History. Gardening. Writing. Music. Rhode Island. Breakfast. Playing with my friends. Big fat Russian novels. Cuba. Obsessive cleaning sprees. Home improvement projects at the Farm. Land trusts. Walks through the woods. Mornings in bed. Movies. Thunderstorms. Ice cream. House plants. Pulp art postcards. Italian food. Jack Daniels. Hot baths by candlelight. Outdoor showers at the beach. Japanese wood prints. Thigh-high stockings. Dancing at the club. Hospitality. Photography. White Christmas lights. Correspondence. Theatre. Museums. Lingerie. Beaujolais. Driving. The Caribbean. Art. Traveling. Anomalies.
Dorks, freaks, artists, and radicals. But only nice ones. And these guys:
Oh wait . . .
Johann Sebastian Bach, Allessandro Marcello, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Piotr Illich Tchaikovsky, Antonin Dvorak, Franz Schubert, Jean Sibelius, Gustav Mahler, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Gabriel Faure, and Edward Elgar. Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Art Blakey, Charles Mingus, Cannonball Adderley, Stan Getz, Glenn Miller, Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, and Eartha Kitt.
American Beauty, Magnolia, High Fidelity, Kissing Jessica Stein, The Godfather, The Birdcage, Fight Club, The Usual Suspects, The English Patient, and Gia.
Northern Exposure was the only true love affair I ever had with the television. Though I think I have to admit at this point that I am totally obsessed with The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.
Anna Karenina, War and Peace, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Brothers Karamazov, Ulysses, Dubliners, All the Pretty Horses, Cities of the Plain, The Last Temptation of Christ, Zorba The Greek, The Plague, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, To The Lighthouse. Nada by Carmen Laforet. The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols. Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin. Macbeth, Othello, The Crucible, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Equus, Arcadia, The Vagina Monologues, Anna In The Tropics. Homer, Dante, Rumi, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Rilke, Emerson, MartÃ, Poe, Joyce, Woolf, Camus, Zora Neale Hurston, Julio Antonio Mella, Kahlil Gibran, Simone De Beauvoir, Pablo Neruda, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Robert Pinsky, Sam Shepard, Cormac MacCarthy, Eve Ensler. History books about Cuba, Latin America, labor history, radical history, civil rights, postcolonialism, intellectual history, rural and environmental history. Political philosophy, from Aristotle to Emma Goldman, Rousseau to Hannah Arendt. Aesthetic philosophy, like On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry. Recently, I have been enjoying the writing of Michael Pollan, Eric Foner, and Dana Frank.
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