Gosh, I guess we'll find out, huh?
AIM = bus tips over
Airports, spatial models, capsaicin, synthesizers, Scrabble, birds, sports metaphors, joke baskets, right angles, office supplies, romanticizing urban decay
1) Disgraced stockbroker and local barfly who offers creative profanity and tips on building my 401(k) from the corner stool at Mortimer's.
2) Wacky next-door neighbor character.
3) Boston Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell. Seems like a swell guy. And if I need a hit with two outs, he could come in handy.
4) Travel-weary flight attendant in semi-retirement due to burnout.
5) Owner, cheap Chinese restaurant. Prefer someone whom I can call "Grandma."
6) A talking duck!
7) Tall, self-confident architect with much cooler apartment who turns out to be really unhappy underneath it all.
8) David Byrne.
The National, Menomena, DJ Shadow, Interpol, The Arcade Fire, Radiohead, The Sheila Divine, Earlimart, Cursive, R.E.M., Piebald, Bloc Party, Talking Heads, Electrelane, The Good Life, Mclusky, Bishop Allen, The Walkmen, The Raveonettes, St. Vincent, Junior Boys, Nicole Atkins and the Sea, The Knife, Freezepop, Radio 4, TV on the Radio, Wolf Parade, Death From Above 1979, Beirut, LCD Soundsystem, and, I guess, Ozma.
Alvy Singer: [narrating] After that it got pretty late, and we both had to go, but it was great seeing Annie again. I... I realized what a terrific person she was, and... and how much fun it was just knowing her; and I... I, I thought of that old joke, y'know, the, this... this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, "Doc, uh, my brother's crazy; he thinks he's a chicken." And, uh, the doctor says, "Well, why don't you turn him in?" The guy says, "I would, but I need the eggs." Well, I guess that's pretty much now how I feel about relationships; y'know, they're totally irrational, and crazy, and absurd, and... but, uh, I guess we keep goin' through it because, uh, most of us... need the eggs.
Sometimes, when I sleep, I get to be Jimmy McNulty.
I recently bought Tom Stoppard's entire body of work. It's a matching set. I'll probably never read it.
Fran.