favourite things

to paraphrase jonathan williams: shucks, i make a living. art just makes the living worthwhile.

i have ordered list items from earliest to latest discovery and only include things i still love today. recc me anything in the guestbook

writers

adrian mole, jd salinger, richard brautigan, cormac mccarthy, lydia davis, william faulkner, flannery o'connor, mervyn peake, gerald murnane

poets

brautigan, david berman, hera lindsay bird, maddie godfrey, ted hughes, czeslaw milosz, jonathan williams

music

velvet underground, young marble giants, beat happening, replacements, slint, tortoise, cat power, smog, silver jews, red house painters, wilco, uncle tupelo, lucinda williams, bonnie prince billy, bruce springsteen, big thief, songs ohia

artists

terry denton, shaun tan, maurice sendak, arnold lobel, bill traylor, howard finster, robert adams, kara walker, brad troemel, bruce nauman, henri cartier-bresson

movies

jisoe, gummo, no country for old men, the dirties, wise blood, wake in fright, the swimmer, beach bum, rich hill

series

plasmo, homestar runner, aqua teen hunger force, daxflame video diaries, summer heights high, dr katz, tom goes to the mayor, nirvanna the band the show, on cinema, true detective s1, the office uk, lonesome dove, degrassi next generation