Music and what it means. Watching for signs of D Boon's ghost. Legacy. Industrial rot. Gary, Indiana. baby animals. Feminism. God. Riding bikes to the library. How to get the basement smell into every room. Reading and writing. Making art and stuff like art. Death of nostalgia. Spices. Liberation theology. What happens after desperation. Wood, both dead and living.
Music
Joni Mitchell's jazzbo years. "And The Beat Goes On". No Age. Ornette. Pre-Tim Replacements. The Ex. Husker Du. Peter Brotzmann. Lungfish. Smart Went Crazy. M.I.A. Chrome. Ruth Brown. Valet. pre-suck era Van Morrison. Fleetwood Mac. Steve Miller Band. Black Randy & metrosquad. Seger & The Silver Bullet Band. TVOTR. Ginuwine. PE. Monie Love. Alice Coltrane. Soul II Soul. Jawbreaker. Wipers. Ellen Allien. Prince. Prince & The Revolution. N. Young & Crazy Horse.
Movies
Water. Dogville. 400 Blows. World of Apu. Klute. Finding Nemo. Purple Rain. Old Boy. Pocket Change. Mama Roma. The City and Night. Koko the Talking Gorilla. Spirit of the Beehive. Beautiful Losers.
Television
MASH.
Antiques Roadshow.
Frontline.
Seasons 1-4 of The Wire.
Books
Algren. Blue Highways. Ellen Willis. Dos Passos America Trilogy. Didion non fiction + Play It As It Lays. Dworkin. Tosches. Bangs. big book. John McPhee. Iron John. Howl. Sean Nelson's Court & Spark monograph.
Hi. Are you coming back ever? I think it was kind of warm when I saw you last and I just got finished putting up my christmas lights an hour ago. I mean Chanuka lights. I miss you.
Airstream Commune Theme Month #1: Barmitzvah Town. Hang star-of-davids everywhere, learn a little Hava Nagila on the ol' pluckety pluck, i can teach you a few key yiddish words, get a generator for the ones and twos, and boom. All of the sudden, WE LIVE IN BARMITZVAH TOWN.
NOT YET!! DECEMBER 7TH!!! I LOVE YOU AND I MISS YOU! we are finishing the list and then we will email everyone all like, 'WHAT IS YR MAILING ADDRESS?" and then you and other buddies will get invitations, proper-style! I LOVE YOU!
