Writing (fiction, poetry, ridiculous blog posts, and obituaries), post-modern jokes, politics!, Internet slang, lolcats, stock footage, cupcakes, whirlpool galaxies & dark matter, guessing how much has-been actors and extras get paid to do terrible bit parts, news writing, music, reading everything and anything, Italy, going to concerts and shows, traveling, graveyards, all obits, indulging my curiosity, trying new things, hitting the bookstore, making fun of the TV, making fun of you, volunteering, rocking out and being in love with my iPod, adding to and perfecting my iTunes collection, trying not to suck at life, others who are trying not to suck at life, drinking excessive amounts of coffee, and nappers. Here is a visual gallery of some of the garbage I like:
"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one you in all of time, this expression is unique.
And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it.
It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable, nor how it compares with other expressions.
It is your business to keep it yours ... You do not have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open ... Keep the channel open.
No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever, at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others."
- Martha Graham
I are serious. This is best Internet video ever. Ben Burrns' "History of LOLCats":
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I'd like to meet:
Other kinds of sitting-up mud:
God made mud.
God got lonesome.
So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!"
"See all I've made," said God, "the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars."
And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around.
Lucky me, lucky mud.
I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done.
Nice going, God.
Nobody but you could have done it, God! I certainly couldn't have.
I feel very unimportant compared to You.
The only way I can feel the least bit important is to think of all the mud that didn't even get to sit up and look around.
I got so much, and most mud got so little.
Thank you for the honor!
Now mud lies down again and goes to sleep.
What memories for mud to have!
What interesting other kinds of sitting-up mud I met!
I loved everything I saw!
Good night.
- From the Last Rites of the Bokononist Faith, Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
Music:
Radiohead, The Shins, U2, The National, Franz Ferdinand, I Am Kloot, Gnarls Barkley, Damien Rice, Muse, Loney Dear, The Format, Green Day, Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, Feist, The Weepies, RJD2, Regina Spektor, Death Cab for Cutie, The Killers, Beck, The Good, the Bad & the Queen, Neutral Milk Hotel, Tokyo Police Club, Iron & Wine, Sufjan Stevens, Townes Van Zandt, Yann Tiersen, Ben Lee! Plus, '90s tunes and old-school jazz singers like Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, and Dean Martin.
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Movies:
"Amelie" is my favorite movie of all time, and right now "Eagle Vs. Shark" and "Juno" are running pretty close behind; then there's also "O Brother Where Art Thou?" and "Edward Scissorhands" and "Pulp Fiction." I also like documentaries (like the "Fog of War" or "The God Who Wasn't There"), foreign films (like "Paris Je T'Aime" or "Mostly Martha"), gangster flicks ("The Godfather" - first two - and "Goodfellas"), and all the Harry Potters.
Television:
The Office, House, Scrubs, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and Flight of the Conchords. Then there's Project Runway, Monk, Weeds, American Idol (guilty pleasure - David Cook is effing awesome!) and Reno 911! Additionally, I like to watch MSNBC with a grimace, and am faintly in love with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
From The Office:
Jim: Oh, what’s this?
Dwight: That is a demerit.
Jim (reading paper): "Jim Halpert, tardiness?" Oh, I love it already.
Dwight: You’ve got to learn, Jim, you’re second in command, but that does not put you above the law.
Jim: Oh I understand. And, I also have lots of questions. Like what does a demerit mean?
Dwight: Let’s put it this way. You do not want to receive three of those.
Jim: Lay it on me.
Dwight: Three demerits, and you’ll receive a citation.
Jim: Now that sounds serious.
Dwight: Oh it is serious. Five citations, and you’re looking at a violation. Four of those, and you’ll receive a verbal warning. Keep it up, and you’re looking at a written warning. Two of those, that’ll land you in a world of hurt. In the form of a disciplinary review, written up by me and placed on the desk of my immediate superior.
Jim: Which would be me.
Dwight: That is correct.
Jim: Okay, I want a copy on my desk, by the end of the day, or you will receive a full disadulation.
Dwight: What’s a dis … what’s that?
Jim: Oh, you don’t want to know.
Books:
I read anything and everything, from brochures to prescription drug facts, but my favorite writers are Michael Chabon ("The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" and "Wonder Boys") and David Sedaris ("Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim). Also adore Truman Capote, Victor Hugo, John Steinbeck, Billy Collins, Anne Lamott and J.K. Rowling (all the Harry Potter books!), and recently read Neil Gaiman's "American Gods," which had an eerie effect on my psyche and gave me this amazingly bizarre dreams. Will read any poetry. Have a habit of savoring lyrics and lines that I hear, turning them over and over in my head for weeks until I feel like I understand them, or figure out where I stand with them. My favorite local/Bay Area poets are James Cagney and Jodi Angel, fellow Susurrus writers, because they are so amazing they should be famous. Words are friends.
Heroes:
Edward R. Murrow, my gramps!, Keith Olbermann, Mark Morford, Michael Chabon, Anne Lamott, everyone from The State, Dwight Schrute, Pulitzer-Prize winning obituarist Jim Sheeler, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart ... Stewart/Colbert '08!
