i reside in a municipality of approximately 120,000 people. in my neighborhood, the streets are made of soybeans and cars are always blasting npr late into the night.
meeting my obligations to landlords, utility companies, and local, state and federal governments
stadium/québécois rock (the arcade fire), piedmont triangle, north carolina rock (portastatic, superchunk), young country (the silver jews, m. ward, neko case), scottish rock (jesus and mary chain, camera obscura, belle and sebastian, the pastels)
music by senior citizens (the fall), music for girls (sleater-kinney, bikini kill, le tigre), olympia golden oldies (unwound, the halo benders), stockton and charlottesville rock (pavement), and music that exceeds categorization (the go-betweens)
my picture shows (the conversation, dogville, annie hall, breaking the waves, the station agent, high fidelity, the idiots, henry fool, roger and me, goodbye lenin!)
comedy central (daily show, colbert report), pbs (newshour), c-span reality television (prime minister's questions, congressional special order speeches by hot and bothered republican women)
my story tellers (don delillo, sarah vowell, david sedaris, haruki murakami, milan kundera, joan didion, kay redfield jamison, lewis mumford, james howard kunstler, mike davis, jonathan lethem, wallace stegner, emmett watson)
male (my father), female (my mother), journalism (christiane amanpour), horse racing (bob nastanovich), geopolitics (gordon brown), organic farming (senator jon tester)