Stranded on a desert island? How about my 9 books — music — food — movies — places?
Books
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
- Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
- Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
- Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
- Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
- Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
- Moby Dick – Herman Melville
- Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
- Voyage of the Narwhal – Andrea Barrett
Music
Albums:
- Ahmad Jamal at the Pershing: But Not For Me (1958)
- The Birth of the Cool – Miles Davis (1949)
- If You’re Feeling Sinister – Belle & Sebastian (1997)
- Girls Can Tell – Spoon (2001)
- Pretend Not to Love – Tigercity (2007)
- Le Quattro Stagioni – Europa Galante
- The Royal Scam – Steely Dan (1976)
- The Soft Bulletin – The Flaming Lips (1999)
Singles
- A Pile of Rocks – Stipplicon
- Be Killed – The Aluminum Group (Happyness)
- Consider Me Gone – Sting (The Dream of the Blue Turtles)
- Debra – Beck (Midnight Vultures)
- Joy of Cooking – Old Man Leudecke (Hinterland, 2006)
- Lavender Moon – King Creosote (Kenny and Beth’s Musakal Boat Rides)
- L’il ghetto boy – Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg (The Chronic)
- Mo Ti Mo – Medeski, Martin and Wood (It’s A Jungle in Here)
- No reply at all – Genesis (Abacab)
- Suite for toy piano – Margaret Leng Tan (John Cage, composer 1948; The Seasons, 2000)
- That’s the way – Led Zeppelin (Led Zeppelin III, 1970)
- The sweetest punch – Elvis Costello/Burt Bacharach (Painted from memory, )
- You were right about everything – Erin McKeown (We will become like birds)
Food
- Concord grapes
- Corned beef hash – Mama Bear’s, Conneaut Lake, PA
- Date nut bread – homemade, Mom’s recipe
- Frozen custard – Hank’s, Conneaut Lake, PA
- Peanut butter Twix
- Spider roll – Tomoe Sushi, New York, NY
- Subgum ham fried rice – Tiki Port, Hyannis, MA
- Szechuan chicken ding – Tiki Port, Hyannis, MA
Movies
- All the President’s men
- Chinatown
- The Empire strikes back
- Groundhog day
- Kung Fu hustle
- Monkey business
- Spirited away
- The sting
- Touch of evil
Places
- Annecy, France
- Bonifacio, Corsica
- The Catskills
- The Everglades
- Lisbon, Portugal
- Point Reyes National Seashore, CA
March 1, 2007 at 2:15 am
Oh, you’re a man of parts! No, really. You actually read Pynchon, for one thing. You like Ahmed Jamal at the Pershing, an album you’re too young to have ever heard (I think I was 18 when it came out, a couple of years ago). You’re partial to contemporary art (why?). I thank you for the news about the Turner show, and I promise not to die before it comes to the Met (I will also go see it in Washington). I get lost sometimes in Turner. did you know that his paintings were once shown at MOMA, as he was the first modern painter (or so they said). I think I have that catalogue somewhere. You’re in the Keys as I write, and I am jealous. Do you have any suggestions of a warm place, in the keys, really unfancy, very laid back, unpretentious, ungay? Talk to me about all of these things when you get back…
March 6, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Wow, thanks. Let me know when u want to go to lunch.
May 10, 2007 at 12:27 am
Congratulations on finishing the thesis. It will be worth it. You can get back to a less hectic life, maybe? It was great to see you & Elaine last weekend. I feel bad that we didn’t get to Tiki Port, but we will.
Love to both from both.