Singers I love to listen to:
Tom Waits
Randy Newman
Eva Cassidy
Louis Armstrong
Nina Simone
Dolly Parton
Willie Nelson
Radiohead
Patty Griffin
Ray Charles
Things I'm obsessed with:
Pajamas / my bed
Herbal tea and toast
Lip balm
Hand lotion
Throwing stuff out
What I have "Season Passed" on my DVR:
Deadwood
Entourage
Campus Ladies
Lovespring International
60 Minutes
Primetime Live
Dateline
Minor Accomplishments
Look Around You (BBC America)
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report
Rockstar: Supernova
Pants-Off Dance-Off
Celebrity Duets
My favorite movies...right now:
The Graduate (1967, Starring Anne Bancroft,
Dustin Hoffman)
Harvey (1950, Starring James Stewart) Actually Any Jimmy
Stewart movie
Mary Poppins (1964, Starring Julie Andres, Dick Van Dyke)
Sexy Beast (2000, Directed by Jonathan Glacer, Starring Ben
Kingsley)
The Rapture (1991, Starring Mimi Rogers)
Sunrise (1926, Starring Zara Clinton)
The Awful Truth (1937, Starring Cary Grant)
In a Lonely Place (1950, Starring Humphrey Bogart)
Barry Lyndon (1975 Directed by Stanley Kubrick)
Winged Migration (2001 Documentary)
I'm not Scared (2003, Italy)
To Be and To Have (2002 Documentary, France)
Lovely and Amazing (2001, Directed by Nicole Holofcener)
The Staircase (1998, The Sundance Channel)
Bleak House (2005, BBC Masterpiece Theater)
Elizabeth I (2005, HBO)
Nobody Knows (2004, Japan)
Raise the Red Lantern (1991, China)
Places I find myself shopping lately:
West Elm
Giant Robot
Williams Sonoma Home
Urban Outfitters
J Crew
Abebooks
My Reading List:
London Fields by Martin Amis
The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Oh, What a Paradise it Seems by John Cheever
West of Rome by John Fante
The Ripley Series by Patricia Highsmith
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris
Ware
Our Lady of the Forest by Dan Guterson
The Life and Times of Michael K. by J.M. Coetzee
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Being Dead by Jim Crace
Waiting by Ha Jin
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
Our Kind by Kate Walbert
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (memoir)
Memories of my Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia
Marquez
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan
Safron Foer
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Passing Strange by Sally McLeod
The March by E.L. Doctorow
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
It Hit Me Like A Ton Of Bricks by Catherine Lloyd
Burns (memoir)
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
The Vinegar Works by Edward Gorey
The Faber Book Of Letters (Compilation)
The House At Pooh Corner by a.a. milne