Muay thai, topiary, psittacines, abnormal psych, the art of conversation, cafe society, the perfect cappuccino, vulnerability, brute strength, slackers, demons and dreamers
People interested in the written and spoken word. In the righteousness of raw. Amen.I'll switch around the friends I post. Some really are friends. They tend to be incredibly creative people, fulla soul. Others are people I admire, whose work and personality inspires. Or they're people I've come across who have a certain spark, a tangible spirit. Or they're sites that support the written and spoken word. Check out their sites, too.
Me'shell N'Degeocello, Antony and the Johnsons, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Gnarls Barkley, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Peter Bradley Adams, PJ Harvey, The Reverend Al Green, Staple Singers, Nirvana, Merle Haggard, Pantera, Etta James, Lucinda Williams, Tricky, D'Angelo, Marianne Faithful, The Roots, Outkast, Muddy
City of God, Baise Moi, The Piano Teacher, La Strada, Never On Sunday, Salo, Amores Perros, Xiu Xiu The Sent-Down Girl, Crash (Cronenberg's flick based on J.G. Ballard book, not current polemic masquerading as film)
The Singing Detective (BBC), Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage, The Larry Sanders Show
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Journey to the End of Night by Celine, Night by Edna O'Brien, The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald, Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson, Coming Through Slaughter and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje, Ingeborg Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard, Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, Plainwater by Anne Carson, The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek, Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone, Wiseblood by Flannery O'Connor, Alchemy by Marie-Louise Franz, Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill, Thoughts Without A Thinker by Mark Epstein, Typee by Herman Melville, Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison...