Traveling; writing; mentoring; movies not on video; ephemeral films; fun fabric; cereal; books not in print; good spelling & punctuation; sleaze history; hidden treasures; interesting people; trashy biographies; song-poems; France; candy stores; short stories; smushy animal faces; unsolicited compliments; educational films; chimney sweeps; surprises (nice ones); Disneyland; thrift shopping; any donut-like concoction; lunch boxes; plastic dolls; good deals; glitter; palm trees; scented soaps, etc…
Music
Movies
Alphaville; The Apple; Style Wars; Ciao! Manhattan; Downtown 81; Don’t Look Back; Grey Gardens; Who are you, Polly Maggoo?; Trainspotting; Betty Blue; Darling; Myra Breckinridge; Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story; Umberto D.; Beaver Trilogy; How to Draw a Bunny, The Legend of Leigh Bowery. (Filmmakers: Kenneth Anger; Nelson Sullivan; Samuel Fuller; Billy Wilder; Luis Buñuel; Werner Herzog; Frank Capra; Woody Allen; Pedro Almodovar; Jean-Jacques Beineix; Jim Jarmusch; Harold Lloyd; Fritz Lang; Penelope Spheeris; Preston Sturges; Jacques Tati; John Waters; Josef von Sternberg; Orson Welles; Jan Svankmajer; Brothers Quay)
Television
Bewitched; Mary Tyler Moore Show; The Brady Bunch; Laverne and Shirley; Facts of Life; Antiques Road Show; Fishing With John; Six Feet Under; RW/RR Challenges; America’s Next Top Model; The Surreal Life; Project Runway; What Not To Wear (UK), etc…
Books
Permanent Midnight; Girlfriend in a Coma; Microserfs; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Fabulous Nobodies; Dangerous Angels; On Mermaid Avenue; Foxfire; Immortality; the Kiss; Minor Characters; Party of One: The Loner’s Manifesto; the Robber Bride; Naked; Coffee, Tea, or Me?; Ham on Rye; Severed; Crime Wave; Memoires of an Amnesiac; She’s Come Undone; The Adrian Mole Diaries; The Best of Roald Dahl; Ways of Seeing; The Bell Jar; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; Varieties of Religious Experience; Utz; etc…
see... now this is no fun anymore since it involves no envelopes and letters and harassing of your colleagues..... damnit. i wish it was 1992 again! *clicks heels three times*
