths, Sugarcubes/Bjork, Asobi Seksu, Low, The Rachels, Shellac, The Walkmen, The Notwist, Devandra Banhardt, CocoRosie, Antony and the Johnsons, Beirut, Andrew Bird, Unicorns/Islands, Lot's of lo fi 90's stuff,Bob Dylan, Public Image Ltd, Numders, Sun Kil Moon/Red House Painters, The Thermals, David Vandervelde, Anticon stuff/Dosh, Corrina Repp, The Band, Neil Young, Pit er Pat, Beach House, Calvin Johnson, Xiu Xiu, I don't feel like making this list any longer.
the french ones, the really really dumb ones (i.e. clifford with martin short), totally irreverent ones, ones that work the brain.
we get about three channels, but if i do turn it on i'm drawn to crap shows about dancing or singing or inventing
O'Conner, Fitzgerlad, Salinger, Rilke, Dave Eggers, Frank O'Hara, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Stein, Pound, Hemmingway, Cummings, some russians, Henry Miller, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare, James Baldwin, Murakami, Bishop, expatriate literary movements/groups in Paris, autobiographical stuff. see end "music".
people who read. activists. volunteers. my mother and father.