| General | Dal sauces, multiple light sources in compositions, window shutters, two-person bicycling, poorly-sewn patches, rolled sleeves, licking the spoon, hammocks, papermaking, home recording, thinking about the book I really am going to write one of these days, holding the hands of people getting tattoos, shelves that are close to the ceiling, fireworks, porch swings, haircuts, chin straps, handclaps in music, bookbinding, drawing, and painting (I suppose). | | Music | The Knife, Celebration, Bon Iver, Diane Cluck, No Age, Cut Copy, Stevie Wonder, Grace Jones, Kate Bush, Beach House, Animal Collective, Panda Bear, The Bowerbirds, Broadcast, Nurse with Wound, Normanoak, Phosphorescent, Colleen, Will Oldham, Fleet Foxes, Vetiver, M.I.A., Santogold, Ratatat, RJD2, Girl Talk, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Tom Waits, Mum, My Bloody Valentine, M83, Marissa Nadler, PJ Harvey, Jana Hunter, HEALTH, The Planet The, Gang Gang Dance, Gang of Four, Sonic Youth, Jim O'Rourke, that new Sigur Ros album is great, Klaus Nomi, Nina Simone, Hope Sandoval, oh you know... | | Books | Jonathan Franzen, Jorge Luis Borges, Mark Doty, Sharon Olds, Iris Murdoch, Kazuo Ishiguro, Wislawa Szymborska, Joan Didion, Phillip Roth, Bobbie Ann Mason, Micheal Chabon, Annie Dillard, Thomas Merton, Alain de Botton, Truman Capote, Milan Kundera, Raymond Carver, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (of course), Graham Greene, James Cain, MFK Fisher. | | Heroes | My Family, and my artist friends.
...and of course, Mary. |
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