listing my interests, reading, writing, walking, talking, dreaming, teaching, learning, playing on the internet, listening to music, bouncing on my bed, trampolines when i can find them, swimming, chapstick, cooking, eating, shad roe, cheese, wine, cider, comics, foie gras, great Burgundies, mammals of all shapes and sizes, watching terrible movies in the theatre, late night masquerades, Champagne parties, many course meals, my own personal chef shrub, long and lovely exchanges of letters, the Loire Valley, Cotton Monsters, farm animals.
Music
my friends: television hill, walker and jay, arbourteum, the human bell, dave heuman's solo mumbles, madagascar, company, geoffrey wilt, robert wilson, the strugglers. Bob Dylan,Will Oldham, Bonnie Billy, Entrance, Hank Williams Sr. Roscoe Holcomb, Buell Kazee, The Birthday Party, Blind Willie Johnson, Skip James, Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, lots of old jug bands and bluegrass, Ralph Stanley, Bessie Smith, Victoria Spivey. Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Nirvana, The Pixies, Coltrane, Mingus, Charlie Parker, Wes Montgomery, Grant Green.
Movies
400 Blows, Contempt, Cowboy Bebop, The Circus, The Gold Rush, The Navigator, Discreet Charm of the Bougoise, Diary of a Chambermaid, In The Mood For Love, My Life to Live, Ulysses, Pierrot Le Fou, Stolen Kisses, 7up Series, Capturing the Friedmans, My Flesh and Blood, Don't Look Back, all sorts of documentaries. and The Butterfly Effect!
Television
I'd sooner eat worms. Except for Hex. And Twin Peaks and Carnivale. And the First Person Documentary series by Errol Morris.
Books
Journey into the Whirlwind, Ulysses, Dubliners, Flannery's Short Stories, Closely Watched Trains, Shakespeare's sonnets, Collected Sequential, Optic Nerve, Caricature, Chris Ware, Alex, The Trial, The Book of Disquiet, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Oliver Sacks, To The Lighthouse, Fantagraphics Books, Drawn and Quarterly, Jakob Von Gunten, Young Toerless, Camus' notebooks, A Happy Death, Borges, 100 Years of Solitude, Portrait of the Artist, Paul Hornschemeier.
Heroes
James Joyce, Shakespeare, Fernando Pessoa and Genia Ginzburg, Bob Dylan.
Who I'd like to meet: James Joyce, Fernando Pessoa, Franz Kafka, Jean Pierre-Leaud, Shakespeare, Flannery O'Connor, Bob Dylan, Richard Dawkins, Robert Walser, Francois Truffaut, Oliver Sacks.
Na, I didn't come there eventually. Such blah! Anyhoo, life is good, good. Studyin hard, lots of exams now (for whatever reason)...also quite blah. Besides that, not much is going on, well, lots of stuff, but you know, it impossible to mention it all :) So howz life treatin ya? I'm sure you've got more thingies than I to tell... Tee-hee:P Which reminds me, I got a book called Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France!!! I just had to share that with you, I read about a knight by the name of Gugemar, the name just killed me, not that I dislike it any way, but really, that Gugemar just...well, you know, such a name does something to ya in a sense. HA! Anyhoo, I dunno what I'm talkin about...
Happy Birthday! As I add this comment, your photography has always been so dear and witty. Please keep taking snapshots as the years unfold. Have a great year!
I am officially the 1st to say this aren't I?! Well, I may as well be, I mean, I'm ahead of you so..HA! In any case, it's officially the 24th now, so HAPPY B-DAY TO MY X-NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR!!! ..and hope to see ya in a few months as well. (would be funny if I fucked up and it's not really your b-day!..GOD!)
