Time travel. Rock & Roll videos. Raw goat cheese. The New Yorker. Strange diseases. Seventh Draft. Minutiae. French poetry, translated. Baseball. Learning to Love You More. Chris Cogan's love life. My wife's idiosyncracies. Insulin. Love. FoodVibe.
People who try, really hard.
I'd like to meet:
My doppelgänger.
People from the past, including time travelers.
Writers, artists, and comedians.
Pablo, an old friend--where are you?
Foodies...
I Read: FoodVibe .
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I have, possibly, the coolest friends ever. You might think I'm joking, but I'm not. You might think I'm bragging, but I'm not.
I can prove my friend's coolness scientifically. I can--but I won't bore you with science. Instead, I'll use love: I honestly feel, in the bottom of my heart, I have the coolest friends in the world.
I know many of my friends here on Myspace in real life. I have, however, met a few Myspace people. Without fail, I have loved them. I've made some beautiful friendships here.
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This picture (by Suzanne) is my new theme picture right now.
Music:
Right now, I'm listening to Beirut, Sigur Ros, Belle & Sebastian, Wyclef, Jorge Drexler, Franz Ferdinand, The Strokes, and Jack Johnson.
I love songs with odd, unexpected lyrics, like when Amy Winehouse sings:
What kind of fuckery is this?
You made me miss the Slick Rick gig (oh Slick Rick...)
Or when Jens Lekman sings:
I picked up a sea-shell
to illustrate my homelessness,
but a crab crawled out of it
making it useless.
Or when Kimya Dawson sings:
I was quiet as a mouse
when I snuck into your house and took roofies with your spouse...
Movies:
Top Ten Movies (in no particular order): 1. Jaws 2. The Big Lebowski 3. The Endless Summer 4. Y Tu Mama Tambien 5. Indiana Jones and the Raider's of the Lost Ark 6. The 400 Blows 7. The Life Aquatic... 8. The Shining 9. All About My Mother 10. Breathless...
Television:
Baseball. The Simpsons. Seinfeld. Otherwise, I generally view television as evil and addictive. I try not to let myself fall into its sweet blue glow.
Books:
Recently, I've read and liked Stacey Richter and Junot Diaz. Also, recently I really love Miranda July.
Read this story: "The Shared Patio" .
Here's a quote from another story, "Making Love in 2003":
People are always breaking through, like in the Doors song 'Break on Through (To the Other Side)'. But I really had. I had broken through twice now, and my feeling about the universe was that it was porous and radical and you could turn it on, you could even fuck around with the universe.
Heroes:
My wife: she saved my life, again.
