Wine and travel. Camping. Poetry. Baseball. Italian shoes. Wristwatches. My family. Art Deco and Mid Century design. Egon Schiele. Dance. Theater. Art. Fuel efficient cars. The human body.
I'd like to meet:
Thomas Jefferson, Gandhi, David Bowie, Christophe Baron of Cayuse Vineyards, Jack Nicholson, Femi Kuti, Andy Warhol, Stephen Hawking, Anais Nin, Miles Davis, and the undisputed Home Run King, Sadahara Oh.Also: anyone who likes to talk, about almost any subject, as long as they do it with wit, intelligience and humor.Also: people who like wine, cheese and butter.Also: anyone who has read the book "The Floating Opera" by John Barth.Also: anyone who thinks that one of the best things about San Francisco is City Lights Book Store. (Quick tip courtesy of my friend Alexis: have a burger and a bloody mary at the Balboa Cafe. Delicious!)
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Music:
Too much. David Bowie, Nick Cave, Belle & Sebastian, REM, Sonic Youth, The Fall, Feist, The Cure, Joy Division, Blur, Pulp, Patti Smith, anything from NY in the 1970s (especially The Talking Heads and the Ramones), The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Olivia Tremor Control, Mogwai, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sam Cooke, Ruth Brown, James Brown, Will Oldham, Johnny Cash, Neko Case, The Clash, Bob Dylan, American Music Club, Nick Drake, Cat Power, The Flaming Lips, Joe Henry, Soundgarden, Black Sabbath, Mos Def, De La Soul, R.L. Burnside, Matmos, Neil Young, Spiritualized, Lamb, Pole, Marianne Faithfull, Brahms, Bartok, Gorecki,Gary Numan and Tubeway Army, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jam, Public Image Ltd., Neu, Kraftwerk, Massive Attack, Burning Spear, and way, way, way too much more.
Movies:
Current: About Schmidt, New York Doll, Secretary, THX 1138, Good Night and Good Luck.Favorites: On the Waterfront, A Night at the Opera, Lost in Translation, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Barefoot in the Park, The Deer Hunter.
Television:
Sports, but baseball is better on the radio.
Books:
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, anything by John Barth, Life of Pi, Chuck Pahlaniuk, The Trial, Native Son, The Invisible Man, Kermit Lynch's Life on the Wine Route, any books of poetry by Anne Sexton, e.e. cummings, William Carlos Williams, Charles Bukowski. Anything by Simon Winchester. Kafka, Henry Miller, Curious George.
Heroes:
My parents. Anyone who has had the guts to put themselves on display and not back down. Dan Philips of The Grateful Palate. My sisters. My brother. Anyone I have ever loved, for being there.
