Botan Rice Candy, Fred Astaire, Team Hydration road trips, Green Pants!, late night conversations on the porch of the Nick (the Circle of NOOO!), Monday night trivia (Foodbaby and the Underpants), Rugby (blood, beer, and major wedgies), Twining's English Breakfast Tea, the blue grass of Illinois, dancing in the living room to Benny Goodman on my Victrola, Greenville College road trips, any comic by Slave Labor Graphics, Nabeel's mint tea, The Bottletree's Vegan Chili, Norman Rockwell, Cary Grant, my psychic pup Emilybird, my brother's evil Land Rover, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Cadbury Chocolate, and Nova Scotia.
Old friends, New Friends, Dorothy Parker, Mr T, and Davy Rothbart's Mum's friend Aaron...and:
Red House Painters/ Jason Falkner/ Jeff Buckley/ Eddie Hinton/ John Vanderslice - MK Ultra/ Mommyheads/ M Ward/ The High Strung/ Dinosaur Jr/ The Dexateens/ Teen Getaway/ Chad VanGaalen/ The Magnetic Fields/ Broken Social Scene/ Little Johnny Williams/ Ralph "Soul" Jackson/ Soltero/ (old) AFI/ Meshuggah/ Richard Swift/ Clem Snide/ Pattern is Movement/ Elvis Costello/Power Lloyd/ Joe Henry/ Destroyer/ Sunny Day Real Estate/ Pacific Stereo/ The Flaming Lips/ Yo La Tengo/ Midlake/ Over the Rhine/ Dionne Warwick/ That Dog/ The Prayer Chain/ Starflyer59/ T Minus Band/ Elliott Smith/ Interpol/ Bowie/ Toad the Wet Sprocket/ REM/ No Knife/ Kate York/ Antonio Carlos Jobim/ Stan Getz/ Wild Sweet Orange/ Roger Miller/ Jim Lauderdale/ Hope For Agoldensummer/ Wes McDonald/ Great Big Sea/ Jeff Tweedy/ Roscoe Robinson/ The Arcade Fire/ Man or Astroman?/ Happy Couple/ The Great Book of John/ Jonatha Brooke/ Drive-By Truckers/ The Beach Boys/ Model Citizen/ The Beatles/ Ben Folds Five/ Wilson Pickett/ Shudder to Think/ The Joggers/ Artie Shaw/ Modest Mouse/ 13ghosts/ My Bloody Valentine/ Medicine/ Air/ The Legendary Shack Shakers/ Vulture Whale/ Innocence Mission/ America/ Billie Holiday/ Tom Waits/ Burt Bachrach... Working in record stores does this to a person.
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Born Yesterday (1950)/ Bicycle Thieves/ The Philapelphia Story/ IT! (Silent movie with Clara Bow)/ Swing Time/ Kicking and Screaming/ Weird Science/ the original Dawn of the Dead/ Logan's Run/ Westworld/ Holiday Inn/ It Happened One Night/ Arsenic and Old Lace/ Lawrence of Arabia/ The Ruling Class/ The Trouble with Harry/ Star Wars/ Monty Python and the Holy Grail/ Auntie Mame/ High Fidelity/ Better off Dead/ Lost in Translation/ Sliding Doors/ The Sting/ Garden State/ Finding Neverland/ Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I'm a documentary lover. Storyteller: Kathryn Tucker Windham/ Be Here to Love Me/ Plagues and Pleasures of the Salton Sea/ The Loss of Nameless Things...
Adventures of Pete and Pete, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Top Chef, anything on TCM....
Currently reading: Alice Munro (Collected Stories), Fire in Beulah by Rilla Askew, Mansfield Park, lots of terribly glossy wedding magazines
My Mum, The Wamber, The Jim, Travmo, Davey Rothbart, John Ciba, & Chocolate Covered Bacon