hayrides and christmas lights, time, dancing for the flesh, liquids, good city planning, teachers, outdoor classrooms, treehouses, homemade superhero capes, extemporaneously singing with great intestinal fortitude, deluxe whistling, needle and thread, volunteers, ocd, taking things apart, catch, muesems (especially when filled with young children who are overly excited to be there and really get into what they see), farmer markets, flea markets, good color combinations, afternoon cocktails, oven timers, smell of wood, the feel of well sanded wood, panama, npr, weekend america, graphic novels, good personal stories, food enthusiasts, the vegetariate, an effective natural deodorant, natural soap, expensive soap, getting intense, construction, jangle, dinner parties, designer toys, fun toys, building pillow and blanket forts, dancing at the meat market with katy knight, hanging in the dj booth with danny, people who smell good, toy swords, the dark horse, that one cigarette during a drive early in the morning, sweater fondling, things filled with sweetpotato, soup, large upper lips when they are bigger than their counterpart, small fat round birds, climbing things and people (ie dan horne).
still looking for an angel in a half shirt, marije vogelzang, soyoung scanlan, manuel noriega, gael garcia bernal, alyosha karamazov, and betty davis but shes dead, and richard parker on a life raft. and i would have really liked to have seen my grandmother again but she too is now dead. someone to play catch with, or to come play mortal kombat with me and let me try some killer moves on you. and every night sputnik!
heavenly, tiger trap, devotchka, P:ANO, suburban kids with biblical names, mirah, metric, the organ, huggy bear, dark hand and lamplight, black moth super rainbow, girl talk, the skinned teens, raooul, coco rosie, devendra banhart, the choir practice, the national, 120 days, v for vendetta, june, beirut, arcade fire, delgados, peter bjorn and john, fiery furnaces, the need, black sabbath, the moves, the blow, yacht, neko case, jenny lewis, pat benatar, gossip, css, slant 6, james chance, hot chip, frog eyes, clinic, imogen heap, wolf parade, destroyer, of montreal, the magnetic fields, the shins, decemberists, tracy + the plastics, loretta, mirah, grace braun & dqe, carrie, scissor girls, aretha, donovan, erase errata, quadiliacha, ruby falls, the microphones, mars, his name is alive, the go! team, the vaselines, casiotone for the painfully alone, esg, and th' faith healers
THE GOLDEN COMPASS, transformers (i cried), something in real d 3d, cinema paradiso, hiroshima mon amour, little miss sunshine, pan's labyrinth, hard candy, mirrormask, creature comfort, ran, sin city, children of men, paris je t'aime, strictly ballroom, citizen kane, buffalo 66, shopgirl, the burbs, election, motorcycle diaries, science of sleep, hero, being john malkovich, about a boy, lost in translation, time bandits, punch-drunk love, frighteners, eternal sunshine, last unicorn, jackie brown, home alone, virgin suicides, v for vendetta, orchestra rehearsal, drop dead gorgeous, cecil b. demented, night watch, mean girls, the midnight hour, me and you and everyone we know, my life in pink, alphaville, vanilla sky, suicide circle, magnolia, the goonies, hotel rwanda, garden state, frida, fantastic planet, time bandits, james and the giant peach, matilda, old black and white horror movies
tune into a good book instead. or me. "The television screen is the retina to the mind's eye. therefore, the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. therefore, whatever appears in the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. therefore, televsion is reality, and reality is less than television." im crazy about heroes, lost, weeds, and KID NATION!
beat the heat. read a book. hungry planet: what the world eats, phillip pullmans the golden compass, the subtle knife, and the amber spyglass. f.dostoevsky, j.saramago, k.vonnegut, a.nafisi, y.martel, j.salinger, n.gaiman, c.carr, a.rich, d.brown, d.sedaris, a.burroughs, c.palahniuk, c.thompson, v.nabokov, m.moore, m.pearl, e.l.doctorow, j.&;m.stern, r.sala, c.burns.---------------- currently reading: miranda july's "no one belongs here more than you", rafe esquith "teach like your hair's on fire", "literature from the axis of evil", and few really good magazines
my brother buck (who introduced the sweetpotato to madagascar) and david cossin.