Paul

dilettante, monographeur

falling but not necessarily landing in love, 20th century painting, well-made movies, dinners at people's houses with empty bottles and full ashtrays at the end, chocolate, philadelphia sports teams, brilliant people with no social skills

salinger (the glass family stuff), fitzgerald (the beautiful and damned - which becky stark borrowed and should return), michael chabon, amis (father and son), the godfather, david lodge, evelyn waugh, david foster wallace - for about ten minutes

network, meet john doe (when barbara stanwyck cries because he's talking about falling in love with people), it's a wonderful life (when jimmy stewart smells donna reed's perfume) groundhog day, the graduate, cabaret, trainspotting, boogie nights, others

radiohead, beck, mozart piano sonatas, beethoven's violin concerto, middle beatles, george gershwin, john coltraine, thelonius monk, kind of blue by miles davis

i work in tv. who gives a shit?

under construction. you don't necessarily need to wear a
hard hat, but i'm a badly organized, inefficiently
run
process. some parts - i have to say - are finished and kind
of gleaming. other (major) projects have not
been
begun. i recommend a wait-and-see attitude.

i don't know. i only know after i meet them...ok,
tremendously neurotic but seriously self-aware prettygirls
who might conceivably find me dazzling, people who actually
wear their feelings on their faces, people who
can
honestly be transformed in an instant, honest people,
poets -- even just-passable ones, adept translators,
cartographers (no kidding!), saxophone virtuosos, impish
buddhist types, god