Time travel (if you can't afford a laboratory or chemicals, try smelling an old book or glancing real quick in the mirror at odd angles), reading, ingesting music, hiking, the beach, travel, watching decay, decaying, laughing at my falling hair, watching my lips laughing, shrieking.
I'd like to meet:
Tammi Littlenut, Emmanuelle Beart, Patricia Clarkson, Jimmy Carter, Rip Torn, Bob Dylan, Isabelle Huppert, Alice Notley, Patricia Highsmith (when she was alive and not overly pickled), the Berrigan boys - Anselm and Edmund, whoever takes the Mantle of Evil from George W., Gloria Grahame, Jim Thompson, Dashiel Hammett, Pico Iyer, Stephen Colbert and Mrs. Miller.
Music:
Jackie McLean, Silver Apples, The Monks, Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Curtis Mayfield, Velvet Underground, The Handsome Family, Andrew Hill, Tropicalia, Fela Kuti, Leprechaun Catering, Bob Dylan, early Leonard Cohen, "Car Wheels On a Gravel Road", Howlin' Wolf, Charlie Patton, the first three Vic Chesnutt albums, John Dierker, More Dogs, Gang of Four, France Gall, Francoise Hardy, Ethiopiques, Thank You (take off those loafers prettyboy! Oh Sweet Young Elke), Ennio Morricone, Marc 4, Ramones, Casual Carriers, Groovy Like a Pig, Kneeling On Beans, Magic Gurney Ride, Furniture Falling Down the Stairs, Little Gruntpack.
Movies:
Cercle Rouge, In a Lonely Place, The Third Man, Station Agent, Vampire's Kiss, The Apartment, Sunset Boulevard, Nightmare Alley, Head On, Army of Shadows, Waiting for Guffman, Nashville, McCabe and Ms. Miller.
Television:
British versions of Cracker and The Office, Homicide until Michael Michelle, Strangers with Candy, Six Feet Under, first four years of Sopranos, Underdog, Simpsons, Spectreman! Freaks and Geeks. I was ruined as a young child by the original Batman show. One of my earliest, most powerful memories is the day that show debuted - I think I was six - and there was a blizzard that day. I was too small to play in the snow, but I was transfixed by it, watching it through the large sliding glass doors, and by my older sibling peeps playing it, but I also couldn't take my eyes off the creepy wriggly Riddler jumping around in his lime unitard and fat old Batman making faux eloquent.
Books:
The Tenants of Moonbloom, Under the Volcano, Up Above the World, Collected Stories of Paul Bowles, Love With a Few Hairs, Strangers On a Train, Cry of the Owl, Space Is The Place, Naked Lunch, Wise Blood, Catcher In the Rye, Suttree, New York Poet Anthology, Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara, early Alice Notley, most Ted Berrigan, Naked, Nightmare Alley, The Pick-Up, Burnt Orange Heresy, The Killer Inside Me, Savage Night, Two Serious Ladies, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Tony Scaduto's Dylan bio, The Story of the Eye, Labyrinths, Auto-da-Fe.
Heroes:
Madame Droghoul
Mrs. Miller, Peter Pan, Sun Ra, Jimmy Carter, Stephen Colbert, Chris Mason, David Townsend, Grandma Wondolowski, Underdog and Emma Goldman.
