collecting dust, collecting crap, collecting design, evoking laughter, honest conversations, blistering sincerity, needless sarcasm, the occasional skate, somehow stumbling over good music, playing the fool, slowly forgetting Los Angeles, poster art, dirt under fingernails, ink on top of fingernails, making and drinking bad coffee, reclaimed wood, hospitality, hosting anything, literati with (against) friends, new yellow silkscreens, old gray newsprint, big wheeled chalkboards, new urbanism, adaptive re-use, building up (and not out), clever jokes, bad jokes, Monster Munch, accidental alliteration (see?), public transit, (my) tivo, population density, trees that appear from sidewalks, forgiving friends, my limited vintage hi-fi/mid-fi collection, shitting on my doorstep, candid photography, old crappy photography, crappy line drawings, lance hidy, david lance goines, art chantry, saul bass, michael schwab, aubrey beardsley, lester beall, peter saville, edward tufte... and colors, shapes, and letters.
people who can properly use apostrophes.
...and not apostrophe's.
this should bookend with the beatles and the magnetic fields... so the Magnetic Fields, Dean & Britta, Otis Redding, Percy Sledge, Ken Boothe, Nina Simone, Belle & Sebastian, My Morning Jacket, the White Stripes, Sigur Ros, Neko Case, Marty Robbins, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, The Browns, The Proclaimers, Elvis Presley, Southern Culture on the Skids, Reverend Horton Heat, Sufjan Stevens, Rilo Kiley, the Kinks, the Rolling Stones, the Sonics, the Talking Heads, Fleetwood Mac, the Decemberists, Andrew Bird, Okkervil River, Hem, Death Cab for Cutie, the Shins, Kraftwerk, Her Space Holiday, the Postal Service, Of Montreal, the Specials, Reel Big Fish, the Dancehall Crashers, the Slackers, Fischerspooner, Nick Cave, Spoon, Outkast, Desmond Dekker, Iron & Wine, M.I.A., Vampire Weekend, Divide & Kreate, Lenlow, DJ Swindle, Party Ben, Beenieman, Sean Paul, Supercat, Shabba Ranks, Lady Saw, anything Soca, Aphrodite, Mos Def, Lyrics Born, MC Paul Barman, De La Soul, Castanets, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, the Books, the Earlies, Clinic, the Beatles.
high fidelity. topsy turvy. big momma's house.
mad men, best week ever, the soup, pardon the interruption, arrested development, the wire, the west wing, this american life, anything bob costas or bryant gumbel, deadwood, arrested development, conan, 30 rock, friday night lights, the sopranos, the daily show, top gear, da ali g show, six feet under, the office uk/us, blackadder, npr (if it counted), check please, martin, lots of nhl games, anything gordon ramsay, and the ubiquitous king of queens.
the backs of video tape boxes. labels. anything by jeffrey archer, chuck klosterman, nick hornby, garrison keillor, david sedaris, dave eggers, hg wells, james flanagan, salinger, the onion?
I dunno...
Some combination of Benny and Bjorn.