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Tall and affable. Ready for an adventure, fighting stagnancy.
Oceans lakes and rivers, electrical storms, mix tapes, ukulele, other places, karaoke, megafauna, errors in subtitles and closed captioning, 24 hour cafes, really dramatic statues of eagles, synesthesia, the origins of words, making things up, to/too/two, there/their/they're, fact checking, the search for the perfect pop song, not getting too comfortable, really bad metaphors, walking, starting things, envelope art, cabinets of wonder, buses and trains at night, people are pretty cool too.
adventurers, scientists, artists, musicians, rock and rollers, house boat captains.
Maybe nothing but Steve Reich? Maybe all this:
Almodovar, Paris, Texas, The Apartment, Troll 2, Great World of Sound, Stardust Memories, Rushmore, Annie Hall, Flash Gordon, Stranger Than Paradise, Cleo from 5 to 7, The Squid and the Whale, The Unbelievable Truth, Me and You and Everyone We Know, The Incredibles, Down By Law, Sunset Blvd, Wet Hot American Summer, the American Astronaut, All The Real Girls, Big Time, My Night At Maude's, Dr Strangelove, Band Of Outsiders, Blow up, Magnolia, Spirted Away, Brother From Another Planet, Manhattan, Stop Making Sense, The Muppet Movie. . .
On a road trip down to LA a friend of mine asked me "Dan, do you just think about Full House all the time?"
Joan Didion, Robert Creeley, Italo Calvino, Tobias Wolff, George Saunders, Frank O'Hara, Deborah Eisenberg, Donald Barthelme, Haruki Murakami, Steve Almond, Raymond Carver, Sarah Vowell, Dave Eggers, Stoner, Here They Come, The Tennants of Moonbloom, On The Yard, Rhinocerous, Working, The Seagull, Slaughter House Five, The Sun Also Rises, Lenny Bruce Is Dead, The Children's Hospital, "Faint Music" by Robert Hass, "To What Strangers, What Welcome" by JV Cunningham, Blankets, Epilectic, Black Hole, Optic Nerve. Poetry and short fiction.
My Grandfather, Vaclav Havel, Lenny Bruce, animatronic Lyndon Johnson, Robert Creeley