taking the path of most resistance, fantasizing, teaching myself to cook, live music, le creuset, playing cataan, playing poker, film festivals, collecting frequent flier miles, recorded music, going to art museums on free days, going to art museum bookstores, rega P3 in red, modern furniture, maison martin margiela, learning languages, swimming, keeping in touch with friends in faraway places, getting overexcited, live people spinning recorded music, my cat Dusty, my iPod, dancing.
Music
Iron & Wine, the Drones, Justin Timberlake, Willie Hutch's 'The Mack', the latest Charlotte Gainsbourg, Scientist Rids the World of Evil Vampires, 80's R&B, Grizzly Bear, Benjy Ferree, Karen Dalton. can't stop listening to Arthur Russell's 'Calling Out of Context'. J Dilla's 'Donuts' is incredible!! more newstuff: Candi Staton record on Fame, and David Byrne/Brian Eno's 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts', Daft Punk blew my mind at Coachella. Just bought: Studio One Disco Mix comp, a new Outkast 12", a French Disco comp, a Carl Craig remix of a Talking Heads track and a Dublab comp with the Dirty Projectors on it. Nobody & Mystic Chords of Memory and the new Daedalus. Oakley Hall are great, Beirut, Lily Allen's track 'Smile', the new Dudley Perkins is excellent. Also have been listening to lots of VINYL which has finally arrived by boat from Melbourne Australia, Townes Van Zandt, Tony Allen, Fleetwood Mac, Roberta Flack, various silly disco 12"s, Donny Hathaway, Betty Davis, Dr Alimantado's 'The Best Dressed Chicken in Town', otherwise a list: the Rosebuds, Jamie Lidell, The Blood Arm, Snoop Dogg, Serge Gainsbourg, Calexico, Arthur Russell, Madlib and all his various guises, 'Emotional Rescue' by the Rolling Stones, Prince, Harco Pront, Curtis Mayfield, ELO, Prefuse, Joanna Newsom, Marvin Gaye's I Want You, Miles Davis, the Books, Machine Translations, Lambchop, Gal Costa & Tropicalia, the mighty Mos Def, Luomo, The Congos, Declan's Research-n-Developement mixes, the Replacements, Four Tet, M Ward, REM, real disco music, Cornell Campbell, Al Green, the Thermals, Diplo mixes, 'Gimme the Night' by George Benson, Studio One Soul, am radio lite rock, yacht rock, Etta James, Ween, anything soulful or intense or mindblowing or rocking or beautiful
Movies
Any film about Muhammad Ali, especially William Klein's 'The Greatest'. Peter Sellars films, Lee Marvin films, Sergio Leone, Hong Kong films, anything Iranian, Jaques Tati, Pocket Money, anything with Tony Leung in it, Michael Haneke films, Seijun Suzuki, Studio Ghibli films, 70's films with Steve McQueen and those guys, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Nicholas Roeg, Errol Morris, Maylses Brothers, Agnes Varda, Spirit of the Beehive, big epics, little artfilms, just sitting in a movie theatre makes me happy most of the time. I love going to movies by myself.
Television
Peep Show, Little Britain, the Office, Kids in the Hall, the Daily Show, Colbert Report, Bill Maher, Simpsons, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Freaks & Geeks, League of Gentlemen. i don't have cable but if I did I would only watch HBO & Comedy Central. and Sex in the City & Law & Order re-runs. Deadwood. Arrested Development, and any new and undiscovered brilliantly twisted British comedy that comes along. I'm addicted to NPR, on the wireless!
Books
any book on Berlin and Cold War architecture, 'History' by Else Morante, Kafka in German, Steve Martin's books, Polaroids by Walker Evans, any William Eggleston book, Stephen Shore, Murakami, Rem Koolhaas SMLXL, Peanuts Treasury Series, Joe Sacco, any Ed Ruscha book, I tend to read a lot of magazines, the Believer, Harpers, Vanity Fair, New Yorker, whatever music mags I get my hands on...just read Kitchen Confidential, and now am on a Paul Auster kick. bought a book by a guy called Junot Diaz because I liked his name.
Happy Birthday! I miss you and I wish I could be there to spend the day with you. Or that you were here to celebrate both your birthday and the defeat of our horrible little prime minister. Everyone is in a delirious state, on cloud nine. All praise to Maxine McKew. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/11/25/1195975870411.html
Happy happy happy, heppy birthday to you Westy (few days early I know!). Don't forget yer roots love! I'll leave the casserole on the stove and teach the koala a few new tricks in preparation for your home coming. We'll have a float! A bloody float I tell ya. LOVE Carla X
That's disappointing but it's better to miss out than to buy it and have it fall down around your ears. If that was the problem. Anyway, keep me posted on any other potential dwellings and send me links if they have photos online. Rock on soul sista xxx
Yep, a lyrebird imitating a chainsaw beats most things, including muppets. I'd love to hear your news, any news. I'd like to hear it now but let's at least talk on the weekend xxxxooooo
So of course yesterday I saw a copy of Inner City Sound at Metropolis. That is the way of last-minute-present shopping. It was soooooo great to see you. Hopefully we can catch up again kind of soon xxxxxo
Hello!!! Happy Birthday!!! you were born on the same day as my mum AND my sister. Hope you celebrated it in style... It was great to hear your voice the other day, my phone card expired :( but i'm gona buy a new one soon :) xx
