fume blanc in summer, malbec in winter, broken english, steel guitar, muted trumpet, christmas lights, old men on bicycles, gardens, vanilla, new crayons, cheese, jukeboxes, ten penny ale, armored cars, kissing, live music, lyrics, wine, microbrews, coffee houses, used bookstores, dictionaries, road maps, retro, chai, my cats, hockey, tattoos, late nights, sleeping in, coff-ay.
I'd like to meet:
music lovers. concert goers. coffee drinkers. brilliant lyricists. people who are a bit strange, have smart-ass wit and rely on sarcasm more than is necessary. sweet and tender hooligans. loafing oafs in all-night chemists. someone with good shoes.
Music:
Walter Meego - Romantic
KEXP in Seattle - John in the morning. enough said.
Radio Indie Pop
WOXY
latest obsessions: Yeasayer, Maps, Chromeo, Kings of Leon, Sea Wolf, The Blakes, internet radio ( It's in danger! )
the usual suspects:
french kicks, editors, okkervil river, ghostland observatory, wolf parade, archie bronson outfit, peter bjorn and john, bon savants, cold war kids, the little ones, what made milwaukee famous, the long winters, slender means, the black angels, clap your hands say yeah, devotchka, tom vek, gil mantera's party dream, decemberists, baby dayliner, the national, arctic monkeys, broken social scene, stars, vhs or beta, magnet, grand national, calla, voxtrot, the knife, pitty sing, louis XIV, the arcade fire, the legends, the smiths/morrissey, slowdive/mojave 3, interpol, doves, the veils, the stills ( listen to the album here ), stellastarr*, my morning jacket, catherine wheel, franz ferdinand, BRMC, MIA, libertines, sondre lerche, lucksmiths, radio dept, bent, cure, cocteau twins, belle & sebastian, galaxie 500, breathless, suede, new order, magnetic fields, DCFC, the (international) noise conspiracy, soviet, gorillaz, joy division, adorable, air, red house painters/kozelek, clientele, starflyer59, bright eyes, bjork/the sugarcubes, lovage, ladytron, ursula 1000, psychedelic furs, modest mouse, tom waits, the fall, the walkmen, the shins, her space holiday, depeche mode, mark farina, miguel migs, donald glaude, jamie myerson...i could go on & on -- indie, shoegaze, electronica, 80s, new wave, electroclash, deep house, naked music, lounge, downtempo, old punk (subhumans, decendents, dinosaur jr, bad religion, nofx, long-gone CT punk bands like the pist, brutally familiar, mankind and vomit punx...); bands on 4AD and Morr Music.
Turn It Up, Northampton, MA
Movies:
horror movies in general, star wars coming to america, supersize me, UHF, breakin' 2: electric boogaloo, daytrippers, psycho beach party, rocky horror, suburbia, charlie's angels, amelie, friday, princess bride, anything by christopher guest, john hughes 80s flicks, clue, cube, house of yes, love and sex, reservoir dogs, el mariachi, the great muppet caper, spike and mike's sick and twisted festival of animation, night of the day of the dawn... (if you've seen this, you are my hero!)
Television:
the closer, house, simpsons, MXC, CSI, american justice, world's strongest man. things that really need to come back: UCB, the state, sifl and olly, sex and the city.
Books:
the picture of dorian gray (and anything by wilde), a moveable feast, bridget jones diary, david sedaris, margaret atwood, durang's 'beyond therapy', animal farm, possessing the secret of joy, she's come undone. poetry by anne sexton, erica jong, pablo neruda, martin espada.
Heroes:
"i think like any public service, music is necessary to people. To live a good life, you have to have music in it... I think that the role of musicians, like all artists in society is to help people see the beauty of their own lives and moments of knowledge and transcendence that people have everyday. I think musicians and all artists help people achieve those moments of self-knowledge and self-understanding." - Torquil Campbell (of Stars)
