Botan Rice Candy, Fred Astaire, Team Hydration road trips, Green Pants!, the blue grass of Illinois, dancing in the living room to Benny Goodman on my Victrola, Greenville College road trips, any comic by Slave Labor Graphics, Nabeel's mint tea, The Bottletree's Vegan Chili, Norman Rockwell, Cary Grant, my psychic pup Emilybird, my brother's evil Land Rover, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Cadbury Chocolate, and Nova Scotia.
Music
Red House Painters/ Jason Falkner/ Fred Astaire/ Jeff Buckley/ Eddie Hinton/ John Vanderslice - MK Ultra/ Mommyheads/ M Ward/ The High Strung/ Dinosaur Jr/ The Dexateens/ Teen Getaway/ Chad VanGaalen/ The Magnetic Fields/ Broken Social Scene/ Centro-matic, Little Johnny Williams/ Ralph "Soul" Jackson/ Soltero/ (old) AFI/ Meshuggah/ Richard Swift/ Clem Snide/ Pattern is Movement/ Elvis Costello/Power Lloyd/ Joe Henry/ Sunny Day Real Estate/ Pacific Stereo/ The Flaming Lips/ Yo La Tengo/ Midlake/ Over the Rhine/ Dionne Warwick/ That Dog/ The Prayer Chain/ Starflyer59/ T Minus Band/ Elliott Smith/ Interpol/ Bowie/ Toad the Wet Sprocket/ REM/ No Knife/ Kate York/ Antonio Carlos Jobim/ Stan Getz/ Wild Sweet Orange/ Roger Miller/ Jim Lauderdale/ Hope For Agoldensummer/ Wes McDonald/ Great Big Sea/ Jeff Tweedy/ Roscoe Robinson/ The Arcade Fire/ Man or Astroman?/ Happy Couple/ The Great Book of John/ Jonatha Brooke/ Drive-By Truckers/ The Beach Boys/ Model Citizen/ The Beatles/ Ben Folds Five/ Wilson Pickett/ Shudder to Think/ The Joggers/ Artie Shaw/ Modest Mouse/ 13ghosts/ My Bloody Valentine/ Medicine/ Air/ The Legendary Shack Shakers/ Vulture Whale/ Innocence Mission/ America/ Billie Holiday/ Tom Waits/ Burt Bachrach... Working in record stores does this to a person.
Movies
City Lights/ Born Yesterday (1950)/ The Great Ziegfeld/ Bicycle Thieves/ Meet Me in St. Louis/ The Philadelphia Story/ IT! (Silent movie with Clara Bow)/ Swing Time/ Orpheus/ Kicking and Screaming/ Weird Science/ the original Dawn of the Dead/ Logan's Run/ Westworld/ Holiday Inn/ It Happened One Night/ Arsenic and Old Lace/ Lawrence of Arabia/ The Ruling Class/ The Trouble with Harry/ Star Wars/ Monty Python and the Holy Grail/ Auntie Mame/ High Fidelity/ Better off Dead/ Plagues and Pleasures of the Salton Sea/ The Loss of Nameless Things...
Television
My television lives in the closet.
Books
Currently reading: The Magic Kingdom by Stanley Elkin
Heroes
My Mum, The Wamber, The Jim, Travmo, Davey Rothbart, John Ciba, & Chocolate Covered Bacon
About me: What I need: an ear horn and a pair of shades.
What I want: a turn and a jump before the end of a song.
What I got: an Anchor Steam and some great conversation.
FLYING!!!! Sarah Vowell, I'll never let you hurt me again. and no, unfortunately the show will be over by then but i can show you some stuff when you get here. can't wait to see you!!
I'm not currently using my phone right now due to the jo's current love affair with tiny buttons. i hope things are good with you up there... tell jim I said hello : )
I'm sorry darlin (that's how they talk down here!) here's your own viewing of my awesomely spectacular way to kill four minutes of your precious spare time. Enjoy.
Life is great. The view is awesome, the job is great most days, we love our house (even though when I am cleaning I wonder what made me want a five bedroom, four bathroom house!)and the kids have social lives I never had at 12! I constantly hear a heard of kids in and out all evening and on weekends. Moriah switches boyfriends more than most kids change their underwear. I am glad to hear the Cincinatti is treating you well! I was so hoping you would be in Denver - but I am glad you are somewhere that is making you both happy! You will have to look at my pics to see the kids. Well, I had better get off here and get supper done. I will email you the addresses! Love ya!
Hey everyone, we're playing in Charleston, IL. at the Broadhead Music Festival this weekend. Hope everyone can make it out.
10/04/2008 6:00 PM - Broadhead Music Festival
"Mother's", 500 Monroe Ave. Charleston, Illinois US Cost:N/A Description:Broadhead Music Festival, should be around 6 to 7 bands playing. We will post more information shortly(venue, start times, bands playing, etc...) Going to be a music festival that is suppossed to have a pretty large turnout so be sure to come. 1. WhynerRhymers 6-7 pm 2. Seven Bridges 7-8 pm 3. Old Capital Square Dance Club 8-9 pm 4. Raise High the Roof Beam 9-10 pm 5. New Ruins 10-11 pm 6. Pink Flood and The Magenta Tide 11-12 pm